July 17, 2014
Insufficient route planning, a distracted pilot driver and an inadequate permitting process by the state of Washington all played a part in last year’s Interstate 5 bridge collapse north of Seattle, which sent two cars into a river below, the …
January 22, 2014
A Seattle man who lost his parents and whose wife and infant son were seriously injured last March by a drunken driver asked a Senate panel on Monday to pass a measure that would make it a felony charge to …
April 18, 2013
Gov. Jay Inslee and a bipartisan group of lawmakers unveiled a plan that would make changes to the state’s impaired driving laws, including requiring an arrest on the first offense and mandatory jail time if offenders don’t enroll in a …
April 11, 2013
Lawmakers are considering tightening up the state’s laws against driving under the influence after two recent cases that left three dead and two, including an infant, critically injured. Rep. Roger Goodman held a work group meeting Tuesday morning to discuss …
April 9, 2013
Alan Northrop anxiously waits outside a Senate committee hearing, his girlfriend rubbing his shoulders and whispering words of support as he prepares to sign in to testify about nearly two decades of freedom lost. “Oh boy, here we go,” he …
September 21, 2009
The state Supreme Court unanimously threw out a 2006 Washington law that requires an injured patient to get a certificate of merit from an expert before suing for medical malpractice. The high court ruled that the law violates the separation …