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• Washington State Patrol plans crackdown on left-lane camping

  19-06-2017 23:45
  
  This week, the Washington State Patrol says troopers will keep an extra eye out for drivers who are breaking the state law that requires motorists to keep right except to pass.
  
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• Left-lane campers, this means you: State Patrol conducting crackdown this week

  19-06-2017 23:45
  
  This week, the Washington State Patrol says troopers will keep an extra eye out for drivers who are breaking the state law that requires motorists to keep right except to pass.
  
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• 3-year global coral bleaching event easing, but still bad

  19-06-2017 22:13
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A mass bleaching of coral reefs worldwide is finally easing after three years, U.S. scientists announced Monday. About three-quarters of the world’s delicate coral reefs were damaged or killed by hot water in what scientists say was the largest coral catastrophe. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced a global bleaching event […]
  
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• Seattle mayor candidates react to shooting with sorrow, concern, calls for change

  19-06-2017 21:44
  
  Candidates for Seattle mayor are reacting to the fatal shooting by police of Charleena Lyles. calling it “deeply unjust,” “devastating” and “a tragedy on many levels.”
  
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• Seattle mayor candidates react to Charleena Lyles shooting with sorrow, concern, calls for change

  19-06-2017 21:44
  
  Candidates for Seattle mayor are reacting to the fatal shooting by police of Charleena Lyles. calling it “deeply unjust,” “devastating” and “a tragedy on many levels.”
  
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• Fatal police shooting of Charleena Lyles is top trending topic on social media

  19-06-2017 19:40
  
  Reports of the shooting were widely shared on social media Sunday and Monday.
  
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• Health-plan rates in Washington state’s individual market could go up an average of 22%

  19-06-2017 19:36
  
  Health-insurance rates in Washington’s individual market would increase an average of 22 percent based on filings under review by state officials. Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler blamed part of the increase on uncertainty about Obamacare’s future.
  
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• NASA telescope finds 10 more planets that could have life

  19-06-2017 18:35
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA says its planet-hunting telescope has found 10 new planets outside our solar system that are likely the right size and temperature to potentially have life on them. As the Kepler telescope finished its main mission, NASA announced Monday that it has seen a total of 49 planets in the Goldilocks zone […]
  
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• Energy chief: Carbon dioxide not prime driver of warming

  19-06-2017 17:56
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Monday he does not believe carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming, a statement at odds with mainstream scientific consensus but in line with the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Asked on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” whether carbon emissions are primarily responsible for climate change, […]
  
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• Too hot to handle: Study shows Earth’s killer heat worsens

  19-06-2017 17:05
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Killer heat is getting worse, a new study shows. Deadly heat waves like the one now broiling the American West are bigger killers than previously thought and they are going to grow more frequent, according to a new comprehensive study of fatal heat conditions. Still, those stretches may be less lethal in […]
  
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• Science Says: DNA shows early spread of cats in human world

  19-06-2017 17:04
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Long before cats became the darlings of Facebook and YouTube, they spread through the ancient human world. A DNA study reached back thousands of years to track that conquest and found evidence of two major dispersals from the Middle East, in which people evidently took cats with them. Genetic signatures the […]
  
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• ‘Get back! Get back!’: Seattle police release recordings of fatal shooting of Charleena Lyles

  19-06-2017 16:44
  
  Seattle Police released dashcam video and audio of the fatal shooting of Charleena Lyles in Magnuson Park. Officers can be heard shouting “Get back! Get back!” before gunfire breaks out. Also, details from a June 5 call to her home bear striking similarity to Sunday’s incident.
  
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• ‘Get back! Get back!’: Seattle police release audio, video of fatal shooting of Charleena Lyles

  19-06-2017 16:44
  
  Seattle Police released dashcam audio of the fatal shooting of Charleena Lyles in Magnuson Park. Officers can be heard shouting “Get back! Get back!” before gunfire breaks out. Also, details from a June 5 call to her home bear striking similarity to Sunday’s incident.
  
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• ‘Get back! Get back!’: Seattle police release audio of fatal shooting of Charleena Lyles

  19-06-2017 16:44
  
  The Seattle Police Department released dashcam audio of the fatal shooting of 30-year-old Charleena Lyles on Sunday in Magnuson Park.
  
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• Sizzling heat wave creates health hazard in southwestern US

  19-06-2017 16:06
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Southwestern U.S. is about to feel the wrath of a punishing heat wave that includes a forecast of 120 degrees in Phoenix — a temperature not seen in the desert city in more than 20 years. The broiling temperatures will also be felt in Las Vegas and Southern California, creating a […]
  
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• Canceled flights, burning door handles: Heat hits Southwest

  19-06-2017 16:06
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Airlines canceled flights in Phoenix and doctors urged people to be careful around concrete, playground equipment and vehicle interiors Monday as a punishing heat wave threatens to bring temperatures approaching 120 degrees to parts of the Southwestern U.S. Arizona is seeing the most stifling temperatures, but the wrath of the heat wave […]
  
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• KeyArena financing plan appears far ahead of Sodo group

  19-06-2017 16:00
  
  Oak View Group already has detailed for the city exactly who would pay for what and how.
  
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• Historic tugboat dry-docked in Seattle to prepare for full hull restoration

  19-06-2017 16:00
  
  The Arthur Foss has been gone from Lake Union Park for roughly two weeks while crews made repairs, laser-mapped the hull and prepared to restore its entire hull.
  
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• Who’ll be responsible when self-driving car crashes?

  19-06-2017 15:00
  
  Washington is welcoming self-driving cars to use the state’s roads as testing grounds. But who’s responsible if one causes a crash, the driver or the carmaker? With the technology still evolving, there is no clear answer.
  
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• Here’s why I-5 is such a mess in Seattle area, and what keeps us moving at all

  19-06-2017 15:00
  
  It moves more cars and stalls more cars than any road in Washington. A concrete scar through the heart of Seattle, Interstate 5 is the backbone of the region’s transportation system. With congestion more than twice as bad as it was in 2011, can anything be done to ease the gridlock?
  
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• City revives plan to build affordable housing at Fort Lawton

  19-06-2017 15:00
  
  A similar plan for the former Army installation was blocked by area residents, who favored development of the site as a park.
  
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• Can’t Washington state ease I-5 traffic? Fixes exist, but most of them are pricey.

  19-06-2017 15:00
  
  Plenty can be done to unclog traffic on Interstate 5, but it’s almost all costly in one way or another. Adding lanes, especially through downtown Seattle, is enormously expensive. Adding tolls would reduce traffic, carries its own obvious costs.
  
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• Italy says G-20 a chance to pressure Trump on climate pact

  19-06-2017 14:16
  
  ROME (AP) — Italy’s premier says that world leaders will keep up the pressure on President Donald Trump to re-think his opposition to the Paris climate pact. Paolo Gentiloni said Monday the Group of 20 meeting of major countries’ leaders, on July 7-8 in Hamburg, Germany, would present the opportunity to lobby the U.S. administration. […]
  
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• Video as visa: Seattle school livestreams graduation for students with family overseas

  19-06-2017 13:00
  
  Franklin High School is livestreaming its graduation ceremony this year for the first time, bringing children of immigrants closer to their faraway loved ones.
  
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• Correction: China-Carfentanil story

  19-06-2017 11:59
  
  SHANGHAI (AP) — In a Feb. 16 story about China banning the synthetic opioid carfentanil, The Associated Press misidentified Yu Haibin as the director of the Office of the National Narcotics Control Committee. He is a division director at the Ministry of Public Security’s Narcotics Control Bureau. A corrected version of the story is below: […]
  
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• ‘Human Project’ study will ask 10,000 to share life’s data

  19-06-2017 06:28
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Wanted: 10,000 New Yorkers interested in advancing science by sharing a trove of personal information, from cellphone locations and credit-card swipes to blood samples and life-changing events. For 20 years. Researchers are gearing up to start recruiting participants from across the city next year for a study so sweeping it’s called […]
  
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• Seattle police investigate after 15-year-old girl hurt by gunfire

  19-06-2017 04:50
  
  Police are investigating incident in which a 15-year-old girl was injured by gunfire in South Seattle.
  
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• Jimi Hendrix Park Opens at Last, With a Purple Flourish

  19-06-2017 00:21
  The green space in Seattle has been caught up in a decade of delays and financial woes. Its ribbon-cutting came on the 50th anniversary of Monterey Pop.
  
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