The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in the Pacific Northwest. It was founded in 1891 and has been owned and operated by the Blethen family since 1896.
Coeur d’Alene city attorneys have declined to charge an 18-year-old suspected of yelling intimidating racial slurs at the University of Utah women’s basketball team that marred their experience playing in March Madness in Spokane. Prosecutors said the suspect, a high-school student, admitted he yelled racial and sexual epithets at the players with the desire to be “funny,” according to a written decision released Monday afternoon by Chief Deputy City Attorney Ryan Hunter. The student’s words, however, are protected speech under Idaho law, and prosecutors determined his actions did not amount...