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• Charges: Woman fakes seizure to evade Metro bus robbery attempt

  12-10-2017 23:58
  A woman faked a seizure to escape being held hostage on a Metro bus by a man who claimed he had a gun and tried to take her wallet, charging documents say.
  
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• Whole Foods closing its 365 store in Bellevue

  12-10-2017 23:34
  The store in Bellevue Square is closing just a year after it opened.
  
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• Whole Foods closing 365 store in Bellevue

  12-10-2017 23:34
  The store in Bellevue Square is closing just a year after it opened.
  
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• State Supreme Court rules theft of lawnmower not auto theft

  12-10-2017 23:15
  The high court's ruling Thursday affirmed an appellate court ruling in the case of a man charged after allegedly trying to steal a riding lawnmower from a property outside Leavenworth in 2015.
  
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• Whidbey Growlers escort wooden model of USS Eisenhower to Seattle

  12-10-2017 23:03
  Three Navy EA-18G Growler electronic attack jets escorted a 10-foot wooden aircraft carrier to the Museum of Flight in Seattle. 
  
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• Where To Go For Capitol Hill Art Walk Tonight

  12-10-2017 22:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffSee Jess Wamre's art at Salon Bar-Kon. Jess Wamre
  Every second Thursday, rain or shine, the streets of Capitol Hill are filled with tipsy art lovers checking out galleries and special events. On our Capitol Hill Art Walk calendar, you'll find tons of great options for tonight, including our critics' picks. Don't miss the opening of Bobby DiTrani's mock-classical The Hammer of Spring, Genevieve St. Charles's disturbing yet appetizing meat paintings in Meat Market, Ma
  
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• Watch: Snow dumping in the Cascades

  12-10-2017 22:56
  A dose of winter came through the mountains east of Seattle Wednesday and continued dumping snow across the Cascades Thursday.
  
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• City Council Members Want to Bring Back the Employee Head Tax

  12-10-2017 22:51 via thestranger.com
  
  Should big business help fund affordable housing?by Heidi GrooverWould probably get taxed. Charles Mudede
  Seattle politicians can either keep complaining about being part of the most regressive tax system in the nation or they can do something about it.
  Two Seattle City Council members today unveiled a proposal to tax large businesses based on how many employees they have. The tax (known as the "employee hours tax" or "head tax") would help fund more 24-hour homeless shelters, affordable housing
  
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• Trump’s health care executive order blasted by Washington state officials

  12-10-2017 21:55
  Local reaction to President Trump's executive order regarding health care ranged from forcefully opposed to wait-and-see.
  
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• Trump’s executive order on health care blasted by Washington state officials

  12-10-2017 21:55
  Local reaction to President Trump's executive order regarding health care ranged from forcefully opposed to wait-and-see.
  
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• Who Is She? On Seattle Gossip, RomComs, and the Seattle Freeze

  12-10-2017 21:48 via thestranger.com
  
  Who Is She? is the newest supergroup devoted to spilling Seattle's hottest gossip.by Anna KaplanSeattle Gossip is out now! Courtesy of Father/Daughter Records
  When the three members of Seattle’s newest "all killer-no filler" supergroup, Who Is She?, walk through the door of Linda’s Tavern, I already know who they are.
  Robin Edwards, AKA Lisa Prank, Tacocat bassist Bree McKenna, and Julia Shapiro of Chastity Belt, all order matching red wines, mimicking Shapiro’s red wine phone
  
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• Readers’ responses: How do you use your bike lights, reflectors?

  12-10-2017 21:44
  “The only way to not blind the oncoming biker is to put my hand over the light when we are close,” one cyclist said. Traffic Lab spotlighted the equipment required by law for night riding earlier this week.
  
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• New UW computer science and engineering building named for Bill and Melinda Gates

  12-10-2017 21:34
  Bill Gates and Paul Allen were once the bad boys of the University of Washington’s computer science lab. Now, the school’s buildings are named in their honor.
  
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• Washington state sending firefighters, trucks to help in California

  12-10-2017 21:24
  Their own marathon wildfire season is winding up, so Washington state firefighting crews are heading down to help in Northern California.
  
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• Washington state sending crews, fire engines to help in California

  12-10-2017 21:24
  Their own marathon wildfire season is winding up, so Washington state firefighting crews are heading down to help in Northern California.
  
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• Poor Response to Puerto Rico Shows Racism Is Not About Exploiting POCs but White Americans

  12-10-2017 21:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Florida will eventually have its own Hurricane Maria, and Trump's response will be the same.by Charles Mudede Sergio Lacueva / Getty Images
  By 2004, it was known by public officials in Cleveland that a number of the city's working-class and often black neighborhoods were experiencing unusually high rates of foreclosures, and that this spike had shady lending as its cause. Alan Greenspan and the governor of Ohio at the time were alerted to the crisis and its seriousness, but they did nothing abou
  
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• Seattle councilors: Tax big business to help homeless

  12-10-2017 21:02
  Two members of Seattle City Council have a revised plan to fight homelessness and a new way to fund it.
  
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• This Video Shows How Entitled Drivers Endanger Cyclists

  12-10-2017 20:58 via thestranger.com
  
  What an asshole.by Chetanya RobinsonDavid Seater, a software engineer and safe streets advocate, posted a video on Twitter yesterday showing a driver endangering his life as they passed him on his bike.
  Hey @SeattlePD, how do I report an attempted murder? pic.twitter.com/Zde8Y7hTy1
  — David Seater (@dseater) October 12, 2017
  The video, shot with a GoPro, shows Seater riding in the traffic lane. A car pulls up behind him, waits for about eight seconds, then honks at him and passes him in the
  
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• Fire-Traumatized Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions Soothed Minds at the Neptune Last Night

  12-10-2017 20:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Anti-diva Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions delivered blissful, consoling ballads at the Neptune last nightby Dave SegalTaking a page from the Robert Fripp handbook of audience etiquette. Dave Segal
  The contrast between Tuesday night's King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard gig at Neptune and last night's Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions show at the same venue couldn't be more stark. The former: seven Aussie bros sounding as if they were playing Focus' "Hocus Pocus" after gobbling fistf
  
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• Police put hoods, earmuffs on protesters detained outside Portland ICE facility

  12-10-2017 20:30
  Portland police Sgt. Chris Burley said the hoods and ear protection were used because officers initially believed they needed spark-prone power tools to separate the protesters.
  
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• Another El Nino problem: More carbon dioxide in air

  12-10-2017 20:19
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A new NASA satellite has found another thing to blame on El Nino: A recent record high increase of carbon dioxide in the air. The super-sized El Nino a couple of years ago led to an increase of 3 billion tons of carbon in the air, most from tropical land areas. The […]
  
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• Bless This Light Rail Angel for Helpfully Vandalizing the Elevators In the Capitol Hill Station

  12-10-2017 19:42 via thestranger.com
  
  To all my OCD crafters with label makers: I call upon you to help Sound Transit out the way this vandal has helped them out.by Rich SmithSomebody loves us.HG
  I've been vocal about my signage-related transit issues since May of this year. I could go on at length about the system's flaws, but, in short: the signs are bad. After I wrote a Slog post saying as much, Sound Transit promised me via Twitter that they would fix their wayfinding problem. And yet here we are, smack in the middle of dour Oct
  
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• Murray calls Trump exec. order healthcare reform 'by sabotage'

  12-10-2017 19:41
  Trump, who was unable to repeal the Obama-era Affordable Care Act despite repeated attempts (and with Republicans controlling both houses of Congress), signed an order making lower-premium health care plans available to more Americans on Thursday.
  
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• Harry Dean Stanton Is Lucky

  12-10-2017 19:16 via thestranger.com
  Prepare to have those tears jerked right out of your eyeballs.by Ciara DolanBefore shuffling off this mortal coil at 91, Harry Dean Stanton filmed his last starring role as Lucky, a chain-smoking realist who’s as prickly as the saguaros in his dusty small town.It’s very slow—the film follows Lucky’s molasses-paced daily routine as he agonizes over his crossword puzzles, does yoga in his underwear (those long shots of Stanton’s wrinkly flesh are something), and sips
  
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• Another Shot for Municipal Broadband in Seattle

  12-10-2017 18:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Rob Johnson wants to create a city-run internet service.by Heidi GrooverForever mood. ROBERT ULLMAN
  Seattle's elected leaders will get another chance this month to move forward on creating a city-owned internet utility. Seattle City Council member Rob Johnson plans to introduce an amendment to the 2018 budget to hire a city staffer focused on municipal broadband and create a "shovel-ready" plan for building it."I continue to be a big believer that information is power," Johnson says, "and access
  
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• Collared wolf OR-33 shot dead northwest of Klamath Falls

  12-10-2017 18:43
  A collared gray wolf known as OR-33 was illegally killed in southern Oregon, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is asking the public to help solve the crime.
  
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• This Is the Resistance? Eminem Wasn't the First Rapper to Go After Trump, Just the First White One.

  12-10-2017 17:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Why does white America need a washed-up white dude to make them believe in the most important cultural movement of the past 30 years?by Larry Mizell Jr.Guess who called the president out first.
  The BET Awards began in 2001, and since 2006 have included the BET Cypher, in which a group of rappers take turns spitting "freestyle" verses. Since the Cypher's inception, it's become the topic of conversation in barbershops, real and virtual, across America (a lot like how XXL's Freshman issue has been
  
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• The Morning News: Lummi Nation Offered Money to Shut Up About Fish Farms, State Lottery Director Calls Women "Criers"

  12-10-2017 17:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sydney BrownstoneLummi fishermen reef net fishing. Matika Wilbur
  Cooke Aquaculture Offered to Pay off Lummi Nation to Shut Up About Net Pens: One of Cooke Aquaculture's farms released an estimated 105,000 farmed Atlantic salmon into local waters August, and Lummi fishermen declared a state of emergency. "Your demand to keep quiet for a few extra dollars is insulting,”chairman of the Lummi Indian Business Council Timothy Ballew II responded, according to letters turned over to the Seattl
  
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• Expect sunshine this weekend — then our wet, rainy season begins, forecasters say

  12-10-2017 16:09
  Whatever you need to do outside, do it this weekend. Sun is forecast in the afternoons on both Saturday and Sunday, making this possibly the last sunny and dry weekend before the real rainy season begins, probably next week. The National Weather Service says the showers experienced in much of the Puget Sound this week […]
  
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• Washington fishermen are on front lines in fight against proposed Alaska mine

  12-10-2017 15:00
  Washington fishermen are at the forefront of the opposition to a proposed mine in the headwaters of the Bristol Bay region that sustains the world’s largest sockeye salmon runs.
  
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• Trump’s EPA decision on Alaska mining project reignites battle over protecting wild salmon

  12-10-2017 15:00
  Washington fishermen are at the forefront of the opposition to a proposed mine in the headwaters of the Bristol Bay region that sustains the world’s largest sockeye salmon runs.
  
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• Suspects’ phones led Northwest investigators to carcasses in one of the biggest poaching cases they’ve ever seen

  12-10-2017 15:00
  A remote wildlife camera in Oregon led officers to the suspects. Then texts, videos and social-media posts on the suspects’ phones led the officers into the forest. (Note: Some people may find images disturbing.)
  
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• Seattle cathedral’s bells strike spiritual tones

  12-10-2017 15:00
  There’s far more to bell-ringing than knowing the ropes. There’s individual style married with religious intent. John Cox, with Saint Spiridon Orthodox Cathedral, says there’s a bell-ringer in California known as the Miles Davis of ringers. Cox says his approach is more like Viktor Kotelnikov of Moscow with “a measured, steady beat, with improvisation. It’s […]
  
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• Fish-farming company offered money for Lummi Nation’s silence about net pens, letters show

  12-10-2017 15:00
  Cooke Aquaculture offered the Lummi Nation a premium price for the fish it caught that had escaped from Cooke pens, in exchange for keeping silent about a ban on net pen Atlantic salmon farms in Washington. The tribe called the offer “insulting.”
  
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• Family of 4 needs $76,000 just to ‘scrape by’ in Seattle, new UW report says

  12-10-2017 15:00
  The amount a family of four needs to scrape by in Seattle has risen 86 percent since 2001, and has increased at more than twice the rate of the Consumer Price Index.
  
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• A millionaire can save kids, and so can communities

  12-10-2017 15:00
  Don’t give up on kids, just give them the boost they need.
  
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• Six Washington community colleges up for $1 million Aspen Prize

  12-10-2017 14:00
  Six Washington colleges are eligible for the Aspen Prize, which is awarded every other year to the nation’s top community college.
  
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• Russia postpones launch of cargo ship to space station

  12-10-2017 12:02
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Mission Control says the launch of an unmanned Russian cargo ship to the International Space Station has been postponed. The Mission Control didn’t immediately give the reason for the postponement of Thursday’s launch, which was announced minutes after the designated launch time at 12:32 Moscow time (0932 GMT). It said the […]
  
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• Volcanic eruption in Japan spreads ash in 4 cities, towns

  12-10-2017 07:12
  TOKYO (AP) — A volcano in southwestern Japan is erupting for the first time in six years and spread ash in nearby cities and towns Thursday. Japanese broadcaster TBS showed elementary school students wearing helmets and masks on the way to their school at the foot of the Shinmoedake volcano. Residents also described hearing rumbles […]
  
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• Rare photos by early NASA astronauts being auctioned off

  12-10-2017 06:34
  BOSTON (AP) — John Glenn was the first person to snap a photograph of Earth from outer space. Neil Armstrong took the first picture from the moon’s surface. The original prints of those are among 445 rare photos taken by American astronauts that are being sold by Skinner Auctioneers and Appraisers starting this week. The […]
  
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• Trump nominates AccuWeather CEO to head US weather agency

  12-10-2017 05:02
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has nominated the CEO of a private weather company to head the government agency that oversees the National Weather Service, an organization the nominee has at times clashed with. Barry Myers, who runs the pioneering weather firm AccuWeather, was chosen as undersecretary of Commerce and head of the National […]
  
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• Former Hanford manager gets $8M jury award for retaliation

  12-10-2017 04:19
  The Benton County jury made the award Tuesday to Julie Atwood, who resigned in 2013 from Mission Support Alliance, a contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy.
  
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• Foiled in Congress, Trump moves on his own to relax Obamacare standards

  12-10-2017 04:09
  President Donald Trump is expected to issue an order Thursday to allow the sale of health-insurance plans that are exempt from some Affordable Care Act rules.
  
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• Washington AG Ferguson seeks to challenge Trump’s 3rd travel ban

  12-10-2017 03:06
  The latest travel restrictions — which affect citizens of Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria and Yemen — go into effect Oct. 18.
  
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• Washington state Lottery director calls women “criers,” report says

  12-10-2017 02:15
  The report says Washington Lottery Director Bill Hanson didn’t deny treating women employees differently than their male counterparts, but said he didn’t “do it consciously.”
  
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• Police: Man masturbated outside UW sorority window

  12-10-2017 01:49
  Seattle police arrested a 40-year-old man Tuesday night after a University of Washington student claimed he was masturbating at the window of her sorority house.
  
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• Veteran Seattle police detective fired in strip-club investigation

  12-10-2017 01:45
  An internal investigation revealed that Philip Wall, a longtime detective, used cocaine and provided marijuana-infused chocolates to a fellow officer, among other violations.
  
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• Friday the 13th Events

  12-10-2017 01:27 via thestranger.com
  Scary Movies, Spooky Concerts, Horror Board Games, And Moreby Stranger Things To Do StaffThis year, Friday the 13th happens to fall in the same month as Halloween, providing the perfect excuse for plenty of creepy concerts, scary movies, horror game nights, and other extra spooky events. We've compiled them all below.FILM
  Dial M for MurderIn Alfred Hitchcock's chilly huis clos of a murder drama, Tony Wendice hires a desperate acquaintance to off his rich wife, Margot. When the scheme goes awry,
  
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• 22 Events Where You Can Celebrate Friday the 13th 2017 in Seattle

  12-10-2017 01:26 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffAmong your scary movie options for the occasion is (what else?) Friday the 13th at the Spooked in Seattle Museum.
  This year, Friday the 13th happens to fall in the same month as Halloween, providing the perfect excuse for plenty of creepy concerts, scary movies, horror game nights, and other extra spooky events. We've compiled them all below, and you can also find them on our Halloween calendar, which includes more than 150 events through the end of the month.
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