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Despite its firm footing as the world’s biggest cloud provider, Amazon Web Services got a slow start to the generative AI race. AWS released its large language model, Titan, months after Microsoft’s reported $13 billion investment in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Google’s release of Bard. But AWS is also designing its own custom AI microchips, shown to CNBC in an exclusive tour of its Austin chip lab. Now analysts say AWS may gain a long term advantage in AI by offering an alternative to Nvidia GPUs.

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Hailey Van Lith is a junior from Cashmere High School and has offers from just about every major college basketball coach in the country.

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Meet Ruby Tuesday, a survivor of domestic violence, who’s found a way to live the live life she wants — the life she deserves. Ruby’s story is the subject of the first episode in our new series “Connections,” in which one subject’s story leads to the next through chance encounters and the random connections we make.

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As 2024 draws to a close, KING 5 Photojournalist Joseph Huerta and Producer Olivia Roberts talk with Seattleites about the good, the bad, and their hopes for 2025.

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A Clark County couple is showing the world that second chances can really happen.

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Over 100 canoes landed in Suquamish in front of the Tribe’s House of Awakened Culture on Friday. Organizers are anticipating about 9,000 people from tribes across the Pacific Northwest and British Colombia to stay for two days before the final landing at Alki Beach in Seattle.

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Being Pacific Islander means everything' | Celebrating AANHPI Heritage Month.

Description goes hereWhile almost 16 years have passed since a Portland 7-year-old vanished, his parents and investigators remain hopeful his case can be solved. Kyron Horman was first reported missing on the afternoon of June 4, 2010. His stepmother, Terri Horman, said she last saw him after the two toured the annual science fair at Skyline Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, around 8:45 a.m.

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A Thurston County family is desperate for answers after nearly four years with no justice. Someone shot and killed 51-year-old Dan Presley while he was lying in bed at his Tumwater home on August 7, 2021 and no one has ever been arrested.

Now, his family is fighting back with a strongly worded sign and a $30,000 reward, hoping someone in the community will come forward with the information that finally breaks the case. Thurston County detectives continue to follow up on leads as recently as 2025, but the case remains suspended unless new evidence emerges.

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It was the summer of 1971 when Joyce LePage, a Washington State University student, disappeared from campus. Ten days later, her father reported her missing after she did not show up to a planned family outing. Nine months after her disappearance, a hunter discovered her skeletal remains in a remote canyon 12 miles from campus.

More than five decades later, her murder remains unsolved.

A trucker driving along Highway 101 in rural Mason County on the morning of Oct. 26, 1979, was the first to report trouble at the Springwater Tavern.  

By the time he called 911 minutes later, flames had consumed much of the building. It would take another 12 hours before the badly burned body of the bar’s owner was discovered in the rubble. He’d been shot in the head.

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In January 1999, 2-year-old Teekah Lewis vanished without a trace from the New Frontier Lanes bowling alley in Tacoma, Washington — a bustling family night that turned into a family’s lifelong search for answers. Despite an immediate and exhaustive search by loved ones and law enforcement, and hundreds of tips over the years, no solid leads have ever brought closure to the case. More than 25 years later, Teekah’s mother continues to advocate for her daughter, keeping the memory of her disappearance alive and urging the public to come forward with any information that might finally solve this enduring mystery.

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Description goes hereAustin Renshaw, 22, was last seen on October 27, 2004. He had recently moved into a shared residence in Kent, Washington, and was attempting to rebuild his life following struggles with addiction. That morning, a receipt shows he purchased breakfast from a McDonald’s in Spring Glen around 7:30 a.m. Nearly two weeks later, his silver 1993 Chevrolet Cavalier was found abandoned in the parking lot of Chinook Middle School in SeaTac—about 25 miles from his residence. Inside the vehicle were a partially eaten breakfast, a drink, and some cash. Family members say Austin had recently expressed concern for his safety. Authorities initially treated the disappearance as non-suspicious, but later launched an investigation. No suspects have been named, and no arrests have been made. The case remains unsolved more than 20 years later. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact local law enforcement.

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Nearly two decades have passed since a mother and daughter were murdered while hiking a remote trail in the Mount Pilchuck area. 

The 2006 killings of Mary Cooper, 56, and her daughter Susanna Stodden, 27, remain one of Snohomish County’s most disturbing unsolved cases.

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A young mother and her 4-year-old daughter were killed in their Bremerton home in 1986. Police say they are one tip away from solving the case.

Helene "Nikki" Anderson, 27, and her daughter Adrienne Hale, 4, were strangled to death. Police are still working to find the suspect, or suspects, responsible.

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Mistie Micheletti was originally thought to be a runaway, but one month after they found her body in the Columbia River, investigators ruled the case a homicide.

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Ten years ago, the heartbeat of Seattle’s Chinatown-International District was silenced. On July 23, 2015, Donnie Chin, a self-appointed community guardian and founder of the International District Emergency Center, was shot and killed while responding to reports of a shooting. Though a decade has passed, his killer remains unidentified and uncharged — leaving a community to mourn, remember, and continue the work Chin devoted his life to.

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Forensic anthropologists, medical examiners, and sketch artists at the King County Medical Examiner’s Office are working tirelessly to solve one of the most pressing questions in their field: Who are they?

The office currently holds approximately 56 unidentified remains from individuals who died in King County or whose bodies were discovered in the area. While many of these individuals led lives that were once intertwined with society, their deaths have left them virtually invisible.

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Bob’s Choice is an Emmy and duPont Award-winning documentary produced by KING 5 that follows Bob Fuller, a terminally ill man who chose to end his life under Washington state’s Death with Dignity law. The film offers an intimate, unflinching look at Bob’s final days, capturing his grace, honesty, and unwavering commitment to advocacy in the face of terminal illness. It’s a deeply human story about choice, autonomy, and compassion — and it earned the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award, the highest honor in broadcast and video journalism.

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Scenes of Destruction from the Palisades Fire: 3 Days on the Ground in Los Angeles is a fast-moving special report from KING 5 that captures the raw, chaotic, and emotional toll of a wildfire that forced thousands to evacuate in Southern California. Shot over three days in the field, the piece combines powerful visuals with firsthand accounts to document the speed and scale of the destruction, as well as the resilience of the people affected. It’s a visceral look at life on the frontlines of a growing wildfire crisis — told through the lens of a team that lived it in real time.

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Built on Service tells the origin and evolution of Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD), tracing a story shaped not just by drought and growth, but by an unexpected consequence of progress. When construction of the Colorado River Aqueduct in the 1930s disrupted local groundwater supplies in Riverside County, it set off a chain of events that ultimately led to EMWD’s formation in 1950 — creating a local agency to manage, distribute, and make use of that water.

From those early challenges, the documentary follows EMWD’s transformation from a small, agriculture-focused district into one of California’s largest water agencies. Through personal stories from farmers, community leaders, and water professionals, the film highlights key milestones — from the arrival of imported water and rapid regional expansion, to pioneering investments in wastewater treatment, recycled water, and groundwater management.

At its core, Built on Service is a story about adaptation, innovation, and responsibility — showing how EMWD not only responded to the needs of a growing region, but helped shape its future. As the district looks ahead, the film underscores a continuing mission: to provide reliable, sustainable water in the face of ongoing growth, environmental challenges, and an uncertain climate.