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• Some Thoughts on the Stupidity of Blacks, the Laziness of Greeks, the Docility of the Irish, and So On

  20-04-2016 23:41 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeDon Cheadle as Miles Davis in Miles Ahead Sony Pictures Classics
  This is how I began thinking about Miles Ahead, a new film that stars Don Cheadle and portrays the brilliant black American intellectual Miles Davis as a mere thug with a trumpet. (Jazz musicians are, like all classically trained musicians, intellectuals.)
  When the Greek economy collapsed in 2010, German and French newspaper were in the habit of describing the country's citizens as lazy and lacking the kind of ster
  
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• You're Wrong About That: 4/20 Edition

  20-04-2016 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Francine Colman-Gutierrez
  Hi. I'm Francine Colman-Gutierrez. You say you like pot? Here are some things you are wrong about:
  "My clothes and hair don't smell that bad": You're wrong about that, they smell infinitely worse.
  Sativa versus indica: There's absolutely no fucking difference, and you're wrong to think so.
  The munchies: Umm-hmm, like you don't ALWAYS want snacks.
  "Pot shops are happy to answer my questions": Nobody likes answering your questions.
  "Weed makes me too paranoid": Wrong.
  
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• Cameras around Lake Tahoe change fight against wildfires

  20-04-2016 23:03
  
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — A growing network of cameras trained on the mountains around Lake Tahoe is changing the way crews fight Western wildfires by allowing early detection that triggers quicker, cheaper, more tactical suppression than traditional war-like operations, experts said Wednesday. The high-definition cameras can be operated remotely to pan, tilt and zoom in […]
  
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• Mayor Signs On to Kshama Sawant's "Carl Haglund Law" Banning Rent Increases at Substandard Apartment Buildings

  20-04-2016 22:53 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverLast year, Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant protested with tenants of a building in south Seattle who said their landlord was raising their rents even as their building was filled with rats and roaches and their apartments had no heat. City of Seattle
  Last year, after tenants in a rundown, roach and rat-infested south Seattle apartment building protested their landlord, city council members Kshama Sawant and Nick Licata promised to stop landlords at buildings in such poo
  
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• Top 10 Earth Day Events in Seattle

  20-04-2016 22:44 via thestranger.com
  
  Ways to Celebrate Without Getting Dirty, Plus Our Complete Earth Day Calendarby Stranger Things To Do StaffThis Friday, April 22, is Earth Day, and we've rounded up all of the ways to celebrate on our Earth Day calendar. There are over 30 events on our calendar for this week and through the rest of the month, many of which are ways to help clean up and appreciate the earth, like restoring the Washington Park Arboretum and National Park Week. But, if going outside and getting dirty isn't in the c
  
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• Democratic state budget leader resigns, keeps Snohomish County Council job

  20-04-2016 22:43
  
  Rep. Hans Dunshee, D-Snohomish, submitted his resignation to Gov. Jay Inslee.
  
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• Person of Interest: Cucci Binaca, Drag Queen, Hostess, Performance Artist

  20-04-2016 22:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Kelly OCucci Binaca, photographed in the produce section of the Broadway Quality Food Center on Capitol Hill. KELLY O
  Cucci Binaca is one of Seattle's newest and most fearless hostesses-with-the-mostesses. Never ever one to stick to the antiquated drag convention of lazily lip-synching to old Cher/Madonna/Gloria Gaynor songs in a bad wig, Cucci is more likely to strip down to a nearly naked boy-body to enact the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Warrior" while covered in violently-colored paint…
  
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• Bernie Sanders Campaign Discovers They Actually Like Superdelegates After All

  20-04-2016 22:04 via thestranger.com
  
  by Matt BaumeIt's the dignity of the political process that I find most inspiring. a katz / Shutterstock.com
  You might've heard that Hillary Clinton won yesterday's New York primary. Lies! Well, not lies, exactly, but also not the complete story. Bernie actually won the overwhelming majority of counties. Across the vast majority of the state, Sanders came out ahead by significant margins in all but a few places. Clinton won the majority of votes; Sanders won the majority of districts. So ... con
  
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• Now Is the Time to Eat Asparagus, Rhubarb, Nettles, and Ramps

  20-04-2016 21:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Angela GarbesIt's spriiiiiiiiiiiiiiing.AG
  I enjoy tormenting myself, apparently. Every morning between 10:30and 11 a.m.. I receive the same email from Pioneer Square's Il Corvo Pasta—an email that unfailingly makes my insides groan with longing as I work quietly at my desk a mile away, unable to act on the desires it triggers. The email, sent by chef and owner Mike Easton, announces the restaurant's menu of three pastas, which change daily."Pea-Vine pesto is back!," yesterday's email sc
  
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• On National Weed Day, Another Protest Against the Central District's Uncle Ike Pot Shop

  20-04-2016 21:43 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzThis fight has no end in sight. Christopher Frizzelle
  Reagan Jackson reports for the Seattle Globalist:
  “We was red lined in but now we black balled out so they can sell green… Ike is no uncle to me. How many brothers went to jail on this corner from moving dime bags. In a week he doing, what, a couple of hundred grand?”
  Local rapper Draze’s mournful track “Irony on 23rd” has become an anthem for people in the Central District who view Uncle Ike&
  
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• Virgin Galactic returns to Spaceport America for exercises

  20-04-2016 21:40
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It was nothing but clear, blue skies as the sleek, jet-powered plane approached the runway at Spaceport America in southern New Mexico, only to briefly touch down and then thrust off again. Over and over again, Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo was put through the paces as the pilots, ground crew and mission […]
  
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• Stars over Mount Rainier will be featured on postage stamp

  20-04-2016 21:34
  
  Postal Service honors National Park Service centennial with 16 stamps to be issued in June.
  
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• WE Day inspires youth in Seattle

  20-04-2016 21:18
  
  WE Day is a celebration of youth making a difference in their local and global communities.
  
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• Seahawks, Sounders, Storm help inspire Seattle youth at We Day

  20-04-2016 21:18
  
  WE Day is a celebration of youth making a difference in their local and global communities.
  
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• Where Have All the Journalists Gone?

  20-04-2016 21:13 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneMicrosoft's corporate "storytelling" is trying to resemble online magazine journalism. Radu Bercan / Shutterstock.com
  On Tuesday morning, alongside the the typically brief press releases published on the Microsoft blog, Microsoft published something called "Welcome to the Invisible Revolution." With animated art, a reporter's byline, section headlines, and pull-quotes, the "Invisible Revolution" had all the trappings of magazine-style digital journalism.The piece also resembl
  
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• Body of missing 17-year-old boy found in Green River

  20-04-2016 20:47
  
  The body of a 17-year-old boy was recovered from the Green River near Auburn.
  
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• Prosecutor who lied to get man deported: ‘Why did I do this?’

  20-04-2016 20:14
  
  A Seattle immigration prosecutor caught faking a document to have a Mexican man deported has been sentenced to 30 days in jail.
  
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• Science News: How Monarch Butterflies Fly to Mexico and Back, How Blobs May Become All We Know

  20-04-2016 20:13 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ethan LinckA University of Washington mathematician developed a model that offers an explanation for how monarch butterflies know how to fly from Canada to Mexico.Manuel M Almeida/shutterstock.comOn the Internal Compass of Monarch Butterflies: Migration is a rich area of study in biology, although as an ornithologist, my perspective may be somewhat biased. (Long-distance seasonal migration is common in bird species, and as a result, scientists have spent many decades exploring how and why it
  
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• Body found in Woodinville recycling facility

  20-04-2016 20:10
  
  The body of a male was found in a Woodinville recycling center, according to the King County Sheriff’s Office.
  
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• Rebirth of the Slick—Digable Planets Reunite Again for Tour

  20-04-2016 19:53 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalDigable Planets: blowin' out the mind dust yet again. Light in the Attic Records
  Via Consequence of Sound
  Grammy-winning jazz-centric hiphop group Digable Planets—featuring Shabazz Palaces' Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler, Mary Ann "Ladybug Mecca" Vieira, and Craig "Doodlebug" Irving—will be doing a reunion tour starting May 28 at Sasquatch! and then resuming July 2 in New Orleans before concluding August 18 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The coolest, suavest rap collective of the
  
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• Harriet Tubman and Kehinde Wiley: Discuss

  20-04-2016 19:39 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesOne of Kehinde Wiley's paintings at SAM. JG
  See ya, evil old white dude Andrew Jackson!
  The Treasury Department is going to announce today that Harriet Tubman will appear on the twenty-dollar bill. CORRECT. "Other depictions of women and civil rights leaders will also be part of new currency designs," according to The New York Times. ALSO CORRECT.
  Alexander Hamilton's not budging from the ten, because the Broadway musical Hamilton has made him hot again. Well, okay.
  So my first thou
  
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• Harriet Tubman Is Set To Replace A White Slaver On The $20 Bill

  20-04-2016 19:33 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufToodles, Andy. Route66 / Shutterstock
  Yep, that's right. The New York Times has the exciting news:
  The Treasury Department will announce on Wednesday afternoon that Harriet Tubman, an African-American who ferried thousands of slaves to freedom, will replace the slaveholding Andrew Jackson on the center of a new $20 note, according to a Treasury official, while newly popular Alexander Hamilton will remain on the face of the $10 bill.
  Other depictions of women and civil rights le
  
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• Study: Warming giving US type of weather we prefer — for now

  20-04-2016 19:15
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming has mostly made the weather more pleasant for Americans over the last 40 years, which may explain why much of the public doesn’t rank climate change as big a threat as do scientists and the rest of the world, a new study suggests. But that perceived benefit of global warming […]
  
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• Vancouver pot fest: 'We'll be throwing out joints until the law changes'

  20-04-2016 19:12
  
  Welcome to what might be the last best pot party in the Northwest.
  
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• Marijuana enthusiasts flock to Vancouver, B.C., for pot celebration on brink of legalization

  20-04-2016 19:12
  
  Marijuana and its impromptu holiday today — April 20 or 4/20 at 4:20 pm — is pretty much passé in Seattle and the NW, but just across the border in Canada's largest West Coast city, Vancouver, the politics of marijuana are reaching a fever pitch ... or a very smokey pitch anyway.
  
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• Win Tickets to the Robert Smith Edition of Hero Worship at Chop Suey

  20-04-2016 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave Segal
  Chop Suey's recurring Hero Worship party teases its hair and cakes on the makeup for the Cure frontman Robert Smith, who's turning 57 on the night of this event: Thursday, April 21. Helping to wish the goth-rock icon a happy birthday by playing his many downcast, feel-good songs are catalytic Seattle musicians like Kimberly Morrison, Alicia Amiri, Nicki Danger, Carter Rodriguez, Dan Paulus, and Stranger music calendar editor Kim Selling. We're giving away two pairs of tickets to th
  
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• Petition to Place the Penis at Polishable Level

  20-04-2016 18:23 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesNobody can reach that penis. Alex Garland
  I'm trying to find a French phrase to express how sad I am that I can't touch Martin Selig's new penis.
  Selig is the commercial real-estate mogul who put up Seattle's tallest skyscraper, Columbia Center, back in 1985, and who recently bought the Firestone building in South Lake Union. He owns much.Often, these buildings have art outside them. Consider the paddleball.
  On Saturday morning, a new work of art appeared outside a Selig-owned build
  
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• Why Washington ferries will never have a Boaty McBoatface

  20-04-2016 18:22
  
  Washington’s ferry-naming guidelines guard against off-kilter names like “Boaty McBoatface,” a suggested name for a British ship that’s causing a ruckus.
  
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• Officials watching ‘high risk’ dams after Houston storms

  20-04-2016 18:20
  
  Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes and major highways were closed after the rains that started Sunday overwhelmed Houston's bayous. Forecasters have issued another flash-flood watch for Houston through Wednesday night.
  
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• The Morning News: City Council Committee Approves Sodo Arena Street Vacation, Officials Charged in Flint Water Crisis

  20-04-2016 17:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverAt least four city council members are on board with Chris Hansen's arena plans. seattle arena
  A City Council Committee Voted to Vacate a Sodo Street for Chris Hansen's Arena: Sally Bagshaw was the only "no" vote on a measure to sell Occidental Avenue South to Hansen for his arena, which still has no team. "I cannot fathom why we're offering up this street vacation at this time," Bagshaw said at yesterday's meeting.But It's Still Not a Done Deal: Four of nine council members&mdas
  
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• Redmond’s Aerojet Rocketdyne wins $67M deal to help explore Mars

  20-04-2016 17:22
  
  Aerojet Rocketdyne will build an electric propulsion system for NASA to enable deep space travel.
  
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• Missing Mill Creek woman, infant son found safe

  20-04-2016 16:59
  
  The woman and her baby were reported missing Tuesday evening.
  
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• Mill Creek police search for missing woman, infant son

  20-04-2016 16:59
  
  The woman and her baby were last seen Tuesday evening leaving a Bothell apartment building.
  
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• Seattle School Board to consider agreement with UW special-education program

  20-04-2016 15:02
  
  An agreement between Seattle Public Schools and the University of Washington's Experimental Education Unit (EEU), if approved, would keep the EEU's kindergarten program running and expand its services.
  
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• Brain scans show full horror of Zika defects, Seattle expert says

  20-04-2016 15:00
  
  Zika virus is causing birth defects rarely seen before, including collapsed brains and skulls, according to Dr. William Dobyns, a Seattle Children’s hospital expert in genetics and pediatric neurology.
  
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• Women Realize That Men Hold All the Cards in Asghar Farhadi’s Fireworks Wednesday

  20-04-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Women Realize That Men Hold All the Cards in Asghar Farhadi’s Fireworks Wednesdayby Kathy FennessyRouhi (Taraneh Alidousti), a young Iranian woman, has the calm, watchful countenance of a neorealist heroine. As cowriter and director Asghar Farhadi introduces her, she’s just starting a temp job as a cleaning lady for an upper-middle-class Tehran couple and looking forward to her upcoming wedding, but things take a turn for the weird right from the start.Mojdeh (Hediyeh Tehrani), the s
  
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• Will We Ever Know Why Did Disney Remade The Jungle Book?

  20-04-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Will We Ever Know Why Did Disney Remade The Jungle Book?by Ijeoma OluoOkay, let me just start by saying that I didn’t hate this new live-action version of The Jungle Book (can you call a movie that’s 90 percent computer animation live-action?). I didn’t hate it at all. But from the moment the cameras opened up on the luscious jungle scenes, I couldn’t stop asking: Why did they make this movie?I loved the original Jungle Book: truly, madly, deeply. Do you know why I loved
  
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• The President and the King Meet in Elvis & Nixon

  20-04-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The President and the King Meet in Elvis & Nixonby Ned LannamannYou've seen the photo: the King of Rock 'n' Roll and the Leader of the Free World, shaking hands in the Oval Office with cautious smiles and dazed looks in their eyes. Elvis & Nixon is an account—from director Liza Johnson and co-writer Cary Elwes—of that bizarre meeting in 1970. It's a piece of blissfully speculative fiction that takes its small but amusing concept and runs with it.It's hard to go wrong when you
  
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• The Huntsman: Winter's War's Empty Calories

  20-04-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Huntsman: Winter's War's Empty Caloriesby Ned LannamannLike the cheapest types of candy, there's a hollow center to The Huntsman: Winter's War. Something's missing from this sickly-sweet CGI confection—and crunching down on its hard, shiny surface reveals only jagged, cheek-shredding shrapnel and sticky chemical additives, with nothing more at its core. The sequel to 2012's Snow White and the Huntsman should feel, I don't know, bigger than this. I suppose it helps that no one actually
  
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• Louder Than Bombs' Quiet Triumph

  20-04-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Louder Than Bombs' Quiet Triumphby Megan BurbankThe first English-language feature from Norwegian director Joachim Trier (a distant relation of Lars von, and officially my preferred Trier), Louder Than Bombs is one of those movies that builds a small, nondescript, yet utterly convincing domestic world without seeming like it's trying too hard. Trier's film has the cerebral, elliptical quality of a great short-story collection, and an easy intimacy with its central family of grieving men, who fac
  
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• Chantal Akerman's No Home Movie Is About the Death of Her Mother, but It's Not Depressing

  20-04-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Chantal Akerman's No Home Movie Is About the Death of Her Mother, but It's Not Depressingby Kathy FennessyNo Home Movie, the final work from the great Belgian director Chantal Akerman, depicts her mother's last months on earth. There's no melodrama, because that wasn't Akerman's way, but rather a dispassionate depiction of a genial octogenarian going about her day-to-day routine. In that sense, it evokes memories of Akerman's landmark 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels, in
  
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• Thousands expected at San Francisco’s 4/20 party

  20-04-2016 12:22
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Thousands of people are expected to descend on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to smoke pot for the annual 4/20 celebration, the unofficial marijuana holiday that some say has its roots in the Bay Area. There will be more police, park rangers, fire and transportation officials on scene this year to […]
  
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• Heat wave kills more than 160 in southern, eastern India

  20-04-2016 11:54
  
  HYDERABAD, India (AP) — Weeks of sweltering temperatures have caused more than 160 deaths in southern and eastern India, officials said Tuesday, warning that any relief from monsoon rains was still likely weeks away. Most of the heat-wave victims were laborers and farmers in the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, though temperatures elsewhere […]
  
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• Government officials: 3 to be charged in Flint water crisis

  20-04-2016 08:24
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general will announce criminal charges Wednesday against two state regulators and a Flint employee, alleging wrongdoing related to the city’s lead-tainted water crisis, according to government officials familiar with the investigation. The charges — the first levied in a probe that is expected to broaden — will be filed […]
  
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• 3 charged with several crimes in Flint water crisis

  20-04-2016 08:24
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two state regulators and a Flint employee were charged Wednesday with evidence tampering and several other felony and misdemeanor counts related to the Michigan city’s lead-tainted water crisis. The charges — the first levied in a probe that is expected to broaden — were filed against a pair of state Department […]
  
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• Death toll reaches 48 from Japan earthquakes; 3 more missing

  20-04-2016 07:58
  
  TOKYO (AP) — Searchers found a man’s body Wednesday in a landslide-hit area in southern Japan, bringing the death toll to 48 from two powerful earthquakes last week. Three people remain missing. Kumamoto prefecture said another 11 people have died from illnesses believed to be related to the physical stress of evacuation. More than 100,000 […]
  
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• Death toll reaches 48 from Japan earthquakes

  20-04-2016 07:58
  
  TOKYO (AP) — Searchers found a man’s body Wednesday in a landslide-hit area in southern Japan, bringing the death toll to 48 from two powerful earthquakes last week. Three people remain missing. Kumamoto prefecture said that another 11 have died from illnesses believed to be related to the physical stress of evacuation. More than 100,000 […]
  
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• APNewsBreak: Sushi alert: Grim outlook for bluefin tuna

  20-04-2016 07:55
  
  TOKYO (AP) — The latest scientific assessment paints a likely bleak future for the Pacific bluefin tuna, a sushi lovers’ favorite whose population has dropped by more than 97 percent from its historic levels. A draft summary of a report by the International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean […]
  
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• Fatal vehicle-pedestrian crash in Everett; police investigating

  20-04-2016 07:00
  
  It is unclear how many people were involved in the crash and who died.
  
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• Driver leaves scene but is found after pedestrian hit, killed in Everett

  20-04-2016 07:00
  
  The driver, a 43-year-old Lynnwood man, stayed at the scene of the fatal accident at first but then left, according to Everett police. Police found and interviewed him after witnesses called 911 and provided information about the car and driver.
  
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