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• Man turned down for sex breaks into woman's home in U-District

  06-09-2016 23:37
  
  Seattle police arrested a man Sunday they believe broke into a woman's University District home just hours after she rebuffed his sexual harassment in her front yard.
  
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• Libertarian Gary Johnson heads here for pricey fundraiser, public rally

  06-09-2016 23:19
  
  Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson is coming to Seattle on September 17th, a visit that will include a pricey $1,000-per-person fundraiser with celebrity hosts as well as a public rally.
  
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• Police: Man asks woman for sex, breaks into her U District home as she showers

  06-09-2016 23:17
  
  Seattle police say the same man is suspected of harassing two other women on the street.
  
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• New Poll Shows Pramila Jayapal Leading Brady Walkinshaw in Congressional Race

  06-09-2016 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverA new poll shows Pramila Jayapal maintaining her lead over Brady Walkinshaw in the race to represent Seattle in Congress. HG
  How can Washington State Representative Brady Walkinshaw possibly win a seat in Congress? That's the question you're left asking after looking at all the conventional predictors in the race for the 7th Congressional District, where Walkinshaw is facing state Senator Pramila Jayapal.
  Jayapal beat Walkinshaw handily in the primary, even in his own district. S
  
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• Feds take most humpback whales off endangered species list

  06-09-2016 22:57
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — Federal authorities are taking most humpback whales off the endangered species list. The National Marine Fisheries Service said Monday that nine of the 14 distinct populations of humpbacks have recovered enough in the last 40 years to warrant being removed from the endangered list. The agency says four distinct populations remain listed […]
  
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• No-appointment Passport Day set for Sept. 24 in Seattle

  06-09-2016 22:47
  
  Get in-person help for both routine and expedited U.S. passport applications.
  
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• The Problem with Police Union Contracts

  06-09-2016 22:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzContracts with police unions that shield cops from justice are beginning to be recognized as a national problem. The Stranger
  In case you missed it, the New York Times took on police unions in a strongly-worded editorial on Saturday: Across the country, municipal governments have signed contracts with police unions including provisions that shield officers from punishment for brutal behavior as well as from legitimate complaints by the citizens they are supposed to serve.
  That may s
  
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• Authorities seek shooter in Burien slaying

  06-09-2016 22:21
  
  The King County Sheriff's Office seeks the shooter in a Sunday morning slaying in Burien.
  
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• JBLM soldier nearing Iraq deployment fatally shot after leaving Burien house party

  06-09-2016 22:20
  
  “Here you worry about your kids going to Afghanistan or the Middle East and right here in the U.S. of A. is really where the enemy is,” says the heartbroken grandmother of Army Sgt. Timothy Hovey.
  
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• Family heartbroken JBLM soldier fatally shot in Burien: ‘He was our shining star’

  06-09-2016 22:20
  
  “Here you worry about your kids going to Afghanistan or the Middle East and right here in the U.S. of A. is really where the enemy is,” says the heartbroken grandmother of Army Sgt. Timothy Hovey.
  
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• Family heartbroken JBLM soldier fatally shot in Burien

  06-09-2016 22:20
  
  “Here you worry about your kids going to Afghanistan or the Middle East and right here in the U.S. of A. is really where the enemy is,” says the heartbroken grandmother of Army Sgt. Timothy Hovey.
  
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• California man fatally shot after leaving Burien house party

  06-09-2016 22:20
  
  The victim was driven to Highline Medical Center by friends early Sunday, but later died.
  
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• Two Indigenous Activists in North Dakota Are Locked to Pipeline Excavation Equipment

  06-09-2016 22:18 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney Brownstone"Mama Jules," of Pine Ridge, has been locked to a piece of pipeline construction equipment for three hours. SB
  Just days after private security for the Dakota Access Pipeline used dogs on indigenous protesters, two activists have now locked themselves to excavation equipment at two work sites on the proposed path of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
  Standing Rock Sioux tribal members and activists from more than 90 other tribes have been peacefully camping near the construction of
  
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• Transgender candidate, 20, challenging fellow Democrat for Vancouver-area seat

  06-09-2016 22:04
  
  If elected to a 49th District Vancouver-area House seat, Kaitlyn Beck would be the youngest and likely the first transgender member of the Washington Legislature.
  
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• Cyclist Desiree McCloud was riding between streetcar tracks moments before fatal crash, video shows

  06-09-2016 21:56
  
  A Seattle Police Department investigation found she was riding in between the First Hill Streetcar’s tracks, but could not determine if they played a role in her crash.
  
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• Some of Phyllis Schlafly's Greatest Hits, for People Too Young to Know

  06-09-2016 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzellePhyllis Schlafly, on death's doorstep, supporting Trump. Gino Santa Maria / Shutterstock.com
  • She called public sex education classes ''in-home sales parties for abortion.''
  • She said, "Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature."
  • Hated the gays.• Hated "libs."• Hated gender-nonconformity.• Was the major force blocking the Equal Rights Amendment, which would have "expanded women&
  
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• Fired Fox News anchor wins $20 million sexual harassment settlement

  06-09-2016 21:37
  
  A fired Fox News anchor will receive a $20 million settlement from Fox's corporate parent, stemming from her sexual harassment lawsuit against Roger Ailes, longtime chairman/CEO of the conservative cable network.
  
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• Win Forever: How the Seahawks and Pete Carroll Will Defy Physics to Keep Winning Super Bowls

  06-09-2016 21:20 via thestranger.com
  
  by Spike Friedman LARRY MAURER/SEATTLE SEAHAWKS
  The success that the Seattle Seahawks have achieved over the past four NFL seasons is difficult to overstate. They have made the playoffs each of the past four years. They have won a playoff game each of those four years. They have made two Super Bowls. They won the franchise's first Super Bowl. These four years also represent the primes of four likely Hall of Fame players (Russell Wilson, Richard Sherman, Earl Thomas, and Marshawn Lynch). They hav
  
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• Arrest made in ATV hit-and-run that killed Poulsbo man

  06-09-2016 21:17
  
  Killed in the crash was Benjamin Wohl, 30. His passenger, Breauna Ellison, of Clackamas, Oregon, was seriously hurt.
  
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• Oregon pot accreditation program on ‘verge of collapse’

  06-09-2016 21:04
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The administrator of a state program tasked with making sure marijuana labs are accredited said the Oregon Health Authority has ignored his pleas for resources and that the agency is “on the verge of collapse.” The Oregonian/OregonLive reports ( http://bit.ly/2clTrod ) that Gary Ward, administrator of the Oregon Environmental Laboratory Accreditation […]
  
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• Oregon agency that accredits pot labs on verge of “collapse”

  06-09-2016 21:04
  
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — As Oregon officials struggle to license all sectors of the recreational marijuana industry before the end of the year, a top official of the agency that accredits labs that test pot says it is overwhelmed — a situation that could derail the rollout. Gary K. Ward, administrator of the Oregon Environmental […]
  
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• Breaking the Blue Wall of Silence: How to Fix the Police, According to Former Chief of Police Norm Stamper

  06-09-2016 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzNEW NORMS: Seattle’s former top cop backs reforms.MARK BENNINGTON PHOTOGRAPHY
  From his early days as a San Diego beat cop in the 1960s to his rise to the chief of police of the Seattle Police Department in the 1990s, Norm Stamper has watched the world change. But while the world has changed, he says, police departments haven't kept up.
  Now 72 years old, Stamper resigned as chief in 1999 after Seattle's World Trade Organization protests, criticized by demonstrators for being to
  
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• Food News: Valhalla Sandwiches Opens Next Week, Seattle Hits 60 Breweries, and Vestal's 7-Foot Hearth

  06-09-2016 20:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tobias Coughlin-BogueNow Make Me a Sandwich Makes a Restaurant Called Valhalla Sandwiches, Opening Monday in Greenwood
  Here's their Bad Lieutenant—pulled pork, bacon, ham, and provolone with chipotle barbecue sauce and coleslaw.Courtesy of Now Make Me a Sandwich
  Popular food truck Now Make Me a Sandwich will open its brick and mortar venture in Greenwood next Monday, called Valhalla Sandwiches. They join a spate of other successful food trucks who've decided to put down roots, including
  
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• The faces behind the numbers: Scrutiny of police shootings brings both analysis, emotion

  06-09-2016 20:21
  
  News organizations across the country are taking a deeper look at police shootings.
  
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• Stranger Writer Sydney Brownstone Is On The Ground With Pipeline Protesters In North Dakota

  06-09-2016 20:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by The StrangerThe Stranger writer Sydney Brownstone is reporting live from North Dakota, where activists and tribal members are protesting against the construction of a crude oil pipeline. Eight tribes from Washington state have joined the protest recently.
  She writes:
  The Dakota Access Pipeline is a $3.8 billion project that would carry crude from North Dakota's Bakken formation to Illinois over a distance of 1,172 miles, and some of that oil is planned to travel under the massive Missouri Riv
  
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• The 32 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week

  06-09-2016 20:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThe Seattle Design Festival kicks off this weekend with a Block Party, a big, family-friendly showcase of ingenuity that, last year, included fun oddities like this. Trevor Dykstra
  Our music critics have already chosen the 25 best concerts this week, but now it's our arts critics' turn. Here are their picks for the best events in every genre—from the Seattle Design Festival to the 70 mm Film Festival, and from the Cider Summit Seattle to a Goodship Academy of
  
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• Seattle may take new tack in helping the homeless: spend more on housing

  06-09-2016 20:06
  
  Two reports that Mayor Ed Murray plans to release this week could change Seattle’s strategy and spending to combat homelessness.
  
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• Seattle may take new tack in helping the homeless: focus on housing

  06-09-2016 20:06
  
  Two reports that Mayor Ed Murray plans to release this week could change Seattle’s strategy and spending to combat homelessness.
  
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• NASA chasing down asteroid to scoop up, bring back samples

  06-09-2016 19:47
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is going after an asteroid this week like never before. It’s launching a spacecraft to the exotic black rock named Bennu (BEN-oo). Once there, the spacecraft will vacuum up handfuls of gravel from the asteroid’s surface, and then in a grand finale, deliver the pay dirt all the way […]
  
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• Sorry kids: Docs urge flu shots, not nasal spray, this year

  06-09-2016 19:35
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Kids may get more of a sting from flu vaccination this fall: Doctors are gearing up to give shots only, because U.S. health officials say the easy-to-use nasal spray version of the vaccine isn’t working as well as a jab. Needle-phobic adults still have some less painful options. But FluMist, with its […]
  
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• Work on connection between eye, brain wins $1 million prize

  06-09-2016 19:33
  
  LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Four researchers based at U.S. and British universities are sharing a €1 million ($1.1 million) prize from a Portuguese foundation for work that has improved understanding of how our eyes send signals to the brain. The award announced Tuesday went to John Flanagan of Harvard Medical School, Carol A. Mason of […]
  
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• We're at Standing Rock, Watching the Historic Standoff Between Native American Tribes and Pipeline Builders

  06-09-2016 19:01 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneThe standoff in North Dakota has drawn a movement—and it's growing. SB
  Drive south on Highway 1806 out of Mandan, near Bismarck, North Dakota, and usually it's a straight, hour-long shot to the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. But for the last three weeks, state troopers have cut off the main route from Bismarck to tribal land. Here in rural North Dakota, where cows outnumber people by more than two-to-one, anyone trying to access the reservation on that usual route wil
  
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• Win Forever

  06-09-2016 18:34 via thestranger.com
  
  Can the Seahawks Really Win Forever? A Metaphysical Investigationby Spike FriedmanThe success that the Seattle Seahawks have achieved over the past four NFL seasons is difficult to overstate. They have made the playoffs each of the past four years. They have won a playoff game each of those four years. They have made two Super Bowls. They won the franchise's first Super Bowl. These four years also represent the primes of four likely Hall of Fame players (Russell Wilson, Richard Sherman, Earl Tho
  
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• Racer killed in Evergreen State Fair crash died ‘doing what he loved,’ father says

  06-09-2016 18:34
  
  Family members identified Ed Ritter as the motorcycle driver killed in a Monday drag race at the Evergreen State Fair.
  
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• The Cost of Light Rail Will Be Cheap in the Long Run

  06-09-2016 18:31 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeLink will always be money well spent. Charles MudedeSeattle Transit Blog has a post that compares the cost of expanding light rail (ST3) in the Seattle area to the inflation of home values in Seattle. Seen in this way, ST3's $54 billion figure price tag, a figure the opponents of the expansion wear "like armor," is not so big. It is in fact small. But this finely-reasoned argument is still terribly limited. Not because housing values fluctuate or are difficult for the government
  
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• Today in Vicarious Opinionating

  06-09-2016 18:18 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageCharles M. Blow on Donald Trump:
  So, after weeks of preaching his sinister sermon of black pathology to mostly white audiences as part of his utterly fake “black outreach” — which is in fact the effort of a bigot to disguise his bigotry — Donald Trump finally brought his message before a few mostly black audiences. He spoke Friday to a handful of African-Americans in North Philadelphia, and as described on philly.com, told them that “he is not a bigot,
  
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• Looking for the Old Magic: Photos From PAX West 2016

  06-09-2016 18:16 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jihee Kim"Sext." Jihee Kim
  My first PAX (PAX Prime 2010) was magical in every way. It was my first gaming convention, my first time playing D&D, my first "PAX plague" (too much hand-to-mouth/eye contact). My first time submerging my hands into a vat of 20-sided dice. Portal 2 blew everyone’s minds. Acquisitions, Inc. with Wil Wheaton cemented my fascination with Dungeons & Dragons. Thousands of giddy strangers, united by joy. I was one of them. I felt like I had finally found my
  
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• UN changes guidance about sex for travelers to Zika zones

  06-09-2016 17:52
  
  GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. health agency is changing its advice to travelers returning from areas facing a Zika virus outbreak, saying both men and women should now practice safe sex or abstinence for six months. The World Health Organization’s guidance applies to all travelers, whether or not they show symptoms of the virus. The […]
  
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• The Morning News: Mixed Results for Mayor's Downtown Drug Crackdown, Pipeline Protesters Attacked with Dogs

  06-09-2016 17:37 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverLast year, Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O'Toole and Mayor Ed Murray Ed Murray touted the 9 1/2 block strategy as a way of reducing crime downtown. City of Seattle
  Did Mayor Ed Murray's 9 1/2 Block Strategy Work? A Seattle Times analysis of crime data shows mixed results for the controversial strategy to crack down on drug crime in the downtown core. While reports decreased in the targeted area, they increased in surrounding areas, like First Hill, Belltown, and the Chinatown Int
  
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• NYC bay to get oysters on beds made from recycled toilets

  06-09-2016 17:25
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is placing 50,000 oysters in Jamaica Bay — on beds made with the porcelain from 5,000 recycled toilets. Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Department of Environmental Protection said Tuesday that the project is the largest single installation of breeding oysters in New York City. The northeastern director […]
  
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• Electric fans might may make seniors hotter in extreme heat

  06-09-2016 17:05
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — True or false: Electric fans are a cheap and effective way to stay cool during extreme heat waves. A tiny new experiment in older adults suggests the answer may not be as simple as it seems. It’s an important issue, particularly for seniors and sick people, whose bodies struggle to adapt to […]
  
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