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• Large crowds expected on Grays Harbor oil-terminal hearing

  07-10-2015 23:59
  
  ABERDEEN (AP) — State officials say large crowds are expected Thursday at a public hearing on two oil terminals proposed at the Port of Grays Harbor in Hoquiam. Two companies want to expand existing facilities to bring crude oil by train from the Bakken region of North Dakota and Montana. The oil would then be […]
  
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• Sawant cancels out at last minute on Seattle Rotary Club candidates’ debate

  07-10-2015 23:55
  
  Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant blew off a downtown Seattle Rotary debate on Wednesday, but was pointedly and critically referred to by Seattle City Council President Tim Burgess, who did show up, along with her challenger, Seattle Urban League CEO  Pamela Banks. “Unfortunately, Ms. Sawant informed us late yesterday that she could not participate due to urgent budget-related work,” said program chair Gary Smith. Bullhorn in hand, Sawant was very much present, alon
  
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• Eat This Now: Koong Ob Woon Sen at Capitol Hill's Soi

  07-10-2015 23:53 via thestranger.com
  
  Koong ob woon sen: Delicious prawns and glass noodles baked in a clay pot.Dollapoom Phantuvadee/Shutterstock
  A few months ago, while writing a review of Capitol Hill’s Nue, I interviewed owner (and avid traveler) Chris Cvetkovich about his vision for the restaurant. He told me Nue’s menu, a sort of global greatest-hits list in which street food from Korea, Vietnam, Jamaica, Latvia, and Syria exist side by side, was inspired by dishes he enjoyed traveling abroad that were frustratingl
  
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• Are You Following Hillary Clinton on Snapchat? Because You Should Be.

  07-10-2015 23:43 via thestranger.com
  
  This is the level of—if you'll excuse the phrase—adorbs that Clinton is dispensing on the daily.Hillary Clinton's SnapchatHillary Clinton recently copped to the fact that she's not the most exciting candidate. In her interview with Lena Dunham, Clinton said: "If you can't get excited, be pragmatic," which is the wettest wet blanket you could possibly throw on a group of young people who are having trouble getting excited about Hillary 4 Prez.However! Have you seen her Snapchat game?
  
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• The Reviews Are In, American Horror Story: Hotel Debuts Tonight!

  07-10-2015 23:40 via thestranger.com
  
  So I thought the first season of American Horror Story was brilliant—while the subsequent seasons were either ho-hum or unwatchable. But will the series turn itself around with its newest incarnation, American Horror Story: Hotel? Let's check the early and mostly positive reviews of Hotel (which co-stars Lady Gaga) and debuts tonight on FX at 10 pm!
  From Screen Crush:
  Without giving too much away, we’ll reveal that a jewel-encrusted drill-bit dildo makes an appearance in one of the
  
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• Obituary: Ruth Velozo, 86, a founder of NW Harvest

  07-10-2015 23:25
  
  She started the hunger-relief agency almost a half-century ago, and it has since grown to serve 2 million meals to the hungry across Washington monthly.
  
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• Oh, It's On: The Seattle Art Fair Just Announced the Dates of the 2016 Fair

  07-10-2015 23:19 via thestranger.com
  
  Opening night of Seattle Art Fair 2015 was July 30. That motorcycle, made out of Bounty paper towels and resin, is by the artist Will Ryman. Photo by Tori Dickson, Courtesy Seattle Art Fair
  Remember Seattle Art Fair? It feels like so long ago now that the art circus came to town this hot summer, but it's already time to start thinking about the next one. Vulcan Inc. and Art Market Productions have announced today the exact dates for Seattle Art Fair, second edition: August 4-7, 2016.
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• Teen suspected of setting cat on fire in Bremerton

  07-10-2015 23:12
  
  Bremerton police have arrested a 16-year-old boy in connection with a disturbing case of animal cruelty.
  
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• Two Bull Moose Filled with Testosterone Take Their Beef With Each Other Out in a Suburban Driveway

  07-10-2015 22:59 via thestranger.com
  
  This is the ideal setting for a bull moose fight to happen: the wild. Not someone's driveway. TheGreenMan/shutterstock.com
  In the age of the planet of the human ape (also known as the anthropocene), the line between us and the wild becomes less and less visible. What once happened outside, now happens inside. Back in the day, you would have to leave a city to see two male moose antler-clash during mating season, which is from mid-September to mid-October.
  Now it happens in your driveway. Watch.
  
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• The Complete Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Schedule

  07-10-2015 22:10 via thestranger.com
  
  The LGFF opens with Freeheld tomorrow night.
  Coming soon to theaters near you: the 20th anniversary Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.The complete schedule for the festival (which runs from Oct 8-18) is now on our Things To Do calendar: 64 screenings (including 11 shorts programs and seven "Thrive at $5" screenings), three special events, and two galas.The festival kicks off tomorrow with the star-studded feature Freeheld at the Egyptian, about which Charles Mudede says: "Based on a docume
  
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• Gates Foundation to keep pushing on teacher quality

  07-10-2015 21:28
  
  In Bill and Melinda Gates’ first major retrospective on education giving since 2009, they said they plan to continue their efforts to raise the quality of teaching.
  
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• Oregon college gunman killed himself after police shot him

  07-10-2015 21:20
  
  The gunman who fatally shot nine people at Umpqua Community College last week killed himself in front of his victims after two police officers wounded him.
  
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• Accused "Slumlord" Carl Haglund Promises to Improve Building Where Tenants Are Living with Roaches and Rats

  07-10-2015 21:10 via thestranger.com
  
  A Seattle landlord is increasing rents at a building where tenants say they're living with mold, rats, and roaches. He's also donating to city council candidates. Courtesy of Clay Showalter
  Last week, Seattle City Council members Nick Licata and Kshama Sawant stood with tenants and advocates in front of a Columbia City apartment building to draw attention to tenants who are living with roaches, mold, exposed wires, and broken heaters and still facing dramatic rent increases. At that press confer
  
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• Lights out: Copper wire thieves darken streets near Snohomish

  07-10-2015 21:08
  
  Authorities in Snohomish County say that thieves who made off with nearly $12,000 worth of copper wire darkened neighborhoods near Snohomish last month.
  
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• Wounded by Police, the Roseburg Shooter Retreated into a Classroom to Die

  07-10-2015 20:13 via thestranger.com
  
  A bad picture of Roseburg Police Chief Jim Burge, speaking with reporters this morningRoseburg Police detectives Sgt. Joe Kaney and Todd Spingath heard gunshots from the direction of Snyder Hall as soon as they emerged from their car on the morning of October 1. They were the nearest law enforcement officers to Umpqua Community College last week when frantic reports of an active shooter came in, and it didn't take them long to find gunman Chris Harper-Mercer.
  "As they’re getting out of the
  
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• ‘It’s not cute anymore’: Bunny brouhaha as Langley is overrun with rabbits

  07-10-2015 19:35
  
  Proliferating rabbits are causing controversy in Whidbey Island’s Langley — a problem Seattle previously became all too familiar with.
  
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• Transplanting ovarian tissue helps some women have babies

  07-10-2015 19:05
  
  LONDON (AP) — The biggest study ever of women who had ovarian tissue removed, frozen and transplanted suggests the experimental technique is safe and can help about one third of them to have babies. The procedure is intended for women with cancer who wish to preserve their fertility, since cancer treatments can harm the ovaries. […]
  
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• Ben Carson Prefers Dead Bodies to Gun Control

  07-10-2015 18:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Ben Carson: Come at me, bro. Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com
  I'm not opposed to dialogue. By all means, talk about difficult issues! But oh God, Ben Carson, please stop talking about the shooting in Oregon, or maybe just don't talk at all, because in a field crowded with lunatics, you've managed to outdo them all on this issue.
  For example, Ben just boasted that if there was a shooter near him, he'd rally everyone together and all attack the gunman en masse, because he is a Rambo. "I wou
  
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• Customer-friendly upgrades for gov’t health insurance site

  07-10-2015 18:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s health insurance website is getting long-awaited upgrades that should help consumers find out whether their doctors and medications are covered, and get a better estimate of costs. Detailed in an internal document, the customer-friendly changes to HealthCare.gov are still being tested. With the start of 2016 open enrollment season approaching, […]
  
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• Tantra teacher at clothing-optional retreat killed on trail

  07-10-2015 18:37
  
  FAIRFAX, Calif. (AP) — A tantra teacher who made DVDs on yoga for lovers and taught classes at a clothing-optional retreat was found shot to death on a hiking trail in Northern California, still holding onto the leash of his wounded dog, authorities said. Detectives are looking for three people of interest in the killing […]
  
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• Followers mourn tantra teacher killed on trail in California

  07-10-2015 18:37
  
  FAIRFAX, Calif. (AP) — Stunned students and supporters mourned a beloved teacher of tantra yoga on Wednesday after he was shot dead while walking his dog along a scenic California hiking trail. The body of Steve Carter, 67, was found Monday in Marin County, where he was living and caring for his cancer-stricken wife Lokita […]
  
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• Cartel enforcer admits 9 murders but won’t name associates

  07-10-2015 18:37
  
  VISALIA, Calif. (AP) — Once Jose Manuel Martinez acknowledged a vast killing spree that included nine people in California, officials set out to decide whether the self-described cartel enforcer actually carried out the horrific crimes. Details the 53-year-old Martinez provided confirmed his claims. He described with remarkable accuracy the victims’ clothes, body positions and the […]
  
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• Jury being picked in teen’s trial over math teacher’s death

  07-10-2015 18:35
  
  SALEM, Mass. (AP) — Jury selection has begun in the trial of a Massachusetts teenager accused of raping and killing his math teacher. Philip Chism was 14 when he was charged in the 2013 death of 24-year-old Colleen Ritzer, a teacher at Danvers High School. He is being tried as an adult. Jury selection began […]
  
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• Eastern Kentucky University cancels classes, cites threat

  07-10-2015 18:35
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Eastern Kentucky University says it has canceled classes for the rest of the week because of an escalating threat after the discovery of graffiti that threatened to “kill all” this week. The school said Wednesday that it increased police presence around the campus in Richmond, Kentucky. Officials say classes were canceled midmorning […]
  
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• As Bush campaigns, Florida struggles with his schools legacy

  07-10-2015 18:19
  
  In Florida, a troubled rollout of new standardized testing linked to the standards has created a large enough backlash that the GOP-controlled Florida Legislature agreed to spend nearly $600,000 to study whether the tests should continue.
  
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• Lawmakers question effectiveness of dietary guidelines

  07-10-2015 18:17
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers on Wednesday asked federal officials whether Americans should trust the government’s dietary guidelines, which inform everything from school lunches to advice from a doctor. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack defended the guidelines before the House Agriculture Committee, pointing out that the latest guidelines haven’t […]
  
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• Study: Mammals thrive in Chernobyl exclusion zone

  07-10-2015 18:11
  
  Elk, deer, wild boar and wolves are abundant in the zone around the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant nearly 30 years after the nuclear disaster, a new study says.
  
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• Israeli team advances in contest to send spacecraft to moon

  07-10-2015 18:07
  JERUSALEM (AP) — A team of Israeli engineers is the first to advance in an international competition sponsored by Google to send a privately-funded spacecraft to the moon, contest organizers announced Wednesday. The Israeli nonprofit group SpaceIL has signed a contract with American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX to launch an unmanned spacecraft into lunar orbit — […]
  
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• Morning News: Ethics Complaint Against Council Member Bruce Harrell, Charter Schools Still Getting State Funding

  07-10-2015 17:57 via thestranger.com
  
  “People don’t pay attention to some of the stuff Bruce Harrell has done," Bruce Harrell told Heidi about Bruce Harrell back in July. Kelly O
  What the Fuck, Bruce Harrell? "Bruce Harrell’s campaign may be in some hot water following allegations that they essentially bought the 37th District Dems endorsements for both him and Pamela Banks," reports Seattlish. "An SEEC complaint alleges that, before the deadline to become a voting member of the organization in time for endorsement
  
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• The World Will End Today

  07-10-2015 17:08 via thestranger.com
  
  So say these Christians...We should probably take this seriously because, you know, all previous prophecies concerning the end of the world turned out to be true. (Via Joe My God.) In other October 7 news: Happy birthday to Tim Minchin, Vladimir Putin, Sherman Alexie, Annie Wagner, and East Germany (RIP DDR).[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Giant GOP Asshole Assigns Blame to One of the Parents of the Oregon Shooter. Can You Guess Which?

  07-10-2015 16:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Meet the Oregon community college shooter's mom...
  Ms. Harper, who divorced her husband a decade ago, appears to have been by far the most significant figure in her son’s troubled life; neighbors say he rarely left their apartment. [Ms. Harper was] well aware of [her son's fascination with guns]. In fact, she shared it: In a series of online postings over a decade, Ms. Harper, a nurse, said she kept numerous firearms in her home and expressed pride in her knowledge about them, as well as i
  
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• Federal investigators hope to find sunken ship’s recorder

  07-10-2015 16:45
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Federal investigators looking into the ill-fated voyage of a 790-foot freighter believed to have sunk in the Atlantic during Hurricane Joaquin say they still hope to recover a data recorder from the ship as search crews continue looking for any survivors. The National Transportation Safety Board sent a team to Jacksonville […]
  
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• U.S. experts warn plutonium stockpiles could soar in East Asia

  07-10-2015 16:30
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Experts warn that Northeast Asia could see a dangerous growth in stocks of weapons-usable plutonium — and U.S. lawmakers say Obama administration policies could be making matters worse. Japan plans to open as early as next spring a plant that could reprocess enough spent reactor fuel to make as many as 1,000 […]
  
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• Round 2: Downstream South Carolina towns brace for flooding

  07-10-2015 16:00
  
  GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) — Along South Carolina’s coast, residents were preparing for a second round of flooding as rivers swollen from days of devastating rains make their way toward the Atlantic. And in the Columbia area, where some have started to return home to assess damage and clean up, the threat of more flooding still […]
  
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• Some of 6,000 prisoners to get early release had gun, robbery convictions

  07-10-2015 15:10
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Drug criminals once described by prosecutors as unrepentant repeat offenders are among those poised to benefit from new sentencing guidelines that are shrinking punishments for thousands of federal prisoners, according to an Associated Press review of court records. Many defendants cleared for early release starting this fall fit a more sympathetic profile: […]
  
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• Two suspects arrested in Lynnwood-area shooting death

  07-10-2015 15:06
  
  Two men were arrested Tuesday night in relation to the early-morning shooting death of a man in a Lynnwood-area parking lot, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said.
  
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• 2 men arrested in Lynnwood-area shooting death

  07-10-2015 15:06
  
  Two men were arrested Tuesday night in relation to the early-morning shooting death of a man in a Lynnwood-area parking lot, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said.
  
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• With high-tech, Seattle police will be tracking crime in real time

  07-10-2015 15:00
  
  Seattle police are set to launch a new crime center on Wednesday designed to spot patterns in real time.
  
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• With high tech, Seattle police to track crime in real time

  07-10-2015 15:00
  
  Seattle police are set to launch a new crime center on Wednesday designed to spot patterns in real time.
  
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• Scientists win Nobel for work on DNA repair

  07-10-2015 14:52
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists from Sweden, the U.S. and Turkey won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for showing how cells repair damaged DNA, work that’s inspired the development of new cancer treatments. Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and U.S.-Turkish national Aziz Sancar shared the 8 million Swedish kronor (about $960,000) […]
  
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• Scientists win Nobel chemistry award for work on DNA repair

  07-10-2015 14:52
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists from Sweden, the U.S. and Turkey won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for showing how cells repair damaged DNA, work that’s inspired the development of new cancer treatments. Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and U.S.-Turkish national Aziz Sancar shared the 8 million Swedish kronor (about $960,000) […]
  
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• A glance at the Nobel Prizes in 2015

  07-10-2015 14:50
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — The 2015 Nobel Prizes are being announced this week and next. The $960,000 awards will be handed out in Stockholm and Oslo on Dec. 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel’s death in 1896. Below is a look at the winners announced so far: ____ MEDICINE The prize went to three […]
  
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• Seattle schools have one of nation’s largest equity gaps, new study says

  07-10-2015 14:00
  
  Seattle ranked near the bottom of a 50-city study on several measures of equity examining who was more likely to attend the highest and lowest performing schools.
  
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• Victim boards Metro bus after stabbing in SODO district

  07-10-2015 07:54
  
  The victim was stabbed near a bus stop around 8 p.m., according to a Metro Transit spokesman.
  
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• In Washington, lives are saved when farm rules are enforced

  07-10-2015 07:27
  
  Washington state’s approach to workplace safety illustrates how death rates drop sharply when oversight covers every farm, no matter how small.
  
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• Study: Wildlife thriving near Chernobyl

  07-10-2015 07:15
  
  The findings, published in the journal Current Biology, hint that when it comes to threats to wildlife, a nuclear disaster may actually be less harmful than human encroachment.
  
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• Deputies say 12-year-old brought gun to school in Granite Falls

  07-10-2015 05:28
  
  Officers booked the middle-schooler on suspicion of possessing a firearm on school grounds.
  
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• We Saw You Smuggling a Dog, Heavy-Metal Dancing, and Stumbling Drunkenly Into the Night

  07-10-2015 05:20 via thestranger.com
  
  We Saw You Smuggling a Dog, Heavy-Metal Dancing, and Stumbling Drunkenly Into the Nightby Stranger StaffBALLARD CULTURE JAMMER GRAMMARYou are a green sign hung surreptitiously sometime between October 5 and 6 at the intersection of 11th Avenue Northwest and 45th Street, near one of many makeshift tent encampments frequented by people getting priced out of life. Presumably you aren't suggesting in your flawless municipal script that ALL homeless people are tweakers, right? Just the tweakers. As l
  
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• THEEDissatisfaction, or, Why MOHAI's The Legacy of Seattle Hip-Hop Exhibit Is a Failure

  07-10-2015 05:20 via thestranger.com
  
  MOHAI's The Legacy of Seattle Hip-Hop Exhibit Forgot the Most Important Part of the Story: Timeby Charles Mudede"We cannot not periodize," wrote the American culture critic Fredric Jameson. We cannot not agree with this assertion, which has guided my writing on local hiphop for the past decade. The 35 years of beat production, rapping, dancing, and art must be organized into clear blocks of time. Rappers like Geo from Blue Scholars are in the habit of playfully mocking the way I periodize post-S
  
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• The Walk Isn't Perfect, but It's Thrilling

  07-10-2015 05:20 via thestranger.com
  
  The Walk Isn't Perfect, but It's Thrillingby Kathy FennessyThe Walk is many things—a docudrama, a caper film, an action-adventure spectacular—but one thing it isn't is redundant. When a Hollywood filmmaker like Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Flight, the execrable Forrest Gump) revisits historical events, like French wire-walker Philippe Petit's stroll between the World Trade Center towers, that already appeared in a documentary (James Marsh's Oscar-winning Man on Wire), it's un
  
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