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TACOMA, Wash. – A woman was arrested in Tacoma, accused of vandalizing signs and destroying petitions as a group was trying to gather signatures for a couple of new ballot initiatives.
The backstory:
Let’s Go Washington posted a video of the woman being arrested Thursday night in a parking lot along South 19th Street.
Tacoma Police say they booked her for malicious mischief.
FOX 13 has blurred her face in the video for now because as of Friday, it was unclear if she had been charged.
Dig deeper:
The group, Let’s Go Washington, says right before that woman was arrested, another woman stole signature sheets containing dozens of names with personal information.
Witnesses described the suspect as a college-aged woman who got into a car and took off.
In the process of fleeing the parking lot, police say the suspect hit another car.
There is no description yet of the hit-and-run vehicle, but police are investigating.
What they’re saying:
Let’s Go Washington says their signature gatherers have been attacked nearly a dozen times in recent weeks.
“Signature gatherers across the state have faced harassment and threats, destruction of their property, and voter suppression.”
The group spearheaded by Brian Heywood is in the process of gathering hundreds of thousands of signatures for two new initiatives on the ballot. One dealing with parental rights and the other opposing transgender athletes from playing in youth girl sports.
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Costume collectors and fashion lovers can score a piece of Seattle theater history at a massive one-day sale featuring over 2,500 costumes, accessories, and supplies.
SEATTLE, WA – For the first time in a decade, you can get your hands on the actual costumes worn on stage at different Seattle theater productions.
What we know:
One-of-a-kind pieces from 5th Avenue Theatre, Village Theatre, Seattle Rep, Union Arts Center, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and the Seattle Opera are on sale this Saturday
“You’re getting a piece that really should cost thousands of dollars and that isn’t what we’re charging,” said Kathleen Trott the Seattle Opera costume shop manager.
Instead, some pieces available at the sale are going for as cheap as one dollar. Trott tells FOX 13 Seattle the most expensive pieces are priced at around $500.
“We put a lot of time, and love, and effort, and professional skill into making these things,” said Trott.
She tells FOX 13 Seattle one of the biggest reasons for the sale is to make room for future productions.
Thousands of costumes from size 0 all the way up, hang in the Seattle Opera’s costume storage racks currently.
“Even though this room feels very big, it constantly feels like we’re running out of space,” said Trott.
Whether it’s for Halloween, upcoming costume parties, or a Tuesday out on the town, Trott tells FOX 13 Seattle that customers will find something that fits them and their vibe perfectly.
“If you come with the spirit of adventure to find some fun pieces, there is, like I said, more than five thousand pieces. There is shoes and fabrics and hats and wigs. There is something for everyone definitely,” said Trott.
What you can do:
Tickets for the event are sold out. However, if you’re willing to show up closer to the end of the sale, you can get in for free.
People without a ticket can line up as early as 2 p.m., and start shopping around 2:30 p.m. The sale ends at 4 p.m.
The sale is happening at the Seattle Opera located at 363 Mercer Street in Seattle.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has called hundreds of U.S. military leaders to Washington for a meeting. The panel discusses the meeting and new rules on press access at the Pentagon.
The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey represents an important Rubicon crossed. The panel discusses what all of this means for the future of American democracy and the wholesale takeover of the Justice Department by the Trump political apparatus.
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The bathrooms aren’t for you anymore. The parks aren’t for you anymore. Good luck finding a trash can at a light rail station, or getting comfortable on a bench while a metal armrest stabs into your ribs. Your other seating options require $6 for over-sour coffee or surveillance from an underpaid librarian whose unofficial second job is now social worker. The bus shelters don’t shelter, the park closes at 10, and the street is a Ring doorbell showroom. But at least we’re solving the “homeless problem.”
A few weeks ago, we reported how the city quietly locked up Seven Hill Park over Labor Day Weekend. The little Capitol Hill greenspace, next to a church turned swanky “Sanctuary” condominium building, would be closed for 60 days, or until just before Halloween. The city did this because people were living in the park and neighbors told us the residents of that swanky condominium had complained. Sanctuary’s building association did not return a request for an interview.
Parks said it put up the fence to address “bouts of negative park activity,” and might install new “amenities” hostile to sleeping, sitting and vibing.
Two neighbors told us the people at Seven Hills were no bother (but a gun had once gone off, an incident the Seattle Police Department was unable to confirm), and the latest group had responsibly picked up its trash. A tourist from Atlanta, Georgia told us “Atlanta, Georgia said ‘fuck that.’ Councilmember Joy Hollingsworth dodged our questions and told us to reach out to parks for answers.
For this story, she got back to us and says residents would have a better idea of whether the fence has been an effective measure than she would. When we asked what “amenities” the city should install to prevent people from camping, she dodged again, saying tents and encampments had never been an issue for her or the community, only fentanyl use, “biohazards,” and “unsafe activity.” When we asked if anti-homeless architecture impacted the overall enjoyment of a park, Hollingsworth says the question was irrelevant to the closure. When we asked what public response she’d heard, she referred us to a public statement:
“I’ve heard from many of you who deeply value these parks as vital green spaces in our neighborhoods,” she wrote. “I totally agree. Access to safe, welcoming parks is essential for our community’s health and well-being. That’s why we are doing everything we can to address these issues and reopen both parks as quickly and safely as possible for everyone to enjoy.”
There you have it: 60 days is top speed. There were rumors that the city would close additional parks in Capitol Hill. However, those closures haven’t happened and none are planned, according to the Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation.
Even though the homeowners on the council can’t comprehend it, in a neighborhood of apartment renders, two months without a neighborhood park can be suffocating. Those spaces are breathing rooms. Where else can a person take a call away from their nosy roommate? Leaning against a fence?
That’s exactly the idea. Since the city sees no problem fencing off Seven Hills Park, the public good must still be enjoyable. We attempted to find all the possible ways to enjoy a park that’s been de-parked.
Photos by Billie Winter for The Stranger.
Masturbate behind the fence. The city has been playing hard to get with this Denny Blaine stuff, but we finally got the hint. You could have just asked. Something for you, something for us.
Play “Berlin Wall.”
3D scan the area and create a VPE (Virtual Park Experience). With the Metaverse, we don’t need outside.
Use the fence as a bathroom. They’re hard to find in this neighborhood!
Use the fence as a backscratcher. Check for rust (and piss.)
Pretend you’re on the Love Lock Bridge in Paris. We don’t have the grit to protest like the French, but we can co-opt their whole romance thing.
Tie a puppy player to the fence and leave him there. Ryan got away.
Throw a bunch of baseballs in there. Have you seen Sandlot?
Find a Handhold: Those Seattle Bouldering Project gyms are too damn full and too damn expensive. The city thinks the fence is a solution. Climbers see a “problem.” (Check for rust and piss.)
Red Solo Cup Art. It can say whatever you want, but the holes are more rectangular than is ideal.
Lure a police officer in there and trap him like you’re a 7-year-old playing The Sims: Oh feebee lay!
Tie balloons to the fence until it floats away.Up is based on a house in Seattle, so obviously, it works.
Tell the city the fence is an encampment. Found, fixed, reported, baby. The city will have 90 days to collect its fence.
Tunnels?
Role play! If you pretend you are conservative, an orgasmic-like pleasure will roll through your body like a freight train.
Astral project.
Stare longingly at the benches, the shady patches under the trees. If you spin it right, you can convince yourself this is like some kind of restrictive delayed gratification kink thing, which brings us back to masturbating behind the fence.
Put a Ring camera on it. Call the cops whenever someone walks by.
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To discuss the indictment of James Comey and its implications, Geoff Bennett spoke with Ty Cobb. He was a White House attorney in the first Trump administration, managing the response to special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into alleged Russian election interference.
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Scarlett Johansson is known the world over for major roles in close to 40 films over the past three decades and is the highest-grossing lead actor in Hollywood. Johansson is now taking on a new role as director. Her debut film, “Eleanor the Great,” is now in theaters. Amna Nawaz sat down with the filmmaker to discuss this latest chapter in her career. It's for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and a government shutdown is looming with both parties in Congress remaining deeply entrenched.
The Justice Department has sued eight states to compel them to share their voter registration lists with the federal government. State officials oppose the move because of concerns about how the information will be used by the Trump administration. It comes as President Trump continues to target election systems, including mail-in ballots, ahead of the midterm elections. Liz Landers reports.
An electrical fire at Post Options on July 30 forced Capitol Hill’s most neon funhouse to close its doors indefinitely. That meant no carnival food, no pinball, no drag brunches and—most importantly—no steady income for the many drag artists, performers, bartenders, security, kitchen staff, and management who’ve made Unicorn the carnivalesque fixture of Seattle nightlife it is.
If you ask Fraya Love—the host and organizer of Unicorn Burn Relief Fundraiser, as well as a bartender and performer at Unicorn—who’s to blame, her answer is clear: “the IRS.” When do you need a fax machine aside from tax season?
Lüchi
Now, rather than dazzling on stage, the staff and performers have to “sit and wait while the insurance companies fight for who’s going to pay for every little thing,” Izzy Access, events manager and host of Mimosa’s Cabaret since 2018, said. “Insurance is a scam.”
The gloom of outdated technology and rapacious insurance companies did not find its way on Neumos’ stage at the fundraiser Sept. 25. An intimate crowd of Unicorn staff and community members welcomed in the evening, with performers and supporters mingling while flashes of gaudy fabric could be seen backstage.The opening number was vibrant shades of orchid and chartreuse set to Brittany Spears’ “Circus,” as Fraya Love steered the night to a sexy, spirited showcase of 21 drag and burlesque artists.
The patent leather boots and slinky floorwork were almost enough to forget that every performer out there was on a financial cliff, and the fundraiser was about survival. Bills are stacking up while Unicorn hopes against insurance frustrations to reopen by mid-October, “prospectively and optimistically,” as Love puts it.
Kenzie the Kween
“You can’t really just get another kitchen job for a month or two if you want to have a good reputation,” assistant kitchen manager Valerie Long says. “So we’ve just been sticking it out on unemployment.”
But unemployment doesn’t make ends meet like it used to.
“Unemployment is like ’90s money,” Long explains. “It’s not the ‘90s. I went to the fucking food bank today. It’s getting rough.”
Glory Joel
Still, in between raffle pulls, lip-syncs, and tequila shots, there were vignettes of what makes Unicorn more than a bar. During one raffle drawing, bar regular Kara was the winning ticket holder. Love, without missing a beat, remembered Kara’s exact drink order and shouted it from the stage.
It was a small moment in a loud night full of extravagance, and a beautiful snapshot of how Unicorn serves as a place for community members to be known.
Kara was at the Unicorn the night of the fire. “We were playing games in the back, and I was like, ‘Does it smell like burning plastic to anyone else?’ I was trying to pay the tab while they were telling everyone to leave,” Kara says.
Bruno Baewatch
While a fan of their colorful interior, pinball machines and “surprisingly good” bar food, Kara mostly misses the “inclusive and accepting environment” that Unicorn created.
“We need to remember that we only have so many spaces right now that are not just queer, but open to everybody. Any bar [like that] is worth saving, especially right now,” she says.
With rising costs of living, Seattle’s queer nightlife has been whittled down by the pricing out of many queer spaces, performers and individuals. Unicorn—with its striped walls and carnival kitsch—has housed innumerable artists over the years, with all the fundraiser performers having some tie to the venue.
Queen Andrew Scott
The night was a menagerie of endless talent, feather boas, tasseled pasties and tearaway pants, including performances from: Harper Bizarre, Amora Namor, Bruno Baewatch, Princess Pillow, Miss Texas 1988, Nico, Ladie Chablis, Ruby Mimosa, Queen Andrew Scott, Londyn Bradshaw, Glory Joel, Kimme Kash, Lüchi, Willy Nilly, Kara Sutra, Izzy Access, Tarzan, Lady Gugu, Kenzie the Kween, Porcelain, and, of course, Fraya Love.
“Never will you ever get to see these performers for $30 again—in this recession?” Love says.
Though an all-star night like this is unlikely to occur again, the lineup of talented artists looks forward to performing upon Unicorn’s reopening. Excitement grew as Izzy Access announced that the interrupted run of “The Wicked Wiz of Oz” will return.
Tarzan
“I’m hoping that the community is really going to come to support us when we open back up,” Long says. “I hope that going without Unicorn, people will be like ‘Oh wait, we love you!’”
Love brought the night to a close, encouraging individuals to support local drag and service workers and to contribute to a GoFundMe set up to support Unicorn staff if able.
With a final goodbye, Love instructed: “Brush your teeth, do your homework and we’ll see you next time.”
On the seventh episode of the “Seattle News Weekly” podcast, FOX 13 Seattle anchors Erin Mayovsky and John Hopperstad talk about the threat of school shootings and what laws Washington state has passed in hopes of limiting the number of deadly incidents.
Earlier this month, police arrested a 13-year-old from Pierce County for making mass shooting threats online. The 13-year-old boy is charged with unlawful possession of a gun, unlawful possession of fireworks and threats toward a school.
On the podcast, Mayovsky and Hopperstad talked about concerns surrounding this case, specifically questioning how he had access to the guns. Investigators found 23 guns, many 3-D printed and untraceable, in his home, along with evidence of his obsession with past mass shooters, including imitating and idolizing them.
They further discussed the statistics surrounding gun violence and youth in the country and around the state of Washington. Mayovsky said in an average year, 935 people die from guns in Washington alone.
They discussed the differences between gun control laws in the United States and compared them to other countries. Specifically, in Australia, where the National Firearms Agreement (NFA) was implemented in 1996, following the Port Arthur massacre, which banned certain semi-automatic and pump-action firearms, established a buyback program, created a national firearms registry and introduced strict licensing and waiting periods for gun ownership.
The podcast concluded with a lighter topic, where they discussed the celebration surrounding the Seattle Mariners and their clinching of the AL West Division, Cal Raleigh’s legacy and the overall morale between fans and the community.
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BATTLE GROUND, Wash. – A small plane crashed near Goheen Airport north of Battle Ground on Thursday afternoon, killing everyone on board, according to Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue.
What we know:
Fire crews from Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue, Fire District 3 and Fire District 10 were dispatched at 1:08 p.m. to reports of a crash.
Engine 22 arrived at the scene in about seven minutes and found a single-engine airplane fully engulfed in flames in a field near the airport, officials said.
A small plane crashed in Clark County, WA on Sept. 26, 2025. Officials said there were no survivors. (Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue)
Crews quickly extinguished the fire and kept it from spreading to nearby trees and structures.
What they’re saying:
“Unfortunately, there were no survivors from the crash,” Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue said in a statement.
The Clark County Sheriff’s Office has taken control of the scene and will work with the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board to investigate the cause.
A small plane crashed in Clark County, WA on Sept. 26, 2025. Officials said there were no survivors. (Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue)
Dig deeper:
Both agencies routinely respond to aviation accidents, gathering information about weather conditions, pilot records, maintenance history and other factors. A preliminary report is typically issued within a few weeks, with a final report that could take a year or more.
Goheen Airport is a privately owned, public-use airport located about five miles north of Battle Ground. The small facility primarily serves general aviation pilots in Clark County and is used for recreational flying, flight training and light aircraft operations.
Fatal crashes involving small aircraft are relatively rare but not unprecedented in southwest Washington. The NTSB has investigated several accidents in the region over the past decade, most involving privately owned planes operating from small airports.
What we don’t know:
Officials have not released the number of people on board Thursday’s flight or identified the victims. Further details will be provided as the investigation continues.
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The Source: Information in this story came from Clark-Cowlitsz Fire Rescue and FOX 12 Oregon.