🫏 Bellevue police are searching for two donkeys, Julio and Juan, which they believe were stolen. (KING 5)
👮🏽♀️The Seattle Police Department hired more officers than it lost in 2024 for the first year since 2019. Although the net gain was just one officer, it potentially signals a shift from years of staffing declines. (Seattle Times)
🎓 Robert J. Jones, the chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, will become the University of Washington's 34th president, the UW Board of Regents announced yesterday. (MyNorthwest)
President Trump has nominated Joe Kent, a former U.S. Army Special Forces soldier and past Republican candidate in Washington's 3rd Congressional District, to lead the National Counterterrorism Center. (Washington State Standard)
