The first defense filing has landed in Director Nancy Hamilton's lawsuit against the Port Angeles School District, and the complaint itself has been refiled to fix a paperwork error, according to Clallam County Superior Court records reviewed by The Olympic Herald.
Attorney Lori M. Bemis of McGavick Graves,
Ballots for the August 4 primary went in the mail on July 17. They are sitting on kitchen counters across Washington right now, next to a voters' pamphlet that tells you what each candidate says about themselves and nothing about who paid to get that message in front of
A 47-year-old man walked into the Sequim Police Department July 16 to ask for a gas card from its human services fund and left in custody, according to a probable cause certification filed in Clallam County Superior Court.
Andy Kim, listed in charging papers at a Kent address,
The Port Angeles School District Board of Directors declined on Thursday, July 23, to approve the minutes of its June 18 meeting, the session at which it voted 4-1 to censure Director Nancy Hamilton.
The vote keeps the official written record of that night out of public view for
A multi-agency search for two men who disappeared separately at Cape Flattery ended Friday evening with no sign of either, and the trail at the northwestern tip of the contiguous United States has reopened to the public.
The operation ended at 6 p.m. Friday, according to the Clallam
Five concerts remain in Sequim's free Music in the Park series, and the next one is Tuesday.
Bread and Gravy performs from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the James Center for the Performing Arts bandshell, the stage at the Water Reuse Site on the north
A state appeals court has found the defense attorney at a gun trial "plainly deficient" for agreeing to give jurors the name of the 1998 felony that cost his client his firearm rights, after Clallam County Superior Court Judge Brent Basden repeatedly urged him not to.
The conviction
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction has suspended the Washington education certificate of a tutor employed by the Skokomish Tribe who worked two school years inside Shelton High School, citing a pattern of multiple incidents of inappropriate interactions with students in Mason County and, later, in Nebraska.
William Heelan
The Quillayute Valley School District Board of Directors is scheduled to meet Tuesday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Forks High School Library/Media Center, its first regular session since the district paid the Larson judgment and since a closed-door special meeting that ended with
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction has permanently revoked the Washington education certificates of three educators in orders signed on the same day, two of them arising from felony convictions in other states.
The Final Orders of Mandatory Permanent Revocation were signed July 14, 2026, by Deputy Chief Legal
The Port Angeles School District Board of Directors will hold its regular meeting tonight at 5 p.m. in Room 208 of the Lincoln Center, 905 W. Ninth St.
It is the board's first regular meeting since June 18, when directors voted 4-1 to censure Director Nancy
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction has suspended the education certificate of a former Tumwater fourth grade teacher who registered a .185 blood-alcohol reading after school administrators took him to a medical facility on a Monday morning in April 2025.
Sean Colgan, who taught at Peter G. Schmidt
The trial of a Sequim man facing child exploitation charges has been postponed after his newly retained defense attorney asked the court to push back the trial date.
Carl King, 23, appeared July 2 for a pretrial hearing in Clallam County Superior Court, where Judge Brent Basden granted the continuance
On Monday I filed two public records requests seeking the paper trail behind last week's silencing of the public on the "Judge Ferguson-Brown" Facebook page: who runs it, what was deleted, and who said what, to whom, as the comments disappeared.
One request went to
The Clallam County Superior Court has refused to release its own search warrant logs.
In a two-page memorandum opinion dated July 13, Judge Simon Barnhart denied my formal Petition for Internal Review, upholding the court administration's blanket refusal to produce the search warrant logs of former Court
A Port Angeles woman charged with assaulting a police officer during a Wednesday welfare check will undergo a mental competency evaluation before her criminal cases move forward, a Clallam County Superior Court judge ordered Friday.
Deanna L. Long, 41, appeared in custody Friday afternoon before Judge Brent Basden for what
A Port Angeles man accused in a 2008 North Carolina double homicide has been extradited, and the local case that held him here is closed.
Johnny S. Talbert, 43, was transported to North Carolina under a Governor's Warrant, according to court records filed Friday in Clallam County Superior
Over the last week, our articles followed public money to the penny, tracked a school board fight all the way into a courtroom, documented precedent-setting rulings from the state Court of Appeals, and watched public comment vanish overnight from a judge's Facebook page after our article was
A 66-year-old man convicted of first-degree rape and first-degree attempted murder has been unconditionally released from civil commitment after the State of Washington conceded it could no longer prove he meets the legal definition of a sexually violent predator, according to King County Superior Court records
The Quillayute Valley School District Board of Directors met behind closed doors for roughly 80 minutes Wednesday afternoon, then adjourned without taking any action or offering further explanation of what was discussed.
The special meeting was open to the public for only about two minutes in total. After the Pledge
The Sequim School Board will hold a public hearing tonight on the district's 2026-2027 budget, with budget-related public comments accepted.
A budget workshop begins at 4:30 p.m., followed by the regular meeting at 5:30 p.m. in the District Office Board Room at
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