A drug sniffing police dog in Washington indicated narcotics were inside 100 percent of the vehicles it sniffed, but police found drugs in just 29 percent of them.
Karma, a K-9 with the since-dissolved Republic Police Department operating near Washington state s border with Canada, would give the signal to police officers that every vehicle he sniffed was carrying drugs.
The signal - Karma sitting down when his police handler pointed to a vehicle s rear panel with the palm of their hand - would be given regardless of whether the driver possessed illegal narcotics or not.
By doing so, Karma essentially gave officers probable cause to search and seize every vehicle he sniffed, undercutting constitutional guarantees of due process.
Reason 56: Take a vax selfie, rake in the Instagram likes.
We ve spent a year trapped in a nightmare. We ve seen a half-million people die in the U.S. We ve watched the places we ve loved boarded up and bankrupted. We ve gone crazy inside locked down, shut in and fed up. And we ve watched the world go crazy outside a soaring murder rate, riots, insurrection and Instagram videos of people screaming at Walmart greeters about masks. The good news is this is the kind of nightmare you can pinch yourself and wake up from. All we have to do is tap our heels together three times, poke your arm once or twice, and we can all go home again. The problem is that to truly banish the nightmare to stop the deaths, free the businesses, get rid of the masks everyone has to join in the ritual. Whether because of fear, misinformation or simple procrastination, a huge chunk of the Inland Northwest hasn t been vacc
SPR s Doug Nadvornick reports.
The Covid outbreak that hit the small Ferry County town of Republic in April is slowly abating.
The outbreak was triggered by one or more gatherings at a local social club.
For the first time in a few weeks, administrators at the Ferry County Memorial Hospital say there say they saw no new cases over the weekend.
Cindy Chase, the chief nursing officer, says 125 residents have tested positive in during the last month, compared to 76 positive tests for the entire year between March 2020 and March 2021.
She says the people coming to the hospital with Covid symptoms are often really sick. Nine residents have been airlifted to other hospitals in the last three weeks. Two people have died.
Oregon, Washington COVID Cases Surge. Can California Dodge the Latest Threat?
By Mark Kreidler
On 5/11/21 at 2:13 PM EDT
This story is co-published with Capital & Main
In a portrait of progress, it almost looked like a missing tooth. While the U.S. overall was experiencing a significant decrease in new COVID-19 cases, and once-troubled California dropped to the lowest case rate in the nation, two Pacific Northwest states took an abrupt turn in the other direction.
It wasn t subtle. In Oregon, weekly case counts of the virus more than doubled in a month, going from a seven-day rolling average of 419 on April 1 to 861 on May 1, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Washington state, meanwhile, saw its seven-day average shoot from 784 on March 22 to 1,405 just a month later.
Updated: 1:20 PM PDT May 7, 2021
STEVENS COUNTY, Wash. Health officials in Northeastern Washington are investigating a potential widespread COVID-19 exposure in the Colville area due to social gatherings and other events.
The Northeast Tri County Health District (NETCHD) said in an update posted to its website on Friday that the events include those held at Dominion Meadows Golf Course in Colville beginning Saturday, May 1. The health district has been working to contact people who have tested positive for COVID-19 to provide their test results and isolation guidance.
Three people have tested positive for COVID-19 so far following events at the golf course but others may have been exposed to the virus, NETCHD Administrator Matt Schanz told KREM s Whitney Ward.