Four men have been sentenced in federal court in Seattle for an assault on Tyrone Smith in the suburb of Lynnwood. All four were convicted of committing a hate crime and making false statements. Jason DeSimas of Tacoma and Jason Stanley of Boise, Idaho, were sentenced Friday to four years in prison. Randy Smith of Eugene, Oregon, got 3½ years, and Daniel Dorson, of Corvallis, Oregon, got 2⅓ years.
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Tyre Nichols remembered as joyful and lovable
Tyre Nichols was fatally attacked by police in Memphis after they pulled him over Jan. 7. Family and friends remember Nichols as a generous, lovable man who worked hard to be a good father to his 4-year-old son and was passionate about photography and skateboarding.
She wanted something good for show-and-tell, and that’s how classified documents ended up at school in 1984
Her dad had found the presidential debate prep pages in his Cleveland hotel room several years earlier and taken them home as a souvenir.
Oregon torture suspect may be using dating apps, police warn
Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, is the subject of an intensive, round-the-clock search by police after a woman was found unconscious, bound and near death in Grants Pass, Oregon, on Tuesday. She was hospitalized in critical condition.
Memphis authorities release video in Tyre Nichols’ death
All five former officers — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr., Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith — were taken into custody.
Jay Leno breaks collarbone, 2 ribs and cracks kneecaps in motorcycle wreck months after fire
Two months after undergoing surgery for serious burns, Jay Leno is now contending with a number of broken bones after being knocked off a motorcycle.
Russia’s path to 2024 Paris Olympics takes shape, amid fierce objections from Ukraine
Russia and Belarus have been barred from almost all international competitions in Olympic sports following the invasion of Ukraine.
5 policemen charged with murder in death of Black motorist
The district attorney said police video of the traffic stop, in which the family’s lawyers say the 29-year-old father and FedEx worker was savagely beaten for three minutes, will be released to the public on Friday. All five officers, who also are Black, have been fired by the Memphis Police Department.
About that asteroid coming ‘extraordinarily close’ to Earth tonight
The closest approach will occur at 4:27 p.m. PST.
Search for missing activists intensifies in western Mexico
Concern is growing in Mexico over the fate of two environmental and community activists who disappeared last week in a dangerous corner of western Mexico.