Big Country News Connection

1 day ago | bigcountrynewsconnection.com | Spencer Pauley

(The Center Square) – Seattle is partnering with nonprofits and Amazon to launch an ambassador program dedicated to the Chinatown-International District amid growing concerns of anti-Asian violence. Seattle is collaborating with the Asian American Foundation (TAAF), Amazon and the Chinatown-International District Business Improvement Area on the new “Chinatown-International District Ambassadors Program,” which will launch June 1.

1 day ago | bigcountrynewsconnection.com | Spencer Pauley

(The Center Square) – The Seattle City Council unanimously approved a bill that shifts revenue from automated traffic cameras into traffic safety and sidewalk repair projects. Council Bill 120971 – sponsored by Seattle City Councilmember Rob Saka – amends the city’s financial policies to allocate 70% of automated traffic camera revenue to go toward the general fund.

2 days ago | bigcountrynewsconnection.com | Kevin Richert

Originally published May 13 on IdahoEdNews.org. The Kuna School District faces an $8 million tort claim over a reported in-school sexual misconduct incident. Meanwhile, the Twin Falls-based Xavier Charter School faces a separate $5 million tort claim. A former student at the school, a special education student, says he was a victim of repeated acts of “unlawful sexual activity and abuse,” involving an older female student.

2 days ago | bigcountrynewsconnection.com | Shelbie Harris

A 47-year-old Challis woodcutter may have been murdered after authorities located his abandoned truck and dog in the central Idaho mountains this past weekend, according to a Monday news release from the Custer County Sheriff’s Office. Around 3 p.m.  Saturday, the sheriff’s office was notified that Patrick Ray Shelton, 47, of Challis had not returned from a wood gathering trip in the mountains after he was expected to return on Wednesday, May 8, the sheriff’s office said.

2 days ago | bigcountrynewsconnection.com | Sam Lennon

By Sam LennonA cat that was trapped under floorboards for three weeks is believed to have survived by drinking beer. Ben Smith says his pet Leia clambered into his neighbor’s open floor in Deal, Kent, moments before it was tiled shut with her beneath. Such was his family’s despair, they even shelled out $1,000 for a pet detective to help trace the missing animal.