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• Police: 2-year-old shoots, kills mom in N. Idaho Wal-Mart

  30-12-2014 22:53
  
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• Two-Year-Old Kills Woman With Her Own Gun

  30-12-2014 22:32 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Ken Wolter/ShutterstockAn Idaho woman was killed by a boy in a Walmart, a business that serves more than 250 million customers a week.
  The Guardian is reporting that a boy in Idaho, a very red state, accidentally shot a woman with a gun she carried in her purse. The shooting, which happened in the electronics section, was captured by a surveillance camera and witnessed by a number of people. One report says the boy was the son of the woman he shot. The store was closed to
  
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• Seattle Art Dealer Mariane Lenhardt and Great Architect David Adjaye Work Together on the Very First Exhibition at Harvard's New Black Galleries

  30-12-2014 22:20 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Bodys Kingelez's fictional model of his Congolese hometown in the future is the first work you encounter at Harvard's new Ethelbert Cooper Galleries of African & African American Art.
  It was only three years ago that Mariane Lenhardt opened her first art gallery, on Second Avenue in Seattle, called M.I.A. Gallery—and today, she's the co-curator of the big inaugural exhibition at the first African and African American art center at a major university anywhere in Americ
  
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• No vehicular homicide charges for Sound Transit driver who caused crash

  30-12-2014 21:58
  
  No vehicular homicide charges for Sound Transit driver who caused crash
  
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• Teens arrested in Rainier Valley cellphone robbery

  30-12-2014 21:41
  
  Teens arrested in Rainier Valley cellphone robbery
  
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• Police: 2-year-old shoots, kills woman in N. Idaho Wal-Mart

  30-12-2014 21:37
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Macklemore Discusses His Privilege and His Success in a Way That's Not Totally Offensive

  30-12-2014 21:19 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Yesterday morning, Macklemore gave an interview on New York radio station Hot 97, discussing cultural appropriation, hiphop culture, white privilege, the Iggy Azalea situation, and the impact his race had in his success (though no mention of his gender). Throughout the hour-long interview with Ebro Darden, Macklemore comes off as sincere and self-aware, and even if you can't stand him, it's still a real and interesting conversation about a massively complicated set of issues th
  
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• A Talk With Ralph Pugay, Winner of $15,000 and a Show at SAM of His Fastidious, Freaky Daydreams

  30-12-2014 21:01 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  All images courtesy of the artist and Upfor GalleryRalph Pugay's 9-by-12-inch acrylic painting Spiritual Microwave is on view at Seattle Art Museum.
  Ralph Pugay, a painter who lives in Portland, is this year's Betty Bowen Award winner—and usually, we get to see about two works by the winner of this honor, hung awkwardly in an elevator lobby at Seattle Art Museum.
  This time around for some reason, SAM allowed Pugay enough space to show 15 of his small paintings. It's a pro
  
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• Woman shot at Wal-Mart in North Idaho

  30-12-2014 20:58
  
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• Seattle Hiphop: 2014 in Review

  30-12-2014 20:45 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  SHABAZZ PALACES
  What a year. As charged as any I've ever known. As far as the ostensible focus of my column, 2014 started out with a local rap act doing three sold-out nights at KeyArena. And hits kept coming. J. Pinder working with hiphop's first billionaire, Dr. Dre? "It" producer DJ Mustard signed Central District rep Royce the Choice (maybe just Choice now?) to his 10 Summer imprint; check the "Road to 10 Summer Records" clip on Worldstar and see him G5'ing it up with Musta
  
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• 1 police death reported in Washington in 2014

  30-12-2014 20:28
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Police round up chickens after livestock truck crash

  30-12-2014 20:09
  
  Police round up chickens after I-5 truck crash
  
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• Crewman disappears from ship in Columbia River

  30-12-2014 19:32
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Police hope to identify Cabela’s shoplifter

  30-12-2014 19:20
  
  Police hope to identify Cabela’s shoplifter
  
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• Daily Rant&Rave: Not everyone loves your dogs

  30-12-2014 19:06
  
  RAVE To the Mercer Island police who helped my mother when she got turned around trying to get to my place on Christmas Eve and wound up on the island by mistake. They helped her get back on the right track and escorted her back to I-405.
  
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• New state system will trace livestock in case of disease

  30-12-2014 18:35
  
  The state of Washington is implementing rule changes as part of its new system to trace livestock in the event of a disease outbreak. Representatives of the livestock and dairy industry support the moves.
  
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• Seattle man dies in waters off Hawaii’s Big Island

  30-12-2014 18:12
  
  KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii — An autopsy has been ordered to determine the cause of death of a 53-year-old Seattle man found unresponsive off Hawaii’s Big Island.
  
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• The Morning News: Rents Going Up, Bike Rides Going Up, the Mystery of the AirAsia Flight Is No More

  30-12-2014 17:58 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  One Million Is the Number of Bike Trips Made Over the Fremont Bridge in 2014: An indication that cycling rates are rising is found in the fact that there were one million bike trips taken over Fremont Bridge this year. That's nearly 75,000 more trips than 2013. Cycling, like walking, is good for your body.
  
  Rents in the Region Only Knew How to Rise by a Lot in 2014: In 2013, average rent in King and Snohomish counties rose by 6.5 percent. This year, it rose by an astounding
  
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• Logging truck runs over driver near Sedro-Woolley

  30-12-2014 16:54
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Driver killed by own logging truck

  30-12-2014 16:22
  
  Logging truck hits, kills pedestrian
  
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• Seahawks punter Jon Ryan pops question after Rams game

  30-12-2014 16:21
  
  Seahawks punter Jon Ryan pops question after Rams game
  
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• Man fired shotgun inside Sunnyside hospital

  30-12-2014 15:56
  
  YAKIMA — Police say a man who fired a shotgun in the emergency room of Sunnyside Community Hospital hoped to provoke an officer into “suicide by cop.”
  
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• We will bury you: Students learn basics at funeral-service school

  30-12-2014 15:46
  
  As baby boomers head to that last frontier, a new generation of funeral directors and embalmers will take care of the details. At Lake Washington Institute of Technology in Kirkland they learn those details in a program that is the only one of its kind in the state.
  
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• Chilly temps, but sunny skies through New Year's Day

  30-12-2014 15:29
  
  The Seattle area will see clear skies and cold temperatures Tuesday through Thursday with lows  in the low 20s and highs in the mid 30s, according to the National Weather Service.
  
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• Woman struck and killed on highway at Milton

  30-12-2014 15:24
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Family of 6 burned out of Bothell home

  30-12-2014 14:58
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Port Orchard man in 4chan killing now charged with jail assault

  30-12-2014 14:22
  
  Port Orchard man in 4chan killing also charged with assault
  
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• Seahawks playoff tickets sell out within minutes

  30-12-2014 13:43
  
  Public sales for Seahawks playoff tickets start Tuesday
  
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• 12th Man poised to snatch up playoff tickets

  30-12-2014 13:43
  
  Public sales for Seahawks playoff tickets start Tuesday
  
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• Local ice cream maker closed for listeria failed earlier inspection

  30-12-2014 13:36
  
  Local ice cream maker closed for listeria failed earlier inspection
  
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• I-5 traffic in S.W. Washington halted for hours by wreck

  30-12-2014 06:43
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Most school districts struggle to find substitute teachers

  30-12-2014 06:22
  
  A statewide survey has found that most Washington school districts struggle hiring substitute teachers. But lawmakers overseeing retirement rules say they don’t plan to revoke a policy that could be keeping more than 1,000 retired teachers from substitute teaching.
  
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• Cat accidentally sold with mattress now back at home

  30-12-2014 06:21
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Ice creamery linked to listeria failed earlier health inspection

  30-12-2014 06:09
  
  A Snohomish gourmet ice-cream producer linked to two cases of listeria poisoning failed a health inspection in October, but state officials didn’t shut it down until the infections came to light.
  
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• Most school districts don’t have enough substitute teachers

  30-12-2014 05:42
  
  A statewide survey has found that most Washington school districts struggle hiring substitute teachers. But lawmakers overseeing retirement rules say they don’t plan to revoke a policy that could be keeping more than 1,000 retired teachers from substitute teaching.
  
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• Airliner lands safely at Sea-Tac airport after scare

  30-12-2014 05:02
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Blind couple barred from bus in Seattle; Metro apologizes

  30-12-2014 04:58
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• 1 million bike trips this year over Fremont Bridge

  30-12-2014 04:39
  
  Seattle’s Fremont Bridge bicycle counter has logged more than 1 million trips in 2014, a significant increase over last year.
  
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• Lawmakers nix the session's State of the Judiciary speech

  30-12-2014 04:14
  
  State lawmakers have decided to forgo one custom that they've had since the 1990s: a State of the Judiciary speech.
  
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• Delisa Lynch, Brandi Carlile, Nancy Guppy and others give New Year’s resolutions

  30-12-2014 04:13
  
  The 2015 to-do lists.
  
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• Former UW President Gerberding dies at 85

  30-12-2014 03:36
  
  Former University of Washington President William Gerberding died Saturday at the age of 85.
  
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• Woman, 42, dies after South Park car crash

  30-12-2014 03:30
  
  A woman died Sunday afternoon after she lost control of her car while driving around a curve in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood and crashed into large concrete pipes, police said.
  
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• Bartender Crush: Damon at Tallulah's

  30-12-2014 02:22 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Brooklyn Benjestorf
  Name: Damon
  Where: Tallulah’s and Barnacle
  Buy Him A Shot Of: Dark rum. Also, “Any beer is fine,” he says.
  Ask Him To Make You A: Simple, three-ingredient, dark, wintery cocktail. “Rye and port and Batavia, something along those lines. A little weird, a little bitter.”
  What He’s Doing When He’s Not At The Bar: “Too many video games lately. I’m trying to save money because I’m planning a month-long
  
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• Your Song of the Day Is Ke$ha's "Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You"

  30-12-2014 02:08 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  As I wrote in the music issue this week, Kesha had a very bad year this year. Or at least from the outside, it looks like it was a tough year; I don't want to presume to know what she's thinking or feeling. If it was a tough year, Kesha is certainly not alone; seems like just about everyone I know had a rough year. (I have already written about my desire to murder and bury 2014.) I hope next year is better for you. I hope next year is better for everyone. I hope next year is be
  
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• The First Pop Culture Upheaval in America (Ragtime) and Seattle

  30-12-2014 01:35 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Groovy.For 99 cents at Value Village one night this week, I found an old record called Heliotrope Bouquet—a 1971 Nonesuch album of a bunch of old piano rags, dressed up in a lilac cover.
  On this cover, there's a handful of painted purple flowers, each flower goofily wearing the face of a classic ragtime composer. There are six of them: Scott Joplin, James Scott, Tom Turpin, Louis Chauvin, the spectacularly named Charles Luckeyeth Roberts, and Joseph F. Lamb, the only whit
  
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• Cavity Search: X'treme S'toner S'mores™

  30-12-2014 01:20 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  The s'more the merrier (HA HA HA).
  If you're looking to make the ultimate stoner dessert before making a New Year's resolution to slow down on being on a stoner and/or a dessert eater, then look no further than the X'treme S'toner S'mores™—perfect for those who secretly hate camping but love the combination of chocolate, marshmallow, and graham cracker and its artificial adaptions. And weed. A friend and I came up with this meta masterpiece while extremely, um, ston
  
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• Your Tag is Okay, Though

  30-12-2014 01:15 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  A stupid tag saved by a little Debbie.
  Well PAUL is a little crabby about tagging today, isn't he? (To be fair, those tags do suck, although I've been re-reading The Biggest Secret and wondering how David Icke's doing these days, it being almost 2015 and all, with barely any serpent royalty in sight.)
  Anyway, THIS tag at the Tractor made me happy because hey! My mom's name IS Debra! Debbie for short, Deb for real short. And she IS the best. The person next to me in line for th
  
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• Your Tagging Is Bad and You Should Feel Bad

  30-12-2014 01:05 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Of all the things you could've written on an otherwise pristine wall, you write the name of the lizard-person conspiracy theorist? And just his name? Not even, like, "Google David Icke" or "David Icke Was Right" or anything like that? Way to be lazy, tagger.
  If this was a sticker of Marty Feldman's face, I'd be all for it. But hasn't this guy gotten enough publicity as it is? What, exactly, are you trying to say here?
  Just because you write a cliche everywhere doesn't make the
  
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• Body found in search for Mount Rainier snowshoer

  30-12-2014 01:02
  
  Search underway at Mount Rainier National Park
  
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• House Republican Admits to Speaking at White Supremacist Conference

  30-12-2014 00:43 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Adam Weinstein at Gawker writes, "Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), a rising star in the national Republican Party, confirmed reports Monday on the neo-Nazi website Stormfront that he had presented at a 2002 white supremacist conference organized by KKK bigwig and ex-Republican legislator David Duke."
  Scalise's spokesperson tried to explain away the white supremacist angle by saying at that time, Scalise "made himself available to anyone who wanted to hear his proposal to eliminate
  
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