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Ellensburg-(AP) A park in downtown Ellensburg will be dedicated Saturday in memory of Washoe, the first chimpanzee to communicate with American Sign Language. Washoe came to Central Washington University in 1980 with Professors Roger and Debbie Fouts who researched communication with chimpanzees...

A group of hearing-impaired friends were reportedly stabbed in a bar after another bar patron mistook their sign language for gang signs. The group was at Ocean's Eleven Lounge in Florida celebrating a friend's birthday when the incident occurred.