Washington
MLK parade bomber sentenced to 32 years in prison
A federal judge was not swayed by the last-ditch attempt from an Army veteran with extensive ties to white supremacists to change his guilty plea in a plot to bomb a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade. Kevin Harpham said in court he only agreed to plead guilty to planting a bomb filled with poison-laced [...]
MLK parade bomber to be sentenced
A man with extensive ties to white supremacists will be sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to federal charges he planted a bomb intended to hurl poison-laced shrapnel into marchers at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane last January. Kevin Harpham, 37, faces a sentencing range of 27 to 32 years in prison [...]
Seattle school officials find achievement gap between black immigrants, African Americans
A new look at test scores by Seattle Public Schools shows American-born black students lag behind black immigrants in academic achievement. The Seattle Times reports African-American students, whose primary language is English, perform significantly worse in math and reading that black students who speak another language at home. District officials are pledging to find out [...]
White supremacist sentenced to 51 months for attack
Seattle Times – In January 2010, Zachary Beck and two other white supremacists attacked a black man in a downtown Vancouver, Wash., sports bar, yelling, “White Power!” “You’re dead!” and racist slurs. On Friday, Beck learned the consequences of hate and civil-rights crimes: U.S. District Court in Tacoma sentenced him to 51 months in prison. [...]
Black officers’ group assails assault charge against African-American cop
Seattle Times – A black law-enforcement advocacy group is criticizing prosecutors for filing an assault charge against an African-American Seattle police officer involved in an off-duty brawl while not charging two white Seattle officers who stomped on a prone Latino suspect in another incident. The decision by the City Attorney’s Office to charge Officer Garth [...]
