Auburn shooting raises concerns about teens, automatic guns, gangs: ‘Really excessive’; Teens arrested with modified guns at Chinatown Seafair Parade release to home monitoring

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AGRICULTURE

• USDA: Farm labor costs up 47% in Washington (Capital Press)

BUSINESS, ECONOMY & LABOR

• Boeing names new CEO as it posts a loss of more than $1.4 billion in second quarter (The Seattle Times)
• Amazon is responsible for hazardous items sold on its site, U.S. agency says (AP/The Seattle Times)

CENSUS

• Census: Clallam has one of the lowest household median incomes in the state (KONP Radio)

COMMUNITY & FAMILY ISSUES

• Accidental infant suffocation rate increases in Clark County (The Columbian)
• EDITORIAL: Institutions must be held to account for abuse (The Columbian)

CRIME & PUBLIC SAFETY

• Auburn shooting raises concerns about teens, automatic guns, gangs: ‘Really excessive’ (MyNorthwest)
• Teens arrested with modified guns at Chinatown Seafair Parade release to home monitoring (KOMO TV)
• COLUMN: Prosecutors sound alarms over ‘reckless’ Washington State Bar Association proposal that dismantles the criminal justice system (Jason Rantz/MyNorthwest)

DAMS

• Concerns raised over Ecology’s ruling on Eightmile Lake Dam reconstruction (The Wenatchee World)

EDUCATION

• Bremerton schools may appoint interim as superintendent probe continues (Kitsap Sun)

ELECTIONS

• How Washington’s top-two primary system works (KNDO/KNDU)

ENERGY & UTILITIES

• Chicago company plans solar project in Benton County (Capital Press)
• OPINION: Goldendale Energy Project comes at the expense of tribes, nature (Mariana Turrubiates Garcia, intern with Washington Conservation Action’s Native Vote Washington/Yakima Herald-Republic)

ENVIRONMENT

• How to check if something’s really compostable in Washington state (Axios – Seattle)

HIGHER EDUCATION

• Central Washington University board approves new student fee for sustainability project funding (Daily Record)
• Yakima Valley College offers alternate paths to high school diploma, GED (Daily Record)
• WSU researchers aiming to replace artificial turf with real grass (KING TV)

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

• Teen trafficked in Lynnwood by man she met on Tinder waits for justice (The Everett Herald)

INVASIVE SPECIES

• Two new shark species are moving into Puget Sound: ‘They’re not supposed to be here’ (The Seattle Times)

LAW ENFORCEMENT

• Thurston County Sheriff: police pursuit law change sees fewer drivers fleeing overall (The Center Square)
• Seven Spokane police officers justified in downtown shooting (The Spokesman-Review)
• Seattle police tell officers they can talk to juvenile witnesses, despite earlier concerns (KOMO TV)
• Pierce County Council split on sheriff’s department being featured on ‘Cops’ (The Center Square)

LEGISLATURE

• ‘They canceled me’: Rep. Tarra Simmons fired by nonprofit she helped found (KUOW Radio)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

• Coroner: Benton County deputy prosecutor was drunk during crash that killed family members (KNDO/KNDU)
• City to unveil digital story map of Walla Walla’s historic places (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
• Chief Amy Smith’s plans for Seattle’s CARE Department (Cascade PBS)

MENTAL HEALTH

• King County is getting its first walk-in mental health crisis center (KUOW Radio)

MILITARY & VETERANS

• Veterans court program transforms lives for veteran’s and provides support (KAPP/KVEW)

OTHER STATES

• More than 1 million acres burned across Oregon, firefighters making some progress (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
• Multnomah County Sheriff says she won’t use jails to criminalize homelessness under Portland camping policy (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
• Idaho on track to meet wolf population goals (The Lewiston Tribune)

SPORTS

• Washington gymnast Jordan Chiles becomes gold medalist at Paris Olympics (KING TV)

TRANSPORTATION

• Proposed toll rates for new bistate bridge advance to state commissions (The Center Square)
• Fast ferries from Kingston, Southworth face threat of cancellations this fall (Kitsap Sun)
• Union Gap I-82 overpass named for late Mayor Dan Olson (Yakima Herald-Republic)

TRIBAL ISSUES

• 60 Native children from Northwest died in U.S. boarding schools, among nearly 1,000 deaths nationwide (The Seattle Times)
• Interior Dept. concludes three-year probe of Indian boarding schools (KUOW Radio)

WATER

• The tiny town of Marshall is grappling with the legal implications of a mysterious new lake (The Spokesman-Review)
• Water bills are contentious in this Pierce County city. Why do they seem so high? (The News Tribune)

WEATHER & CLIMATE

• Washington is on northern lights watch this week, as a ‘cannibal’ solar storm blasts Earth (The Olympian)

WILDFIRE PREVENTION & RESPONSE

• Stehekin under stress as Pioneer fire draws within mile and half of town (The Seattle Times)
• Lower Granite Fire burns homes and thousands of acres north of Pomeroy (The Lewiston Tribune)

WOLVES

• Washington considering killing wolves in two areas after livestock conflicts (The Spokesman-Review)