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Gordon Hemtpon poses for a portrait on Wednesday, April 3, 2019, at Finnriver Farm and Cidery in Chimacum, on the Olympic Peninsula.

The hunt to find just one square inch of silence

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Laura Baanstra, center, testifies at the trial of William Earl Talbott II on Friday, June 14. Talbott has been charged with killing her brother, Jay Cook, and his girlfriend Tanya van Cuylenborg in November of 1987. In the foreground: May Robson, left, Tanya's best friend, and John van Cuylenborg, Tanya's older brother, watch Baanstra's testimony.

Genealogy helped solve this cold case. But prosecutors are downplaying it

Patricia Murphy

Arts & Life

7th and 8th grade students pose with teacher Kimberly Lane Clark for 2019 Lancaster Middle School Career Day. Clark's session that day was titled, What does a Computer Scientist look like?

Random acts of kindness from teachers and students to warm your old, cold heart

This West Seattle parking lot is chock-full of drama
The Record

June 18th | A whale of a view
Boaty McBoatface, Internet-Adored Sub, Makes Deep-Sea Discovery On Climate Change
Trump Threatens To Deport 'Millions,' As He Kicks Off Campaign For Reelection
'Wake-Up Call' About A Broken System: New Study Shows Failings Of Probation, Parole
Michel Platini, Europe's Former Soccer Boss, Arrested As Part Of Qatar Inquiry
RadioActive

This documentarian makes you walk a mile in someone else’s shoes
Trump Set To Officially Launch Reelection Bid, But Hasn't He Been Running All Along?
Going 'Zero Carbon' Is All The Rage. But Will It Slow Climate Change?
Pentagon Sending 1,000 More U.S. Troops To Middle East
Drag Queen Story Hours come to King County, but not without complaints
The Record

June 17th | The view from a Shanghai taxi

A veteran NPR correspondent’s drive for the story. A tale of two counties. Forced conservatorship in San Francisco. And some of what we don’t know we don’t know about Kim Jong Un.

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