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The BriefThurston County Superior Court Judge Christine Schaller ruled key parts of Senate Bill 5974 unconstitutional on Oct. 2.The ruling blocks requirements that sheriffs be at least 25 years old, have five years of law enforcement experience, and have no felony or gross misdemeanor convictions.The ruling also blocks a provision that lets an appointed state commission remove an elected sheriff outside the standard recall process. The state plans to appeal.KENNEWICK, Wash.— Thurston County Supe

This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. After lawsuit, Maricopa County reinstates 25 voters mistakenly flagged in citizenship check The Maricopa County Recorder’s Office has agreed to reinstate the registrations of a group of voters falsely flagged as noncitizens by an error-prone federal data tool earlier this year, following a lawsuit by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes.

What started as an eviction call over a short-term rental guest reportedly refusing to leave led Sedona police into an alleged organized interstate counterfeiting operation. A search of a Brewer Road short-term vacation rental in the 900 block on Sept. 3 uncovered what police described as an “organized operation” producing counterfeit cash and fraudulent documents linked to an Aug. 31 traffic stop in Cottonwood, according to a Sedona Police Department report requested by the NEWS.

Arizona faces two rounds of heavy rain in three days starting Friday, and forecasters warned that storms falling on ground still saturated from last week’s destructive flooding could quickly send water racing through washes, creeks and low-water crossings from metro Phoenix to the Mogollon Rim. The National Weather Service...

The R22 is a two-seat aircraft and the H125 can carry up to six passengers, depending on the configuration.

(Central Oregon Daily News editor's note: Pacific Power has more than 100,000 customers in Central Oregon) Pacific Power announced it has reached a stipulated settlement with the Oregon Public Utility Commission that would allow it to hike rates next spring after first lowering them. Customers of the utility will see...

A video taken from the car of two legal observers in the Portland, Oregon area shows an unmarked vehicle with emergency lights flashing, following close behind their car on a street in the suburb of Hillsboro. About 15 seconds into the video , both cars stop and two masked people get out of the unmarked vehicle and approach the other car, with one carrying a sharp object that they use to puncture the back tire. They approach a second time a few seconds later, slashing the tire again. Both of the

Over the last two weeks, at least three Reno residents have fallen victim to phone scams. Altogether, they’ve lost about $200,000. Now, Reno Police are working to educate folks on how to spot these scams and prevent more people from falling victim. RPD says the main group being targeted...

In their latest campaign, the Portland-originated Columbia Sportswear challenges survivalists to submit a video to win the "Don't Panic Room," a 40-foot bunker they stocked full of their clothes.

Reno, NEV — Months after we reported that Reno resident Bonnie Linich had wrongly been declared deceased by the IRS, there is some good news to report. The tax agency has finalized its deceased classification reversal we are told and the hope is the problem has been solved. The...