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Jeremy Burnham is the courts and public safety reporter for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin. He previously worked as a reporter for the Ritzville Journal and Davenport Times. He also briefly ran both papers as the interim editor. Before that, he graduated from Eastern Washington University with a B.A. in Journalism. During the 2018-19 school year, he was the managing editor of The Easterner, EWU's student newspaper. Jeremy spent the summer of 2018 working as an intern reporter for Spokane Public Radio.
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Changes are coming to homeless shelters in Spokane. The city and charitable organizations are exploring new strategies to address homelessness. The House of Charity, Spokane's largest shelter, will reduce the number of people it sleeps, beginning Sept. 1. Those beds won't be replaced until the city opens a new shelter in nine months or so.
Many students attending American colleges and universities are chronically hungry. NPR reported on that in January, citing a government report that looked at 31 studies. It estimated that a third of college students regularly don't get enough to eat. Those numbers are similar to the situation at Eastern Washington University, where students are taking finals.
At a recent law enforcement workshop in Walla Walla, a presenter for the Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention asked the many law enforcement officers who attended whether judges letting defendants
A 27-year-old paraeducator in Walla Walla Public Schools recently resigned in the wake of a series of incidents that led officials to investigate his behavior with an elementary school student.
A College Place man who began a nonprofit to help orphans in Jamaica is part of a lengthy Jamaican government report that accuses him of inappropriate sexual encounters with some of those female orphans.
The jury in the child rape trial of Anthony Spada was far from evenly split on its verdict, according to one of the jurors who sat through the three-week trial in Walla Walla County Superior Court that ended in a mistrial.
Trials are back in Walla Walla. After holding only two trials over the course of two and half years, Walla Walla County Superior Court has held six trials since the end of March, including two in one week this month.
In 2022, three Walla Walla men pleaded guilty to the same charge, connected to the same incident. The three men were sentenced to vastly different sentences, ranging from six months
Election night is Tuesday. People across the country will be tuning in on TV to watch the live results come in. But where do these results come from? The answer is a little closer to home than you may realize.
Senior Raymond Shiner grew up playing chess. When he came to EWU, he expected to find a chess club on campus. It was an expectation that would not be met. "Chess is a staple at most universities," said Shiner. "When I got here, I was looking around for a chess club and there wasn't one."...