Violence

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King County Metro drivers mourn Shawn Yim, decry violence

King County Metro driver Shawn Yim was remembered as a beloved husband, uncle, and servant to the city. Yim was known by his fellow bus drivers for going above and beyond for his passengers, especially children and the elderly.
Noel Gasca
Law & Courts

Suspect at large after unprovoked stabbing in Seattle's Little Saigon

A 22-year-old man was stabbed Sunday night in an unprovoked attack in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District neighborhood, police say. The stabbing occurred within a block of a corner deemed so dangerous that county buses no longer stop there.
Stephen Howie
Veteran Metro driver: ‘It's not that buses are unsafe… Seattle is unsafe’

Nathan Vass has been a metro driver for 18 years. He counted murdered bus driver Shawn Yim among his friends.
Rob Wood

John O'Brien
Animals

Unlike chimps, bonobos offer hope that maybe we can all get along

Chimps are notorious for hostility toward chimps from another group. Is that part of the human makeup as well? A new study of bonobos, our other closest relative, offers a more cooperative vision.
Ari Daniel
Tensions run high at UW pro-Palestine rally

The University of Washington’s Red Square echoed with hundreds of activists Thursday, chanting, “Free, free, Palestine, within our lifetime.” People climbed the railings of the Suzzallo Library and waved the Palestinian flag. Many held signs reading “Free Palestine.”
Natalie Akane Newcomb

Juan Pablo Chiquiza
Crime

Seattle passes grim milestone with record high homicides
Catharine Smith
Health

A slightly sadistic experiment aims to find out why heat drives up global conflict

The subjects were assigned to one of two rooms: 68 degrees or a sweat-inducing 86 degrees. Then they were told to play a computer game that can bring out the worst in human nature.
Nurith Aizenman
How the PNW's history of far-right extremism played a role on Jan. 6

The extremist views behind the Jan. 6 insurrection have a long history right here in the Pacific Northwest.
Katie Campbell

Angela King
Arts & Life

Examining the role of guns and violence in the American West

Bryce Andrews grew up obsessed with the cowboy lifestyle. As a kid his parents would drive him from Seattle to Montana, where he shot his first guns on the prairie with his godfather. He eventually moved out to the Montana countryside, a city boy trying to fit in as a ranch hand.
Libby Denkmann

Alec Cowan
Crime

Missed crime lab evidence could've stopped Green River Killer decades earlier, investigation finds

During the 1980s and 1990s, detectives struggled to catch the suspect known as the Green River Killer. But according to some new investigative reporting, the Washington State Crime Lab overlooked some key evidence that could have linked Gary Ridgway to the killings as far back as the 1980s, before he took more lives.
Kim Malcolm

Andy Hurst

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