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• Prosecutor: Tacoma officer justified in fatal shooting

  18-09-2015 23:50
  
  A Tacoma police officer was justified when he shot and killed an armed man in May, the Pierce County prosecutor has ruled.
  
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• Company had safety violations before window washer died in fall

  18-09-2015 23:35
  The company that employed a window washer who fell to his death in Tacoma has been cited for safety violations three times since 2010.
  
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• Bellevue’s state Sen. Cyrus Habib announces run for lieutenant governor

  18-09-2015 23:35
  
  State Sen. Cyrus Habib, D-Bellevue, lost his eyesight to cancer at the age of 8 but went on to become a Rhodes Scholar, Yale Law School graduate, intellectual property lawyer at Perkins Coie, and state legislator from the Eastside. Habib announced Friday that he is running for lieutenant governor. Incumbent Lt. Gov. Brad Owen, a conservative Democrat, has not announced whether he will seek another term. The state has had just three lieutenant governors in the past 60 years. John Cherberg, a
  
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• Donald Trump Has a Concealed Carry License, and He Wants Everyone Else to Have One Too

  18-09-2015 23:04 via thestranger.com
  
  If he gets what he wants, the Donald is going to become very familiar with this pose. Andrew Cline / Shutterstock.com
  Leading Republican candidate and former understudy for Biff from Back to the Future, Donald Trump, released his second policy paper today. This one's about, incidentally, the Second Amendment, and it, as you might expect, contains enough madness and absurdity to make pacific lefties reach for the revolver they don't have.In his introductory remarks, Trump, who claims to be the po
  
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• Republicans try to close Planned Parenthood clinics while federal government shutdown looms

  18-09-2015 22:40
  
  The U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., spent hours Friday debating and voting for a measure to block federal financing of Planned Parenthood, while a partial government shutdown looms twelve days away at month’s end. Back in this Washington, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray decried both the bid to deny women’s health services and the ideology driven Republicans who say they are willing to idle thousands of government workers over the matter. “This kind of Tea Party pander
  
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• Take the Seattle Public Library Survey About Their New Logo and "Brand Statement"

  18-09-2015 22:09 via thestranger.com
  
  No matter what they change your name to, you'll always be the Seattle Public Library to me. Max Herman / Shutterstock.com
  Oh, god, really, Seattle Public Library? You are so committeed up and you have so much extra dough sitting around* that you've hired a design agency "to develop a rebrand"? (Full press release at the end of this post.) Ugh, fine, okay, I'll take your survey. I love the library, I'm happy to help.
  Here, everyone, take the survey.
  The first question proposes changing the "brand
  
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• SL Letter of the Day: Gender-Neutral in a Dress

  18-09-2015 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Originally posted on October 30, 2013.
  I'm a youth who identifies as asexual. That isn't my question. I was born female, and I've been binding for a while and identify as gender-neutral. But I'm afraid to tell others that I'm gender-neutral for fear of being told I'm wrong because I wear dresses. Does wearing skirts and dresses mean I'm not gender-neutral? I just think I look better in dresses than flannel.
  Gender-Neutral Asexual Youth
  My response after the jump...Wear whatever you like, identif
  
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• State Sen. Cyrus Habib to run for lieutenant governor

  18-09-2015 21:14
  
  State Sen. Cyrus Habib announced Friday he is a candidate for lieutenant governor.
  
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• Drunk of the Week: Boxed Wine and Burlesque

  18-09-2015 21:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Franzia Sunset Blush [shudder]—have you tried it? Also, burlesque's not dead, and they even have a Mayor? Read more >>>Kelly O[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• 2015 AP Northwest Photo Contest winners

  18-09-2015 21:01
  
  The winners of the 2015 Associated Press Northwest photo contest, announced Thursday at the annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Association.
  
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• I Ate a Sunflower at Cafe Barjot, and It Was Remarkable

  18-09-2015 20:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Cafe Barjot is small, which is partially why chef Nick Coffey relies so heavily on fermenting, drying, and curing, and less on cooking. KELLY O
  Until recently, I had never eaten sunflowers before, let alone known that they were edible or tasty. But then I had a dish of braised sunflowers ($8) at Cafe Barjot. The centers of the young flowers were trimmed and quartered to resemble artichoke hearts, cooked until they were tender but still pleasantly firm, and imbued with a lemony flavor. Shaved sum
  
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• New Documentary Shows the Black Panthers Were the Original Gun Nuts

  18-09-2015 20:47 via thestranger.com
  
  These are the founding fathers of the Oath Keepers. Screenshot from "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" (PBS/YouTube
  There are two hastag movements that emerged from the Ferguson protests: #BlackLivesMatter and #BlackOpenCarry. The former is better known than the latter, which received some media attention when the anti-government militia Oath Keepers gave it support during the protests that marked the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown's death.Things got even weirder with #Black
  
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• Several blocks around Westin to close during Chinese president’s visit

  18-09-2015 20:42
  
  From Fourth to Seventh avenues and from Lenora Street to Olive Way will be closed the whole time, announced Scott Kubly, director of the Seattle Department of Transportation.
  
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• Several blocks around Westin Hotel to close during Chinese president’s visit

  18-09-2015 20:42
  
  Streets between Fourth and Seventh avenues, and Lenora Street to Olive Way, will be closed the whole time, announced Scott Kubly, director of the Seattle Department of Transportation.
  
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• Rubio's Campaign Manager Appears to Sucker-Punch Rand Paul's Political Director in This Video

  18-09-2015 20:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Via Yob, here's the video of the alleged punch pic.twitter.com/jsZIVqhstO
  — Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) September 18, 2015
  According to Rand Paul's campaign director, John Yob, what you're seeing in that video is the devastating power over Rich Beeson's right jab. But maybe jab is too strong a word? It sort of looks like Beeson just kind of pushes him in the face.This little bout recalls an old rhyming game I used to play as a child:Paul's manager and Rubio's manager were hanging up clothes
  
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• Shell says Alaska oil search generates $125M in wages here

  18-09-2015 20:15
  
  Shell Oil says its controversial Alaska oil exploration program will pump $172.7 million directly into the Puget Sound economy this year and next.
  
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• EPA says VW intentionally violates clean air standards

  18-09-2015 20:11
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that Volkswagen intentionally skirted clean air laws by using a piece of software that enabled about 500,000 of its diesel cars to emit fewer smog-causing pollutants during testing than in real-world driving conditions. The agency ordered VW to fix the cars at its own expense. The […]
  
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• 2 men killed in Kent crash identified

  18-09-2015 20:06
  The two men who died in a single-car crash in Kent on Wednesday have been identified.
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: When a Door Ding Is Answered With a Gun (and More)

  18-09-2015 20:05 via thestranger.com
  
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• WSU names med school in late president Elson Floyd’s honor

  18-09-2015 19:54
  
  Washington State University’s new medical school will be called the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine.
  
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• You Think You're Unlucky? Did You Hear About the Starving European Refugees Who Ate Poisonous Mushrooms?

  18-09-2015 19:35 via thestranger.com
  
  It looks edible, but it's not. They call it a "death cap." Amanita phalloides/Shutterstock
  Go here and look at the poster that's being distributed in hospitals in Germany right now. And read the reporting:
  Desperate migrants traveling for days with little to eat may have resorted to foraging for food as they made their way across Europe, where they hope to find asylum.
  Except what looks like an edible mushroom in one place may be a very dangerous other kind of mushroom in another place. Accordin
  
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• Death penalty will not be sought in Bremerton double homicide

  18-09-2015 19:27
  Prosecutors won't seek the death penalty against a man charged with murder in the deaths of his former girlfriend and a 2-year-old boy at an East Bremerton mobile home park.
  
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• Victim’s father: Poulsbo couple shot to death had a pact

  18-09-2015 18:37
  
  A married couple found dead in their Poulsbo mobile home died as a result of homicide and suicide with a firearm.
  
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• Photo found after flooding reveals final image of 7 hikers

  18-09-2015 18:21
  
  Utah's Zion National Park named the men and women, six from California and one from Nevada, who died when a flash flood rushed through a canyon earlier this week. Their identities were released after rescuers traversed a 100-foot drop into a rugged terrain to find the last victim's body.
  
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• Death toll from Utah-Arizona border flooding rises to 20

  18-09-2015 18:21
  
  Utah's Zion National Park named the men and women, six from California and one from Nevada, who died when a flash flood rushed through a canyon earlier this week. Their identities were released after rescuers traversed a 100-foot drop into a rugged terrain to find the last victim's body.
  
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• Soft cheese linked to listeria death in Ohio

  18-09-2015 18:10
  
  A California company has recalled several brands of soft cheeses after they were linked to 24 illnesses around the country and a death in Ohio.
  
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• Copper thieves pulling out wire for lights on State Route 16

  18-09-2015 17:59
  
  Copper thieves have hit a section on State Route 16 about 20 times in recent months, costing taxpayers about $170,000.
  
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• The Morning News: State Was Short on Helicopter Pilots During Wildfire Season, Rent Control Has a Bad Day in Seattle

  18-09-2015 17:57 via thestranger.com
  
  This year's Okanogan Complex fire became the largest wildfire in state history. Alex Garland
  Did a Shortage of Wildfire Attack Helicopters Hamper the State's Ability to Fight This Summer's Wildfires? "Just days before a series of deadly, record-setting wildfires began exploding across Washington," reports the Seattle Times, "the acting chief pilot for the state’s wildfire-attack helicopters wrote a letter to his superiors. Unfilled pilot positions were grounding some helicopters, John Adol
  
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• Murder-for-hire trial moved from Spokane to Richland

  18-09-2015 17:43
  
  A federal judge ordered the trial moved on Thursday because of extensive publicity about the murder-for-hire case in the Spokane area.
  
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• Ex-hunting show host fined in Montana over killing elk, deer

  18-09-2015 17:41
  
  A Washington state man who hosted a cable hunting show was fined more than $12,000 for illegally killing deer and elk in Montana.
  
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• Seattle using cellphones to track traffic flow

  18-09-2015 17:33
  
  Seattle’s traffic control center says engineers can then track the time it takes a device to get from one antenna to another and hopefully adjust signal timing to help traffic plow.
  
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• Trooper seriously injured after driver hits his patrol car

  18-09-2015 16:53
  
  A Washington State Patrol trooper was hospitalized with serious injuries after a dramatic crash.
  
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• As Seattle’s neighborhood czar, Kathy Nyland brings government closer to residents

  18-09-2015 16:00
  
  Ascension to the 17th floor of the Seattle Municipal Tower is the result of what Kathy Nyland calls “a crazy road map” starting with her arrival in Seattle in 1998.
  
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• Police arrest 20 suspected drug dealers on University Way

  18-09-2015 15:34
  
  Many of the alleged dealers had prior convictions for a variety of crimes including assault, auto theft, armed robbery and burglary. Eight of the suspects have been arrested more than 25 times, according to the release.
  
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• Dog stands guard for week protecting trapped friend

  18-09-2015 15:06
  
  A dog dutifully stood guard for a nearly a week on Vashon Island only leaving to try to alert humans that Phoebe had fallen in a cistern.
  
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• Blabbermouth: Our Week-in-Review Podcast Looks at How the Teachers Strike May End and Then Eats a Sunflower

  18-09-2015 15:05 via thestranger.com
  
  Episode 22 of our Stranger week-in-review podcast. (Now available on iTunes.)
  Remember that Seattle teachers strike we talked about last week? It seems to be nearing an end, with the 5,000 teachers who were walking the picket lines now back in public school classrooms and preparing to vote on a tentative agreement this Sunday. I check back in with teachers union vice president Phyllis Campano about the details of that tentative agreement. (Meanwhile, for the second week in a row a Seattle School
  
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• Fighting jet lag? No single ‘cure’ fits all

  18-09-2015 15:01
  
  Common-sense approaches don’t work for all travelers; personalized approach could help.
  
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• A gifted program gains better ethnic balance, and more of the week’s education news

  18-09-2015 14:03
  
  Equity audits try to uncover unintentional discrimination.Do we have good count of homeless students?And the next state teacher of the year will be announced Monday.
  
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• Police crack down on bus lane violators

  18-09-2015 07:25
  
  Police crackdown on bus lane violators
  
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• Tests: Driver in fatal Bellingham crash not drug-impaired

  18-09-2015 07:08
  
  Tests show no drugs found in system of driver whose car struck 4 students in Bellingham.
  
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• Bee stings, research that makes you go ‘huh?’ win Ig Nobels

  18-09-2015 06:03
  Real Nobel laureates hand out the prizes, and each winner receives a cash award: a Zimbabwean 10 trillion-dollar bill, the equivalent of a couple of U.S. dollars.
  
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• Local and federal officials unveil new tools for gaining citizenship

  18-09-2015 05:56
  Seattle city leaders hosted a naturalization ceremony Thursday to highlight a new effort to help immigrants on their path toward citizenship.
  
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• Pilot shortage idled some wildfire-fighting helicopters

  18-09-2015 05:32
  
  Days before record-setting wildfires exploded across Washington, the acting chief pilot for the state’s wildfire-attack helicopters wrote his superiors about the shortage of pilots.
  
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• Low pay was leading to pilot shortage for wildfire-fighting helicopters, said acting chief’s letter

  18-09-2015 05:32
  
  The acting chief pilot for the state’s wildfire-attack helicopters wrote to superiors about the shortage of pilots, possibly due to low pay, just days before record-setting wildfires exploded across Washington.
  
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• Advocating for local voting rights for noncitizens

  18-09-2015 04:27
  
  Voting rights in Seattle elections for noncitizens? Some immigration advocates say the time has come.
  
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• Seattle man charged with vehicular homicide in moped rider’s death

  18-09-2015 03:32
  A Seattle man has been charged with vehicular homicide in the death of a moped rider in South Seattle last week.
  
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• Shooting reported near Federal Way Thursday evening

  18-09-2015 02:41
  
  A spokesman for the King County sheriff's department said no other details were available.
  
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• Shooting near Federal Way, authorities are investigating

  18-09-2015 02:41
  
  A spokesman for the King County Sheriff's department was on his way to the area and said no other details were available.
  
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• Man shoots himself near Federal Way after deputies arrive to investigate reports of his behavior

  18-09-2015 02:41
  
  The King County Sheriff's Office said in a statement detectives plan to investigate the incident, the man's identity and why he was in the area.
  
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• Seattle City Council deadlocks on rent-control resolution

  18-09-2015 02:21
  
  A push to allow Seattle to consider rent control and other rent regulations seems to have stalled at the City Council after a vote Thursday.
  
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