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TOPPENISH, Wash. -- Time is running out for those interested in the law school pipeline program offered at Heritage University.

A suburban Seattle mayor who separated from her husband last year now faces an official investigation into allegations of an affair with her married d

A suburban Seattle mayor who split from husband last year is now facing an official probe over claims of an affair with her married deputy who has a scandalous past.

The council unanimously approved hiring an attorney to investigate if Cassie Franklin’s relationship violated any laws or policies.

An assistant police chief in the city of Kent, Washington, will receive over $1.5 million for his resignation after disciplinary actions were taken against him for displaying a Nazi symbol in the workplace.

Kent, Wash., will pay to purchase the resignation of a former assistant police chief who was disciplined for posting a Nazi rank insignia on his office door and joking about the Holocaust.

Amazon, Starbucks, Microsoft and Costco are among the thousands of employers in Washington state that will soon be barred from making nondisclosure agreements a condition of employment or settlements, as the Evergreen State becomes the latest to do away with these prickly legal tools.

KENT — Kent Mayor Dana Ralph says her administration badly underestimated the public outrage that would spring from the decision not to fire an assistant police chief who posted Nazi insignia on his office door, embraced the rank of an officer in Adolf Hitler’s murderous Schutzstaffel, or SS, and joked about the Holocaust.

The 30-year Army veteran, who retired as a lieutenant colonel in 2019, was given two weeks off without pay after an investigation found he knew the meaning of the insignia he posted on his office door in 2020. 

KENT — An assistant police chief in Kent has been disciplined for posting Nazi insignia on his office door, embracing the rank of an official in Adolf Hitler’s dreaded paramilitary Schutzstaffel or SS — responsible for the murders of millions of Jews — and joking about the Holocaust.