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• Parents sue WIAA for alleged religious discrimination over Saturday state volleyball matches

  16-10-2015 23:54
  
  A group of parents on Thursday sued the governing body that oversees high-school sports in Washington because of state volleyball tournament games scheduled on Saturday.
  
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• Woman attacked in Seward Park

  16-10-2015 23:50
  
  A woman told police she was attacked and pinned to the ground while jogging at Seward Park.
  
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• Interior Department curbs future Arctic offshore drilling

  16-10-2015 23:47
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Interior Department announced Friday it is canceling future lease sales and will not extended current leases in Arctic waters off Alaska’s northern coast, a decision that significantly reduces the chances for future Arctic offshore drilling. The news follows a Sept. 28 announcement by Royal Dutch Shell that it would cease […]
  
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• Interior Department curbing future Arctic offshore drilling

  16-10-2015 23:47
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Interior Department announced Friday it is cancelling future lease sales and will not extended current leases in Arctic waters off Alaska’s northern coast, a decision that significantly reduces the chances for future Arctic offshore drilling. The news follows a Sept. 28 announcement by Royal Dutch Shell that it would cease […]
  
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• Treasure trove of late Triassic fossils discovered in Utah

  16-10-2015 23:24
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Paleontologists have discovered a cliff-side in Utah brimming with fossils that offers a rare glimpse of desert life in western North America early in the age of dinosaurs. Among the discoveries in what used to be a lake shoreline between giant sand dunes is a new pterosaur (TEH’-ruh-sawr) that would […]
  
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• I, Anonymous: Crash Shock

  16-10-2015 23:09 via thestranger.com
  
  STEVEN WEISSMAN
  An apology to the professional photographer who was working at the scene of the Ride the Ducks boat/bus accident on the Aurora Bridge: It was eight hours after the accident, and you looked like you had been there for a while already…
  
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• Going with the flow, ranking Top 5 Lincoln Chafee excuses

  16-10-2015 22:35
  
  From Port Ludlow to presidential debate, talk about a week of accidental discharges.
  
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• Vote for Scott S. Pinkham for Seattle School Board Position No. 1

  16-10-2015 22:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Scott S. Pinkham Courtesy Scott S. PinkhamSchool board elections are a joke—we want to say that up front. School board elections are a fucking joke. Just putting it out there, and now that we've got that off our chest...
  Michael Christophersen comes off as an unsettled rage monkey. We're tempted to endorse the guy for the sheer entertainment value. The school board is already a shit show—why not make it a little shit-showier? But that wouldn't be fair to all the kiddies. We asked Chr
  
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• 3rd DUI could land ATV driver in prison again

  16-10-2015 22:25
  
  A 30-year-old Ravensdale man, who allegedly “cannot or will not refrain from driving impaired,” was charged with his third alcohol-related felony this week. He served prison time for killing his passenger in a 2007 crash.
  
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• Republican Rep. Dave Reichert, after many hints, won’t run for governor

  16-10-2015 22:15
  
  U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., has spent the last five years giving out regular hints that he might run for governor and that Republican governors were begging on bended knee that he make the race. After showing much leg, however, Reichert isn’t running. Reichert ended the self-generated speculation on Friday, announcing that he will not seek the state’s highest office but remain in Congress. Dave Reichert:  I’m not running for Governor. Reichert was given a quasi-
  
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• I Wish I'd Been High for Waterfall at 5th Avenue Theatre—The Set Is Bonkers Pretty

  16-10-2015 22:10 via thestranger.com
  
  You can't tell from this picture but there's actual water running down those rocks. Other sets in Waterfall are ephemeral, silken dream-rivers. Tracy MartinWaterfall is set in 1930s Siam, which will become Thailand over the course of the musical. The Gilda-like gorgeous American, Katherine (Laura Griffith—in that photo there), is married to an older Siamese diplomat, Chao Khun (Thom Sesma—not in that photo). The diplomat can't love her like she needs to be loved because he's old and
  
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• Why Is Everyone from Erykah Badu to Sam Smith Covering Drake's "Hotline Bling"?

  16-10-2015 22:07 via thestranger.com
  
  U CAINT USE ERYKAH BADU'S PHONE
  Earlier this summer, in the midst of making short work of Meek Mill, the boy Drake dropped "Hotline Bling," perhaps in a bid to appeal to his base while getting his hands metaphorically dirty for a sec. At first, I admit, I didn't think much of the song—which has since become his second-highest charting single ever—but it quickly burrowed into my brain, sort of like the Ceti eel larva that Khan stuck in Chekov's ear in the second Star Trek movie. Anywa
  
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• Gang member known as 'Big Evil' charged in 'unprovoked, senseless' Rainier Valley murder

  16-10-2015 21:41
  
  A 34-year-old gang member with the moniker "Evil" charged with the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man in the Brighton neighborhood.
  
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• Vladimir Putin's Media War Hits the Streets of Seattle

  16-10-2015 21:38 via thestranger.com
  
  Russia's RT is pushing Putin's agenda on the streets of Seattle. These posters were seen on Capitol Hill. Charles Mudede
  RT (formerly Russia Today) is a state-funded news network established by Vladimir Putin in 2005, and is based in Moscow with 21 bureaus in 16 countries. According to Time, it is the fourth most watched 24-hour news channel in the UK and has considerably more YouTube subscribers than CNN and ABC News. RT claims to have a much more realistic view of the world than Western news s
  
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• Seattle South Asian Film Festival Has a Must-See Documentary

  16-10-2015 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  A lesson in terror... Seattle South Asian Film Festival
  One of the many interesting films you will find in this year’s Seattle South Asian Film Festival is Hemal Trivedi’s and Mohammed Ali Naqvi’s superb documentary Among the Believers, which is about a struggle between secular Pakistan and extremist Pakistan for the hearts and souls of the young. The filmmakers get very close to the cleric Abdul Aziz Ghazi, head of the organization Red Mosque, which wants to establish a societ
  
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• Dave Reichert decides: He won’t run against Jay Inslee for governor

  16-10-2015 21:29
  
  Congressman Dave Reichert will not run for governor in 2016, leaving Seattle Port Commissioner Bill Bryant as the leading Republican challenger to Gov. Jay Inslee.
  
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• Sen. Patty Murray has $4.7 million in bank for 2016 campaign

  16-10-2015 21:26
  
  Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., self described as a “mom in tennis shoes,” ran and won her first U.S. Senate campaign in 1992 on a bare-bones $1.2 million budget, dispatching a former congressman in the primary and GOP Rep. Rod Chandler in the general election. The cost of campaigning is going up, and up, and up. Sen. Patty Murray: $4.7 million in the bank, not counting the take from last week’s dinner with President Obama. The Murray campaign just announced that it raised $1.4 mil
  
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• 12 reasons why living in Washington is better than living in Oregon

  16-10-2015 21:08
  
  In honor of Saturday's big Oregon-Washington rivalry football games, here's some good-spirited competition. Washington is the better state, after all.
  
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• Dennis Eichhorn, Rocket writer, author of ‘Real Stuff,’ dies at 70

  16-10-2015 20:56
  
  Dennis Eichhorn was best known for his autobiographical comic book series “Real Stuff,” published by Fantagraphics. He also worked for alternative music newspaper The Rocket and got a shout-out from Hunter S. Thompson.
  
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• The Foodways Project Calls Attention to the Lack of Media Coverage of Restaurants Owned by People of Color

  16-10-2015 20:54 via thestranger.com
  
  Lisa Mei Yook Woo wants to intentionally focus on communities of color­—something she feels is lacking in mainstream food coverage. KELLY O
  Anyone who follows Seattle food coverage is well aware of the many dining maps published by sites such as Eater Seattle, a food news site that's part of a national media group that runs similar websites in 24 cities across the United States. The guides include the Eater Heatmap, a collection of 12 of the "buzziest" new restaurants in Seattle; Eater
  
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• Punk Reunions, Slacker Rock and More: The Best Live Music in Town This Weekend

  16-10-2015 20:27 via thestranger.com
  
  Death will never die.
  Our strangely unsettling Indian summer continues unabated, so get out there and enjoy some excellent live music this weekend before the rain stars dumping. As any number of solemn Brits will tell you: "Winter is coming."TODAY
  Death
  The rediscovery of Detroit proto-punks Death via documentary A Band Called Death has led to a reunion tour and a new album: this show's a must see for punx of all ages (as long as you're over 21).
  Bully
  Nashville's Bully are in town with their sw
  
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• Student driver rams 9-1-1 Driving School in Bellevue

  16-10-2015 20:19
  A driver hit the gas instead of the brake, sending her car into the driving school where she was scheduled for a lesson.
  
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• Senate race: Chris Vance raises $18K; Patty Murray has $4.7M

  16-10-2015 19:45
  
  Republican Chris Vance has a steep fundraising hill to climb in his race with U.S. Sen. Patty Murray. Vance raised $18,000 during the first 22 days of his campaign. Murray reports $4.7 million in her re-election account.
  
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• Renton police seize more than $2M in pot from illegal grow op

  16-10-2015 19:45
  
  Renton police raided eight homes Thursday after a two-month investigation into a prolific marijuana grow operation.
  
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• Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman to be released from jail Friday

  16-10-2015 19:32
  
  Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman, who was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of vehicular assault and hit and run, will be released from the King County Jail on Friday without charges filed, a spokesman for the King County Prosecutor’s Office said.
  
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• Better Ways to Spend $2 Million If Your Goal Is to Make the Library More Accessible

  16-10-2015 19:31 via thestranger.com
  
  According to internal documents, it would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to remove the "The" and the "y" and replace the "y" with "ies" on every building. Kelly O
  Rich's piece about the rebranding effort at Seattle Public Library is a must-read. He dug up some internal correspondence between library insiders, some of whom have extensive corporate brand expertise and do not believe rebranding the library is a good idea.
  At the end of the piece, Rich offers some ideas to city librarian Marc
  
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• Surprise! Fox News Uses Fake "Terrorist Analyst"

  16-10-2015 19:25 via thestranger.com
  
  Courtesy CNN
  Regular watchers of Fox News—which, okay, probably isn't you—will recognize long-time "terrorist analyst" and former self-proclaimed CIA special ops agent Wayne Simmons who has been appearing on such Fox shows as Fox and Friends and Your World with Neil Cavuto since 2002. ONLY HERE'S THE THING: He's apparently not a former CIA agent at all, and has been arrested for FAKING HIS ENTIRE CAREER. From CNN:
  Simmons is accused of falsely claiming that he worked as an ‘out
  
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• A Handful of Top Democratic Officials Are Squabbling Like Babies

  16-10-2015 19:02 via thestranger.com
  
  Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Not taking any of your shit. OFFICIAL PORTRAIT/STATE OF FLORIDA
  You might've had some warm feelings toward the Democratic party after their relatively competent showing at the debate this week. Well, prepare to watch them squander that public goodwill on a stupid fight that's totally embarrassing. Rather than behaving like calm, rational adults, a handful of Democratic Party leaders have been squabbling publicly, making angry accusations, engaging in petty revenge, and
  
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• JanSport co-founder Yowell packed a lot into adventurous life

  16-10-2015 18:48
  
  Skip Murray Yowell, the counter-culture adventurer who helped beget the now-ubiquitous JanSport brand in a north Seattle workshop, died Wednesday after a long illness.
  
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• Man convicted in wife’s death says she permitted affairs

  16-10-2015 18:45
  
  DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit-area man convicted of having his wife killed so he could devote himself to a life of bondage and domination with another woman testified Thursday in his quest for a new trial that his wife gave him permission to have extramarital affairs. Bob Bashara testified in Wayne County Circuit Court as […]
  
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• Thieves break through walls in ‘Ocean’s 11′-style heist

  16-10-2015 18:25
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say someone broke through the walls of two downtown Philadelphia businesses and escaped with about $250,000 in cash and merchandise from a jewelry store. Time & Gold owner Matena Kamara tells Philly.com (http://bit.ly/1NLolEP ) the burglar or burglars first gained access to the basement of a storefront two doors down before […]
  
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• Cops: Woman staged videos to cover up daughter’s injuries

  16-10-2015 18:18
  
  EAST HAMPTON, Conn. (AP) — A 24-year-old Connecticut woman has been arrested after police say she seriously hurt her 5-year-old daughter and tried to cover it up by staging videos of the girl appearing to hurt herself. Felicia O’Brien, of East Hampton, was charged Wednesday with intentional cruelty to persons and risk of injury to […]
  
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• FBI to join probe of Cleveland trucker called serial killer

  16-10-2015 18:16
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — The FBI said Friday it has joined an investigation by police and county prosecutors to determine if there are unsolved slayings that might be attributed to a Cleveland trucker driver now linked to five slayings over the last 18 years. Robert Rembert Jr., 45, pleaded not guilty and was ordered held on […]
  
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• Police: Officer shoots robber who hit store 3 days in a row

  16-10-2015 18:12
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a SWAT team officer fatally shot a man who robbed the same convenience store three days in a row in Ohio’s capital city. Columbus police say the officer, who hasn’t been identified, shot 25-year-old Kaleb Alexander around 12:15 a.m. Thursday outside the United Dairy Farmers store in Columbus. Sgt. […]
  
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• The Morning News: Women May Win a Majority on the City Council and Squatters Return to the Old Seattle Times Building

  16-10-2015 17:58 via thestranger.com
  
  At least three of these candidates will make it to the council—probably more. Sally Bagshaw and Kshama Sawant photos by Kelly O; Deborah Zech Artis photo from Seattle Channel; all others courtesy of campaigns
  Those Are All the Women Running for City Council This Year: In the top row: Tammy Morales, Sally Bagshaw, Lorena González, Debora Juarez, and Deborah Zech Artis; in the bottom row: Lisa Herbold, Shannon Braddock, Pamela Banks, Kshama Sawant, and Catherine Weatbrook. At least th
  
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• How America’s ‘heroin city’ is turning itself around

  16-10-2015 17:55
  
  RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — Rutland is fed up with heroin. Take Tom VanEps. He and his neighbors used to just watch, disgusted, as dealers worked Baxter Street, their buyers sometimes littering the ground with used syringes. Now, he said, they confront the dealers and the junkies. “We’ll make them throw their crap right down that […]
  
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• Southern California storm causes flash flooding

  16-10-2015 17:43
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Flash flooding sent water, mud and rocks rushing across Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles Thursday, stranding hundreds of vehicles and closing the major north-south thoroughfare. The flooding at Fort Tejon, about 75 miles north of downtown Los Angeles, was part of a storm system that brought downpours across a wide […]
  
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• Renton pot bust: 3,000 marijuana plants, $440,000 seized

  16-10-2015 17:38
  
  Local police and federal law enforcement raided several homes in South Seattle and Renton Thursday in connection with a large-scale marijuana growing operation.
  
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• Southern California stretch of I-5 blocked in flash flooding

  16-10-2015 17:33
  
  Emergency crews shoveled mud from a section of Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles after flash flood debris blocked the important highway, stranded hundreds of vehicles, and forced some motorists to take refuge on top of their cars.
  
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• 7 cars on BNSF freight train derail in Tacoma

  16-10-2015 16:54
  The train was on its way from Pasco to Seattle on Thursday when seven empty flat cars came off the tracks.
  
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• 6 charged in teen’s church-beating death to appear in court

  16-10-2015 16:30
  
  NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. (AP) — A mother charged with killing her teenage son in a church felt helpless to stop an “intervention” that spiraled into a severe beating, her lawyer says. An attorney for the son’s father says what happened stemmed from a family matter unrelated to the church and the parents didn’t intend their […]
  
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