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• Seattle expected to see scattered showers, mild temperatures Friday

  23-11-2017 23:58
  Even as Seattle on Thursday and Friday was expected to get a break from downpour, rivers have swollen in King and Snohomish counties.
  
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• Woman and teen die in crash south of Corvallis

  23-11-2017 21:42
  CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a woman from Molalla and a 16-year-old boy have been identified as the people who died in a vehicle collision Wednesday south of Corvallis. The Gazette-Times reports 43-year-old Tonya Moore was driving on Highway 99 when her car was hit head-on by a car at an intersection with Finley […]
  
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• Unexpectedly strong flood receding north of Seattle

  23-11-2017 21:27
  Heavy rains throughout the week have pushed the Skagit River to its highest level since 2006 and triggered evacuations for the small town of Hamilton, about two hours north and east of Seattle.
  
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• Rivers cresting as flood threat looms along Skagit River

  23-11-2017 21:27
  Heavy rains throughout the week have pushed the Skagit River to its highest level since 2006 and triggered evacuations for the small town of Hamilton, about two hours north and east of Seattle.
  
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• Floods north of Seattle trigger evacuations along Skagit River

  23-11-2017 21:27
  Heavy rains throughout the week have pushed the Skagit River to its highest level since 2006 and triggered evacuations for the small town of Hamilton, about two hours north and east of Seattle.
  
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• Report: Body found in West Seattle's Lincoln Park

  23-11-2017 20:53
  The body of gray-haired man was found on the beach in West Seattle's Lincoln Park Thursday morning, the West Seattle Blog reported.
  
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• Las Vegas pot dispensaries offer Black Friday deals

  23-11-2017 20:10
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Big-box stores won’t be the only ones offering discounts to shoppers in Las Vegas this Black Friday. Marijuana dispensaries are rolling out deals, too. More than 40 dispensaries in the Sin City area will offer discounts on marijuana flower products, edibles such as chocolates, and concentrates, the Las Vegas Sun reported […]
  
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• Black Lives Matter marchers meet Black Friday shoppers in Seattle

  23-11-2017 19:00
  A somewhat subdued throng of demonstrators demanding justice for African-Americans killed by police officers marched and protested Friday in downtown Seattle to greet Black Friday shoppers descending on the city's commercial core.
  
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• 2 wounded in shooting at Capitol Hill nightclub in Seattle

  23-11-2017 17:22
  Two people suffered gunshot wounds to the arm, but are expected to survive, police said. No arrests have been made.
  
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• 2 shot at Capitol Hill nightclub in Seattle

  23-11-2017 17:22
  Two people suffered gunshot wounds to the arm, but are expected to survive, police said. No arrests have been made.
  
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• The Morning News: It's Thanksgiving, Guns Are Now More Easily Available Now, Shooting Inside Chop Suey, and Seattle "Teacher of the Future" No Longer Has One

  23-11-2017 17:19 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageChowing down on Thanksgiving.
  THANKSGIVING: Some people are celebrating, some people are mourning, some people are telling you to get offline, and this asshole is violating the emoluments clause and enriching himself.
  RACIST PRESIDENT ALWAYS RACISTING: "Let’s be clear about this: President Trump regularly goes out of his way to attack prominent African Americans not just to 'stoke the culture wars,' as this euphemism often has it—but, more precisely, to stoke the sense a
  
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• The Morning News: It's Thanksgiving, Guns Are Now More Easily Available Now, Gentrification Isn't Funny, and Seattle "Teacher of the Future" No Longer Has One

  23-11-2017 17:19 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageChowing down on Thanksgiving.
  THANKSGIVING: Some people are celebrating, some people are mourning, some people are telling you to get offline, and this asshole is violating the emoluments clause and enriching himself.
  RACIST PRESIDENT ALWAYS RACISTING: "Let’s be clear about this: President Trump regularly goes out of his way to attack prominent African Americans not just to 'stoke the culture wars,' as this euphemism often has it—but, more precisely, to stoke the sense a
  
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• Two injured in Capitol Hill nightclub shooting

  23-11-2017 16:33
  Two people were injured when gunfire erupted inside Chop Suey on Seattle's Capitol Hill.
  
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• Trappers ask court to throw out lawsuit over US fur exports

  23-11-2017 15:52
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Fur trappers are asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit from wildlife advocates who want to block the export of bobcat pelts from the United States. Attorneys for trapping organizations said in recent court filings that the lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service infringes on the authority […]
  
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• ACLU leader: Legalizing marijuana a ‘racial justice issue’

  23-11-2017 15:51
  NEPTUNE, N.J. (AP) — The head of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey says legalizing recreational marijuana would help fix “a racial justice issue and a civil rights crisis” because the war on drugs is disproportionately targeting black New Jerseyans. “In New Jersey you are three times more likely to be arrested and […]
  
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• After the outbreak: Med schools boost Ebola-wrecked Liberia

  23-11-2017 15:35
  The Ebola epidemic that ravaged Liberia took a heavy toll on the country’s medical ranks, leaving the West African nation with one of the lowest doctor-to-patient ratios in the world. To build the country’s health care system back up, teams from American universities and hospitals, with backing from the World Bank and the U.S. government, […]
  
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• Man sues city of Bend over snowplow crash

  23-11-2017 15:15
  BEND, Ore. (AP) — A man is seeking nearly $300,000 from the city of Bend because of a 2015 incident in which a snowplow allegedly lifted and dropped the truck he was driving. The Bend Bulletin reports law firm Dwyer Williams Dretke filed the suit Wednesday on behalf of Brian Fletcher, who alleges he was […]
  
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• Sexual abuse, racism, violence — our heroes are sometimes also bad

  23-11-2017 15:00
  Putting people like movie directors, comedians and politicians on a pedestal is dangerous. Best to admire good actions without assuming too much about what lies beneath. That’s one way to stay sane.
  
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• Man killed wife, son, self in Bellingham, autopsies indicate

  23-11-2017 14:30
  BELLINGHAM (AP) — Autopsies on three people found dead inside their Bellingham home Monday indicate that Kevin Rowe killed his wife and their 5-year-old child and then killed himself. The Bellingham Herald reports Whatcom County Medical Examiner Dr. Gary Goldfogel said Wednesday 43-year-old Tanya Rowe and Benton Rowe died from “sharp-force injuries to their necks.” […]
  
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• Wolves’ return to Oregon brings conflict and opportunity

  23-11-2017 09:07
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Wolves were once so plentiful in the abundant forests that would become Oregon that the earliest settlers gathered from far and wide to discuss how to kill them. Those “wolf meetings” in the 1840s, spawned by a common interest, eventually led to the formation of the Oregon territory, the precursor for […]
  
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• Why so many bears? Not enough berries, says expert in Alaska

  23-11-2017 08:06
  KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — Several Kodiak residents have reported seeing bears in town throughout the past few weeks, and at least one area expert believes that’s because of a lackluster berry crop this year. Although the state Department of Fish and Game hasn’t received a higher-than-normal number of reported bear sightings, area wildlife biologist Nathan […]
  
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• City attorney files discrimination lawsuit against Vancouver, Wash.

  23-11-2017 08:03
  VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Debra Quinn, Vancouver’s assistant city attorney, has filed a lawsuit saying her superiors engaged in a pattern of disparate treatment toward female employees, which created a hostile work environment. The Columbian reports that Quinn filed the suit on Tuesday in U.S. District Court. She alleges gender discrimination, retaliation, First Amendment violations, […]
  
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• Light pollution increasing around globe

  23-11-2017 05:32
  The findings, described in the journal Science Advances, track what researchers called a worrisome trend that has implications for the environment and human health.
  
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• Abnormal proteins found in skin of patients with rare brain disease

  23-11-2017 05:19
  The discovery suggests that skin samples might be used to improve detection of the disorder, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which now is usually diagnosed with much more difficult procedures, such as brain biopsies or autopsies.
  
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• George Avakian, jazz producer and scholar, dies at 98

  23-11-2017 04:57
  NEW YORK (AP) — George Avakian, a Russian-born jazz scholar and architect of the American music industry who produced essential recordings by Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and other stars has died at age 98. Avakian’s daughter, Anahid Avakian Gregg, confirmed that her father died Wednesday morning at his home in Manhattan. No further details were […]
  
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• Mobile home collapses, fatally crushes man near Monroe

  23-11-2017 03:52
  MONROE (AP) — Authorities say a man was crushed to death when a mobile home collapsed on him northeast of Monroe. KOMO-TV reports the man was the property owner and was removing the mobile home when it collapsed. Snohomish County Fire District 7 says crews unsuccessfully tried to use air bags and jacks to lift […]
  
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• Jon Hendricks, master of scat, jazz vocalization and sly lyrics, dies at 96

  23-11-2017 03:14
  Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, with Hendricks as principal lyricist and ebullient spokesman, introduced the concept of vocalese to a vast audience. The group’s tight harmonies, skillful scat singing and polished showmanship made it popular in the late 1950s and early ‘60s.
  
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• Ken Hatch, former longtime KIRO president, dies at 82

  23-11-2017 02:52
  During more than three decades leading the broadcasting company, Ken Hatch added innovations, such as TV news helicopters and traffic vans, and he became familiar to viewers by appearing on-air, thousands of times, to read editorials.
  
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• Bellevue resident Ken Hatch, former longtime KIRO president, dies

  23-11-2017 02:52
  During more than three decades leading the broadcasting company, Mr. Hatch added innovations such as TV news helicopters and traffic vans, and he became familiar to viewers by appearing on air to read editorials.
  
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• Washington state panel outlines risks of oil-by-rail terminal

  23-11-2017 02:35
  Many of the risks could be decreased with certain mitigation measures, but a study released Tuesday outlined four areas where it said the impacts are significant and cannot be avoided.
  
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• Two More Women Accuse Franken of Groping

  23-11-2017 02:14 via thestranger.com
  
  He should strongly consider stepping down.by Rich SmithFranken's response: “It’s difficult to respond to anonymous accusers, and I don’t remember those campaign events.” Joe Raedle / Getty
  When radio anchor Leeann Tweeden told the story of Al Franken sticking his tongue down her throat while rehearsing for a USO show, she said she did so because "because there may be others." Welp, two days ago a second womanclaimed Franken grabbed her butt during a photograph in 2010, wh
  
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• Long dependent on immigrant workers, Yakima Valley growers laboring with new reality

  23-11-2017 02:01
  After decades of enjoying a robust low-wage labor force mostly composed of Mexican immigrants entering the U.S. illegally, growers here and across the state are finding fewer laborers interested in coming here to work.
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Men Are Pigs and Other Things We Already Knew

  23-11-2017 02:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  My god the last four weeks have been torture. Of course #metoo and of course I knew intellectually and sometimes experientially that all of this happens all the time, but reading these women's stories again and again and again over the past few weeks has made it harder to get through the day.I know #notallmen, but I have to admit, I wake up and read the news, and I find myself saying, my god, men are disgusting. The stories are not only the stories of women's abuse, they are glimps
  
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• MoPOP's Jimi Hendrix 75 Event Finds Yet More Reasons to Hail the Guitar God

  23-11-2017 01:54 via thestranger.com
  
  MoPOP's extravagantly celebrating Jimi Hendrix's 75th birthday; here's why you should check it out.by Andrew HamlinJimi's ax is bold and lovable.
  The birth of Johnny Allen Hendrix, November 27, 1942, in Seattle, signaled only a tiny ping in the big world. Lucille Jeter Hendrix took her baby home.Her husband, Al Hendrix, was on Army duty in Alabama. His commanding officer not only refused Al the customary leave for the birth of a child, but stuck the young solider in the stockade, to prevent him
  
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• Federal judge asks for more information on clearing of Seattle police in Charleena Lyles shooting

  23-11-2017 01:43
  U.S. District Judge James Robart is seeking the information before he decides whether to find the Seattle Police Department in compliance with a 2012 consent degree requiring reforms to address excessive force and biased policing.
  
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• Denzel Washington Walks Like a Mind Without a Body in Roman J. Israel, Esq

  23-11-2017 01:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeWalk this way...
  Let's begin by recalling Jake Gyllenhaal’s bulging eyes in Dan Gilroy’s excellent thriller Nightcrawler. They are the eyes of a man who almost entirely lives in his head. With those eyes in mind, let's turn to the star of a new film that's also directed Gilroy, Roman J. Israel, Esq. Denzel Washington—a black American actor who has handled his Hollywood career far more prudently and effectively than, say, Will Smith—plays Mr. Israel, a man
  
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• A visual feast: Farmers’ work comes to your Thanksgiving table

  23-11-2017 01:00
  This Thanksgiving week, many across our country will be consumed with tastes, smells and conversation with family and friends. But creating that food is something that consumes farmers year round.
  
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• See Seattle past and future at the Sheraton Gingerbread Village

  23-11-2017 00:59
  The 25th annual Sheraton Gingerbread Village is on display, this year at the City Centre building across the street from the Sheraton Seattle Hotel, until Jan. 1.
  
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• Look, a Rainbow

  23-11-2017 00:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Hot take.by Sydney BrownstoneHot take. SB
  Shut down Twitter and look out the window. Everyone is terrible, but look, a rainbow.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Global Warming Brings the Tropics to Pacific Northwest's Turkey Holiday—Almost 70F in Seattle

  23-11-2017 00:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeIt looks like fall but it feels like summer is around the corner. Charles Mudede
  As the popular weatherperson Cliff Mass explained in his post "Tropical Air over Seattle," this morning, "our low temperature (56F) was the HIGHEST low temperature ever recorded in November at Seattle Tacoma Airport." Indeed. It's usually supposed to be in the mid-40s around this time of the year. Mass writes: "The temperatures today will delight you." But everyone I've met on the street or in the c
  
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• Seattle’s income tax on the wealthy is illegal, judge rules

  23-11-2017 00:31
  Seattle’s income tax on wealthy households failed its first legal test on Wednesday.
  
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