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• Car strikes 3 at Sasquatch festival; 1 serious injury

  23-05-2015 23:55
  
  The driver was arrested on assault charges after a car hit three people Saturday morning at the Sasquatch music festival campground at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Grant County.
  
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• Car drives into 3 at Sasquatch festival; 1 serious injury

  23-05-2015 23:55
  
  A car drove into three people Saturday morning at the Sasquatch Music Festival campground at the Gorge Amphitheatre, seriously injuring one person. The Grant County Sheriff is questioning the driver.
  
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• 2 people chained to Shell ship north of Seattle

  23-05-2015 23:01
  
  BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Two people have chained themselves to a support ship that is part of Royal Dutch Shell’s exploratory oil drilling plans and currently moored in Washington state. Eric Ross of the Backbone Campaign said on Saturday morning that Matt Fuller joined student activist Chiara Rose in suspending themselves from the anchor chain […]
  
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• 2 people chained to Shell ship in Bellingham Bay

  23-05-2015 23:01
  
  BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Two people have chained themselves to a support ship that is part of  Shell’s exploratory oil drilling plans and currently moored in Washington state. Eric Ross of the Backbone Campaign said on Saturday morning that Matt Fuller joined student activist Chiara Rose in suspending themselves from the anchor chain of the […]
  
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• At least 4 injured at Gorge Amphitheater campground

  23-05-2015 21:14
  
  GEORGE, Wash. (AP) — The Grant County sheriff’s office says at least four people have been injured at the Gorge Amphitheater campground. KHQ-TV reports a 19-year-old drove his car through the campground on Saturday morning and hit pedestrians, tents and parked vehicles. Kyle Foreman of the Grant County sheriff’s office says the injured were taken […]
  
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• At least 4 injured at amphitheater campground in Washington

  23-05-2015 21:14
  
  GEORGE, Wash. (AP) — The Grant County sheriff’s office says at least four people have been injured at the Gorge Amphitheater campground. KHQ-TV reports (http://is.gd/uuEBxl ) a 19-year-old drove his car through the campground on Saturday morning and hit pedestrians, tents and parked vehicles. Kyle Foreman of the Grant County sheriff’s office says the injured, […]
  
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• How to Watch the New French Film In The Name of My Daughter

  23-05-2015 21:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Catherine Deneuve is the queen of a casino in In The Name of My Daughter.Cohen Media Group
  If you want to watch one of the best fllms of the year, In The Name of My Daughter, which is currently playing at Seven Gables, you must follow these instructions.When the movie starts, set the timer on your phone to vibrate exactly after 93 minutes. Exactly! Not a minute more or less. At that point, stand and leave the theater as if the credits are rolling up the screen.Why go through this little trouble?
  
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• Fishing boat sinks in Ilwaco channel; Coast Guard checks for diesel spill

  23-05-2015 20:23
  
  Two people were rescued after a fishing boat sunk Saturday morning in a channel between the Washington and Oregon border.The Coast Guard said a “light sheening” had been reported on the water.
  
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• #ShellNo Activists Have Been Attached to a Shell Arctic Vessel's Anchor Chain in Bellingham Since Last Night

  23-05-2015 19:44 via thestranger.com
  
  Chiara D'Angelo has been occupying the anchor chain of the Arctic Challenger since Friday evening.Reese Semanko
  Debra D'Angelo found out about her daughter over Facebook. She saw that an activist had attached herself to an anchor chain on a Shell Arctic support vessel to stop it from leaving Bellingham and knew. "I'm like, 'It's Chiara.' Shit."Between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Friday night, Chiara D'Angelo, a 20-year-old Western Washington University student, peeled off from her group of friends on C
  
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• Rescuers ready for the call if trouble hits on Mount Rainier

  23-05-2015 18:10
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — As the climbing season gets underway on Mount Rainier, a specialized rescue team has been training to be ready when things go wrong on the 14,411-foot peak. Last year, nearly 11,000 people tried to scale Washington state’s highest mountain, mostly between May and September. Less than 60 percent of them complete the […]
  
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• Oregon community takes unusual approach to sea lion problem

  23-05-2015 17:35
  
  BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — A community in Oregon is bringing in some unusual help to try to fix their sea lion problem. They’re hoping a fake killer whale from Bellingham, Washington, will do the trick. KING-TV reports Terry Buzzard of Island Marine Cruises has used the life-size mock orca to promote his business during parades […]
  
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• Woman chains herself to Shell ship in bay north of Seattle

  23-05-2015 08:39
  
  BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — A woman has chained herself to the Arctic Challenger, a support ship for Royal Dutch Shell’s exploratory oil drilling plans, Bellingham police said. KCPQ-TV said the ship is anchored in Bellingham Bay, north of Seattle. A police spokesman said officers talked to the ship, the port and the woman and won’t […]
  
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• Suspect in University District sexual assaults investigated in new cases

  23-05-2015 07:47
  
  This comes after investigators discovered suspicious videos on the suspect's cell phone in a warrant search.
  
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• Aberdeen, Wash.: Body found on porch, armed woman surrenders

  23-05-2015 07:26
  
  ABERDEEN, Wash. (AP) — Police in Aberdeen, Washington, say they have taken a woman into custody after a nearly nine-hour standoff at a home where officers found a body on the porch. Police found the body when they responded Friday afternoon to reports of gunfire. Officers initially tried to negotiate with the woman by phone […]
  
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• U.S. Open: Army of volunteers readies to be ‘courteous until it hurts’

  23-05-2015 06:13
  
  It will take more than 5,000 volunteers — about 80 percent of them from Washington state — to help host the Northwest’s first U.S. Open.
  
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• FBI, police investigating Seattle officer in violent 2010 incident

  23-05-2015 06:10
  
  Seattle police and the FBI have opened a joint investigation into a Seattle police officer’s conduct during violent arrests in a 2010 incident, after a police-car video recently came to the attention of Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole.
  
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• Las Vegas feels magnitude-4.8 earthquake 100 miles away

  23-05-2015 06:05
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A magnitude-4.8 earthquake struck a rural area of southern Nevada on Friday, shaking buildings more than 100 miles away and shutting down a busy Las Vegas interchange as road-tripping travelers were descending on Sin City for Memorial Day weekend. The U.S. Geological Survey revised an earlier report that pinned the magnitude […]
  
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• Shell protest barge off Alki had own environmental issues

  23-05-2015 05:58
  
  A “People’s Platform” protest barge that was anchored off Alki was moved Friday because it was over an area that is important to divers and where octopuses are protected from being harvested.
  
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• Expert says police officers have self-defense right

  23-05-2015 05:00
  
  Expert says Police Officers Have Self Defense Right
  
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• Norwegian king welcomed in Ballard

  23-05-2015 04:59
  
  Norway’s King Harald V visits the area.
  
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• Sexual assault reported near UW campus

  23-05-2015 04:18
  
  A woman was reportedly sexually assaulted Thursday evening at a house party near the University of Washington campus, according to the University of Washington Police Department. The incident took place in the 4700 block of 21st Avenue Northeast in Seattle between 10 and 11 p.m., the woman told police. She was escorted by a friend […]
  
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• Lynden fairground samples match strains of E. coli

  23-05-2015 04:13
  
  Environmental samples from four out 10 areas tested at the Lynden fairgrounds linked to an April E. coli outbreak match the strain of bacteria that made people sick.
  
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• Robert Patterson, 90, founder of Habitat for Humanity affiliate

  23-05-2015 04:01
  
  Robert “Bob” Patterson, a World War II veteran and founder of Habitat for Humanity of East King County, has died. He was 90.
  
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• 'Mobile mechanics' using airbag recall as scam

  23-05-2015 03:45
  
  'Mobile mechanics' using airbag recall as scam
  
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• Health officials reveal new details about Lynden E. coli outbreak

  23-05-2015 03:39
  
  Environmental samples from four out 10 areas tested at the Lynden fairgrounds linked to an April E. coli outbreak match the strain of bacteria that made people sick, state health officials said Friday. The report didn’t reveal exactly which sites harbored the samples of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7, but it provided new information about […]
  
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• Forest Service warns ice caves are deadlier than ever; people still going inside

  23-05-2015 03:38
  
  Forest Service warns ice caves are deadlier than ever; people still going inside
  
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• B-boys to Balkan, the Northwest Folklife Festival is under way

  23-05-2015 03:32
  
  Northwest Folklife isn’t so much a folk festival anymore, but a cultural showcase of practically everything. The festival got under way Friday, May 22, and runs through Monday, May 25.
  
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• State Says Shell's Polar Pioneer Is Manspreading Near Elliott Bay

  23-05-2015 03:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Rigspreading. Alex Garland
  The Polar Pioneer is too big. That's why the Washington state Department of Natural Resources sent a letter to Shell today, asking how long the Polar Pioneer was planning on manspreading* in the West Waterway that empties into Elliott Bay.The rig's already gotten in trouble with the city, which declared it didn't have a right to be in Terminal 5 under the port's existing land use permit. Now, the state's concerned about how much space the rig is taking up in the waters
  
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• 2 young boys suffer ‘significant’ injuries in explosion in Enumclaw

  23-05-2015 03:17
  
  Two boys received “significant” injuries in an explosion at a residence in Enumclaw, Friday evening, according to the Enumclaw Firefighters group. The explosion was reported on Southeast 433rd Street by the Enumclaw Firefighters at about 5 p.m. One patient was taken via helicopter to Harborview Medical Center, according to a release from the firefighters. The other was taken by […]
  
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• Nina, Woodland Park’s oldest female gorilla, has died

  23-05-2015 02:50
  
  The oldest female gorilla at Woodland Park Zoo has died. Nina was 47 years old.
  
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• DSHS to pay $1.75 million in foster father molestation case

  23-05-2015 02:28
  
  The state Department of Social and Health Services has agreed to pay $1.75 million into a trust set up for a boy who was molested by his foster father between 2007 and 2008.
  
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• Paul Allen was key investor in pipeline company behind Calif. spill

  23-05-2015 02:20
  
  Plains All American Pipeline, the company whose oil pipeline this week leaked thousands of gallons of crude on the California coast, has an unlikely Seattle connection: maverick billionaire and environmental advocate Paul Allen.
  
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• Paul Allen was investor in pipeline company behind Calif. spill

  23-05-2015 02:20
  
  Plains All American Pipeline, the company whose oil pipeline this week leaked thousands of gallons of crude on the California coast, has an unlikely Seattle connection: maverick billionaire and environmental advocate Paul Allen.
  
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• DNR questions Shell on long-term plans for waterway

  23-05-2015 02:14
  
  The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) sent Shell a letter questioning plans to use Terminal 5 as a long-term home for the oil rig because the West Waterway is only meant for temporary uses.
  
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• DNR questions plan for winter stay of Shell oil rig in waterway

  23-05-2015 02:14
  
  Shell Oil has one more hurdle to jump over in its attempt to moor the oil rig Polar Pioneer at Terminal 5 during the winter months. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) sent Shell a letter Friday questioning plans to use Terminal 5 as a long-term home for the oil rig because the West Waterway […]
  
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• Small, early-season wildfire in North Cascades park complex

  23-05-2015 02:05
  
  Fire season is coming early this year. This news Friday afternoon in an email from North Cascades National Park: A less-than-one acre fire is active high above Ross Lake in North Cascades National Park Service Complex at nearly 4,000 feet elevation.  Smoke from the Pierce Mountain Fire was reported yesterday by drivers along Highway 20.  […]
  
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• Government hunters to kill salmon-eating birds on Columbia

  23-05-2015 01:58
  
  Government hunters have begun scouting an island at the mouth of the Columbia River as they prepare to shoot thousands of hungry seabirds to stop them from eating baby salmon. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokeswoman Diana Fredlund said hunters from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services agency went to a small, uninhabited island […]
  
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• Government hunters prepare to kill salmon-eating birds

  23-05-2015 01:58
  
  Government hunters have begun scouting an island at the mouth of the Columbia River as they prepare to shoot thousands of hungry seabirds to stop them from eating baby salmon. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokeswoman Diana Fredlund said hunters from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services agency went to a small uninhabited island […]
  
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• Olympia Police Officer Who Shot Two Unarmed Black Men Also Fired a Bullet Into a Nearby Home

  23-05-2015 01:27 via thestranger.com
  
  This the second-story window of Kyle LaCasse's home, which he says was pierced by a bullet hole. Police confirmed the officer struck a nearby house in the shooting. Kyle LaCasse
  Olympia Officer Ryan Donald fired a shot into the second-story window of a nearby home during his confrontation with two unarmed black men on Thursday morning, according to Kyle LaCasse, who lives in the unit.The gunshot wounds left the two men in the hospital. One of them was in critical—upgraded to "serious" toda
  
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• This Week In Music In Memorandum: Darius Minwalla, Bobby Jameson, James "Bob" Belden, Bobby Irwin, And Louis Johnson

  23-05-2015 01:24 via thestranger.com
  
  First, I'd like to note Sean Nelson's obit for once local, and dear friend to many, Darius Minwalla. I can't remember the last time I saw him, but I always remembered him on the rare occasions I did. He was a nice fellow,condolences all around. His passing was too soon.
  I was bummed to hear singer and songwriter Bobby Jameson, an unsung and unknown from the '60s LA scene, had died. He began a promising but stunted career with his first single in 1963, released as Bobby James, called "Let's Surf
  
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• Soundgarden Frontman Chris Cornell to Release New Solo LP This Fall

  23-05-2015 00:49 via thestranger.com
  
  "And we've got to get ourselves back to the (Sound)garden." Daniel DeSlover/Shutterstock
  According to Stereogum, Soundgarden/Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell will release his fifth solo album Higher Truth sometime this fall, probably in September.Blabbermouth.net claims that he will support the record with a November/December tour of Australia and New Zealand, where Cornell will play songs from throughout his career in an "unplugged, up-close and personal setting."Does this mean the tunes from
  
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• Olympic National Park fees going up, too, but not until June 1

  23-05-2015 00:45
  
  Following suit with Mount Rainier National Park, Olympic National Park is raising its entry fee to $20 this summer, and to $25 next year. But Memorial Day visitors get a break: Unlike Rainier, Olympic won’t up the entry cost until after this holiday weekend. The fee increase, up from $15 per vehicle, takes effect Monday, […]
  
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• Poster of the Week: Poster for Northwest Folklife Festival

  23-05-2015 00:35 via thestranger.com
  
  If you see one of these posters in the wild, make sure to get a close look at the painstaking detail in the "hair."
  
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• These ‘crankie’ folk artists nothing but charming

  23-05-2015 00:07
  
  Sketched May 20, 2015 Impromptu folk perfomances at the Léger household in Shoreline are not unusual for the self-described family of music geeks. Dejah is playing the guitar and singing a traditional French-Canadian tune, while her husband, Devon, accompanies on the violin, and her father-in-law, Louis, operates a “crankie,” an illustrated panorama brought to life […]
  
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• Are Beards a "Disgusting Fad?"

  23-05-2015 00:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Someone left a comment over on Drunk of the Week suggesting that beards are just a fad. And a digusting one, at that. I think this needs a vote!
  Let's discuss "digusting!" Kelly O[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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