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Don Easton, a special investigator with Unified Investigations & Sciences, Inc., collects evidence, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, in the charred rubble of the home where Josh Powell and his two sons were killed Sunday, in Graham, Wash., in what police said appeared to be a deliberately set fire. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Frantic 911 call from social worker: Powell ’exploded the house’

Christine Clarridge, Lornet Turnbull The Seattle Times

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 6:42pm

SEATTLE — After Josh Powell locked himself in his home with his two young sons, the caseworker assigned to supervise the visitation pleaded for several minutes with a 911 dispatcher to send help, at one point saying, "I’m afraid for their lives," newly disclosed 911 tapes reveal.

Crime, 911 tape, Arson, Child custody, Child custody disputes, Josh Powell, Murder-suicide, Susan Powell, Utah, Featured, National Read more Comments

Russell Dickerson, Jr., Russell Dickerson, III and ACLU-WA Executive Director Kathleen Taylor at a 12-07-10 press conference in Seattle, Washington.

Bullied student awarded $100,000 from school district

Lornet Turnbull The Seattle Times

Last updated Friday, January 27, 2012 - 11:40am

SEATTLE -- As people grow older and look back at years spent in high school, they can often find pleasant memories lurking there -- of lifelong friends they made, or of fun times they had.

When Russell Dickerson III looks back, there's none of that -- just mostly sadness.

The 20-year-old black student, who said he endured relentless bullying and harassment by fellow students from the time he entered junior high until he graduated from high school, has reached a $100,000 settlement with the Aberdeen School District, where it happened.

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17 arrested as cops bust alleged cockfighting ring

Lornet Turnbull The Seattle Times

Last updated Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 4:36pm

SEATTLE -- After a nearly three-month investigation, police in Monroe, Wash., and the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office on Sunday crashed what appeared to be a cockfighting party -- busting up a cockfighting ring and arresting 17 people on animal-fighting charges.

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Census shows people aren't moving around country as much

Lornet Turnbull The Seattle Times

Last updated Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 2:19pm

SEATTLE -- Waylaid by high unemployment and the housing crisis, Americans over the last year have mostly stayed put, resulting in the lowest rate of state-to-state migration in more than six decades, census estimates show.

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City council candidate advocates death penalty for illegal immigrants

Lornet Turnbull The Seattle Times

Last updated Thursday, August 18, 2011 - 9:54am

KENNEWICK, Wash -- A city council candidate who advocates the death penalty for illegal immigrants as well as making Kennewick an English-language-only community won enough votes in Tuesday's primary to advance to the November general election.

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