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• Man found stabbed at downtown Seattle bus stop

  10-10-2015 21:21
  
  Police are seeking information after a man was found stabbed at a downtown Seattle bus stop.
  
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• South Carolina floods leave a shared sense of memories lost

  10-10-2015 18:42
  
  Gills Creek flows past the Columbia Ballet School, and, a few miles downstream, a shop where people can pawn car titles to pay monthly bills. It fills lakes ringed with stately, white-columned homes worth nearly $1 million and snakes by a working-class apartment complex where locals say it's best to leave before dark.
  
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• Fighting fire with fire: State policy hampers use of controlled burns

  10-10-2015 17:00
  
  The U.S. Forest Service wants more controlled burns in Washington forests to make them resistant to summer wildfires. But rules administered by the state Department of Natural Resources have stymied efforts to step up the burns.
  
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• Woodland Park Zoo preps gorilla for newborn

  10-10-2015 07:43
  The zoo announced on Friday it is helping a 19-year-old western lowland gorilla, named Nadiri, get ready for her first-time birth.
  
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• Anna Pump, chef and author, dies at 81

  10-10-2015 06:55
  
  Loaves & Fishes is known for its breads, desserts, cheeses, salads and other prepared takeout foods — not to mention its well-heeled clientele and premium prices.
  
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• Total recall: Scotland Yard constable never forgets a face

  10-10-2015 05:34
  
  Gary Collins is a star on Scotland Yard’s Central Forensic Image Team, officers with "the gift" of keen facial recognition.
  
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• Seattle burns through money on fire-station construction

  10-10-2015 05:30
  
  Out of 33 fire station projects in Seattle in recent years, 32 came in over budget. That’s uncannily bad performance that doesn’t seem possible by error or bad luck alone.
  
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• Betty Tisdale, ‘Angel’ of Saigon orphan airlift, dies in Seattle

  10-10-2015 05:11
  
  Betty Tisdale became known as the “Angel of Saigon” after she helped airlift 219 orphans from Vietnam in the days before the fall of Saigon. She went on to support orphans and at-risk children around the world through her nonprofit, Helping and Loving Orphans.
  
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• Obama, in Seattle, mocks Republicans’ disarray in Congress

  10-10-2015 05:02
  
  President Obama played two roles in two Northwest states on a packed Friday afternoon. He served as comforter-in-chief to families of the Umpqua Community College students killed in Oregon, and as politician-in-chief at a packed, demonstrative Seattle fundraising dinner for four-term Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. The president took out at the disarray of House Republicans and depicted Murray’s role in Congress as an adult in the room. President Obama and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., at the Wes
  
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• Seattle teachers to be reassigned amid lower-than-expected enrollment

  10-10-2015 04:57
  
  Given that enrollment didn’t grow as much as expected, the district’s annual staff reshuffling is bigger than usual.
  
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• KIRO TV reporter Chris Legeros dies after battle with cancer

  10-10-2015 03:55
  
  The Minnesota native received numerous journalism awards, including 3 Emmys, the station reported.
  
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• KIRO TV anchor Chris Legeros dies after battle with cancer

  10-10-2015 03:55
  
  The Minnesota native received numerous journalism awards, including 3 Emmys, the station reported.
  
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• 5 victims of dam explosion at Harborview, 2 in critical condition

  10-10-2015 03:06
  Two workers from the Priest Rapids Dam explosion remained in critical condition Friday at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center.
  
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• Planned Parenthood Pullman Clinic Opening Temporary Health Center on Monday

  10-10-2015 02:39 via thestranger.com
  
  Remember that fundraiser we held for the Planned Parenthood clinic in Pullman that was the victim of a terrorist attack? Remember all that money you helped us raised? Well, the clinic is now opening a temporary health center on Monday. The news comes via email:
  On Monday, October 12 we will open our temporary health center at 745 N Grand Ave in Pullman, WA.Patients will again be able to access birth control, STD testing and treatment, cancer screenings, and annual exams from their health care pr
  
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• Bertha’s delays prompt state to sue tunnel contractor

  10-10-2015 02:31
  
  The Washington State Department of Transportation lawsuit alleges Seattle Tunnel Partnes “has failed to fulfill its obligations” under its $1.35 billion contract with the state.
  
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• Greatest Friday News Dump Ever: WSDOT Is Suing Seattle Tunnel Partners

  10-10-2015 02:15 via thestranger.com
  
  The litigation has arrived: The state is suing Seattle Tunnel Partners over Bertha. WSDOT
  There's very little information to go on at the moment—as we don't yet have a copy of the complaint*—but here's what we do know: The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is suing Seattle Tunnel Partners (STP), the state's contractor for Bertha's $2 billion tunnel.
  In what has to be one of the most stunning WSDOT Friday news dumps of all time, WSDOT posted this information to its
  
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• Ethics Commission Drops Complaint Alleging Bruce Harrell Bought an Endorsement

  10-10-2015 02:02 via thestranger.com
  
  The Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission has dropped a complaint alleging Bruce Harrell basically bought an endorsement from a legislative district Democratic group. Kelly O
  Today brings to a close one chapter in the bizarre clusterfuck involving Bruce Harrell, alleged vote buying, and comparisons to Bush v. Gore. The Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission has now (and rather quickly) dismissed a complaint involving the Harrell campaign and the 37th Legislative District Democrats, as first r
  
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• State sues Bertha contractor over cost overruns

  10-10-2015 01:54
  
  The state Department of Transportation filed a lawsuit Friday against the contractor hired to dig the Alaskan Way tunnel.
  
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• An affordable room with an ever-changing view

  10-10-2015 01:25
  
  The view from Sharon Hennessy’s living room at the Olive Tower has changed a lot since she moved there in 2003.
  
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• Real(ism) Talk: You Have Until Tomorrow to See These Two Very Good Shows at James Harris Gallery. Hurry.

  10-10-2015 01:14 via thestranger.com
  
  Tall Plant is bigger than a person. It's 6 and a half feet tall. It's by Eric Elliott, at James Harris Gallery. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND JAMES HARRIS GALLERY
  Last week I proposed a drinking game. You'd listen to the words Seattle Art Museum used to describe the impressionist paintings in the galleries, and you'd drink every time you heard an overused adjective. The repeat-offending adjectives turned out to be "intimate," "domestic," and "enchanting."
  My point was to emphasize that every exhibi
  
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• Franklin High School student charged with armed robbery

  10-10-2015 01:06
  
  A student at Seattle's Franklin High School has been charged with first-degree robbery.
  
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• Sen. Patty Murray gets a boost from Obama’s visit

  10-10-2015 01:03
  
  President Obama landed in Seattle on Friday afternoon for what was expected to be a brief political fundraising visit.
  
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• Bruce Harrell Wants to Proclaim "Italian Heritage Month" on Indigenous Peoples' Day

  10-10-2015 00:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Last year, Matt Remle (center) lobbied the city council for an Indigenous Peoples' Day celebration. This year, on Indigenous Peoples' Day, Bruce Harrell's office will circulate a draft proclamation declaring Italian Heritage Month. Courtesy of Matt Remle
  Well, that was a tense phone call with City Council member and District 2 candidate Bruce Harrell.At 10:50 this morning, Harrell's office notified his council colleagues that he would be introducing a proclamation celebrating Italian heritage&md
  
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• Bruce Harrell Wants to Proclaim "Italian-American Heritage" Month on Indigenous Peoples' Day

  10-10-2015 00:57 via thestranger.com
  
  Last year, Matt Remle (center) lobbied the city council for an Indigenous Peoples' Day celebration. This year, on Indigenous Peoples' Day, Bruce Harrell's office will circulate a draft proclamation declaring Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month. Courtesy of Matt Remle
  Well, that was a tense phone call with city council member and District 2 candidate Bruce Harrell.At 10:50 this morning, Harrell's office notified his council colleagues that he would be introducing a proclamation celebratin
  
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• The Stranger's Recommended Live Music This Weekend

  10-10-2015 00:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Gaze into the lunatic visage of Christeene.
  In addition to the great FREE shows listed over yonder, there is a plethora of other excellent live music to check out this weekend. Without further ado, let's hop in.
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  Fix My Dick
  Revel in the "intense shamelessness" of provocativephenomenon Christeene at Chop Suey.
  Daniel Corral & Noisepoetnobody
  Or, experience the "massive synthesized tides" of composer Daniel Corral's Diamond Pulses tonight at the Chapel.
  The New Mastersounds
  Perhaps, if y
  
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• Patient Protesters Shed Light on Medical Debt's Vicious Cycle

  10-10-2015 00:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Joelle Craft says she didn't know she qualified for charity care until after she filed for bankruptcy. SB
  Joelle Craft was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was 16. Now 37 and a mother of three, Craft has to get an MRI every year in order to get treated by a neurologist.MRI's run from $8,000 to more than $50,000, and Craft doesn't work (she's on disability, but she has health insurance through her husband's employer). The piling up of bills and the constant calls from debt collectors ad
  
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• Up Yours, GOP, There's Only Room for One Kevin McCarthy

  10-10-2015 00:03 via thestranger.com
  
  Despite having been dead for five years, Kevin McCarthy is still the best Kevin McCarthy
  Now that THIS chump has dropped out of the race to become Speaker of the House , how about a moment of appreciation for the great character actor whose name the politician has been disgracing for far too long?
  What better way to celebrate the real Kevin McCarthy (born right here in Seattle, BTW) than by watching his greatest film? [ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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