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Boys accused of hate posts Everett Police say two Edmonds students made threats about lynching and beating their African American classmates. By Diana Hefley Herald Writer
EDMONDS — Messages in the online group praised a man who earlier this year killed nine
people at a black church in South Carolina. Prosecutors allege that the hate-filled messages were posted by Edmonds-Woodway High School students. Two boys
allegedly admitted to police they wrote the racist posts but told police they were only trying to be funny. One boy, 15, claimed he got the ideas from the Internet and media, according to court papers filed Thursday. In October he posted that he wanted to bring a gun and a
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Ku Klux Klan outfit to the high school. He wrote about leaving behind dead bodies and bloodspattered walls. He and the other boy, 16, also allegedly made threats to lynch one of their African American classmates and beat another. See HATE, Page A2
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In exchange for cutting down trees around Lake Chaplain, the city will protect and enhance the rest of the land for 50 years. By Chris Winters Herald Writer
EVERETT — The city of Everett now has a 50-year agreement in place to harvest timber on land it owns around Lake Chaplain. Lake Chaplain is one of the city’s sources of drinking water, but the heavily wooded area could also be home to northern spotted owls and marbled murrelets, two bird species listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The agreement with state and federal regulators will allow the city to cut trees on part of the 3,729-acre tract in exchange for protecting the remainder of the land for the next 50 years. The agreement states that the city and the state Department of Natural Resources will cooperatively work to enhance habitat for the spotted owl and marbled murrelet. The agreement protects about 1,066 acres in the area. The protections correspond to those parts that are most likely to support nesting or foraging for the birds, as well as wetlands, steep slopes and other sensitive areas. The City Council passed the agreement Dec. 16 with a unanimous vote and without comment. Because the measure was an agreement between the city and regulators, and doesn’t change
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Carly Graham and Kathryn Kramer (right) take a photo together in an arch of lights at The Lights of Christmas at Warm Beach on Thursday in Stanwood. More than a million Christmas lights are displayed at the event, which also includes live entertainment, children’s activities, food, holiday shopping and more. Learn more at www.thelightsofchristmas.com, and check out more photos of the event at www.heraldnet.com.
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Inslee budget includes millions for mental health SEATTLE — Gov. Jay Inslee’s new budget proposal includes more than $137 million for the state’s beleaguered mental health system at a time when it’s under fire on several fronts. Washington is struggling to comply with a federal court order that requires it to provide timely competency services to mentally ill defendants and the
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state’s largest psychiatric hospital is under threat of losing federal funding because of safety concerns. “We know we have to do more for mental health in this state,” Inslee said in a statement Thursday. “We have urgent short-term needs, but we also need to take a long view on how to build a stronger mental health system.” Four times in 2015, the federal Centers for Medicare and
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Medicaid threatened to cut millions in funding for Western State Hospital after inspections found that system-wide failures caused serious harm to patients and placed their health and safety at risk. The latest 90-day termination notice is effective March 1, spokeswoman Stephanie Magill said. An unscheduled revisit to the facility will occur sometime in the future to ensure hospital officials are fixing the problems,
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she said. And an investigation by The Associated Press found assaults on staff by patients have resulted in millions of dollars in medical costs and thousands of missed days of work. Injured employees missed 41,301 days of work between 2010 and 2014, and workers compensation insurance paid $6 million in wage and medical costs for claims to injured hospital workers between January 2013 and September 2015,
The Buzz Washington, D.C, is increasing its speeding ticket fines to $1,000. Fortunately for them, nothing moves quickly in Congress. Page A2
The AP found. In response to the violence, Kevin Quigley, the secretary of the Department of Social and Health Services, recently ended all expansion plans at Western until more staff could be hired. The expansion was part of the effort to comply with a federal ruling requiring the state to provide timely competency services to mentally ill defendants. See BUDGET, Page A7
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