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The Morning Dispatch
Seattle's Morning Paper · Friday, October 16, 2026 · No. 2
Bystander followed the 16-year-old inside and shot him dead
BEND, Ore. A 16-year-old armed with a long gun shot his way through locked doors at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend on Thursday afternoon and killed three children and a teacher, police said. The children were 5, 8 and 11 years old.
Sources: KUOW / Associated Press, NBC News, KATU
Drones set a refinery ablaze in Ryazan; Russian swarms kill at least nine in Kyiv and Kharkiv
KYIV, Ukraine. Ukraine struck Russian oil sites again on Thursday, ending a three-day pause that its leaders said Russia never honored. Drones set a fire at the Rosneft refinery in Russia's Ryazan region, the regional governor said, while Russian drone attacks killed at least nine civilians in Kyiv and Kharkiv.
Sources: PBS NewsHour, Democracy Now!, The Moscow Times, Kyiv Post, Kyiv Post
McMillian picks off Darnold and Lutz hits from 53 yards; Seattle falls to 3-3
DENVER. Ja'Quan McMillian intercepted Sam Darnold in overtime and Wil Lutz kicked a 53-yard field goal Thursday night to give the Denver Broncos a 17-14 win over the Seahawks. The loss, Seattle's second in five days, leaves the Seahawks at 3-3 and matches their loss total from all of last season. Denver is 4-2.
Sources: Associated Press via NBC Philadelphia, Yardbarker, Seahawks.com (schedule)
Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise slide about 7 percent; rebound follows Wednesday's steep drop
NEW YORK. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 1.08 percent to 52,177.69 on Thursday as investors moved money out of companies tied to artificial intelligence and into health care and other steady businesses. The S&P 500 recovered from early losses to gain 0.33 percent, to 7,744.06, and the Nasdaq added 0.08 percent, to 26,713.03.
Outside review finds overspending, not fraud; council members renew push to dissolve the authority
SEATTLE. The King County Regional Homelessness Authority is $16.7 million in the hole, an independent review has found, up from the $14 million gap reported in the spring. Turning Point Strategic Advisors, hired by Seattle and King County, went through the agency's books from its 2021 launch through July 2026.
First such publicly reported test in nearly three years follows Trump's offer to meet Kim
SEOUL, South Korea. North Korea test-fired two types of strategic cruise missiles from a submarine off its east coast on Wednesday, state media reported Thursday. It was the North's first reported submarine-launched strategic cruise missile test since January 2024.
Sources: Al Jazeera, The Korea Times
All 21 crew of the GFS Pride escape; Iran says a mine was to blame
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates. Two cargo ships sank near the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, among them the Singapore-flagged container ship GFS Pride, whose 21 crew members were all evacuated without injury, Singapore's maritime authority said.
Sources: Democracy Now!, gCaptain, The Times of Israel
More than a dozen grand jury subpoenas go out, some to her relatives
WASHINGTON. Federal investigators have seized Rep. Ilhan Omar's phone and issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas, some to her relatives, in a criminal investigation of possible fraud in her immigration paperwork, the Associated Press reported, citing a person briefed on the case.
Sources: MPR News (Associated Press), Political Wire (citing CNN), Democracy Now! (citing The Wall Street Journal)
State count passes 1,200 cases as U.S. total tops 4,000
HARRISBURG, Pa. A 39-year-old Franklin County woman who had recently been diagnosed with measles died Oct. 10, the county coroner's office said, making her what it counts as Pennsylvania's sixth measles-related death this year.
Sources: GV Wire (Reuters), FOX 29, PBS NewsHour
President also stumps in Montana for House hopeful Aaron Flint
BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. President Trump told a campaign rally in Bullhead City, Ariz., on Wednesday that people who leak sensitive military information should be shot. "In my opinion, leakers should be shot," he said.
Sources: Political Wire (citing Bloomberg), Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Associated Press), Democracy Now!
Ninth Circuit, which also covers Washington, says states cannot require agents to show visible ID
SAN FRANCISCO. A federal appeals court has ruled against a California law that requires immigration agents to wear visible identification, finding that it violates the Constitution's Supremacy Clause. The Ninth Circuit's rulings also apply in Washington state.
Sources: Just Security (Early Edition, citing The Hill and AP), U.S. Government Accountability Office
Former Venezuelan leader and wife deny conspiring to torture opponents
NEW YORK. Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court in Manhattan to a new indictment accusing them of conspiring to torture political opponents, Reuters reported.
Sources: Reuters (via Hot 96), Just Security (Early Edition), Associated Press via WCAX
Survey covers the 13 most competitive races three weeks before Election Day
WASHINGTON. Just over half of the major-party candidates in the 13 most competitive Senate races told Reuters they will accept the results of the Nov. 3 elections no matter who wins. Others hedged or did not answer.
Sources: Reuters (via Taylorville Daily News), Just Security (Early Edition)
Blazes follow Russian drones straying into Romanian airspace
BUCHAREST, Romania. Rescuers searched the Black Sea on Thursday for seven sailors missing from a chemical tanker that burst into flames near Romania's coast overnight. It was one of two tankers set ablaze after Russian drones strayed into Romanian airspace, Romanian officials said.
Sources: Reuters, gCaptain (Reuters), Global News (Reuters), ABC News (Australia), Democracy Now!
Hospital in besieged Taiz says supplies will run out within two weeks
SANAA, Yemen. Heavy fighting between Houthi forces and Saudi-backed troops in Yemen has cut about 800,000 people off from lifesaving food aid, the United Nations World Food Programme warned this week, as roads close around the besieged city of Taiz.
Sources: Democracy Now!, World Food Programme
Health Ministry says 89 hurt, 61 of them police
TIRANA, Albania. Students hurled rocks at riot police outside the Education Ministry in Tirana on Thursday, the third straight day of clashes in Albania's capital. Officers answered with tear gas and water cannon and detained several demonstrators.
Sources: ABC News (Associated Press), Euronews, Morning Star
Prime minister warns Tehran and its allies ahead of Oct. 27 election
JERUSALEM. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that he does not favor a preemptive strike on Iran before Israel's Oct. 27 election, while warning Tehran and its allies that Israel would respond forcefully to any attack.
Sources: Reuters, TimesLIVE (Reuters), CNN, WISN (CNN)
Hamburg court hears case of 2022 pipeline sabotage for the first time
HAMBURG, Germany. A 50-year-old former Ukrainian military officer went on trial Wednesday in Hamburg, accused of leading the team that blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September 2022. It is the first public hearing of evidence in the case.
Sources: Al Jazeera, South China Morning Post, Democracy Now!
Campaign files complaint with electoral court over search results and takedowns
BRASILIA, Brazil. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's campaign has accused Meta of favoring his rival, Flavio Bolsonaro, on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, and filed a complaint with Brazil's top electoral court ahead of the Oct. 25 presidential runoff.
Sources: The New York Times, Just Security (Early Edition), KIRO 7 (Associated Press)
By Claude W. Hargrove, Editor in Chief
Bend sits more than 100 miles southeast of Portland, a long drive from this newsroom. On Thursday it felt next door. A 16-year-old fired through the locked doors of Silver Rail Elementary just after 1 p.m. and killed three children, ages 5, 8 and 11, and a teacher.
Two more were taken to St. Charles Medical Center in Bend in critical condition, a 7-year-old and a 54-year-old teacher. The school teaches kindergarten through fifth grade, more than 400 children in all. Police say every victim's family has been told, but no names have been released, and we will not guess at them.
Quarterly earnings jump 68.7 percent on revenue up 50.9 percent
HSINCHU, Taiwan. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported Thursday that its third-quarter net income rose 68.7 percent from a year earlier to NT$763.06 billion, a record, as demand for chips that power artificial intelligence kept climbing. Revenue for the three months ended Sept. 30 jumped 50.9 percent to NT$1,494.24 billion.
Sources: TSMC filing (U.S. SEC Form 6-K), The Spokesman-Review (Reuters), MarketScreener
Attorneys general say the chatbot was sold as safe for young users
DES MOINES, Iowa. Eight states sued OpenAI on Wednesday, accusing the maker of ChatGPT of misleading the public about the chatbot's safety and putting children and other vulnerable users at risk. Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia filed separate lawsuits in their own state courts.
Sources: POLITICO, Engadget, PC Gamer, Illawarra Mercury (Australian Associated Press / Reuters)
Hotter reading raises odds of another Fed rate increase this month
WASHINGTON. Consumer prices rose 3.7 percent in the year through September, the government reported Wednesday, up from 3.4 percent in August and above the 3.6 percent economists expected. Prices rose 0.6 percent in September alone.
Sources: investingLive, Trading Economics, Bisnow, Democracy Now!
Biggest layoff in years comes days before quarterly report
LOS GATOS, Calif. Netflix is cutting about 6 percent of its workforce, or nearly 1,000 jobs, co-chief executives Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters told employees in a memo Wednesday. It is the streaming company's largest round of layoffs since 2022.
Sources: ABC30, TheWrap, The A.V. Club
Citizen Lab and Confiant trace a tracking and hacking operation
TORONTO. An Israeli company that presents itself as an advertising firm used ordinary online ad networks to track people and deliver spyware to their devices, researchers at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab and the ad-security firm Confiant reported Thursday.
Sources: Reuters, Citizen Lab, Confiant
Shares fall again as a faulty fuel-tank dome must be rebuilt
LONG BEACH, Calif. Rocket Lab said Wednesday that its new Neutron rocket will not fly until 2027, delaying its debut once more because of manufacturing problems with the forward propellant dome on the rocket's first stage.
Sources: Stocktwits, The Spokesman-Review (Reuters)
Family names Graeme Dobbeck, 36, as clerk slain at Seattle Center gas station
SEATTLE. Mayor Katie Wilson said Tuesday she is "moving as fast as possible" to carry out the gun violence plan she unveiled last month, after four days of shootings in Seattle killed two people and wounded at least two others. As an immediate step, she said, police will add late-night patrols in trouble spots.
Settlement limits teens to two hours a day on Instagram and Facebook
OLYMPIA. Attorney General Nick Brown will not ask the Legislature again to pass the Protecting Children Online Act, his office said, arguing that Washington's settlement with Meta goes further than the bill would have. The measure, aimed at addictive social media feeds for users under 18, died in two straight sessions.
Sources: KUOW, Washington Attorney General's Office
Area inflation hit 4.4 percent, a full point above the U.S. average
SEATTLE. Prices in the Seattle area rose 4.4 percent from August 2025 to August 2026, a full percentage point above the 3.4 percent national city average, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That outpaced almost every other West Coast metro, including San Francisco.
Sources: KUOW, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Judge cites planning in deaths of parents and three siblings
SEATTLE. A 17-year-old accused of killing his parents and three younger siblings in their Fall City home in October 2024 will be tried as an adult, King County Superior Court Judge Veronica Galvan ruled Wednesday.
Sources: KUOW, FOX 13 Seattle, KIRO 7
Reykdal warns scholarship groups could discriminate; governor has until Jan. 1
OLYMPIA. State schools Superintendent Chris Reykdal has urged Gov. Bob Ferguson not to enroll Washington in a new federal tax credit for donations to private scholarship groups, in an Oct. 9 letter. Ferguson has until Jan. 1, when the program starts, to decide.
Sources: KUOW, Washington State Standard
Six adults have died of flu in King County alone, and Snohomish and Thurston counties report one death each
SEATTLE. Flu season has arrived early in Washington, and health officials say residents should get vaccinated right away. This year the virus reached the Northwest before the rest of the country, instead of starting in the Southeast as it usually does.
'You Can See Everything' follows the Theranos founder's last weeks before prison
SEATTLE. 'You Can See Everything,' a new documentary by comedian Nathan Fielder and director Lance Oppenheim about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, opens in theaters this weekend to some of the warmest reviews of the fall. The A24 release runs 174 minutes.
Sources: Associated Press via ABC News, WBUR, KUOW, ComicBookMovie.com
Video game remake expected to top the box office with $25 million or more
SEATTLE. A live-action 'Street Fighter' and the undersea thriller 'Whalefall' arrive in theaters Friday, and box office forecasters expect the video game adaptation to finish first. Boxoffice Pro projects an opening of $25 million to $35 million for 'Street Fighter' in North America.
Sources: Boxoffice Pro, /Film, Time Out, World of Reel, ComicBookMovie.com
Brenda Rae sings the title role for the first time; first local staging since 2002
SEATTLE. Seattle Opera opens its 2026-27 season Saturday night at McCaw Hall with Richard Strauss's 'Salome,' the company's first staging of the opera since 2002. Five performances run from Oct. 17 through Oct. 31.
Sources: McCaw Hall, BroadwayWorld, Seattle Opera Blog
Publisher Faber cites author's support for banned Palestine Action
LONDON. Faber, the British publisher of Irish novelist Sally Rooney, has stopped supplying her books in the United Kingdom in any format, saying British law keeps it from paying her U.K. earnings because of her support for the banned group Palestine Action.
Sources: ITV News, Associated Press via ABC News, South China Morning Post
Oscar-qualifying festival runs through Sunday at its own theater
SEATTLE. The 21st Tasveer Film Festival, a showcase of independent South Asian cinema, is screening 136 films this week in Seattle's Columbia City neighborhood. The six-day festival runs through Sunday, Oct. 18.
Sources: KUOW, Washington State Tourism listing
Grand Illusion plans to revive the shuttered Varsity in the U District
SEATTLE. Movie attendance across the country is running about 7 percent ahead of last year, helped by hits large and small and by fancier seats and IMAX screens. Seattle's neighborhood theaters, though, are still struggling to fill their houses, KUOW reported.
Sources: KUOW, South Seattle Emerald
Beniers ties it in the third with his 200th NHL point
TAMPA, Fla. Victor Hedman scored 2:07 into overtime Thursday night to give the Tampa Bay Lightning a 4-3 win over the Kraken, ending Seattle's three-game winning streak. The Kraken had come back twice to force the extra period.
Sources: NHL.com, ESPN, FOX 13 Seattle
Elijah Brown expected to start as UW tries to end a three-game skid
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Washington plays at Purdue on Friday night, probably without starting quarterback Demond Williams Jr., as the Huskies try to snap a three-game losing streak. Kickoff at Ross-Ade Stadium is 5 p.m. Pacific, and the game airs on FOX.
Sources: Spokesman-Review, Heavy, FOX 13 Seattle, GoHuskies.com (schedule)
Seattle hopes to name Dan Wilson's successor by Halloween
SEATTLE. The Mariners have permission from Houston to interview Astros manager Joe Espada, the first candidate publicly linked to the job left open when Dan Wilson was not brought back. The first conversation is expected to be a video call; no in-person meeting is set.
Sources: FOX 13 Seattle, Spokesman-Review, MLB Trade Rumors
Arroyo hurt diving for a fumble; his status is unknown
SEATTLE. After Thursday's 17-14 overtime loss in Denver left the Seahawks at 3-3, the fan site Field Gulls wrote that benching quarterback Sam Darnold must be considered. Darnold threw two interceptions and was sacked repeatedly. The team has announced no change.
Sources: Field Gulls, Seahawks.com, Yahoo Sports
Seattle hosts Montreal on Saturday night at Lumen Field
FRISCO, Texas. The Sounders lost 1-0 to FC Dallas on Wednesday night at Toyota Stadium, ending a nine-match unbeaten run of four wins and five draws.
Sources: Sounders FC, Sounders FC (preview), Bleacher Nation (fixture)
WSU plays Oregon State under first-year coach Kirby Moore, then hosts Boise State
PULLMAN. Washington State plays at Oregon State in Corvallis on Saturday, the Cougars' second straight road game, in Kirby Moore's first season as head coach.
Sources: WSU Athletics (schedule), FOX 13 Seattle
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