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• Body of missing hiker recovered from Mount Adams

  03-08-2016 23:56
  
  The hiker was identified as Robert Burroughs of Stevenson, who died of head and body injuries after falling more than 2,000 feet.
  
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• Seattle Techno Crew secondnature Launches Record Label with an EP by Fugal

  03-08-2016 23:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dave SegalFugal's Oil Panes EP marks an auspicious debut for secondnature's label. secondnature
  Seattle techno crew secondnature has been putting on excellent events in the region for the last few years, including shows featuring Shifted, Efdemin, Abdulla Rashim, Cassegrain, and Polar Inertia. Now its seven members are starting a record label (also called secondnature), debuting with an EP titled Oil Panes by local producer/DJ Fugal (aka Ted Shin). Renowned for his fathoms-deep minimal-techno
  
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• Out of Sight: The Pacific Northwest Art Show is Harder, Better, Faster in Year 2

  03-08-2016 23:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jen GravesA detail of Seattle artist Ari Glass's cold, bold, and together paintings of life in the Rainier Valley. JG
  I keep thinking back to Ari Glass.
  "This was one of my students at Franklin [High School]!" Seattle artist and high-school art teacher Jed Dunkerley told me yesterday, proudly escorting me over to two paintings by Glass.
  Dunkerley's own deadpan parodies of romantic landscape paintings hung not far from Glass's cold, bold, and together depictions of multicultural pride represen
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Back To the Dorms

  03-08-2016 23:06 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageYour advice to PGMN in this week's Savage Love reminded me of my own situation, but my point-of-view is similar to the husband's—with some key differences. Instead of being years old, my girlfriend and I have only been together for six months. Things started out great but we moved too quickly.I'm in my early thirties and, despite sometimes crippling anxiety and a non-traditional "career", I have my shit together and have always prided myself on my independence. She's a bit you
  
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• It Would Be Helpful If We Stopped Lying About How Much Hillary Clinton Lies

  03-08-2016 22:46 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageShe lies more than Obama—but less than Bernie and everyone else who ran for president this year, four years ago, and four years before that. There's a a helpful graphic here. The New York Times took a look at everyone running this year and concluded that Hillary Clinton lies no more often than Bernie Sanders does.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Witnesses help first responders rescue man hanging from I-90 bridge in Seattle

  03-08-2016 22:17
  
  State troopers and Seattle firefighters rescued a man hanging from an Interstate 90 bridge joint Wednesday morning with the help of some witnesses.
  
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• My Philosophy: Vote for Clinton AND Listen to Women of Color Calling Her Out

  03-08-2016 22:04 via thestranger.com
  
  by Larry Mizell Jr.Romaro Franceswa. TIM URPMAN
  Blowout-rocking South Sider Romaro Franceswa, fairly mum since joining the hitter-heavy Black Umbrella roster, dropped his best single to date with "No No No," featuring Ariana DeBoo. Floating on a gossamer production from Elan Wright and Nima Skeemz, who've handled a bulk of Sol's material for some time now, Romaro dulls his pen tip not a bit as he barrel-rolls through a feather-touch sing-rap clinic (Chance the Rapper is basically Rakim to the un
  
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• Updates on Washington wildfires: Aug. 2

  03-08-2016 21:33
  
  Range 12 fire (South Central Washington) The massive Range 12 fire east of Moxee City, Yakima County, was 60 percent contained as of Wednesday morning, and fire lines are around the 117-mile perimeter. High winds Tuesday afternoon and evening caused several flare-ups but officials said none of those incidents were able to escape the fire perimeter. […]
  
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• Police: Teen carjacker literally stopped in tracks in Georgetown

  03-08-2016 21:17
  
  When a 17-year-old girl tried to evade police in a stolen car Tuesday night in South Seattle, she was stopped in her tracks by, er, actual train tracks.
  
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• Fly me to the moon: Feds OK private firm’s lunar flight plan

  03-08-2016 20:50
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government for the first time has given permission to a private Florida company to fly a spaceship beyond Earth’s orbit and land on the moon. The Federal Aviation Administration gave clearance Wednesday to Moon Express to land a washing machine-sized vehicle on the moon that would take hops across the […]
  
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• Possible flooding on way to Southwest after monsoonal soaking

  03-08-2016 20:41
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The desert Southwest is poised to get a second soaking after monsoon rains rollicked the region, stranding drivers, flooding streets and prompting water rescues. Meteorologists say there is possibility of flooding Wednesday in six states — Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and California. In Phoenix, a storm late Tuesday dropped 2 […]
  
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• More rain is forecast for Southwest after monsoonal soaking

  03-08-2016 20:41
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Parts of the desert Southwest were getting a second soaking Wednesday, a day after monsoon rains swamped the region, stranding drivers, flooding streets and prompting water rescues. Forecasters warned of the potential of more flooding in six states — Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and California, particularly in washes and streams. […]
  
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• More rain forecast for Southwest after monsoonal soaking

  03-08-2016 20:41
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Parts of the desert Southwest were getting a second soaking Wednesday, a day after monsoon rains swamped the region, stranding drivers, flooding streets and prompting water rescues. Forecasters warned of the potential of flooding in six states Wednesday — Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and California, particularly in washes and streams. […]
  
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• South Seattle carjacking ends when thief gets SUV stuck on railroad tracks

  03-08-2016 20:36
  
  The 17-year-old suspect has been booked into the Youth Services Center for investigation of robbery and eluding.
  
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• Should I Have Voted in the Recent Primary? A Flowchart

  03-08-2016 20:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Should you have not been such a loaf-about and voted in yesterday's primary? Find out using our handy flowchart…
  
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• Jackson's Catfish Corner Launches a GoFundMe Campaign After Abrupt Closure

  03-08-2016 20:07 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia KnaufTerrell Jackson with his wife, Rachel, and daughter, Raymiah.Kelly O
  Jackson's Catfish Corner, a beloved Seattle institution famous for their fried catfish and hushpuppies, suddenly closed last weekend to the surprise of dedicated regulars. Currently, the restaurant is "completely boarded up, with its sign reversed, and no notice left explaining the sudden turn of events," writer Marcus Harrison Green reported in the South Seattle Emerald.
  This week, restaurant owner Terrell Ja
  
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• Presidential Endorsement Game Turning into Bitter Fistfight

  03-08-2016 19:51 via thestranger.com
  
  by Matt BaumeWho wouldn't want to endorse a face like that? a katz / Shutterstock.com
  Way back in olden times (2015), before the primaries, one of the best predictors of success for the presidential candidates was the number of endorsements they'd earned. At least, we all thought that was the best predictor, but then Donald Trump broke all the rules and there was no way to predict anything for a while.
  Since then, endorsements have driven even deeper into Crazytown, with some Republicans defecti
  
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• And the Finalists for the 2016 Mayor's Arts Awards Are...

  03-08-2016 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithArts & Innovation Award finalist Louie Gong is the owner-artist of Eighth Generation, the first Native-owned company to produce wool blankets.Ken Yu
  From a list of 350 nominees, the Office of Arts & Culture has selected 11 finalists across four different categories of artistic engagement for the 2016 Mayor's Arts Awards. These people are the stewards of their art, the ones who create spaces and opportunity for other artists to grow. I deeply dislike the word "space," especia
  
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• It Would Be Helpful If Hillary Clinton Stopped Lying

  03-08-2016 19:40 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzPlease. Stop. a katz / Shutterstock.com
  Hillary Clinton received "Pants on fire" and four out of five Pinocchio truthfulness ratings from the Politifact and the Washington Post, respectively, after she claimed this week that the FBI found no fault with her accounting of her e-mail practices:
  Clinton spins FBI director's comments about her email, earns Pants on Fire! https://t.co/EywXR50KVq pic.twitter.com/vxT2JH7g3Q— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) August 1, 2016Washington Post:
  As w
  
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• Truck Leaks Toxic Ammonia After Fatal Crash on I-90

  03-08-2016 19:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jennifer CampbellIncident actually at I90 Mile post 86.5. W bound but Ammonia risk shutting both direction. pic.twitter.com/A8XF2PghcV
  — Chopper 7 (@kiro7chopper) August 3, 2016
  There is a developing situation near Cle Elum. The Yakima Herald reports that traffic on I-90 is closed in both directions between Ellensburg and eastbound exit 84 after a tanker truck and a car collided this morning just east of the town. One person has died.The truck was carrying four tanks of anhydrous ammoni
  
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• Seattle Beats Atlanta in Cars Per Household

  03-08-2016 19:31 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeSeattle is not a concrete utopia. Charles Mudede
  The urbanist literature of our times has its heroes and its villains. The heroes are concrete utopias (Copenhagen) or are in the process of becoming one (Bogota). (By concrete utopias, I mean utopias that are already here in the world and not in the dreams of an urban planner.) The villains are many. Indeed, any city that successfully modernized (meaning, became a city for cars) in the post-war period is a villain. Atlanta is a po
  
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• Westbound I-90 closed near Cle Elum after fatal crash, truck fire, ammonia leak

  03-08-2016 19:19
  
  One person was killed in a collision on Interstate 90 in Kittitas County. The road was closed in both directions after the tanker trunk involved in the crash caught fire and was found to be leaking ammonia.
  
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• I-90 near Cle Elum closed after fatal crash, truck fire

  03-08-2016 19:19
  
  One person was killed in a collision on Interstate 90 in Kittitas County. The road was closed in both directions after the tanker trunk involved in the crash caught fire and was found to be leaking ammonia.
  
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• I-90 closed near Cle Elum after fatal crash, truck fire, ammonia leak

  03-08-2016 19:19
  
  One person was killed in a collision on Interstate 90 in Kittitas County. The road was closed in both directions after the tanker trunk involved in the crash caught fire and was found to be leaking ammonia.
  
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• We Saw You Paying in Pennies at PCC, Playing a Concert in Bare Feet, and Giving Us John Wayne Gacy Nightmares

  03-08-2016 19:14 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger StaffThe scene at PCC. THE STRANGER
  PAYING WITH CHANGE AT PCC
  We saw you at a checkout counter of the PCC in Columbia City buying a bottle of Schooner Exact beer, some berries, eggs, yogurt, and sausages with a mountain of pennies, nickels, and dimes. Most of your coins were brown and looked very old. PCC is not cheap. It takes a lot of coins to buy even three or four basic items. But you came prepared. You had a bag filled with the hardest currency. You held it in your hand with pri
  
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• Grease from deep-fried pancakes sparks Lynwood apartment fire

  03-08-2016 19:10
  
  Nearly 20 Lynnwood residents were displaced by an early morning fire at a 52nd Avenue West apartment building.
  
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• Grease from deep-fried pancakes sparks Lynnwood apartment fire

  03-08-2016 19:10
  
  Nearly 20 Lynnwood residents were displaced by an early morning fire at a 52nd Avenue West apartment building.
  
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• Cooking mishap leads to Lynnwood fire, displacing 18 at apartment complex

  03-08-2016 19:10
  
  Nearly 20 Lynnwood residents were displaced by an early morning fire at a 52nd Avenue West apartment building.
  
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• Donald Trump Reportedly Says 'Why Not?' to Use of Nuclear Weapons

  03-08-2016 18:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jennifer CampbellWatch: What are some major concerns about Trump's handling of national security? Hayden and #morningjoe weigh in. https://t.co/FyFoSmJlJI
  — Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) August 3, 2016
  "Morning Joe" Scarborough dropped a sobering anecdote into his broadcast today. After an interview with General Michael Hayden where the former CIA director discussed the dangers of someone with emerging demagogue Donald Trump's ''erratic" behavior having access to nuclear weapons, Scarborou
  
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• Ferndale man dies after crashing car into Whatcom County ditch

  03-08-2016 18:18
  
  A 54-year-old Ferndale man was killed after his car crashed into a ditch and rolling over multiple times.
  
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• Mukilteo Shooting Is Drawing Renewed Attention to a Gun Control Measure on Your November Ballot

  03-08-2016 17:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverThe vigil in Mukilteo on July 31. THE STRANGER
  On August 1, three days after a shooting shocked the small Washington town of Mukilteo, the public got its first glimpse into the moments before the shooter killed his victims.
  According to a probable cause document released that day by the Snohomish County Prosecutor's Office, Allen Christopher Ivanov told police he showed up at a house party in Mukilteo around 10 p.m. on July 29. Once there, he "creeped up toward the house and saw
  
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• The Morning News: Primary Election Results Are in, Alleged Fraud Scheme Targeted Chinese UW Students

  03-08-2016 17:19 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverPramila Jayapal leads the race for the 7th Congressional District after last night's results. The Stranger
  Looking for Primary Election Results? The city's housing levy passed. The viaduct park was rejected (by a lot). Nicole Macri and Dan Shih are leading in the 43rd. Pramila Jayapal is leading in the 7th Congressional District, but which of her two main opponents, Brady Walkinshaw and Joe McDermott, will head to the general election with her? It's too close to call. Find all th
  
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• Seattle health-care startup raises $11M, seeks to hire doctors

  03-08-2016 17:15
  
  Health-care-tech startup​ 98point6 is working on “the next generation of primary care.”
  
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• 2 firefighters injured in Kent fire

  03-08-2016 16:14
  
  Two firefighters suffered minor “medical situations” after responding to a business-park blaze in Kent.
  
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• 25 residents run for their lives as flames gut Lynnwood apartments

  03-08-2016 16:13
  
  About 25 Lynnwood residents ran for their lives early Wednesday as a fast-spreading fire raged through an apartment complex. One dad said he got his daughters out of the building only seconds before the intense heat of the fire blew out the windows.
  
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• What Last Night's Primary Election Results Mean for Housing, Transit, and the Futures of a Bunch of Big-Name Pols

  03-08-2016 15:04 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Election Control BoardSeattle housing levy supporters cheered as last night's results rolled in. (Here are our live reports from that party and all the others.) SECB
  HOUSING LEVY WINS, VIADUCT PARK DIES: The results were unequivocal for the two Seattle ballot measures that voters weighed in on last night. The housing levy—the biggest housing levy in the city's history and double the previous housing levy—passed with 68 percent of the vote. The viaduct park—a plan to
  
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• American and German researchers to share $500K medical prize

  03-08-2016 15:01
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Three researchers whose work with cell proteins has implications for Alzheimer’s disease, cancer and other degenerative illnesses will share one of the largest awards in medicine and science in the U.S., officials at a New York hospital said Wednesday. The $500,000 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research will […]
  
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• WSU engineering majors expand in Everett, Pullman, Bremerton

  03-08-2016 15:00
  
  Washington State University is expanding its offerings in software and electrical engineering, with classes in Everett and Bremerton.
  
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• You Can Vote for Clinton AND Listen to Women of Color Calling Out Her Racist Bullshit

  03-08-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  My Philosophy: As much as I wish I could write in Shirley Chisholm or Michelle Obama, there's no room to play.by Larry Mizell Jr.Blowout-rocking South Sider Romaro Franceswa, fairly mum since joining the hitter-heavy Black Umbrella roster, dropped his best single to date with "No No No," featuring Ariana DeBoo. Floating on a gossamer production from Elan Wright and Nima Skeemz, who've handled a bulk of Sol's material for some time now, Romaro dulls his pen tip not a bit as he barrel-rolls throug
  
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• Suicide Squad Shoots—and Misses

  03-08-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Suicide Squad Shoots—and Missesby Erik HenriksenWe have endured much, my moviegoing friends—we have met our challenges, we have stood strong, we have survived. Of all the assaults we’ve faced, perhaps none were so brutal as last spring’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, a bewildering, interminable slurry of fascism and digital violence. Batman v Superman made $900 million, but its astonishing badness cost Warner Bros. no small amount of goodwill: Sure, the film paved t
  
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• An Improv Troupe Faces the Future in Don’t Think Twice

  03-08-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  An Improv Troupe Faces the Future in Don’t Think Twiceby Kathy FennessyThe premise for Mike Birbiglia’s new film—a follow-up to his 2012 debut, Sleepwalk with Me—probably sounds insufferable. Basically, he’s gathered sketch-comedy performers from IFC, Comedy Central, and Netflix for a film about a New York improv troupe. Watch them succeed! Watch them fail! Watch them fall in and out of love! And that’s exactly what happens.Writer-director Birbiglia plays Mile
  
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• China’s Jade Rabbit lunar rover ends mission after 31 months

  03-08-2016 12:15
  
  BEIJING (AP) — China’s Jade Rabbit lunar rover, which won a large following on social media, has been retired after a record 31 months of collecting data from the moon’s surface, state media reported Wednesday. The rover arrived on the moon on Dec. 14, 2013, aboard the Chang’e 3 lunar lander and was designed to […]
  
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• Shoreline man dies while diving in Lake Huron, Mich.

  03-08-2016 11:20
  
  PRESQUE ISLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Authorities say a 47-year-old Washington man has died while diving in Lake Huron off of Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula. The Presque Isle County sheriff’s department says Erik Foreman of Shoreline, Washington, was diving at a shipwreck with a group on Monday east of the Presque Isle Harbor and was heading […]
  
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• Primary’s beauty contest exposes ugly rift in state

  03-08-2016 07:39
  
  Voters in Tuesday’s primary weren’t reflecting a blue state or a swing state so much as two increasingly polarized bubble states. One getting bluer, the other redder.
  
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• 3 Indonesian volcanoes erupt, disrupting some flights

  03-08-2016 07:09
  
  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Eruptions at three volcanoes in Indonesia have darkened skies in parts of the archipelago and disrupted some flights. Mount Rinjani on Lombok Island near Bali, the Sinabung volcano on Sumatra Island and Mount Gamalama in the Moluccas chain of islands have all erupted in the past couple of days. No one […]
  
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• Snohomish County criminal-justice sales tax trailing

  03-08-2016 07:00
  
  The sales-tax increase is aimed at fighting Snohomish County’s opioid epidemic and boosting law enforcement.
  
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• McLaughlin, Franz lead for lands commissioner; Miloscia, McCarthy ahead for auditor

  03-08-2016 07:00
  
  With no incumbent in four statewide races this fall, a crowded field of hopefuls is vying for spots on the November ballot for lands commissioner, lieutenant governor, state auditor and state treasurer.
  
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• Jayapal advances to November ballot in 7th Congressional District race

  03-08-2016 06:20
  
  Pramila Jayapal took a commanding lead in Tuesday’s vote count to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott in Washington’s 7th Congressional District seat.
  
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• 7th Congressional District results: Jayapal, Walkinshaw, McDermott

  03-08-2016 06:20
  
  Pramila Jayapal took a commanding lead in Tuesday’s vote count to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott in Washington’s 7th Congressional District seat.
  
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• 7th Congressional District results: Jayapal leads, Walkinshaw, McDermott neck-and-neck

  03-08-2016 06:20
  
  Pramila Jayapal took a commanding lead in Tuesday’s vote count to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott in Washington’s 7th Congressional District seat.
  
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