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Sharon Struthers, left, is shown with her daughter, Lisa Bowser. Bowser is suing Western State Hospital in Washington state, saying her mother was abused and neglected at the mental health facility.

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AP Exclusive: Washington psychiatric hospital called ‘hell’

by Martha Bellisle Associated PressJuly 6, 2018

FILE- In this Dec. 21, 2017, file photo, Mariko Hirose, right, a litigation director at the Urban Justice Center, addresses reporters as Mark Hetfield, president & CEO of HIAS, left, and Rabbi Will Berkowitz, Jewish Family Service of Seattle CEO, look on in front of a federal courthouse after speaking with media in Seattle. The government has asked a federal judge to change his order that partially lifted a Trump administration refugee ban. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

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Government contests order lifting refugee ban

by Martha Bellisle Associated PressDecember 28, 2017

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2016, file photo, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, second left, speaks at a post-election event of elected officials and community leaders at City Hall in Seattle. On Wednesday, March 29, 2017, Murray announced that Seattle is suing President Donald Trump over his executive order that threatens to withhold federal funds from communities that refuse to cooperate with efforts to find and deport immigrants in the country illegally. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

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Seattle sues over Trump sanctuary cities threat

by Martha Bellisle Associated PressMarch 30, 2017

FILE - In this March 1, 2017, President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. President Trump’s revised travel ban will temporarily halt entry to the U.S. for people from six Muslim-majority nations who are seeking new visas, allowing those with current visas to travel freely, according to a fact sheet obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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Legal challenges to Trump’s travel ban mount from US states

by Martha Bellisle Associated Press, and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher Associated PressMarch 9, 2017

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, center, talks to reporters as Solicitor General Noah Purcell, second from right, looks on Feb. 3, following a hearing in federal court in Seattle. A U.S. judge on Friday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States after Washington state and Minnesota urged a nationwide hold on the executive order that has launched legal battles across the country.

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Trump lashes out at travel ban ruling by ‘so-called judge’

by Martha Bellisle Associated PressFebruary 4, 2017

Flowers rest on a sign, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, at Tacoma Police Department headquarters in Tacoma, Wash. A Tacoma Police officer died Wednesday night at a hospital after being shot multiple times earlier in the day while answering a domestic violence call. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Police kill suspect, rescue children after standoff leaves Wash. trooper dead

by Martha Bellisle Associated Press, and Lisa Baumann Associated PressDecember 2, 2016

Arcan Cetin is escorted into Skagit County District Court by Skagit County's Sheriff's Deputies on Monday, Sept. 26, 2016. Cetin is being held under a magistrate's warrant which will give Skagit County prosecutors 30 days to file charges in relation to the Cascade Mall shooting that took place on Friday evening. Five people were killed in the shooting, and Cetin is being held on a 2 million bail. (Brandy Shreve/Skagit Valley Herald via AP)

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Mall shooting suspect charged

by Martha Bellisle Associated Press, and Gillian Flaccus Associated PressSeptember 26, 2016

This late Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, image from video by KIRO7 photographer Jeff Ritter shows suspected Cascade Mall shooter Arcan Cetin at Skagit County Jail in Mount Vernon, Wash., after his arrest in Oak Harbor, Wash., earlier in the evening. Investigators on Sunday tried to piece together information on the 20-year-old suspect in the deadly Washington state mall shootings who was apprehended after a nearly 24-hour manhunt. (Jeff Ritter/KIRO7.com via AP)

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Washington mall shooting suspect described as ‘creepy’

by Martha Bellisle Associated Press, and Lisa Baumann Associated PressSeptember 25, 2016

This undated photo provided by the Lakewood Police Department shows Anthony Garver. Mark Alexander Adams and Garver, described as dangerous, have escaped from Western State Hospital, a psychiatric facility, in Pierce County, south of Tacoma, Wednesday, April 6, 2016. (Lakewood Police Department via AP)

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New scrutiny of psychiatric hospital with history of attacks

by Martha Bellisle Associated PressApril 8, 2016