West
Washington state House passes ban on hog-tying by police in a landslide
The Washington state House overwhelmingly approved legislation Wednesday that would ban police from hog-tying suspects, a restraint technique that has long drawn concern because of the risk of suffocation.
“This practice is dehumanizing, and it’s dangerous,” said Democratic Rep. Sharlett Mena during the vote. “And yet hog-tying is still authorized by a small number of jurisdictions in Washington.”
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The vote came nearly four years after Manuel Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man, died in Tacoma, about 30 miles south of Seattle, facedown with his hands and feet cuffed together behind him. The case became a touchstone for racial justice demonstrators in the Pacific Northwest.
“He was hog-tied by police. He pleaded he couldn’t breathe, and he died in the heart of our community,” Mena said.
The bill, which was previously passed by the Senate, will need to go back to that body for verification before heading to Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee’s desk.
Republican Rep. Gina Mosbrucker said while there were still concerns from her party about smaller jurisdictions that might not have the money to start using alternative restraints, she supports the measure.
The afternoon sun illuminates the Legislative Building, left, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash, Oct. 9, 2018. The Washington state House has overwhelmingly approved legislation that would ban police from hog-tying suspects, a restraint technique that has long drawn concern due to the risk of suffocation. The vote on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024 came nearly four years after Manuel Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man, died in Tacoma, Washington, facedown with his hands and feet cuffed together behind him. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
“I feel like by this bill passing, for me Madam Speaker, we’re starting to amend that relationship between law enforcement and the community,” she said.
The U.S. Department of Justice has recommended against the practice since at least 1995 to avoid deaths in custody. The attorney general’s office in Washington recommended against using hog-tying in its model use-of-force policy released in 2022. At least four local agencies continue to permit it, according to policies they submitted to the attorney general’s office that year.
Ellis was walking home in March 2020 when he passed a patrol car with Tacoma police officers Matthew Collins and Christopher Burbank, who are white. There are conflicting accounts of what happened next, but Ellis was ultimately shocked, beaten and officers wrapped a hobble restraint device around his legs and linked it to his handcuffs behind his back, according to a probable cause statement filed by the Washington attorney general’s office.
A medical examiner ruled his death a homicide caused by lack of oxygen. Collins, Burbank and a third officer, Timothy Rankine, were charged with murder or manslaughter. Defense attorneys argued Ellis’ death was caused by methamphetamine intoxication and a heart condition, and a jury acquitted them in December.
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Wyoming
January Grind: Week 7 Tips Off the Stretch Run in Wyoming Girls’ Hoops
Week 7 of Wyoming prep girls’ basketball is here. The push towards the postseason begins in the last week of January. Teams continue to focus on conference games, as there are no tournaments for the second straight week. At least one game is on all six days of the competition week. There are a lot of league games, but also several cross-quad and interclass matchups.
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Some schools that are near the border will face an opponent from outside Wyoming. The number of games also varies, as some teams play once, and a few play as many as three times this week. Here is the Week 7 schedule of varsity games WyoPreps has. If you see a game missing, please email david@wyopreps.com. All schedules are subject to change.
Non-Varsity Opponent
Final Score: Burns C 41 1A Guernsey-Sunrise 22
Interclass
Final Score: 3A Lyman 50 2A Kemmerer 17
Final Score: 1A #1 Burlington 65 2A Greybull 29
Out-of-State Opponent
Final Score: Morrill, NE 60 1A Lingle-Ft. Laramie 50
Final Score: Teton (Driggs, ID) 51 4A Jackson 35
Final Score: 1A Saratoga 51 North Park (Walden, CO) 17
Final Score: Harding County, SD, 68 1A #5 Upton 19
Non-Varsity Opponent
Final Score: 1A Arvada-Clearmont 56 Buffalo Freshmen 38
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Class 4A
Final Score: #1 Cheyenne East 56 Cheyenne South 8 (conference game)
Final Score: Cheyenne Central 55 #3 Laramie 47 (conference game)
Class 4A
Riverton at Evanston, 4:30 p.m. (conference game)
#4 Thunder Basin at Campbell County, 6 p.m. (conference game)
Class 3A
#4 Wheatland at Burns, 5:30 p.m. (conference game)
Powell at #5 Lovell, 5:30 p.m. (conference game)
Class 2A
#3 Wyoming Indian at Wind River, 5:30 p.m. (conference game)
Class 1A
#3 Southeast at Lingle-Ft. Laramie, 5 p.m. (conference game) [at EWC in Torrington]
St. Stephens at Meeteetse, 5 p.m. (conference game)
Interclass
2A Kemmerer at 3A Mountain View, 5:30 p.m.
Out-of-State Opponent
2A #2 Sundance at Harding County, SD, 5:15 p.m.
2A Big Piney at Rich, UT, 5:30 p.m.
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Class 4A
#2 Green River at Rock Springs, 5:30 p.m. (conference game)
Campbell County at #5 Sheridan, 5:30 p.m. (conference game)
Kelly Walsh at Natrona County, 5:30 p.m. (conference game)
#1 Cheyenne East at #3 Laramie, 6 p.m. (conference game)
Cheyenne Central at Cheyenne South, 6 p.m. (conference game) [at Storey Gym]
Star Valley at Jackson, 6 p.m. (conference game)
Class 3A
#1 Cody at Worland, 5:30 p.m. (conference game)
#3 Lander at #2 Pinedale, 5:30 p.m. (conference game)
Newcastle at #4 Wheatland, 5:30 p.m. (conference game)
Buffalo at Powell, 5:30 p.m.
Douglas at Glenrock, 5:30 p.m. (conference game)
Lyman at Mountain View, 5:30 p.m. (conference game)
Torrington at Rawlins, 5:30 p.m. (conference game)
Class 2A
Moorcroft at #4 Tongue River, 2 p.m.
#1 Big Horn at Wright, 5:30 p.m.
Greybull at Shoshoni, 5:30 p.m. (conference game)
Thermopolis at Rocky Mountain, 5:30 p.m. (conference game)
Class 1A
#5 Upton at Midwest, 2 p.m. (conference game)
#2 Cokeville at Farson-Eden, 3 p.m. (conference game)
Fort Washakie at Saratoga, 4 p.m. (conference game)
Kaycee at Hulett, 5 p.m. (conference game)
#1 Burlington at Riverside, 5:30 p.m. (conference game)
#4 Little Snake River at Encampment, 5:30 p.m. (conference game)
Casper Christian at Arvada-Clearmont, 5:30 p.m. (conference game)
Interclass
1A #3 Southeast at 2A #5 Pine Bluffs, 5:30 p.m.
Class 4A
#5 Sheridan at #4 Thunder Basin, 3:30 p.m. (conference game)
Class 3A
Rawlins at Newcastle, 2:30 p.m. (conference game)
Worland at Buffalo, 3 p.m.
Douglas at Burns, 3:30 p.m. (conference game)
Glenrock at Torrington, 4:30 p.m. (conference game)
Class 2A
#1 Big Horn at Rocky Mountain, 1:30 p.m.
#4 Tongue River at Greybull, 2:30 p.m.
Wright at Moorcroft, 2:30 p.m.
Class 1A
Fort Washakie at Encampment, noon (conference game)
H.E.M. at Casper Christian, noon
Meeteetse at Dubois, 1 p.m. (conference game)
Rock River at Midwest, 1 p.m.
Riverside at St. Stephens, 1:30 p.m. (conference game)
Kaycee at #5 Upton, 3 p.m. (conference game)
Interclass
2A Wind River at 1A Saratoga, 1:30 p.m.
1A Lingle-Ft. Laramie at 2A #5 Pine Bluffs, 2:30 p.m.
2A Thermopolis at 3A #5 Lovell, 4 p.m.
Out-of-State Opponent
Grace, ID at 1A #2 Cokeville, 2:30 p.m.
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West
‘Starry Night Murderer’ allegedly terrorizing people after early prison release, parole violations
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A former Portland nightclub owner convicted in a notorious 1990 murder is back in jail, this time accused of domestic violence and a parole violation in Clackamas County.
Larry Hurwitz, also known as the “Starry Night Murderer,” was arrested last week in Sandy on allegations of harassment and fourth-degree assault and is being held on a parole violation, according to jail records. He was booked into the Clackamas County Jail, where bail was set at $500,000.
The Oregon Board of Parole confirmed to Fox News Digital that Hurwitz is serving lifetime post-prison supervision for his murder conviction and has no other underlying convictions under Board supervision. Parole officials said a warrant was issued in 2019, served in 2023, and that Hurwitz was extradited from California.
Board records also show Hurwitz previously had his supervision revoked in August 2019 and served a 180-day sanction.
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Tim Moreau is shown in an undated photo. Moreau, a former employee of the Starry Night Concert Hall, was killed in 1990 in a case that later led to the conviction of nightclub owner Larry Hurwitz. (KPTV)
Hurwitz was sentenced in 2000 to 11 years in prison for the 1990 murder of his 21-year-old employee, Tim Moreau. Hurwitz was the former owner of the Starry Night Concert Hall in northwest Portland.
According to KPTV, the case was first exposed by veteran journalist Jim Redden in a 1990 Willamette Week investigative series titled “Missing and Presumed Dead.” The reporting examined the disappearance of Moreau, who worked as the promotions manager at the Starry Night club.
“He did in fact start this incredibly influential Starry Night club,” Redden told KPTV. “He could have climbed to the top of the entire business here in town. But he had this dark side that undermined everything he did.”
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Larry Hurwitz enters a courthouse during a court appearance in an archival image. Hurwitz, a former Portland nightclub owner, was convicted in the 1990 murder of employee Tim Moreau. (KPTV)
Redden told the outlet that from the beginning, he believed Hurwitz was responsible for Moreau’s disappearance, describing Hurwitz as an aggressive businessman with a reputation for selling counterfeit concert tickets at his own venue.
Prosecutors later argued Hurwitz killed Moreau alongside another employee, George Castagnola, to prevent the ticket scheme from being exposed. Hurwitz ultimately entered a no-contest plea. Moreau’s body has never been found.
After Hurwitz’s early release from prison in 2008, Redden told KPTV that Hurwitz continued to have run-ins with law enforcement, including a 2019 drug trafficking case in California.
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Family members of Tim Moreau walk together inside a courthouse in an archival image. Moreau was killed in 1990 in a case that later led to the conviction of former Portland nightclub owner Larry Hurwitz. (KPTV)
“He was arrested in California on a drug trafficking charge down in Huntington Beach, California, with four kilos of cocaine and $320,000 in cash and was convicted on that,” Redden said.
Redden told KPTV that while the current arrest appears less severe on its face, it could still have broader implications.
“On the surface, it is a much smaller arrest. It’s domestic violence,” Redden said. “But I don’t think that the full story has come out yet. The investigation is ongoing, and there could be some connections to previous cases.”
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The Clackamas County District Attorney’s Office told Fox News Digital it cannot comment on the specifics of the case, citing an ongoing investigation. Prosecutors said the parole violation process is separate from the criminal case and is handled outside the DA’s office.
Hurwitz is scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 4. His trial is set for March 19.
Stepheny Price covers crime, including missing persons, homicides and migrant crime. Send story tips to stepheny.price@fox.com.
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San Francisco, CA
SF changes method to count unhoused; advocate believes it’s political, will lead to undercount
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — For the first time in more than two decades, San Francisco is changing the way it counts the number of unhoused individuals on its streets.
“This is a major change. We’re going from nighttime count to early morning count because we feel we’ll be reaching more people at night people. I was homeless for 18 years. You could never find me,” said Del Seymour, Co-chair San Francisco’s Local Homeless Coordinating Board.
Thursday’s ‘Point in Time’ count will now happen from 5 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Historically, it happened overnight.
Another change, community volunteers will not be involved. Instead, it will only be trained city employees and outreach workers. The Coalition on Homelessness sees that as a lack of transparency.
“They’re not allowing any volunteers on the count. And so, they’re relying on city outreach workers, who in our experience, when they did the RV count, they missed 1 in 5 RVs. It means that it’s not open. And you don’t have the observers and the people participatory process that I think is really important to make sure that everything’s going well,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, Executive Director SF’s Coalition on Homelessness.
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We sat with Emily Cohen HSH’s Deputy Director of Communications, who said they made the change to improve visibility.
“We will be identifying vehicles that appear to be occupied and trying to assess if somebody is living in that vehicle. Certainly, if there’s a tent on the street, we make assumptions about how many people are in those tents and try to put together the most accurate picture possible,” said Cohen.
Luz Pena: “Why are volunteers not part of this count?”
Emily Cohen: “To help ensure consistency and transparency of the count, we are relying heavily on trained outreach workers and city staff to conduct the count. Those two groups have always been a part of the count. But in the past, we have had more general volunteers, but we’ve had some training challenges with that in the past, so we’re sticking with, city staff and trained outreach workers this year.”
This time around, the city will also conduct a survey that will include questions like ‘are you homeless?’ and ‘what led to you being homeless?’
Luz Pena: “Do you believe this new method will lead to a more accurate count?”
Emily Cohen: “I think that these improvements will help us ensure an accurate count.”
Our data team aggregated the city’s PIT count data and found that between 2009 and 2024 the number of homeless individuals rose by nearly 30 percent.
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Some homeless advocates believe the new change is political and could lead to an under count.
“We’re really worried with, you know, a, you know, political intervention on the count, that there could be a false under count and we could show a decrease that in reality is not there,” said Friedenbach.
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In the Fiscal year 2025 to 2026, the city is projected to get $62.8 million or 7.4% of the total budget from federal sources. The city’s Homelessness and Supportive Housing Department will continue with this method for the next 10 years to build up a strong data set.
“We are working very closely with all of the outreach teams in the city, with city staff to go cover every square inch of the city and county of San Francisco to visually count everyone who we assume is experiencing homelessness,” said Cohen.
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