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• How your U.S. senators voted

  12-03-2016 23:40
  
  WASHINGTON — Here’s how Washington state’s U.S. senators voted on major issues in the week ending March 11. The House was in recess. Painkiller, heroin crisis By a vote of 94-1, the Senate on March 10 passed a bill (S 524) to authorize $570 million over five years in grants to help communities confront an […]
  
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• Alaska scientists continue researching seabird death mystery

  12-03-2016 22:29
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The common murre on Sarah Schoen’s examination table lived a short, hungry life. Measurements of its beak and leg indicated it hatched in June. Its stomach and breast showed how it died. The 3-inch-long stomach was empty, and the pectoral muscles that powered its wings, allowing it to “fly” underwater after […]
  
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• Watch: Renton street race ends in fiery crash

  12-03-2016 22:10
  
  Three people were hurt in Renton street racing crash early Saturday, according to the King County Sheriff’s Office.
  
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• 5K run designed to de-stigmatize legal pot cancelled

  12-03-2016 21:08
  
  The man who runs Evergreen Speedway in Monroe, where the race was to be held, worried the event could turn into a drug fest.
  
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• Federal trial starts Monday for Washington Auditor Troy Kelley

  12-03-2016 20:39
  
  Troy Kelley, the first Washington state official to be indicted in 35 years, is charged with possession of stolen property, money laundering, lying under oath and tax offenses in connection with the real-estate services firm he ran during last decade’s housing bubble.
  
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• Group Health approves acquisition by Kaiser

  12-03-2016 18:30
  
  Voting members of Seattle’s Group Health Cooperative agreed Saturday to join with California-based Kaiser Permanente, an agreement that allows a review of the $1.8 billion deal to go forward.
  
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• UW Station basics: how much you pay, how long it takes

  12-03-2016 17:00
  
  A primer on using the new UW Station: fares, schedule, transportation links and more.
  
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• Is your bus route changing? Metro moves lines to feed UW Station light rail

  12-03-2016 17:00
  
  With the opening of the Link light-rail extension to the University of Washington, many bus routes will be changed, in part, to shuttle riders back and forth to the station.
  
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• Check out UW’s new light-rail station — and how it could transform Seattle

  12-03-2016 17:00
  
  Sound Transit’s 3-mile tunnel to the University of Washington, which took 20 years to deliver, creates new travel options for thousands of people from Wedgwood to Tukwila. The new light-rail extension is also likely to influence where people choose to live and work.
  
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• Police: 6 backcountry skiers dead in Italian Alps avalanche

  12-03-2016 15:13
  
  MILAN (AP) — An avalanche struck high in the Italian Alps on Saturday, killing six backcountry skiers as others looked on in horror as a swath of snow hundreds of meters wide cascaded down. Helicopters ferried both the survivors and the bodies back to the valley floor from the avalanche site, located just hundreds of […]
  
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• Fur to fly at dog show in Seattle on March 12-13

  12-03-2016 08:21
  
  Seattle Kennel Club Dog Show brings out the canine fans on Saturday and Sunday, March 12-13, 2016, at CenturyLink Field Event Center, Seattle.
  
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• Authorities say a home was intentionally set on fire in Tukwila Friday

  12-03-2016 08:09
  
  Firefighters arrived at the two-story home around 4:45 p.m. to find the residence full of smoke and flames coming from the windows, fire authorities said. One man and two police officers were evaluated at hospitals for injuries from inhaling smoke.
  
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• UW research on animals gets new federal scrutiny

  12-03-2016 07:32
  
  The U.S. Department of Agriculture is again investigating animal research at the University of Washington, but officials there say the procedure in question is no longer being used.
  
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• City officials evict residents from Seattle homeless encampment

  12-03-2016 07:31
  
  The eviction came after clashes over leadership of the site, which is on private property and was formerly hosted by a church.
  
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• Greenwood will recover, Inslee confidently tells firefighters

  12-03-2016 06:43
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee said he’s confident that businesses destroyed in the natural-gas explosion on Wednesday will be back.
  
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• Sandy Hook truther gets ultimatum

  12-03-2016 06:40
  
  Assistant State’s Attorney Craig Nowak has offered Mills, who was charged with interfering with police and breach of peace after he crashed a charity run named for Victoria Soto, a one-year suspended sentence with two years’ probation.Victoria Soto, of Stratford, has been hailed as a hero after police said she was killed while protecting her first-grade students from gunman Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012.Jillian Soto became very upset at Mills’ acti
  
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• Another loss for Greenwood: its food bank

  12-03-2016 06:22
  
  Another hole is opening in the Greenwood neighborhood, besides the one blasted into the business district by a natural-gas explosion. This one may be harder to fill.
  
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• Bill requiring community truancy boards across state is OK’d

  12-03-2016 05:26
  
  The Legislature has passed a bill requiring Washington school districts and juvenile courts to establish community truancy boards as a way to keep students in school and out of court.
  
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• Noted media commentator Ben Bagdikian dies at 96

  12-03-2016 05:03
  
  BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Ben H. Bagdikian, a renowned journalist, newspaper executive, media critic and professor who helped publish the Pentagon Papers and for decades was a passionate voice for journalistic integrity, has died. He was 96. Bagdikian died Friday morning at his home in Berkeley, said his wife, Marlene Griffith Bagdikian. Bagdikian was born […]
  
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• Amazon’s intricate spheres take shape

  12-03-2016 04:51
  
  It’s the shape of the future as the Amazon “biospheres” come together on Lenora Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues in Seattle. The Spheres are the centerpiece for the online giant’s new urban campus set to open in 2017.
  
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• Immigrants introduced to U.S. laws at Spokane workshop

  12-03-2016 04:11
  
  The workshop, sponsored by Refugee Connections Spokane, Community Colleges of Spokane and Gonzaga Law School, aims to educate immigrants and refugees about their legal rights and resources.
  
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• Luna Gale Presents Meth Heads, Crazy Christians, a Social Worker, and a Baby All Caught Up in the Foster Care System

  12-03-2016 03:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithThis is the face you make when you've been a social worker with an overwhelming case load for three decades and your client will just not stop for ONE SECOND and listen. Alan Alabastro
  Social work is probably the most valuable but least valued occupation in the country. The only other profession that could lay equal claim to that unfortunate designation is public school teaching. Social workers care for those people who have no one else to care for them, those who have slipped throu
  
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• Chicago Trump Rally Shut Down by Hero Protesters

  12-03-2016 02:39 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzDonald Trump just cancelled his rally in Chicago due to "security concerns." CNN reports:
  Donald Trump's campaign rally in Chicago on Friday was postponed for safety reasons.
  The announcement, which came amid large protests both inside and outside the event at The University of Illinois, comes amid heightened concerns about violence at the GOP front-runner's rallies and four days before Illinois holds its Republican primary.
  Hundreds of demonstrators packed into an arena, breaking o
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: My Coworker Is Vetting Sugar Daddies!

  12-03-2016 02:02 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageMy question is more of a workplace ethics question but I really didn't know who else to ask. I work in a high end spa and I had noticed some strange, flirty behavior between my coworker and older men who were coming in for fitness memberships at our spa. I put it aside because it's none of my business. But recently, after a couple drinks at a work-related event, this coworker told me she invites men she meets through seekingarrangement.com to come in, take a tour, and sign up for me
  
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• Jazz great Ernestine Anderson dies

  12-03-2016 01:52
  
  The jazz singer, once described by Quincy Jones as having the sound of “honey at dusk,” died Thursday, March 10 in the Seattle area. She was 87.
  
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• Charges: Strip club bosses, tied to cop’s suspension, pimped dancers

  12-03-2016 01:45
  
  One day after a Seattle police officer was reportedly pulled from duty for his conduct at a local strip club, King County prosecutors filed pimping charges against the club's manager and owner.
  
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• TECTONIC, the Debut Show at Sharon Arnold's New Georgetown Space, Bridge Productions, is Now Open

  12-03-2016 01:18 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sarra ScherbA view from the Bridge (apologies to Arthur Miller)
  Sharon Arnold has a problem: too much art, too little space.
  We're standing in what will soon be Bridge Productions—a white-walled, black-floored room in a former Georgetown flophouse—surrounded by works for the inaugural exhibit, TECTONIC (featuring Julie Alpert, Tim Cross, Sue Danielson, Emily Gherard, C. Davida Ingram, Dave Kennedy, Kat Larson, Ashleigh Robb, and Krista Svalbonas). At our feet are two prints by Ken
  
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• Haggen laying off 145 staffers in Puyallup, Port Angeles

  12-03-2016 01:15
  
  Haggen is laying off dozens of staffers at stores in Puyallup and Port Angeles. Unlike previous layoffs, these are taking place in stores that are part of the company’s core Pacific Northwest stronghold.
  
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• Searchers working to rescue climber on Mount Hood

  12-03-2016 00:59
  
  The climber is stranded on Mount Hood in whiteout conditions
  
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• Last-Minute Plans: Cheap & Easy Things To Do This Weekend

  12-03-2016 00:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffKelly O took this photo at the St. Patrick's Day Parade in 2010. It's happening again on Saturday. Kelly O
  It's almost the weekend—do you have plans yet? If not, you still have lots of great options that won't cost you more than $10, including St. Patrick's Day festivities like a Bootie mashup party, a bar crawl on Capitol Hill, or the Seattle St. Patrick's Day Parade. See all of your options below, or check out our complete Things To Do calendar for even more
  
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• Razor clam digs approved for Copalis and Mocrocks; Long Beach open until Monday

  12-03-2016 00:26
  
  Coastal razor clam diggers can proceed with a three-day dig at Mocrocks and Copalis staring March 18. Digging at both beaches will be open March 18-20 during evening low tides only. These digs will coincide with the Ocean Shores Razor Clam Festival and Seafood Extravaganza. Details: www.oceanshores.org/clams/. Meanwhile on the southern coast, Long Beach is […]
  
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• 10 Cloverfield Lane Skillfully Asks, “What Are You Afraid Of?”

  12-03-2016 00:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jacob Lichty
  It starts conventionally: with a crash. Our heroine, Michelle, is driven off the road by a truck and careens into a nearby ditch. She twists and turns and flips – then, for the next two hours, 10 Cloverfield Lane takes us through its own wild ride.
  Essentially, what Dan Trachtenberg (a new face to the directing scene) has done is presented a compelling genre movie in a blender. Thriller and sci-fi. Sci-fi and mystery. Mystery and horror. They combine and intertwine and coex
  
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• Is St. Patrick’s Day beer supply imperiled by contract talks?

  12-03-2016 00:04
  
  Teamsters Local 174 says it’s at a standstill in contract talks with one of the state’s big beer and wine distributors, just ahead of a major beer-consuming holiday.
  
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