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• WSU researcher says drought could get worse

  21-05-2015 23:50
  
  Drought conditions in Washington are likely to grow worse because of a strengthening El Nino tropical weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean, a weather researcher for Washington State University said Thursday.
  
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• The latest things to know about the Takata air bag recall

  21-05-2015 23:48
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Out of concern for the safety of drivers, the U.S. government may step in to manage a giant recall of air bags made by Takata Corp. On Thursday, the government’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration started the process to take control of the recall of 33.8 million air bags that can spew […]
  
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• Baby porcupine is today’s daily dose of cuteness

  21-05-2015 23:26
  
  Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, welcomed a prickly arrival on May 15 with the birth of a North American porcupine, seen here not even a week old. The baby porcupine, known as a porcupette, weighed just over a pound at birth. This marks the third birth for parents Molly and Oliver, both 4 years old. […]
  
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• Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagano Sings into the Chasm Between Electronic Dance and Down-Tempo Trance

  21-05-2015 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  None shall pass! Yukimi Nagano protects her bandmates. MARCO VAN RIJT
  Those venturing to the bluffs of the Gorge for Sasquatch! in time for Little Dragon's set on Friday night will find the Swedish four-piece patrolling the borderline between electronic dance and down-tempo trance-jams. To one side are fiery lakes of club bass and tightly kicked beats. To the other, the placid Sea of Sade (pronounced shar-day), where glacial funk floats in smooth waves of R&B. Little Dragon's fourth full-len
  
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• Former players: NFL teams ‘conspired’ to push painkillers

  21-05-2015 23:14
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Hundreds of former players have filed a lawsuit claiming all 32 NFL teams, their doctors, trainers and medical staffs obtained and provided painkillers to players — often illegally — as part of a decades-long conspiracy to keep them on the field without regard for their long-term health. The lawsuit reprises some of […]
  
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• Dr. Oz helps collapsed woman during mall promotional event

  21-05-2015 23:13
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Celebrity doctor and television host Dr. Mehmet Oz reportedly rushed into a crowd to help a woman at a promotional event in Jacksonville. Local media outlets report that Oz was at the Avenues Mall as part of his “The Good Life” tour Thursday morning when a woman collapsed on the second […]
  
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• Republican senators advance plan to deregulate mobile-home loans

  21-05-2015 23:07
  
  Republican senators advanced a plan Wednesday to roll back financial industry regulations, including consumer safeguards for costly mobile-home loans. Before the vote, Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee pushed to scale back the overall bill, offering an amendment that would have left mobile-home safeguards untouched. But Republicans squashed that proposal and approved the overall plan […]
  
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• SL Letter of the Day: Send the Flowers

  21-05-2015 22:28 via thestranger.com
  
  Originally posted on October 16, 2013.
  I'm a gay man in a happy and open marriage. I routinely seek the services of an erotic masseur, a man with whom I have a great client/service-provider relationship. I found out when booking my next massage with him that he was recently in a car accident with his long-term partner, who died in the hospital. Normally, I'd send flowers and a card. However, due to the nature of our working relationship, I don't want to extend myself in ways that could be uncomf
  
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• Man wounded in Seattle shooting shows up at Renton hospital

  21-05-2015 22:25
  
  Seattle police are investigating a shooting early Thursday after a wounded man showed up at a Renton hospital.
  
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• Dear Sasquatch!: No, You’re Not High, the Bassist from Bear on Fire Really Is Christopher Mintz-Plasse from Superbad

  21-05-2015 22:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Bear on Fire play the Sasquatch! Yeti Stage on Saturday at 1 p.m.
  Attention Sasquatch!-goers: Bear on Fire are a Los Angeles–based sextet whose alt-blues hints at golden-era ’70s melodic rock. They just released their debut album, Velicata Back. They are playing Saturday, May 23, at 1 p.m. on the Yeti Stage. If you arrive (or wake up) in time to catch their set, you may recognize Bear on Fire’s bassist and not fully understand why. This is why: He is Christopher Mintz-Plasse (y
  
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• Seattle Police Chief Balks at Call for Federal Intervention on Protest Policing

  21-05-2015 22:07 via thestranger.com
  
  Chief O'Toole says she is all about building community trust in the police department. But she's not embracing a call for a federally-mediated dialogue between the police and #BlackLivesMatter protesters. SPD
  Police chief Kathleen O'Toole appears to be alone—at least among officials involved in police reform in Seattle—in not being publicly on board with a call for the Department of Justice to mediate a series of forums on how the department has treated Black Lives Matter protesters.
  
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• New toll charges adopted for Tacoma Narrows Bridge

  21-05-2015 21:45
  
  New toll charges on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge take effect July 1 after the state Transportation Commission adopted a two-step increase.
  
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• Protest Barge Gets 72-Hour Warning From Harbor Patrol, Damage to Dive Park Is Assessed

  21-05-2015 21:44 via thestranger.com
  
  The Solar Pioneer protest barge, which is protesting Shell Oil's Polar Pioneer in Elliott Bay. It turns out the barge is moored over a popular local diving park without clearing it with the divers first. Courtesy of Kelly Mears
  On Wednesday, the Solar Pioneer—the Polar Pioneer protest barge floating in Elliott Bay—got a call from the Seattle Police Department. According to barge operator John Sellers, a Harbor Patrol sergeant told him that the barge's moorage permit from Saturday had
  
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• Connell boot camp closes after nearly 2 decades

  21-05-2015 21:30
  
  The state's only military-style camp for incarcerated teens has closed its doors after nearly two decades.
  
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• How to cope with crush of Memorial Day travelers

  21-05-2015 21:08
  
  Tips on dealing with road, airport and ferry travel in Western Washington.
  
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• Listen Here: New Destroyer Album and Single "Dream Lover"

  21-05-2015 21:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Destroyer's back after a four year absence.
  Dan Bejar is back! And he's got horns, horns, horns.This morning, Destroyer announced their new album Poison Season will be released on August 28 via Merge. The follow-up to 2011's critically acclaimed Kaputt also has a new single titled "Dream Lover."And even if "love is on the run," it's never sounded happier. I know there's been a lot of previous discussion that Destroyer's drifted too far over the line of soft rock, but, as a child of the '80s, I g
  
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• Vanessa Place Is in a Fight Over Gone with the Wind's Racism, But It’s Not the Fight She Says She Wants: An Interview

  21-05-2015 21:01 via thestranger.com
  
  For years, literary provocateur Vanessa Place has been tweeting language and images related to Gone with the Wind. Earlier this week, she was fired from a committee selecting authors for a 2016 writing conference.Patrick GreaneyIs this Twitter feed racist? Is it racist but good art? Is it racist but bad art? Under what circumstances can a white writer use racist language and imagery to denounce racism? Who gets to decide? Why?These are the questions that have been banging around in the heads of
  
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• Leaked E-mail: What a King County Superior Court Judge Really Thinks About Raising the Cost of Traffic Ticket Fines

  21-05-2015 20:52 via thestranger.com
  
  Shutterstock has lots of images of a white lady in a convertible receiving a traffic ticket, but that's not what this story is about. bikeriderlondon/Shutterstock
  Earlier this week, the Washington state Supreme Court ordered a $12 increase in the maximum fine for most traffic violations. They did this despite being warned that such a policy would have a disproportionate effect on poor people and people of color.
  Here's why that'll happen:People of color are often disproportionately cited for tra
  
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• Two Unarmed Black Men Suspected of Stealing Beer Shot by Police Officer in Olympia

  21-05-2015 20:49 via thestranger.com
  
  The Olympian reports that last night, around 1 a.m., two black men alleged to have attempted to steal beer from an Olympia Safeway, were spotted, confronted, and then shot by a police officer. The men are in their 20s and reportedly are brothers. Both are in the hospital, with one in stable condition and the other in critical condition. Both were, according to a press conference with Olympia's police chief Ronnie Roberts, unarmed and shot by a white police officer, 35-year-old Ryan Donald, afte
  
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• McEnroe to be formally sentenced for 6 murders on June 10

  21-05-2015 20:46
  
  Joseph McEnroe, convicted of killing six members of his ex-girlfriend's family on Christmas Eve 2007, will be formally sentenced to life in prison on June 10.
  
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• The Rules Regulating Restaurant Service Charges Are Confusing and Seattle Is Ill-Equipped to Enforce Them

  21-05-2015 20:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Since Seattle's new minimum-wage law took effect on April 1, restaurant owners have looked at various ways to accommodate higher compensation for their employees—for example, Ivar's Salmon House raised prices and eliminated tips. A month later, Renee Erickson eliminated tips at her three restaurants in favor of an 18.5 percent service charge. And in a recent article on Eater Seattle, several restaurant owners in the city said they think others will be following Erickson's lead and opting
  
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• Foo Fighters Were the Final Guests on David Letterman’s Farewell to TV

  21-05-2015 20:41 via thestranger.com
  
  A farewell from one Dave to another. s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
  Last night saw longtime late-night host David Letterman saying farewell to the airwaves and preparing to settle down into well-deserved retirement. For reasons that surprised no one, Letterman chose the Foo Fighters as the final guests on the final episode of The Late Show with David Letterman, which has been on CBS since 1993.You may recall that Letterman had open heart surgery back in 2000, and that the Foo Fighters cancelled a t
  
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• Foo Fighters Were the Final Guest on David Letterman’s Farewell to TV. Does This Sound Right to Anyone?

  21-05-2015 20:41 via thestranger.com
  
  A farewell from one Dave to another. s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
  Last night saw longtime late-night host David Letterman saying farewell to the airwaves and preparing to settle down into well-deserved retirement. For reasons that baffle everyone who has ever lived, Letterman chose the Foo Fighters as the final guests on the final episode of The Late Show with David Letterman, which has been on CBS since 1993. Letterman also hosted Late Night with David Letterman on NBC from 1982-'93 and is widel
  
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• Foo Fighters Were the Final Guest on David Letterman’s Farewell to TV

  21-05-2015 20:41 via thestranger.com
  
  A farewell from one Dave to another. s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
  Last night saw longtime late-night host David Letterman saying farewell to the airwaves and preparing to settle down into well-deserved retirement. For reasons that surprised no one, Letterman chose the Foo Fighters as the final guests on the final episode of The Late Show with David Letterman, which has been on CBS since 1993.You may recall that Letterman had open heart surgery back in 2000, and that the Foo Fighters cancelled a t
  
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• Paralyzed man uses his thoughts to control a robotic arm

  21-05-2015 20:24
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man paralyzed by a gunshot more than a decade ago can shake hands, drink beer and play rock, paper, scissors by controlling a robotic arm with his thoughts, researchers reported. Two years ago, doctors in California implanted a pair of tiny chips into the brain of Erik Sorto that decoded […]
  
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• SIFF Notes 2015: All the Films You Must, Should, and Might Want to See Today, Thursday, May 21

  21-05-2015 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  If you see one film at this year's SIFF, see Bodyslam: Revenge of the Banana, a documentary about Seattle's changing nature (and wrestling) tonight at 9:30 at the Egyptian
  We certainly hope you've been enjoying week two of the 41st annual Seattle International Film Festival. Don’t forget that our massively searchable festival guide—trailers, synopses, reviews, schedules, tickets, the lot—is conveniently located right here in our online calendar, Things To Do. If you're looking
  
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• Bear prompts ‘lock down’ at Eastgate Elementary

  21-05-2015 19:07
  
  A black bear that forced Eastgate Elementary School to cancel recess Thursday morning is believed to have headed into a greenbelt for a nap.
  
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• Bear spotted near Bellevue elementary school

  21-05-2015 18:21
  
  Bear spotted near Bellevue elementary school
  
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• 15-year-old boy charged with murder in Tacoma drive-by shooting

  21-05-2015 18:20
  
  15-year-old boy charged with murder in Tacoma drive-by shooting
  
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• May showers bring giant worms: Idaho man finds rare species

  21-05-2015 17:48
  An earthworm enthusiast found the rare giant Palouse earthworm, a creature native to the Palouse Prairie that can grow up to a meter long.
  
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• Jersey shore still recovering as 3rd post-Sandy summer nears

  21-05-2015 17:40
  
  With the third summer after Hurricane Sandy nearly here, the Jersey shore is still recovering despite the substantial progress that has been made in the 2½ years since October 2012. The federal government has awarded New Jersey $4.1 billion in Community Development Block Grant funds for disaster recovery; $1.64 billion has been given to homeowners so far.
  
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• The Morning News: Is It Safe to Call This Man a Rocker? Plus, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Bill Is on the Move.

  21-05-2015 17:33 via thestranger.com
  
  John Roderick: "Don't call me a rocker!" Jim Bennett
  Was It "Gamesmanship" for the Seattle Times to Call John Roderick a Rocker? No, says Romenesko. "John Roderick of the indie rock band The Long Winters," Romenesko writes, "is running for Seattle city council and needs to have someone on his campaign staff explain that the headline writer isn’t his enemy." The offending headline? Read it right here. Although maybe it was all just a misunderstanding involving a chair?
  In Other City Council
  
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• Man sentenced for selling golden eagle feathers

  21-05-2015 17:31
  
  A man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for trying to arrange the illegal sale of golden eagle feathers.
  
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• Forecast: Mid-70s Thursday, but weekend showers, cooler temps

  21-05-2015 16:59
  
  The Seattle area can expect mostly cloudy skies Thursday with a high in the low 70s, according to the National Weather Service forecast.
  
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• Teen, 15, charged with murder in Tacoma drive-by shooting

  21-05-2015 16:34
  
  A 15-year-old Tacoma teen has been charged with murder in a gang-related drive-by shooting that authorities say killed an innocent bystander.
  
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• True blue Mediterranean in Redmond

  21-05-2015 16:30
  
  Blu Sardinia evokes the flavors of that island haven.
  
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• Seattle no longer America’s fastest-growing city

  21-05-2015 16:30
  
  It’s still in the top five, though.
  
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• Kshama Sawant—"She Who Shall Not Be Named"—Argues Against New Campaign Ethics Rule

  21-05-2015 16:28 via thestranger.com
  
  Organizers say 500 people showed up at City Hall for a housing affordability town hall last month. Some believe council member Kshama Sawant violated city ethics rules at the event, and want new campaign rules to keep her from doing it again. City of Seattle
  Is the mayor's proposed new rule about campaigning at City Hall just a clarification of the restrictions already in place? Or is it a new rule that will chill the speech of volunteers on grassroots campaigns?That's the debate underway on the
  
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• Oregon traffic stop nets more than 30 pounds of drugs

  21-05-2015 15:47
  
  An Oregon State Police trooper seized more than 30 pounds of narcotics during a traffic stop in Jackson County.
  
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• Police: Washington officer shot men who tried to steal beer

  21-05-2015 15:40
  
  Police in the capital of Washington state say an officer shot two men in their 20s suspected of trying to steal beer from a grocery store.
  
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• Olympia officer shoots 2 men who tried to steal beer

  21-05-2015 15:40
  
  Police in the capital of Washington state say an officer shot two men in their 20s suspected of trying to steal beer from a grocery store.
  
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• Yakima woman gets 10 years for starving twin girls

  21-05-2015 15:35
  
  A Yakima woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for abusing her 8-year-old twins. The girls were found emaciated when they were rescued from the home.
  
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• Warm weather brings dangers of children falling from windows

  21-05-2015 15:20
  
  Warm weather brings dangers of children falling from windows
  
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• Thousands of gallons of oil sopped up from California coast

  21-05-2015 15:10
  
  Investigators took stock of the scope of the spill on Wednesday a day after the pipeline break, finding that up to 105,000 gallons may have leaked.
  
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• Oil sopped up from California coast rises to 7,700 gallons

  21-05-2015 15:10
  
  Investigators took stock of the scope of the spill from a broken pipeline, finding that up to 105,000 gallons may have leaked.
  
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• California oil sop-up starts, thousands of gallons gathered

  21-05-2015 15:10
  
  GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — More than 6,000 gallons of oil had been raked, skimmed and vacuumed from a spill that stretched across 9 miles of California coast in a cleanup effort that is now going 24 hours a day, officials said, but that’s some of the sticky, stinking goo that escaped from a broken pipeline. […]
  
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• California oil sop-up starts: 105,000 gallons leaked

  21-05-2015 15:10
  
  Investigators took stock of the scope of the spill on Wednesday a day after the pipeline break, finding that up to 105,000 gallons may have leaked.
  
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• Failed launches cast shadow over Russian space program

  21-05-2015 15:09
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Back-to-back rocket launch failures have dealt Russia one of the heaviest blows to its space industry since the Soviet collapse — with national pride and billions of dollars at stake. The setbacks threaten to erode Russia’s leading position in the multibillion global launch market, in which it commands an estimated 40 percent […]
  
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• Next stop Earth: SpaceX cargo capsule departs space station

  21-05-2015 15:08
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX Dragon capsule has left the space station for return to Earth. The capsule, containing some 3,000 pounds of experiments and equipment, departed the International Space Station on Thursday morning. It’s headed for an early afternoon splashdown in the Pacific, off the Southern California coast. The capsule arrived at […]
  
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• Islamic State in control of Palmyra ruins, activists say

  21-05-2015 15:03
  
  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Islamic State militants overran the famed archaeological site at Palmyra early on Thursday, just hours after seizing the central Syrian town, activists and officials said, raising concerns the extremists might destroy some of the priceless ruins as they have done in neighboring Iraq. The Islamic State’s capture of the town of […]
  
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