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• Bill would block indicted auditor from increasing his pension

  14-05-2015 23:59
  
  Three Republican state senators Thursday said they want to make sure indicted state Auditor Troy Kelley can’t return from unpaid leave and increase his public pension.
  
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• Heaven Adores You Is Loving and Well-Made, but Elliott Smith Isn’t Easily Reduced to Anecdotes

  14-05-2015 23:58 via thestranger.com
  
  The soundtrack contains a bounty of Elliott Smith's songs.
  The emergence of Elliott Smith from the cacophony of mid-’90s Northwest punk was unlike any other music success story, except in the sense that, in the end, it was exactly like every music success story.
  The same can be said of this documentary, which benefits from the filmmakers’ obvious affection for his subject and access to a lot of Smith’s actual friends and collaborators (many of whom make an admirable habit of no
  
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• Ex-Seattle firefighter charged in Bellevue road-rage case

  14-05-2015 23:53
  
  A former Seattle firefighter who was acquitted last year of assaulting homeless men in Occidental Park was charged Thursday with second-degree robbery for allegedly taking the cellphone of a cabdriver during a road-rage incident in Bellevue.
  
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• Bill Bryant, Who Backed Bringing Shell's Arctic Drilling Fleet to Seattle, Announces Run for Governor

  14-05-2015 23:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle port commissioner Bill Bryant calls himself a "conservationist," but he was a strong supporter of bringing Shell oil's Arctic drilling fleet to Seattle. Today he announced a run for governor. DON WILSON/PORT OF SEATTLE
  Quite some timing. As Shell Oil's Polar Pioneer arrives in Puget Sound, and as protesters prepare to not-welcome it, Port of Seattle commissioner Bill Bryant—the guy who enthusiastically backed bringing Shell's Arctic drilling fleet to this city—is declaring hi
  
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• Inslee signs law that sheds more light on medical prices

  14-05-2015 23:05
  
  The legislation aims to improve upon a measure passed last year that created an all-payer claims database. One aim is to show consumers how dramatically the price of medical procedures can vary from provider to provider.
  
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• Why Black Slave Liberator Harriet Tubman Should Not Replace Slave Owner Andrew Jackson on the $20 Bill

  14-05-2015 23:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Is it a good idea to put Harriet Tubman on American money?H. Seymour Squyer, National Portrait Gallery
  Harriet Tubman, a 19th-century black woman who broke law by escaping from slavery, and broke the law again and again by helping other blacks escape from slavery, recently beat other historic American women in an informal contest for a campaign, Women on 20s, that wants to put the second sex on the $20 bill. The women Tubman beat in the contest included Eleanor Roosevelt, Susan B. Anthony, and C
  
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• Port Commissioner Bill Bryant announces run for governor

  14-05-2015 22:58
  
  Republican Bill Bryant, a Port of Seattle commissioner, says he’ll challenge Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee in 2016.
  
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• Listen Here: La Luz's New Single "You Disappear"

  14-05-2015 22:55 via thestranger.com
  
  New album Weirdo Shrine comes out later this summer.
  Our homegrown label Hardly Art just announced that Seattle's La Luz will be releasing their sophomore effort Weirdo Shrine on August 7.Have you listened to the first single "You Disappear" yet?
  While the bent notes of their surf-rock sound might flash pictures of neon signs, beaches, and boardwalks through your brain, Shana Cleveland's voice sneaks in to offset this imagery with the chilling line, "Your eyes don't show." Indeed, the press rele
  
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• House passes bill for Congress to review Iran nuclear deal

  14-05-2015 22:39
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress on Thursday sent President Barack Obama a bill to give lawmakers the power to review and potentially reject a nuclear deal with Iran. The House overwhelmingly passed the measure, 400-25, a reflection of lawmakers’ insistence on having a say in what could be a significant international accord to get Iran to […]
  
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• About Those "Coke-Head Butterflies" That the Internet Is All Lit Up About...

  14-05-2015 22:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Coca products for sale in Peru. Ivan_Sabo/Shutterstock
  Over the past 24 hours, you may have seen a few tweets and headlines and Reddit threads about the Colombian government and a proposal to use "coke-head butterflies" to kill coca plants.
  The internet, unsurprisingly, is scrambling the message. The most important thing about this story is the fact that the Colombian government says it will stop trying to end the coca trade by spraying the countryside with glyphosate herbicide—also known
  
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• Protesters launching kayaks to ‘unwelcome’ oil rig to Seattle

  14-05-2015 22:29
  
  As the Polar Pioneer continues its trek from Port Angeles to Seattle’s Terminal 5 on Thursday, activists in kayaks are preparing to take to the water.
  
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• Anchorage police say 4 killed in case of domestic violence

  14-05-2015 22:18
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The deaths of a couple and their two children at a home in Alaska’s largest city appeared to be an isolated domestic violence incident, and police said Thursday they aren’t looking for a suspect. Police Sgt. Mike Couturier stopped short of calling it murder-suicide, and would not discuss specific details, such […]
  
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• Anchorage police release names of 4 found dead in home

  14-05-2015 22:18
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Anchorage police say a couple and their two children were found shot to death inside a home in what appears to be an isolated domestic-violence incident. Police are not seeking a suspect but stopped short of calling it murder-suicide while the investigation continues. Authorities identified the victims found Wednesday as 24-year-old Curtis […]
  
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• Seattle favorite Billie Wildrick stars in Village’s ‘Cabaret’

  14-05-2015 22:05
  
  Popular leading lady Billie Wildrick stars as Sally Bowles in Village Theatre’s upcoming version of the musical “Cabaret.”
  
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• Tracking Shell's Arctic Drilling Rig as It Approaches Seattle's Port

  14-05-2015 22:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Slog tipper Todd spotted Shell's Polar Pioneer moving past Port Townsend earlier today. Activists plan to meet the Arctic drilling rig when it arrives in Puget Sound later this afternoon. Slog tipper Todd
  As with Shell's Noble Discoverer, which arrived at the Port of Everett earlier this week, the progress of Shell's Polar Pioneer is being tracked by people on land, sea, and Twitter as the drilling rig heads toward the Port of Seattle's Terminal 5.Slog tipper Todd provided the above photo of the
  
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• New Trailer for ABC's The Muppets

  14-05-2015 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  ABC released a poop ton of new trailers for their upcoming fall series (you can watch 'em all here), but here's the only one you care about: The Muppets. While all your fave characters are there, the format is more like a cross between The Office and 30 Rock. What do I think of it? Watch the trailer to the end to get the following joke: I'm turning it to the left![ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• With goats, chickens, program helps poorest get by, new study says

  14-05-2015 21:06
  
  The very poorest can be helped with a program that includes providing goats, sheep, chickens or other livestock and training in how to make money from them, a six-nation study concludes. The study included more than 10,000 households in Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Pakistan and Peru.
  
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• The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy at 30: Insolent Masterpiece or Boring Dirge? A Point-Counterpoint

  14-05-2015 21:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Can we at least agree that William and Jim Reid both had great hair? MIKE LAYE
  DAVE SEGAL: To best appreciate the nuclear-bomb-like impact of the Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy, you needed to hear it upon release during 1985 pop/rock's gaudy malaise. (Better yet, you should've heard JAMC's urgent, caustic 1984 debut single, "Upside Down.") But failing that happy accident of birth, you should put the album's emergence in the context of the era's landscape, dominated as it was by MTV faves lik
  
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• New law lets family ask judge to commit dangerous relative

  14-05-2015 20:54
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a law that will allow family members to ask a judge to step in if a mental health professional will not involuntarily commit a relative they believe could be suicidal or a danger to others.
  
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• Inslee signs judicial review of mental health decisions

  14-05-2015 20:54
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a law that will allow family members to ask a judge to step in if a mental health professional will not involuntarily commit a relative they believe could be suicidal or a danger to others.
  
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• Hungry black bear grabs snack from Idaho woman’s car

  14-05-2015 20:35
  
  A northern Idaho woman says a black bear caused $4,600 in damage to her vehicle and a container holding leftovers last seen in the car has disappeared.
  
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• Bellingham Filmmaker Bill Badgley on His Documentary About Atypical Girls/Punk Mavericks the Slits

  14-05-2015 20:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Not many albums fused punk and reggae with more verve and nerve than Cut.
  Hard to believe, but there's never been a documentary film about the Slits, the radically unconventional, female-centric, first-wave British punk group... until now. Bellingham-based filmmaker William E. Badgley, in conjunction with producer Starcleaner Records' Jennifer Shagawat, is putting the finishing touches on Here to Be Heard: The Story of the Slits, which is slated to premiere in September, probably in London, if a
  
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• U.S. urges Southeast Asian nations to save lives of stranded migrants

  14-05-2015 20:29
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is urging Southeast Asian countries to work together to save the lives of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants who are stranded at sea. State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said Thursday that many lives are in danger, and that U.S. ambassadors are raising the issue with governments in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. […]
  
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• Astronaut John Glenn, 93, weathers health difficulties

  14-05-2015 19:56
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn says he’s come through a year of medical difficulties. The 93-year-old Glenn appeared with his wife, Annie, at a Statehouse news conference in Ohio on Thursday. Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, says he suffered a small stroke after heart-valve replacement surgery […]
  
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• House speaker decries ‘stupid question’ about Amtrak funds

  14-05-2015 19:53
  
  WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that this week’s fatal Amtrak crash wasn’t caused by a lack of federal funds and mocked a reporter for even asking about it. “Are you really going to ask such a stupid question?” he said at a news conference as a reporter started to ask about Democratic […]
  
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• Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton won’t run for president

  14-05-2015 19:52
  
  WASHINGTON — John Bolton, one of the Republican Party’s most prominent national security hawks, has decided not to run for president. Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, bowed out of the 2016 contest on Thursday, saying in a video obtained by The Associated Press that he would prefer to influence the election […]
  
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• Chehalis man fires shots at passing driver

  14-05-2015 19:16
  
  Chehalis man fires shots at passing driver
  
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• Geoduck farming takes off as demand for clams grows in Asia

  14-05-2015 19:01
  
  Last year, the U.S. exported $74 million, or about 11 million pounds, worth of live wild and farmed geoduck, mostly to China and Hong Kong. That’s double the volume and value exported in 2008. An average clam weighs about 2 pounds and can fetch up to $100 per pound overseas.
  
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• Whistleblower complaint against Pierce County prosecutor

  14-05-2015 18:53
  
  A veteran deputy prosecutor has filed a whistleblower complaint against Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist.
  
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• Rangers warn of dangerous conditions at Verlot ice caves

  14-05-2015 18:15
  
  Rangers warn of dangerous conditions at Verlot ice caves
  
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• The Morning News: Shell's Arctic Drilling Rig Arrives in Seattle Today, Uber Crashes, Lawmakers Give Themselves a Raise

  14-05-2015 17:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Wondering what, exactly, the Polar Pioneer is?Start here. Kelly O
  The Polar Pioneer is On Its Way to Seattle Right Now: That's one of Shell's oil drilling rigs, which the company plans to use to drill in the Arctic later this year.The Rig is Traveling at Just Under Four Knots: That means it's expected to arrive around 5 p.m., Sydney reports. It's likely to be met with kayaktivists today and a even more kayaktivists over the weekend.
  Here's the scene on a marine traffic-tracking app this morning.
  
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• Health care workers walk off job in Tukwila

  14-05-2015 17:11
  
  Health care workers walk off job in Tukwila
  
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• Top 5 spots for dim sum in Seattle and on the Eastside

  14-05-2015 17:05
  
  New and longtime favorites from the cart — and a la carte.
  
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• NYC police: Man shot after hammer attacks has been arrested

  14-05-2015 16:55
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a man suspected of randomly attacking four people with a hammer has been arrested after he struck a New York officer with the tool and was shot. The New York Police Department said Thursday that 30-year-old David Baril of the Bronx faces assault and weapon charges. Baril remains in […]
  
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• Jetliner returns to Los Angeles after possible bird strike

  14-05-2015 16:54
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — An American Airlines jetliner bound for Seattle has returned to Los Angeles International Airport because of a possible bird strike. Airport spokesman Marshall Lowe says the MD-83 landed safely around 6:40 a.m. Thursday. Airline tracking website Flight Aware says Flight 1258 took off at 6:24 a.m. Airline officials did not immediately […]
  
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• Bird strike sends jetliner carrying 132 back to Los Angeles

  14-05-2015 16:54
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — An American Airlines jetliner bound for Seattle has returned to Los Angeles International Airport because of a bird strike. Airline spokesman Andrew Christie says the Airbus A319 with 132 people on board landed safely at 6:40 a.m. Thursday and taxied to a gate. Flight 1258 took off at 6:24 a.m., and […]
  
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• Bird strike sends American Airlines plane carrying 132 back to L.A.

  14-05-2015 16:54
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — An American Airlines jetliner bound for St. Louis has returned to Los Angeles International Airport because of a bird strike. Airline spokesman Andrew Christie says the Airbus A319 with 132 people on board landed safely at 6:40 a.m. Thursday and taxied to a gate. Flight 1258 took off at 6:24 a.m., […]
  
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• No injuries in Fife RV blaze visible from I-5

  14-05-2015 16:14
  
  Three RVs were damaged in a fire at Fife RV early Thursday, the Tacoma Fire Department said.
  
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• Firefighters: No injuries in Fife RV blaze

  14-05-2015 16:14
  
  Three recreational vehicles were damaged in a fire at Fife RV early Thursday morning, according to the Tacoma Fire Department.
  
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• There’s more to gray matter than meets the eye

  14-05-2015 16:01
  
  Seattle’s Allen brain institute releases first database of brain cell types, along with new analysis to improve treatment of deadly brain cancer.
  
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• First database of brain-cell types released by Allen Institute

  14-05-2015 16:01
  
  Seattle’s Allen brain institute releases first database of brain cell types, along with new analysis to improve treatment of deadly brain cancer.
  
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• 19-year-old gets 26 years for 2013 murder of Tacoma man in garage

  14-05-2015 15:34
  
  A 19-year-old has been sentenced to 26 years and eight months in prison for a 2013 Tacoma robbery and murder.
  
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• Married couple campaign for same Bremerton council seat

  14-05-2015 15:27
  
  Conversations at one Bremerton city councilor's dinner table may be a little tense as his wife has announced plans to run for his seat.
  
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• Boat owner fined $2.8M for oil spill off Whidbey Island

  14-05-2015 15:20
  
  Boat owner fined $2.8M for oil spill off Whidbey Island
  
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• Sheriff: Man, 19, killed in dispute at Tacoma-area apartment

  14-05-2015 15:10
  
  A Pierce County sheriff's spokesman says a 19-year-old man has been fatally shot during a dispute at an apartment building in Parkland.
  
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• Tacoma middle school students fight dance dress code

  14-05-2015 14:56
  
  Tacoma middle school students say dance dress code goes too far
  
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• Obama convenes Camp David summit with Gulf state leaders

  14-05-2015 14:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and leaders from six Gulf nations are trying to work through tensions sparked by the U.S. bid for a nuclear deal with Iran, a pursuit that has put regional partners on edge. Obama is seeking to reassure the Gulf leaders gathering at Camp David that U.S. overtures to Iran […]
  
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• Flooding in New Zealand capital halts trains, causes 1 death

  14-05-2015 14:52
  
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Heavy rain caused flooding in New Zealand’s capital Thursday that left one man dead, halted train service and blocked highways during the evening commute. Crews struggled to clear highways, and the shutdown of Wellington’s train services delayed travel for many. Elsewhere in the North Island, a small tornado lifted roofs […]
  
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• Questions for engineer of careening Amtrak train in deadly wreck

  14-05-2015 14:49
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Federal investigators have determined that an Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia, killing at least seven people, was careening through the city at 106 mph before it ran off the rails along a sharp curve where the speed limit drops to just 50 mph, yet they still don’t know why it was […]
  
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• Lawyer: Amtrak train engineer doesn’t remember deadly wreck

  14-05-2015 14:49
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The engineer at the controls of the speeding Amtrak train that lurched off the tracks in Philadelphia, killing at least seven people, has no recollection of the crash and wasn’t on his cellphone or using drugs or alcohol, his attorney said. Lawyer Robert Goggin told ABC News that the engineer, Brandon Bostian, […]
  
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