Lauren Girgis
Staff Reporter at Seattle Times
reporting breaking news @seattletimes •she/her • texas ex
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5 days ago |
seattletimes.com | Lauren Girgis
In an event space near Gas Works Park on a Saturday night, about a hundred people hit the dance floor in suits and dresses, getting cheesy prom portraits taken with corsages on their wrists. But this wasn’t a typical prom. No one was awkwardly asking their date if they wanted to dance. There was no prom king or queen. And nobody got in trouble for spiking the punch bowl; as many high schoolers have likely wished for, this prom had a bar. That’s because the attendees were adults, not teenagers.
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1 week ago |
seattletimes.com | Lauren Girgis
Between the rolling hills of the Wenatchee Valley, by a Columbia River hydroelectric dam, hundreds of people remembered the short, sweet lives of three Wenatchee girls Friday night. Family, friends and locals in the close-knit Wenatchee Valley gathered at the Rocky Reach Dam to honor the girls — Paityn, 9, Evelyn, 8, and Olivia, 5 — believed murdered by their father, Travis Decker.
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1 week ago |
seattletimes.com | Lauren Girgis
Kevin Wiley and David McGrath likely never met, but they died under strikingly similar circumstances. Both men were in their 40s and struggling with drug addiction. In 2023, months apart, both were booked into the Issaquah City Jail on suspicion of shoplifting, a gross misdemeanor. Less than 48 hours after each of them were booked, they were dead.
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1 week ago |
tri-cityherald.com | Lauren Girgis
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Saturday afternoon because of a security threat on a plane bound for Walla Walla. Around 1 p.m., flights scheduled to arrive at Sea-Tac were circling or being diverted to other airports, according to data from the flight-tracking company Flightradar24.
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2 weeks ago |
union-bulletin.com | Lauren Girgis
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Saturday afternoon because of a security threat on a plane bound for Walla Walla. As of 1 p.m., flights scheduled to arrive at Sea-Tac were circling or being diverted to other airports, according to data from the flight-tracking company FlightRadar24. The Port of Seattle reported shortly after 1:30 p.m. that a suspect on an airplane was taken into custody.
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