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• Suspect in Bellevue mosque arson was ‘being stupid’, teens tell police

  05-04-2018 23:57
  An 18-year-old has been charged with first-degree arson, accused of setting a fire last month at the now-closed Islamic Center of Eastside. It’s the second fire there in a year; police do not believe it was a hate crime.
  
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• Revelations of Possible Crime in CA Crash Makes Viral Black-Boy-Hugging-Cop Image More Sinister

  05-04-2018 23:54 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeMendocino CountySamson1976/gettyimages.com
  The Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman now considers one of the white mothers, Sarah Hart, of the six adopted children of color, a criminal. From the evidence his department has gathered from the mysterious crash that killed five people early last week (three of the children are still missing—one of whom, a black boy named Devonte, briefly became an internet celebrity when a picture of him hugging a white cop last year went viral
  
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• Thousands of convictions tainted by rogue lab chemist tossed

  05-04-2018 23:19
  BOSTON (AP) — A judge on Massachusetts’ highest court has ordered the dismissal of thousands of cases tainted by a former chemist who authorities say was high almost every day she worked at a state drug lab for eight years. The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and the state’s public defender agency say more […]
  
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• Trial Reveals the Pulse Shooting Wasn't About Homophobia; It Was About U.S. Foreign Policy

  05-04-2018 23:13 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogForty-nine people were killed at the 2016 Pulse shooting. Kelly O
  In the days after the 2016 shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando—a shooting that left 49 dead and 53 wounded —rumors quickly circulated: We heard that the shooter, Omar Mateen, was a closet case with a secret Grinder profile who targeted a gay club because of his own internalized homophobia. Vox published an interview with a man claiming to be Mateen's former lover, who said the shooter was "100 percent
  
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• Maddow beats Hannity in March cable news ratings

  05-04-2018 23:02
  Rachel Maddow has broken through Fox News' dominance of cable TV news ratings. The MSNBC host beats out Sean Hannity of Fox News in March as the most watched news program.
  
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• Anti-Sinclair Commercial to Run on KOMO and other Sinclair Stations

  05-04-2018 22:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog Getty Images
  On Thursday, consumer watchdog group Allied Progress announced they will be purchasing ads on several Sinclair stations around the U.S. to call out the media giant for forcing local stations, including KOMO in Seattle, to air pro-Trump talking points.The ad also asks viewers concerned about Sinclair's increasing stranglehold on local media to call the FCC and demand they not approve Sinclair's nearly $4 billion bid to buy the Tribune Media Company. If approved, this
  
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• Remembering the Life of the Hilarious, Hardworking Seattle Comedian, Peggy Platt

  05-04-2018 22:45 via thestranger.com
  
  We lost a great artist on Monday.by Rich SmithPeggy Platt (left) and Lisa Koch as their signature characters, Euomi and Wynotta Spudd, in Sandbox Radio: EPIPHANY.Joe Iano
  Peggy Platt, longtime doyenne of Seattle's comedy scene, died Monday at the age of 58. The Seattle Times quotes a family friend who says she died of "a heart attack in her sleep."Comedian Lisa Loch met Platt in 1989 at Alice B. Theatre, a now shuttered but hugely influential gay and lesbian playhouse run by Susan Finque and Eri
  
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• 25 Movies Worth Watching in Seattle This Weekend: April 5–8, 2018

  05-04-2018 22:43 via thestranger.com
  A Quiet Place, The China Hustle, Foxtrot, and Other Critics' Picksby Stranger Things To Do StaffIn the mood for emotionally deep, locally made cinema? Try Lynn Shelton's Outside In. Prefer a blockbuster horror film? A Quiet Place comes out tonight. Feeling nostalgic for Prince's days as a sexy megastar? Head down to Columbia City for Purple Rain. Find all of our film critics' picks for this weekend below, follow the links to see complete showtimes, tickets, and trailers, and, if you're looking f
  
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• WA Supreme Court: Criminal History Can't Automatically Bar Someone From Becoming a Lawyer

  05-04-2018 22:32 via thestranger.com
  
  The State Supreme Court's written opinion offers compelling insight into Simmons' life and the way society has evolved in thinking about people who experience childhood trauma.by Sydney BrownstoneThe Washington State Supreme Court says that if you once struggled with substance abuse problems, you aren't automatically disqualified from taking the bar. COSMONAUT/GETTY IMAGES
  Earlier this year, the State Supreme Court reversed the Washington State Bar Association's decision to prohibit a woman name
  
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• Drue Heinz, philanthropist and Paris Review publisher, dies at 103

  05-04-2018 22:32
  Drue Heinz, 103, the British-born widow of Henry J. "Jack" Heinz II, was a quiet but influential force in the literary and cultural life of the United States and Britain for decades.
  
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• White Nationalist Troll "Ricky Vaughn" Unmasked as Well-to-do Middlebury Grad

  05-04-2018 22:16 via thestranger.com
  by Katie HerzogThe Huffington Post's Luke O’Brien has a doozy of a story today about "Ricky Vaughn," an anonymous right wing troll and Donald Trump supporter who was eventually banned from Twitter, although he apparently popped up under a new moniker, called, of course, RapinBill. Clever.Vaughn, O'Brien writes, "had tens of thousands of followers, and his talent for blending far-right propaganda with conservative messages on Twitter made him a key disseminator of extremist views to Republi
  
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• What it costs to be a Seattle sports fan over the years

  05-04-2018 22:03
  The cost of living in Seattle has gone up recently. Way up. And sorry sports fans, but recreational activities aren't exempt from that.
  
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• City Arts Announces Split from Publishers Encore Media Group, Launches Indiegogo Membership Campaign

  05-04-2018 22:01 via thestranger.com
  
  by Sean NelsonA sampling of recent City Arts covers.
  The Seattle magazine City Arts sent out a press release today announcing it will no longer be published by Encore Media Group, a Seattle/San Francisco company that specializes in printing live event programs and catalogs. The release encourages fans of the magazine's 12-year run of covering local arts and culture to support its continued existence by contributing to a "member-raising campaign" through Indiegogo.City Arts Publisher Andy Fife wr
  
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• Magnitude 5.3 quake strikes off Southern California coast

  05-04-2018 21:44
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck Thursday afternoon under the ocean off Southern California and was felt widely along the mainland coast, but there were no immediate reports of damage except to a chimney on one of the Channel Islands. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake occurred at 12:29 p.m. in […]
  
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• Concern, condemnation after Spokane Falls student newspaper reports on sex scandal

  05-04-2018 21:28
  The Communicator, which publishes three times each academic quarter, released its latest issue with a cover story about Darren Pitcher, who resigned as the college’s acting president amid allegations of sexual assault and harassment.
  
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• Two Months Later, Facebook's Disclosures to the City of Seattle Still Don't Add Up

  05-04-2018 21:26 via thestranger.com
  
  If this keeps up, it's possible Facebook could owe the people of Seattle more than $3,200,000.by Eli SandersWas this the only Facebook ad purchased by the 2017 mayoral campaign of Nikkita Oliver? No. But it's the only Oliver campaign ad that Facebook has disclosed. City of Seattle
  We've now been through three rounds of Facebook disclosing information about political ads that targeted Seattle's 2017 municipal elections.Round one failed to comply with Seattle law and, as I reported two months ago,
  
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• 40-year-old Leo the gorilla died of heart disease, says Woodland Park Zoo doc

  05-04-2018 20:52
  The Woodland Park Zoo's beloved silverback gorilla, Leo, died of heart disease, the zoo's director of animal health announced after a necropsy to determine what caused Leo's death last week.
  
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• Seven positions eliminated at public radio KUOW amid restructuring of ‘drive time’ shows

  05-04-2018 20:33
  KUOW says it will eliminates seven positions and create seven more at the public-radio station. The decision comes just two months after KUOW staffers elected to form a union, but before a new contract agreement with management.
  
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• Not a Good Week For Personal Essays About Dating

  05-04-2018 20:30 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageLast Friday the Washington Post published a controversial/batshit/arguably anti-Semitic essay on the night before Passover. A woman who described herself as a WASP announced that she would no longer date Jewish men because Jewish guys and their overbearing mothers suuuuuuuck. (The author of the essay has since apologized.) Amazingly, the piece is still up:
  Over almost seven years and two serious relationships with Jewish men who at first said religion didn’t matter—and t
  
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• Virgin Galactic conducts 1st powered flight of new spaceship

  05-04-2018 20:19
  MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) — Virgin Galactic has conducted the first powered test flight of its new space tourism rocket. Virgin Galactic tweets that the spaceship named Unity was carried aloft by its mother ship and released over California’s Mojave Desert early Thursday. The company says the spacecraft achieved supersonic speed before the pilots shut down […]
  
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• Food & Drink Specials to Try This Month

  05-04-2018 20:15 via thestranger.com
  Get These Special Flavors of Ice Cream, Cupcakes, Doughnuts, and More Before They're Goneby Stranger Things To Do StaffThey say April is the cruelest month, but, if it means local food and drink establishments offering specials like lemon meringue pie cupcakes (Trophy Cupcakes) and Chocolate Caramel Potato Chip Cupcake ice cream (Salt and Straw), we'd say it's pretty okay. We've gathered all the seasonal specials available this month in one convenient place, so you can scheme which ones to try b
  
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• Metro shuttle service to popular hiking trails near Issaquah returns this month

  05-04-2018 20:08
  The program, designed to expand access to hiking trails and reduce trailhead congestion, cost less than budgeted and received rave reviews last year.
  
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• Idaho fines Energy Department $3.5M over nuclear waste

  05-04-2018 20:05
  BOISE, Idaho — Daily fines the U.S. Department of Energy is paying Idaho for missing a deadline to get radioactive liquid waste out of underground storage tanks passed $3.5 million this week. The federal agency started paying the fines in 2015. It’s in violation of a 1992 agreement involving 900,000 gallons of sodium-bearing waste sitting […]
  
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• Fines paid by US agency over nuke waste surpass $3.5M

  05-04-2018 20:05
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Fines paid by the U.S. Department of Energy to Idaho for missing a deadline to get radioactive liquid waste out of underground storage tanks have surpassed $3.5 million and the money could be used for enhanced monitoring of a huge aquifer beneath the site, officials say. The federal agency started paying […]
  
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• A Quiet Place Is a Fun, Brawny Horror Flick with a Sugary Heart

  05-04-2018 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  John Krasinski writes and stars in this perfectly scary new outing with wife Emily Blunt.by Joule ZelmanMoments in A Quiet Place
  Let’s say human civilization is basically kaput and giant scythe-hand stealth-crab anthropoids roam the earth. They’re blind, but their huge, opalescent inner ears alert them to the presence of prey from miles off. They’re apparently invincible and have very, very short tempers.If you’re the protagonists of A Quiet Place, John Krasinski’s
  
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• Former Seattle Impact owner Dion Earl indicted on tax fraud charges

  05-04-2018 19:54
  Dion Earl, 46, who is currently in jail in Arizona awaiting trial on sexual assault charges, now faces tax fraud charges too
  
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• Save time, not money, with seaplane flights to Vancouver B.C.

  05-04-2018 19:13
  Kenmore Air and Vancouver B.C.'s Harbour Air announced on Thursday that daily seaplane service between Seattle and Vancouver will start later this month.
  
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• The Latest Buzz Around CBD

  05-04-2018 18:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Josh Jardine DRUVO AND ALEXWONG / GETTY IMAGES
  CBD continues to be a gamechanger. The applications of this cannabinoid, which can be made from either cannabis or hemp, keep growing—as does its popularity. Let’s take a look at what’s been going on with CBD lately.I never thought I’d be typing the words “Mitch McConnell did the right thing,” but here we are. The senate majority leader from Kentucky announced that when he returns to the Senate this month, he p
  
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• Public comment supports rebuilding Glacier Park’s Sperry Chalet as it was

  05-04-2018 18:32
  WEST GLACIER, Mont.  — The National Park Service says public comments favor plans to rebuild the Sperry Chalet dormitory using its rock walls where they stand after the building in Glacier National Park was destroyed by a fire last August. The park service says it is fast-tracking the project and expects to have a draft […]
  
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• Searchers find cellphone where SUV went off California cliff

  05-04-2018 18:24
  A cellphone was discovered near the California crash site that could have belonged to one of the family members from Woodland, Clark County.
  
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• Cellphone found where SUV plunged off California cliff with Washington state family of 8

  05-04-2018 18:24
  A cellphone was discovered near the California crash site that could have belonged to one of the family members from Woodland, Clark County.
  
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• Guest Editorial: An Employee Hours Tax Would Be Good for Business

  05-04-2018 18:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Gravity Payments is for the EHT.by Dan PriceThe author Courtesy photo
  Last month, a task force overseen by Seattle’s city council introduced a proposal for the Employee Hours Tax, a bill that would tax the city’s largest companies in an effort to raise $75 million to help provide homeless shelters and affordable housing to our poorest residents. If the bill passes, our company, Gravity Payments would pay somewhere between $16,000 and $38,000 annually depending on how the tax is ultim
  
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• Wayne Kramer's MC50 to Celebrate the MC5's Kick Out the Jams at the Showbox, Oct. 16

  05-04-2018 17:45 via thestranger.com
  
  MC5 fans can hear Kick Out the Jams done live by guitarist Wayne Kramer, Kim Thayil, and other badass musicians at the Showbox, Oct. 16.by Dave SegalWayne Kramer: "This band will rip your head off." Mike Barich
  The glut of 50th-anniversary celebrations in the music world can be overwhelming and not always worth your precious time. However, Kick Out the Jams: The 50th Anniversary Tour, which pays tribute to the debut live album by revolutionary Detroit rock thugs the MC5, looks like it'll be one
  
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• Slog AM: Seattle Schools' First Native American Superintendent, Washington's Distracted Driving Crack Down

  05-04-2018 17:14 via thestranger.com
  
  The opioid crisis is very much still a thing, another black man with a gun killed by police, and fast trips to Canada.by Nathalie GrahamDon't click it or ticketGetty
  Seattle School Board chooses first Native American superintendent: In a unanimous vote Wednesday night, Denise Juneau was selected to be the next superintendent. She previously served as Montana’s state superintendent. Juneau beat out 62 other candidates, including some high schoolers. She will be the first Native American in
  
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• Auburn man dies after shootout with Federal Way police

  05-04-2018 16:14
  Federal Way police say a fleeing Auburn man allegedly tried to steal a car before breaking into an unoccupied house and hiding. He died in a shootout after a nine-hour standoff.
  
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• KUOW Eliminates Seven Staff Positions

  05-04-2018 15:40 via thestranger.com
  
  "Many people left in tears," one employee said.by Heidi GrooverSeven KUOW employees' positions will be eliminated. kjekol/getty
  KUOW eliminated seven employees’ positions Wednesday. The news prompted shock and tears in the newsroom, according to an employee.The change comes as station leadership restructures KUOW’s morning and afternoon “drive time” shows. It also comes less than two months after the KUOW newsroom elected to unionize, but before employees bargained a new
  
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• Is Seattle ready to consider widespread tolling to ease traffic congestion?

  05-04-2018 15:00
  Congestion pricing has long been a sensitive political subject, so much so that no American city has implemented a widespread tolling system despite years of discussion and mountains of proposals.
  
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• Can’t put that phone down while driving? A new statewide patrol is after you

  05-04-2018 15:00
  State law prohibits the use of all electronic gadgets, such as cellphones, tablets, laptop computers and personal gaming systems, while behind the wheel — including at a stop sign or red-light signal.
  
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• Scientists harvest 1st vegetables in Antarctic greenhouse

  05-04-2018 13:21
  BERLIN (AP) — Scientists in Antarctica have harvested their first crop of vegetables grown without earth, daylight or pesticides as part of a project designed to help astronauts cultivate fresh food on other planets. Researchers at Germany’s Neumayer Station III say they’ve picked 3.6 kilograms (8 pounds) of salad greens, 18 cucumbers and 70 radishes […]
  
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• 12-hour police standoff over; suspect shot dead

  05-04-2018 09:22
  A man who barricaded himself inside a Federal Way home has died after exchanging gunfire with police Wednesday night.
  
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• Connelly: A Dr. King tribute -- young speakers stir crowd, politicians are scarce

  05-04-2018 06:07
  At Mount Zion Baptist Church, which once invited Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Seattle, the civil rights leader was remembered on the 50th anniversary of his assassination.  Local political brass were notable no-shows.
  
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• Making room at UW Waterfront Center for warmer weather

  05-04-2018 04:53
  The UW Waterfront Activities Center in Seattle started renting boats Sunday.
  
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• Seattle School Board selects first Native American superintendent in city history

  05-04-2018 04:00
  The Seattle School Board spent less than two months narrowing down a pool of 63 candidates to just three finalists vying to lead Washington’s largest school district. Wednesday night, the Board voted unanimously to select Denise Juneau to be its next superintendent. She was Montana’s state superintendent from 2008 to 2016.
  
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• UW to ring in new bells Thursday atop Kane Hall

  05-04-2018 03:06
  The University of Washington will dedicate a 47-bell carillon in a ceremony Thursday.
  
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• Tucson police official tapped for key oversight job in Seattle Police Department

  05-04-2018 03:03
  The inspector-general job will provide broad oversight of the management, practices and policies of the Seattle Police Department and the Office of Police Accountability, which conducts internal investigations.
  
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• April Flavors of the Month: Food & Drink Specials To Try Now

  05-04-2018 02:21 via thestranger.com
  Get these special flavors of ice cream, cupcakes, doughnuts, and more before they're gone.by Stranger Things To Do StaffThey say April is the cruelest month, but, if it means local food and drink establishments offering specials like lemon meringue pie cupcakes (Trophy Cupcakes) and Chocolate Caramel Potato Chip Cupcake ice cream (Salt and Straw), we'd say it's pretty okay. We've gathered all the seasonal specials available this month in one convenient place, so you can scheme which ones to try
  
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• Got a story about homelessness you’ve always wanted to tell? Share it at Ignite Project Homeless

  05-04-2018 02:16
  A consistent problem Project Homeless comes across in our coverage is writing about numbers. We write about numbers constantly: How much money is spent on homeless services. How many people are making it out. How many people are dying while homeless. Project Homeless is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the causes of homelessness, explains […]
  
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• Free Will Astrology: April 4–10

  05-04-2018 01:25 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rob Brezsny
  ARIES (March 21–April 19): Eighty-three-year-old author Harlan Ellison has had a long and successful career. In the course of publishing hundreds of literary works in seven different genres, he has won numerous awards. But when he was in his 30s, there was an interruption in the upward arc of his career. Walt Disney Studios hired him as a writer. During his first day on the job, Roy Disney overheard Ellison joking with a coworker about using Disney characters in an animated
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: After the Fuct

  05-04-2018 01:20 via thestranger.com
  
  A sex worker's partner has a right to know about their work.by Dan Savage
  This letter was originally published on April 1, 2010.
  I don't know what to do. My boyfriend of almost two years broke up with me yesterday over the fact that I used to be an escort. He went through my e-mails and saw that I was answering ads, putting ads up, sending photos. We had been planning a future together, talking about moving in, getting married, having kids, etc., and then this happened.
  I know I either should've
  
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• Charge: Man tried to rob a Girl Scout in Tacoma

  05-04-2018 01:16
  A 23-year-old man is charged with attempted robbery in Pierce County after trying to rob a Girl Scout selling cookies in Tacoma.
  
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