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‘What do we got to pay for this?’ Jurors in Trump hush money trial hear recording of pivotal call

Former President Donald Trump talks to reporters as leaves the courtroom following the day’s proceedings in his trial at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024.

May 2, 2024, 2:53pm Latest News Updated 2 days ago

Jurors in the hush money trial of Donald Trump heard a recording Thursday of him discussing with his then-lawyer and personal fixer a plan to purchase the silence of a Playboy model who has said she had an affair with the former president. Read story

Woodland High School pulled out all the stops this year with its It's Good to Be Home homecoming event held on Oct. 13.

Woodland School District prepares to cut staff after levy failure

May 2, 2024, 2:14pm Clark County News

With a gap in the budget thanks to 2023’s failed levy and the end of federal COVID-19 relief funds, the Woodland School Board is determining what cuts will need to be made for the 2024-25 school year. Read story

Q1 strongest ever for Vancouver-based Northwest Pipe Co.

May 2, 2024, 1:45pm Business

Vancouver-based Northwest Pipe Co. reported a mixed first quarter in its latest earnings report. Read story

NYPD officers from the Strategic Response Group form a wall of protection around Deputy Commissioner of Legal Matters Michael Gerber and Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kay Daughtry, not in the picture, during a press conference regarding the ongoing pro-Palestinians protest encampment at Columbia University in New York on Monday, April 22, 2024.

Biden says ‘order must prevail’ during campus protests over Gaza

May 2, 2024, 12:24pm Latest News

President Joe Biden on Thursday defended the right to protest but insisted that “order must prevail” as college campuses across the country face unrest over the war in Gaza. Read story

This image from police body-worn camera video, contained and annotated in the Justice Department’s sentencing memorandum for Jack Wade Whitton, shows Whitton at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. Whitton, a Georgia business owner, has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for striking an officer with a metal crutch and dragging him, head first and face down, into the crowd on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace during the riot at the Capitol.

Man who bragged that he ‘fed’ an officer to the mob of Capitol rioters gets nearly 5 years in prison

May 2, 2024, 11:38am Latest News

A Georgia business owner who bragged that he “fed” a police officer to a mob of rioters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in prison for his repeated attacks on law enforcement during the insurrection. Read story

Cannabis clones are displayed for customers at Home Grown Apothecary on Friday, April 19, 2024, in Portland, Ore.

‘Overcoming reefer madness’: Feds appear poised to ease restrictions on weed. Here’s how the change could impact Washington.

May 2, 2024, 8:40am Business

The U.S. government is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less harmful drug, a federal spokesperson confirmed this week. Read story

Mourners carry the bodies of members of the Abu Taha family who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, during their funeral at Al-Salam cemetery, east of Rafah, Gaza Strip. Monday, April 29, 2024.

Hamas is sending a delegation to Egypt for further cease-fire talks in the latest sign of progress

May 2, 2024, 8:29am Latest News

Hamas said Thursday that it was sending a delegation to Egypt for further cease-fire talks, in a new sign of progress in attempts by international mediators to hammer out an agreement between Israel and the militant group to end the war in Gaza. Read story

FILE - In this photo taken with a fish-eye lens, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplane sits on the assembly line during a brief media tour in Boeing’s 737 assembly facility in Renton, Wash., March 27, 2019. Boeing is in talks to buy Spirit AeroSystems, which builds fuselages for Boeing 737 Max jetliners including the one that suffered a door-panel blowout in January, according to a published report, Friday, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted S.

Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

May 2, 2024, 7:44am Business

Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems and one of the first whistleblowers to allege Spirit leadership had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, died Tuesday morning after a struggle with a sudden, fast-spreading infection. Read story

A map of the proposed project area for the Horse Heaven wind farm project.

Inslee has 60 days to decide on controversial Horse Heaven wind farm

May 2, 2024, 7:43am Latest News Free

The fate of one the largest wind farms ever proposed in Washington now rests with Gov. Jay Inslee. Read story