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• Video from police, public examined in Pasco shooting

  19-02-2015 23:49
  
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• No contaminants found in Hoquiam River oil spill

  19-02-2015 23:48
  
  State Department of Ecology officials have found no traces of contaminants in the Hoquiam River following a light oil spill, though the water is not completely clean, officials said Wednesday.
  
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• Snohomish County seeing increase in petty thefts

  19-02-2015 23:41
  
  Snohomish County seeing increase in petty thefts
  
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• Heroin-fueled crime: How to protect yourself

  19-02-2015 23:41
  
  Snohomish County seeing increase in petty thefts
  
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• Republican Political Group Calls Jeb Bush "Unelectable," Posts Video of Jeb and Hillary Clinton Acting Chummy

  19-02-2015 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  The fact that Jeb Bush once said a kind word about Hillary Clinton renders him unfit for elected office, a Republican group argues. American Spirit / Shutterstock.com
  I'm relieved to see that not everybody on the Republican side is embracing Jeb Bush. Conservative political group ForAmerica has called Bush "unelectable," releasing a video to its seven million followers that shows Bush speaking fondly of Clinton at an awards banquet. ForAmerica, a group for red-meat Republicans,
  
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• That Steam Rising from the Pioneer Square Rescue Pit? That's Bertha Crowning.

  19-02-2015 23:16 via thestranger.com
  
  Bertha's cutterhead is down there somewhere in all that steamy afterbirth. This was taken at 2 p.m. today. Washington State Department of Transportation
  Bertha's eaten her concrete. A little after noon today, the Washington State Department of Transportation posted an update saying that the tunnel boring machine's cutterhead had mined through the rescue pit's southern wall. There's quite a bit of steam rising from the rescue pit, but WSDOT and Seattle Tunnel Partners will be ho
  
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• Bertha Is Crowning. Next Stop, Rescue Pit.

  19-02-2015 23:16 via thestranger.com
  
  Bertha's cutterhead is down there somewhere in all that steamy afterbirth. This was taken at 2 p.m. today. Washington State Department of Transportation
  Bertha's eaten her concrete. A little after noon today, the Washington State Department of Transportation posted an update saying that the tunnel boring machine's cutterhead had mined through the rescue pit's southern wall. There's quite a bit of steam rising from the rescue pit, but WSDOT and Seattle Tunnel Partners will be ho
  
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• Karl Denson's Not-So-Tiny Universe: The Sax Legend Talks About Beastie Boys, Run-DMC, and Seeing Mick Jagger's "Busy Face"

  19-02-2015 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  The Rolling Stones’ newest live member. ALICIA ROSE
  What do you say to Mick Jagger when he calls up and asks you to join the Rolling Stones? "Let me check my day planner"? "Sorry, Mick, I've got a tapestry-making webinar that week"? (I'm riffing here.) No, when Mick Jagger calls, you're on the next plane out of town. I don't care if he's 103 years old—it's the Rolling Stones. San Diego–based saxophonist Karl Denson got that call from Mick Jagger, or Skype cal
  
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• 3 charged in brutal death of teen found in Tacoma ravine

  19-02-2015 23:08
  
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• Stranger Oscar Watch 2015: Come Watch the Academy Awards at Bait Shop This Sunday, 4pm till Forever!

  19-02-2015 23:05 via thestranger.com
  
  And the winner is... EVERYBODY!
  You know you’re going to watch the Oscars on Sunday. And while you watch, you know you’re going to make fun of Hollywood’s parade of narcissistic self-celebration while secretly experiencing a frisson of irrational emotional connection to the whole pageant that makes you wonder who the hell you even are anymore. You say you’re not. You might even think you’re not. But you are. And now, thanks to our excellent frien
  
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• Claudia Balducci to challenge Jane Hague for King County Council seat

  19-02-2015 23:04
  
  Bellevue Mayor Claudia Balducci announced Thursday that she’ll challenge 20-year incumbent Jane Hague in a bid for King County Council’s District 6 seat.
  
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• Jean Godden Pulls Out of Event on Homeless Encampments, Then Reverses Decision Under Pressure

  19-02-2015 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Mayor Murray's proposal would allow for up to three new homeless encampments in Seattle. Kelly O
  City Council member Jean Godden did an about-face this morning. As of last night, she had pulled out of an event, to be hosted this evening by Health Sciences students at the University of Washington, called "Action Assembly for the Mayor's Proposal on Homelessness." But as of this morning Godden was back on board, promising to attend the discussion. What happened?
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• Jean Godden Flip-Flops on Attending Homelessness Event

  19-02-2015 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Mayor Murray's proposal would allow for up to three new homeless encampments in Seattle. Kelly O
  City Council member Jean Godden did an about-face this morning. As of last night, she had pulled out of an event, to be hosted this evening by Health Sciences students at the University of Washington, called "Action Assembly for the Mayor's Proposal on Homelessness." But as of this morning Godden was back on board, promising to attend the discussion. What happened?
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• Governor signs supplemental budget for Oso, wildfire relief

  19-02-2015 22:50
  
  The bill includes nearly $218 million in state and federal spending, including money to cover costs from the deadly Oso mudslide and last summer’s wildfires.
  
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• SPD Detective Urges Silence About Surveillance Technology

  19-02-2015 22:42 via thestranger.com
  
  The animal after which a cell phone data gathering device—under fire from civil liberties advocates—is named. Matt9122/Shutterstock
  You're probably wondering what a Stingray is and what it does. The short answer? It's a briefcase-sized device that pretends to be a phone tower in order to suck up data from nearby cell phones. (USA today calls the use of a Stingray "a method from the NSA's playbook.") Many police departments, in cooperation with the FBI, are using the
  
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• SPD Detective Urges Local Police Departments to Keep Quiet About Surveillance Technology

  19-02-2015 22:42 via thestranger.com
  
  The animal after which a cell phone data gathering device—under fire from civil liberties advocates—is named. Matt9122/Shutterstock
  You're probably wondering what a Stingray is and what it does. The short answer? It's a briefcase-sized device that pretends to be a phone tower in order to suck up data from nearby cell phones. (USA today calls the use of a Stingray "a method from the NSA's playbook.") Many police departments, in cooperation with the FBI, are using the
  
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• SPD Detective, on Behalf of the Feds, Urges Police to Keep Quiet About Stingray-Like Technology

  19-02-2015 22:42 via thestranger.com
  
  The animal after which a cell phone data gathering device—under fire from civil liberties advocates—is named. Matt9122/Shutterstock
  You're probably wondering what a Stingray is and what it does. The short answer? It's a briefcase-sized device that pretends to be a phone tower in order to suck up data from nearby cell phones. (USA today calls the use of a Stingray "a method from the NSA's playbook.") Many police departments, in cooperation with the FBI, are using the
  
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• SPD opens bids for computer system to track use of force

  19-02-2015 22:36
  
  In a major step toward meeting federally mandated reforms, the Seattle Police Department on Thursday announced that it has opened outside bidding on the development of a sophisticated computer system to track use of force, biased policing and other vital information.
  
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• 3rd measles case confirmed in Clallam County

  19-02-2015 22:09
  
  Authorities have confirmed a third case of measles in Clallam County.
  
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• Man accused of killing lover on hike sought $1M from insurer

  19-02-2015 22:08
  
  An Oregon man accused of killing his girlfriend while they hiked in the Columbia River Gorge six years ago tried but failed to collect on her $1 million life insurance policy, court documents show.
  
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• I Guess This Is Growing Up—Why Colleen Green Doesn't Need a Drummer, or an iPhone, to Be Better Than Sum 41

  19-02-2015 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Make no mistake: It’s her party. ERIC PENNA
  From the Ramones to the Descendents, punk has a history of glorifying the Peter Pan syndrome. Colleen Green's second Hardly Art full-length runs counter to that time-honored sentiment, proclaiming proudly: I Want to Grow Up. "Being grown up to me means having wisdom and having lived more, and just getting new perspectives and allowing your mind to grow and stop being so self-obsessed," says the songwriter over the phone from her
  
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• Blur Announces New Album! Blur Releases New Single! Blur! BLUR!

  19-02-2015 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  After literal years of speculation, misdirection, and rumo(u)rs in the music press, the British band Blur announced this morning at a live video press conference in a London Chinese restaurant that The Magic Whip, their first new album since 2003's Think Tank—but really their first real album since 13 in 1999—will be released on April 28. It was recorded in Hong Kong in 2013, and co-produced by their best studio collaborator, Stephen Street. In addition, a new song
  
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• Man, woman fatally shot in Everett identified

  19-02-2015 21:40
  
  The Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office has released the names of the two people fatally shot last Friday at a home in Everett.
  
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• Bertha breaks through repair vault

  19-02-2015 21:28
  
  Update 12:17 a.m.:
  
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• Dust cloud appears over Bertha's repair vault

  19-02-2015 21:06
  
  %%%6a98add87cd56f66a0cf8b3ddddb6599%%%UPDATE 11:59 a.m.
  
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• Are Voters Mad at Council Members Who Voted for the Tunnel? Poll Says Yes.

  19-02-2015 21:01 via thestranger.com
  
  After being reminded that Seattle City Council President Tim Burgess was a supporter of the downtown tunnel project, 700 likely voters were not that excited about voting for him. City of Seattle
  We're all going to be thinking about a lot of stuff when we vote in the first-ever district elections for city council seats this fall. Skyrocketing rents, police brutality, our continued surrender to our Amazon overlords. A new poll shows the downtown tunnel project will probably make
  
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• Church dropping out of lawsuit against Uncle Ike's Pot Shop

  19-02-2015 20:53
  
  Uncle Ike’s Pot Shop, Seattle’s second marijuana store, faces one less legal obstacle.
  
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• Bertha has now mined 14 feet, state says

  19-02-2015 20:33
  
  %%%6a98add87cd56f66a0cf8b3ddddb6599%%%Bertha is now more than halfway through its trek to a repair vault.
  
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• Walmart Raising the Minimum Wage Is Not a Triumph of Business. It's a Failure of Government.

  19-02-2015 19:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Nope! Nope! Nope! Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck these guys. Ken Wolter / Shutterstock.com
  Republicans are big believers in letting business lead the way for America. That's exactly what happened today: Republicans in Congress have been so derelict in their duties that big business is effectively raising the minimum wage for them. Walmart has announced that they're raising their minimum wage to nine dollars an hour this year, and ten dollars an hour next year. Let's be clear: Walmart isn't
  
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• School District: Magnolia luring accusation a 'misunderstanding'

  19-02-2015 19:31
  
  A minivan driver who allegedly tried to lure a child in the Magnolia neighborhood on Wednesday was actually a contract employee for the district and the incident was a misunderstanding, Seattle Public Schools said Thursday morning.
  
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• Great News: Sleater-Kinney and Bob's Burgers Have Finally Made a Music Video Together

  19-02-2015 19:10 via thestranger.com
  
  A void I didn't even know I had has finally been filled—the band Sleater-Kinney and the cartoon Bob's Burgers—have united for an animated music video for S-K's song "A New Wave" from their newest album No Cities to Love. Of COURSE the excellent Tina Belcher would be a Sleater-Kinney fan!
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• Snoop's 2nd Annual Wellness Retreat

  19-02-2015 19:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Sunday, April 19, WaMu Theater
  Tickets for Snoop's 2nd Annual Wellness Retreat go on sale tomorrow at Noon... if you're not a Stranger reader, but YOU are! That means you have access to an exclusive presale happening TODAY until 10pm.
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• Trying to Detect Soil Settlement in Pioneer Square with My Own Body

  19-02-2015 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Doing the lotus position less than 200 feet from the viaduct. To the left is Seattle Public Utilities’ GPS monitoring station. Kelly O
  Reaching the bottom of the tunnel boring machine's access pit certainly seemed like good news. Bertha has been stuck between Jackson and Main Streets—just 1,000 feet into its two-mile journey—since December of 2013. Washington State Department of Transportation administrators looked peppy and refreshed on February 9 when they s
  
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• Reports of illness tied to pet jerky treats drop sharply, FDA says

  19-02-2015 17:47
  
  After seven years of increases, the number of complaints about animal illnesses tied to pet jerky treats made in China has fallen, federal officials said.
  
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• Living room in Carnation murders re-created for jury

  19-02-2015 17:46
  
  Jurors in Carnation trial to walk through re-creation of murder scene
  
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• Jurors in Carnation trial to walk through murder scene re-creation

  19-02-2015 17:46
  
  Jurors in Carnation trial to walk through re-creation of murder scene
  
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• Judge: Florist Who Refused to Sell Flowers to Gay Couple Broke the Law

  19-02-2015 17:44 via thestranger.com
  
  Reuters:
  A judge in Washington state on Wednesday ruled that a florist who refused to sell flower arrangements for a gay couple's wedding violated state anti-discrimination law, court records show. Florist Barronelle Stutzman was sued by both the state Attorney General Bob Ferguson and the couple, Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed, in 2013. The pair were longtime customers of Stutzman's Richland business, Arlene's Flowers, and asked her to provide decorations for their wedding fo
  
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• Police: Report of Magnolia luring big misunderstanding

  19-02-2015 17:39
  
  Police: Report of Magnolia luring big misunderstanding
  
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• White Seattle Wakes Up When a Few Crimes Are Attributed to a Gang of Somalis, But Stays Fast Asleep When Thousands of Desperately Poor Somalis Face a Humanitarian Disaster

  19-02-2015 17:37 via thestranger.com
  
  This is what the War on Terror really comes down to, a war on our community. Charles Mudede
  As Ijeoma Oluo eloquently pointed out in the post "Local Politicians Seem Slow to Respond to Remittance Crisis," Somali Americans are at wits end as to how to send money to loved ones in their home country after Merchant Bank of California decided to end its services in that very poor and vulnerable East African country. The reason for the bank's decision, made on February 5, was unremit
  
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• Seattle Wakes When a Few Crimes Are Attributed to Somalis, but Sleeps When Many Somalis Face a Humanitarian Disaster

  19-02-2015 17:37 via thestranger.com
  
  This is what the War on Terror really comes down to, a war on our community. Charles Mudede
  As Ijeoma Oluo eloquently pointed out in the post "Local Politicians Seem Slow to Respond to Remittance Crisis," Somali Americans are at wits' end as to how to send money to loved ones in their home country after Merchant Bank of California decided to end its services in that very poor and vulnerable East African country. The reason for the bank's decision, made on February 5, was unremi
  
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• The Morning News: Judge in Eastern Washington Sides With Gay Wedding Flowers (Because, Duh)

  19-02-2015 17:19 via thestranger.com
  
  It's official: Your "relationship with Jesus Christ" does not give you the right to deny gay couples flowers for their weddings. James Yamasaki
  Flowers! They're for Gay Weddings, Too, Obviously: "A florist in Washington state who refused to provide flowers to a gay couple for their wedding violated state consumer protection and anti-discrimination law," the AP reports, citing yesterday's ruling from Benton County Superior Court Judge Alex Ekstrom. The case was brought by the AC
  
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• Sex offender performs at Benton County school assembly

  19-02-2015 17:15
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• FDA: Careful cleaning of scopes may not eliminate infection risk

  19-02-2015 17:01
  
  The FDA issued a “safety communication” aimed at gastroenterologists, surgeons, health care staff and patients warning that the design of duodenoscopes may impede effective cleaning.
  
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• Police arrest suspected prostitute in motel with her 3 children

  19-02-2015 16:26
  
  Police arrest suspected prostitute in motel with her 3 children
  
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• Idaho college administrator offered scholarships for sex, police say

  19-02-2015 16:09
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Search called off for missing wallaby

  19-02-2015 15:42
  
  Search called off for missing wallaby
  
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• Kirkland latest to ban disposable plastic bags

  19-02-2015 15:28
  
  The Associated Press
  
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• Ferry shuffle leaves Vashon/West Seattle route with older, slower Evergreen State

  19-02-2015 15:25
  
  The ferry commute to and from Bremerton will be back to normal Thursday while the Fauntleroy/Vashon/Southworth passengers get the short end of the stick for a couple of weeks.
  
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• Councilmember Sawant wants protest before her court appearance

  19-02-2015 14:46
  
  Councilmember Sawant wants protest before her court appearance
  
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• Driver, 17, to be sentenced in crash that killed 3

  19-02-2015 14:41
  
  The 17-year-old driver in a Kitsap County crash that killed three high school classmates is to be sentenced Thursday in juvenile court.
  
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