SEATTLE TIMES: Virginia Mason Franciscan Health is investigating a bacterial outbreak that has infected 31 patients at its First Hill campus. The Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria, which the hospital first detected in October, can cause pneumonia or bloodstream and wound infections.

SEATTLE TIMES - The Seattle Police Department should “offer a sincere, public apology” for its violent response to Black Lives Matter protests that brought thousands of demonstrators to city streets in summer 2020, a panel of police, citizens and accountability experts has concluded.

KREM: Benjamin Gedeon nearly died at a North Spokane crosswalk on Division Street in 2018 and now the city of Spokane is expected to pay him $3.1 million in a settlement.

King 5 - One year and a month after a jogger was mauled by two dogs and nearly killed outside an Auburn home, attorneys representing the victim are suing King County – alleging they knew about the problematic house and did not act until it was too late.

KOMO News: A new lawsuit accuses King County, along with others, of negligence leading up to a horrific dog mauling that left an Auburn woman with lifelong injuries.

Cascadia Daily News — David Babcock’s family is convinced he didn’t have to die at the hands of police. 

AP — An inquest jury found Wednesday that two Seattle police officers were justified in fatally shooting a mentally unstable, pregnant, Black mother of four children inside her apartment when she menaced them with knives in 2017.

SEATTLE TIMES - Two Seattle Police officers were justified when they shot and killed Charleena Lyles and had no other reasonable alternative when they pulled the trigger

SEATTLE TIMES - The attorney for the family of Charleena Lyles challenged the recollection Friday of one of the Seattle police officers who said he had his back against a closed door when he shot her,

SEATTLE TIMES - One minute, Charleena Lyles was calmly talking about a missing Xbox.

SEATTLE TIMES - Three of the seven rounds fired by Seattle police that struck Charleena Lyles were fired from behind her, including one that tore through a major vein in her chest and likely caused her death within minutes,

SEATTLE TIMES - Seattle police sent members of its SWAT team to the site of the Charleena Lyles inquest after one of the officers who shot her reported concerns over comments aimed at him last week when he walked through a group of her relatives following an emotional day of testimony.

SEATTLE TIMES - The family of Charleena Lyles endured on Wednesday hours of inquest testimony that included graphic descriptions and photographs detailing efforts to protect her children and save her life after she was shot seven times by Seattle police officers.

SEATTLE TIMES - The jury in the coroner’s inquest into the death of Charleena Lyles heard wrenching testimony Tuesday about how one of Lyles’ young children had crawled on top of his mother, who lay face down and dying after being shot seven times by police.

Seattle Times - Five years ago, two Seattle police officers responded to a report of a burglary at an apartment complex near Magnuson Park. The caller was a 30-year-old Black mother, Charleena Lyles, who had long lived with mental illness and was known to police.

AXIOS - Two police officers who fatally shot Charleena Lyles during a confrontation inside her northeast Seattle apartment five years ago want to prevent their faces from being photographed and videotaped during the upcoming inquest hearings into Lyles' death.

AXIOS - Former Seattle police chief Carmen Best testified late last month that in 2020 she periodically deleted texts in bulk from her city-issued phone after independently deciding the messages didn't contain significant information that would require them to be saved.

KING5 - AUBURN, Wash. — The parents of a man killed by Auburn police in 2019 filed a federal wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit alleging an officer shot the 26-year-old in the back of the head while he was lying face down in a parking lot.

SEATTLE TIMES - The parents of a 26-year-old man killed by Auburn police in 2019 have filed a federal wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit alleging an officer shot Enosa Strickland Jr. in the back of the head while he was lying face down in a parking lot.

Channel 5 Belize - It took a long time coming, but on Friday the family of an American man killed in Belize eight years ago finally got some justice. A jury in Washington State found Tracy Nessl guilty for committing battery against her uncle, Timothy McNamara, who she was also in an incestuous relationship with.

Breaking Belize News - А Wаѕhіngtоn fаmіlу hаѕ wоn UЅ$3.2 mіllіоn іn сіvіl dаmаgеѕ іn а саѕе аgаіnѕt thе wоmаn thеу bеlіеvе murdеrеd thеіr fаthеr – аnd hеr unсlе – іn Dесеmbеr оf 2014. А јurу, dеlіbеrаtіng аftеr thrее аnd а hаlf hоurѕ, fоund Тrасу Nеѕѕl lіаblе fоr thе murdеr оf hеr unсlе аnd fоrmеr lоvеr Тіm МсNаmаrа іn Веlіzе, fоr whісh аuthоrіtіеѕ hеrе hаd bееn рurѕuіng hеr.

iFIBER One - Some closure for a Grant County family after winning a civil suit against the woman they believe murdered their father, Tim McNamara, in December 2014.

SEATTLE TIMES - Let’s get ready to rumble! In this corner, the tenacious personal-injury attorney and former president of the Washington State Trial Lawyers Association, whose clients include multiple victims of last year’s deadly Ride the Ducks tourist-vehicle crash.

TRUE CRIME DAILY - A family in conflict, a suspicious death, and a controversial forbidden romance. Shocking accusations and salacious rumors and an unbelievable bombshell. What happened to Tim McNamara?

KING 5 - Tracy Nessl talks with KING 5's Linda Byron in her home in Soap Lake, Washington. Belize has issued a warrant for Nessl's arrest for allegedly murdering Tim McNamara, her uncle and the man she considered to be her husband.

CNN - The city of Seattle has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit filed on behalf of the family of Charleena Lyles, a pregnant mother of four who was shot and killed in her home by police in 2017.

SEATTLE TIMES - The city of Seattle has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle a wrongful-death civil lawsuit filed on behalf of the children of Charleena Lyles, a Black mother of four who was fatally shot by two Seattle police officers in June 2017.

STRANGER - Attorneys representing the family of Charleena Lyles announced today that the City of Seattle agreed to a $3.5 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit brought against the Seattle Police Department and two white officers who shot and killed Lyles in her north Seattle home on June 18, 2017. She had called the cops to report a burglary.