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• Defense attorney: Monfort's brain 'went a little haywire'

  20-01-2015 23:54
  
  Update at 2:35 p.m.: Veteran defense attorney Todd Gruenhagan told jurors about Monfort's troubled childhood and his experiences being bullied as a mixed-race youth in Indiana and Alaska.
  
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• Martin Moore says 'pro-life' conversion happened a few months ago

  20-01-2015 23:47
  
  OLYMPIA -- In announcing his intent Tuesday to leave the Democratic Party and run for the Legislature as a Republican, Federal Way City Councilmember Martin Moore made much of his previous status as a "pro-life" Democrat, saying the party has grown intolerant of such views.
  
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• Hey, I Wonder Who The CBS News Cameras Are Here In The Stranger Offices To Cover

  20-01-2015 23:44 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Whoever it is, they CERTAINLY sent the right gear!
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• Public's help sought in Belltown shooting

  20-01-2015 23:37
  
  Seattle police are seeking the public’s help in identifying a suspect in the shooting of a 21-year-old man in Belltown early Monday.
  
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• What Do You Think of The Nightly Show?

  20-01-2015 23:29 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Yes, we all hate change. And so let's get it out of our systems: Larry Wilmore is no Stephen Colbert. It's hardly a fair comparison, of course. Colbert is a singular talent, an entertainer who was able to create an outrageous character and build on his work every night while improvising his way through nearly 1,500 episodes. Wilmore is a smart guy, and a funny comedian, but he's never going to be able to replicate Colbert's uncanny appeal.
  And that's why I'm so pleased with th
  
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• Mill Creek man held on $2 million bail in grandmother's slaying

  20-01-2015 23:06
  
  Police had been repeatedly called to the home of Shane Hathaway, a Mill Creek man who is suspected of killing his grandmother last week, according to a court document released Tuesday.
  
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• It's on TV Tonight: FX's Justified

  20-01-2015 23:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  As dutifully reported this week in I Love Television, I'm squirting SQUEE juice over tonight's season premiere of Justified:
  Justified (FX, Tues Jan 20, 10 pm). Though last season was a bit of a dud, for the sixth and final season of Justified, US Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) is gonna come out with guns blazing. Expect a final showdown with the show's fantastic bad guy Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) as well as a Kentucky drug kingpin played by.... Squeeeeee! Sam Elli
  
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• The Uncertain Future of the University District's Chili's South Indian Restaurant

  20-01-2015 22:47 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  The Stranger The excellent lamb masala dosa and salty lassi at Chili's.
  Yesterday someone passed along a tip that Chili’s, the South Indian restaurant serving fantastic dosas in the University District, might be closing because the building they are located in, on the corner of 50th and University Way, is being torn down. I was upset to hear this, as I am a huge fan of their masala lamb dosa—and an even bigger fan of their coconut chutney, which somehow manages to
  
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• Student arrested for bringing gun to Columbia City school

  20-01-2015 22:43
  
  A student at Seattle's Interagency Academy was arrested Tuesday afternoon after he brought a gun to school, police said.
  
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• Daily Rant & Rave: Lucky pennies for sunshine and love

  20-01-2015 22:24
  
  RAVE To whomever put the bowl of pennies and the thoughtful poem on the fountain ledge outside our Sand Point Way office. It was a joy to watch people of all ages read your poem and toss the coins in the fountain. I wish you sunshine and love, too!
  
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• Jurors, court spectators weep at account of Carnation killings

  20-01-2015 22:07
  
  Update at 11 a.m.:
  
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• More consumers using menu calorie counts, but most still don’t

  20-01-2015 22:01
  
  The percentage of King County consumers who said they saw and used posted calorie information for restaurant meals tripled from 8 percent in 2008 to 25 percent in 2010, a year after mandatory labeling took effect.
  
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• Drones, guns, minimum wage, ag-gag: things Republicans said today

  20-01-2015 22:00
  
  Now that we're into the second week of the legislative session, lawmakers are digging into various issues. GOP members of the House and Senate held forth on a bunch of issues Monday at a media availability.
  
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• VA settles more whistleblower complaints, including nurse in Washington

  20-01-2015 21:46
  
  By  Matthew Daly / The Associated Press
  
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• Dispute shuts down Seattle's Terminal 18

  20-01-2015 21:32
  
  Dispute shuts down Seattle's Terminal 18
  
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• Bellevue Resident Gets Swept Up in Federal Government's Silk Road 2.0 Takedown

  20-01-2015 21:11 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Aaron Amat/ShutterstockThis is what stock-photo agencies think an internet criminal looks like.
  A lot has happened since the fall of Silk Road—the online black market phenomenon known for selling drugs, weapons, and stolen credit cards—in 2013. Just weeks after the Feds shut down the original Silk Road network, another Silk Road popped up like a resilient weed. Silk Road 2.0 worked much like the original version, using bitcoins as currency and running on a sophistic
  
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• 137 Washington bridges deemed structurally deficient

  20-01-2015 21:09
  
  137 Washington bridges deemed structurally deficient
  
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• We're Dying to Know About Your Super Bowl Party

  20-01-2015 20:45 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Kelly OOh my God, they were right all along.
  So, the Seahawks are going to the Super Bowl, again. When the pigskin hits the sweat on Sunday, February 1, where will you and your loved ones be dipping your chips? Tell us about it, please. We want to know.
  Maybe you're a bar owner who's going to be throwing the big game up on the new Hitachi data projector and slinging $1-off house rosé and pulled pork sliders. Maybe you're a local celebrity who's flinging open the vast sol
  
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• Outburst in court as trial begins in killing of SPD officer

  20-01-2015 20:38
  
  Update at 11:16 a.m.: It took about an hour on Tuesday morning for Senior Deputy Prosecutor John Castleton to walk a King County jury through the sequence of events that began with the Oct. 31, 2009, killing of Seattle police Officer Tim Brenton and ended with the shooting that paraly
  
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• 1 phone making thousands of 911 calls to Kitsap dispatchers

  20-01-2015 20:37
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• 15 tons of bio-solids spill into creek at Blewett Pass

  20-01-2015 20:29
  
  A truck hauling bio-solids from a sewage treatment plant overturned on an icy patch of Highway 97 at Blewett Pass and spilled 15 tons of the clumpy waste into Swauk Creek, officials said.
  
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• [VIDEO] Mike McGinn on How Seattle's Need for Agreement Slows Political Progress

  20-01-2015 20:25 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Kelly OIn an interview recorded shortly after he lost reelection, Mike McGinn says the city's politicians are too focused on the "illusion of agreement."
  In a video interview featuring Mike McGinn and former Stranger news editor Dominic Holden, recorded shortly after McGinn lost to Ed Murray but just published today, the former Seattle mayor discusses what's wrong with the city's political culture.
  "We have a political system, even in very liberal Seattle, in which the illusio
  
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• Happy Sleater-Kinney Day

  20-01-2015 20:04 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Curt Doughty (from The Stranger's archives)Sleater-Kinney live at the Velvet Elvis Arts Lounge, 1996
  As you undoubtedly know, today marks the release of Sleater-Kinney's eighth LP, No Cities To Love, which is as righteous as most everyone says. Before you go to your friendly neighborhood independent actual record store to buy your copy of this essential release, why not celebrate by reading Elizabeth Nelson Bracy's* excellent essay about the importance of this band, to her and
  
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• Former Seahawk Jerramy Stevens arrested in California

  20-01-2015 20:03
  
  Former Seahawk Jerramy Stevens arrested in California
  
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• Lunchtime: Waiting in Line for Paseo Is Exactly the Way You Remember It

  20-01-2015 20:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Thousands of Seattleites missed Paseo (4225 Fremont Ave N, 545-7440) for the two months that it was closed, but absolutely nobody missed the line. Dozens of people stretched out Paseo's door in a chilly, unrelenting mist last Saturday around noon; at first the line was a quarter block, then a half block, and then it wrapped around the corner and out of sight. Most people were dressed in Seahawks gear, giving the experience a mildly unsettling quality of uniformity; there's not
  
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• Bellevue man accused of operating illegal Internet drug market

  20-01-2015 19:53
  
  Federal agents have arrested a Bellevue man accused of assisting in the management of the so-called "Silk Road 2.0" website, an illicit Internet market for drugs and other black-market goods.
  
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• Another Democrat switches parties to run for Federal Way legislative seat

  20-01-2015 19:49
  
  In what is becoming a pattern in the Federal Way-area's 30th Legislative District, a Democrat has switched parties to run for the state Legislature as a Republican.
  
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• Kalakala headed to demolition site this week

  20-01-2015 19:42
  
  The owner of the former state ferry Kalakala said the 1927-vintage vessel  will be moved this week to a site where it can be demolished.
  
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• Join Us for a State of the Union Live-Slog Tonight!

  20-01-2015 19:26 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Official White House Photo by Amanda LucidonThis is the 2014 State of the Union address, in which absolutely nothing of note happened.
  Tonight, President Obama will give the State of the Union at 6 pm Seattle time. We already know much of what the president will propose: two free years of community college, a call for affordable high-speed internet access, and a plan to raise taxes on the one percent to provide tax breaks to the middle class. We can expect, for the first time,
  
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• Neil Steinberg On Charlie Hebdo, Blasphemy, Punched Noses, and the Pope's Unmodern Views On Free Speech

  20-01-2015 19:01 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Neil Steinberg, a columnist of the Chicago Sun-Times, is out with a must-read response to Pope Francis's shockingly illiberal, violence-rationalizing, and tone-deaf comments on the Charlie Hebdo massacre:
  What we are seeing here is a clash between two systems. Not East and West, not Islam and Christianity. It is between the ancient tribal notion that your faith, whatever it is, is the One True Way and anybody else is blaspheming in error, at best to be tolerated and converted t
  
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• Trial begins for man accused of killing SPD Officer Timothy Brenton

  20-01-2015 18:49
  
  Christopher Monfort targeted two Seattle police officers for assassination in 2009 "solely because they were police officers," a prosecutor said Tuesday morning during the opening statements in Christopher Monfort's trial.
  
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• Trial opens for man accused of killing 6 family members in Carnation

  20-01-2015 18:36
  
  Opening statements began Tuesday morning in the trial of Joseph McEnroe, accused of killing six members of his ex-girlfriend's family on Christmas Eve 2007 in Carnation. If convicted by the King County Superior Court jury, McEnroe faces a possible death penalty.
  
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• Susan Hutchison re-elected to lead state GOP

  20-01-2015 18:17
  
  Former KIRO TV news anchor Susan Hutchison has been re-elected as chairman of the Washington State Republican Party.
  
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• The Morning News: Capitol Hill Beat Cops Don't Have to Go to Eastlake Anymore

  20-01-2015 17:59 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Ansel HerzLiterature from yesterday's MLK Day protest, which ended in 19 arrests.
  MLK Day Protest Ends in 19 Arrests: Seattle police say that 19 arrests were made after yesterday's highway traffic-blocking Black Lives Matter protests, which Ansel covered here. One officer also seriously hurt his leg, but we're not sure how.
  Seattle Police Department's East Precinct Slices Off Eastlake: Capitol Hill Seattle Blog reports that in order to cut down on response time to Pike/Pine inc
  
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• Susan Hutchison reelected to lead state GOP

  20-01-2015 17:58
  
  Former KIRO TV news anchor Susan Hutchison has been reelected as chairman of the Washington State Republican Party.
  
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• Neoliberalism, Ebola, and the Other Great Apes

  20-01-2015 17:38 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Kongsak Sumano/ShutterstockImagine that: 7 billion gorrilas in the world. 7 billion!
  As if capitalist-driven deforestation and hunting were not bad enough for the remaining chimpanzees and gorillas in the wild, they are also hit by outbreaks of Ebola. And according to this post on the Conversation, the fatality rate for gorillas is 90 percent and for chimps 77 percent (it's 71 percent for humans). The main problem is not, however, Ebola or even hunting or the disgusting busin
  
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• Moratorium continues as 2 death penalty cases go to trial

  20-01-2015 16:39
  
  Moratorium continues as 2 death penalty cases go to trial
  
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• New state minimum wage? Why some foreign guests earn $3 more

  20-01-2015 15:36
  
  This year’s federally mandated wages for temporary agriculture guest workers are significantly higher than state minimum wages — too high, growers complain.
  
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• ‘Pocket dialing’ cellphones tying up Kitsap County 911

  20-01-2015 15:26
  
  ‘Pocket dialing’ cellphones tying up Kitsap County 911
  
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• Deputy kills escaped bull that charged an Oregon man

  20-01-2015 15:24
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• City Council seeks approval of car share expansion

  20-01-2015 15:01
  
  City Council seeks approval of car share expansion
  
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• Daily Rant&Rave: Lucky pennies for sunshine and love

  20-01-2015 15:01
  
  RAVE To whomever put the bowl of pennies and the thoughtful poem on the fountain ledge outside our Sand Point Way office. It was a joy to watch people of all ages read your poem and toss the coins in the fountain. I wish you sunshine and love, too!
  
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• Guest Editorial: Perhaps Seattle Should Find a Plan B for the Downtown Tunnel Project

  20-01-2015 15:00 via slog.thestranger.com
  
  Washington State Department of TransportationTitled "Another Side of Bertha," this photo was taken in May of 2013 as the machine was being prepared to "begin her tunneling journey." Later that year, after digging just 1,000 feet, Bertha stopped working. More than a year later, the machine still hasn't been fixed.
  In May of 2010, Mayor Mike McGinn and the Seattle Department of Transportation hired me to do an independent risk assessment for the city’s proposed deep-bore tu
  
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• 2 dead in mobile home fire near Arlington

  20-01-2015 14:58
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Trial starting for accused cop killer, Christopher Monfort

  20-01-2015 14:16
  
  Trial starting for accused cop killer, Christopher Monfort
  
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• Suspect on trial for killing Seattle police officer

  20-01-2015 14:16
  
  Trial starting for accused cop killer, Christopher Monfort
  
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• Man hails cab after being shot in Belltown

  20-01-2015 13:44
  
  Man hails cab after being shot in Belltown
  
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• After 7 years, trial starts for man in Carnation murders

  20-01-2015 13:25
  
  After 7 years, trial starting for man in Carnation murders
  
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• Two men found dead after mobile home fire in rural Snohomish County

  20-01-2015 13:22
  
  Two dead in mobile home fire in rural Snohomish County
  
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• Two dead in mobile home fire in rural Snohomish County

  20-01-2015 13:22
  
  Two dead in Arlington trailer fire
  
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