(Newser) – An investigation—and phone tracing—started instantly after optimistic checks started to indicate up among the many 300 individuals who attended a wedding final month in Washington state. The toll is beginning to develop into clear. Seven residents of three nursing properties who had COVID-19 have died since staff at the properties went to the Ritzville wedding ceremony, …

The Antifa supporter needed for allegedly murdering a Trump supporter in Portland was armed with a handgun when he was shot dead by a US Marshals job power, authorities stated Friday. Michael Forest Reinoehl had a semiautomatic handgun on him when officers moved to arrest him at an house complicated in Tanglewilde in Washington state, Thurston County Sheriff’s Lt. Ray …

They’re baaaaack. Murder hornets have resurfaced in Washington state and seem to have reached British Columbia in Canada, in what consultants concern is an indication the invasive insect has been circulating extra extensively than beforehand suspected. Entomologists in Washington acquired a report earlier this week of a useless hornet discovered on a roadway close to Custer, main the state’s Department …

Fake signs warning of murder hornets are popping up round Washington State mountaineering trails. Wildlife officers in the state spent their Memorial Day weekend debunking the rumors and eradicating the signs from nature trails after receiving “several reports” of the legitimate-looking laminated warnings, in response to the state’s Department of Agriculture. “These signs – as most of the reports suspected …