The Seattle City Council unanimously passed a key measure to increase accountability and transparency in the Seattle Police Department. The new legislation would require that when the chief of police and the director of the Office of Professional Accountability (OPA) — the civilian watchdog charged with investigating allegations of police wrongdoing — disagree about the settlement of an officer misconduct complaint, each would provide a ...

It was a nail-biter at the end. Trailing 21-17 with a little over two minutes left in the game, the Seahawks scored on a 22-yard touchdown pass, and during the ensuing kickoff return, with less than one minute left, forced and recovered a fumble, sealing the win.
In a wild game, the Seattle Seahawks beat the Cincinnati Bengals 24-21 Sunday afternoon in front of 68,110 screaming fans at Qwest Field. After the Hasselbeck/Alexander devastating ...

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Call it White Supremacists Gone Wild. After last Thursday's successful march in support of…

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YORK, Pa. (AP) -- Complaints about students displaying Confederate flags on T-shirts and cars at an area high school led to a ban of the image and a later racial disturbance, officials said.
Administrators banned displays of the flag at Susquehannock High School in Glen Rock after several students said they were upset by the symbol, said Southern York County School District superintendent Thomas R. Hensley.
Officials met with about 10 students on Thursday and told them they could not display the flag ....

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Supreme Court is set to begin a term that could lead to enhanced rights for terrorism detainees, a ruling against part of a child pornography law and shorter prison terms for crack cocaine dealers.
Whatever happened to the court's march to the right?
The answer, it seems safe to say, is that little has changed on the bench, where Justice Anthony Kennedy remains the decisive vote between four conservatives and four liberals ....

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Republican presidential candidates discussed the importance of reaching out to people of color during a minority issues debate Thursday night and criticized the leading four GOP contenders for skipping it.
"I think this is a disgrace that they are not here," said Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback. "I think it's a disgrace to our country. I think it's bad for our party, and I don't think it's good for our future."
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said he was "embarrassed for our party, and I'm embarrassed for ....

Sophomores Maika Moala, Saia Kofe and freshman Nick Unga lead a victory dance with their teammates and cheerleaders for the Jefferson High School audience after their 14 to 2 victory over the Liberty Falcons on Sept. 14.

Causing much controversy over the last decade, Portland's Drug and Prostitution Free Zones have been lauded for – allegedly — reducing street level crimes and reviled for causing a disproportionately high arrest rate for African Americans.
Now, if no City Council action is taken by Sept. 30, the ordinance – which restricts a person arrested for certain drug or prostitution crimes from entering three large geographic areas in the city – could quietly disappear. In the past, most members of City Hall have supported the zones, but support has eroded after a report last spring revealed that the proportion of exclusions given to African Americans was much higher than that of Whites.
Driven by these civil liberties issues and doubts about the zones' oversight, the City Council gave the zones a six month extension. And in July the mayor's office commissioned an independent study of the zone's effectiveness and fairness. Many say the timeline for the study was too short.
John Campbell, the study's author, says he is planning on having his report completed on deadline. Yet he also wants to make sure the council isn't looking at an incomplete report.
"We haven't made this public because we do need more time," Campbell said.
Although Campbell said the timeline to produce the report was short, he's also had a "challenge getting good information."
"We'll have very interesting information ...