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• NASA’s Bradford Smith, tour guide for Voyager missions, dies

  07-07-2018 20:42
  NEW YORK (AP) — Bradford Smith, a NASA astronomer who interpreted the stunning images beamed back from Voyager missions, has died. Smith’s wife, Diane McGregor, says he died on Tuesday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, of complications from myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disorder. He was 86. Smith headed the NASA team that […]
  
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• Snohomish County deputy prosecutor fired following arrest

  07-07-2018 20:02
  The Snohomish County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has fired a deputy prosecutor after opening an investigation into events that occurred after a conference in Chelan last month. County Prosecutor Mark Roe on Tuesday fired Christopher Dickinson, who had been on administrative leave. Roe said in an email Friday he learned about the incident a week before […]
  
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• Lanes back open at Interstate 5 and Lake City Way

  07-07-2018 19:28
  UPDATE: All ramps are back open between Interstate 5 and Lake City Way, state transportation officials reported before 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Earlier post: Before noon Saturday, crews were continuing to try clear the area around Interstate 5 at Lake City Way and Roosevelt Way Northeast in Seattle. The aftermath of a crash led I-5 lanes […]
  
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• Be aware of closures at Interstate 5 and Lake City Way

  07-07-2018 19:28
  Before noon Saturday, crews were continuing to try clear the area around Interstate 5 at Lake City Way and Roosevelt Way Northeast in Seattle. The aftermath of a crash led I-5 lanes to close, starting around 9 a.m. At about 11:50 a.m. the Washington State Department of Transportation tweeted that crews were working to clear […]
  
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• Oklahoma sees more severe earthquakes, fewer overall

  07-07-2018 16:46
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma’s 4.0 earthquakes are up significantly this year, but the overall rate of earthquakes is declining. Oklahoma has had six quakes of at least magnitude 4.0 halfway through this year, which is one more than all of last year. But the overall rate of earthquakes has declined, with 96 quakes of […]
  
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• Online voter registration deadline for Washington’s primary election is July 9

  07-07-2018 16:00
  Register to vote online by July 9. In-person registrations are accepted through July 30.
  
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• These attack robots and their UW creators will take on the world at RoboMaster competition in China

  07-07-2018 15:00
  UW Advanced Robotics team is taking its squad of fighting machines to the biggest, most complex student games in the world.
  
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• Mom seeking asylum released in Washington state, but can’t see her son yet

  07-07-2018 15:00
  The first thing Yolany Padilla wants to do is see her 6-year-old son. But the Honduran asylum-seeker, separated from her son under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy and released Friday from detention in Tacoma, has hoops to jump through that may take a while.
  
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• Detained mother released in Washington state, but can’t see her son yet

  07-07-2018 15:00
  The first thing Yolany Padilla wants to do is see her 6-year-old son. But the Honduran asylum-seeker, separated from her son under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy and released Friday from detention in Tacoma, has hoops to jump through that may take a while.
  
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• State Supreme Court weighs in on Yakima County clerk’s legal fight to keep her job

  07-07-2018 05:47
  In May, the Yakima County Superior Court judges ordered Janelle Riddle to obtain an additional $200,000 in bonding after a state audit report found more than $13,000 unaccounted for in the clerk’s office in 2017.
  
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• Tim Eyman’s been on the ropes many times before. But not as bad as this.

  07-07-2018 04:38
  Between a court holding Eyman in contempt and his struggles to raise money, even the longtime initiative promoter is suggesting his latest car- tabs measure might be his last stand.
  
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• Steve Ditko, Spider-Man co-creator, dies at age 90

  07-07-2018 02:49
  Steve Ditko, along with Stan Lee, introduced the world to Peter Parker, and his alter-ego Spider-Man in 1962 in an issue of "Amazing Fantasy."
  
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• King County’s top public defender resigns after Dow Constantine won’t reappoint her

  07-07-2018 02:17
  Lorinda Youngcourt received negative feedback about her management style that persuaded County Executive Dow Constantine not to give her a second term.
  
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• Godmonster of Indian Flats Is Back From the Dead and Still Terrible

  07-07-2018 02:01 via thestranger.com
  
  A little acid and it might actually make sense.by Katie Herzog
  Sometimes movies are purposefully, and perfectly, bad. For example, Black Dynamite and/or Deep Blue Sea and/or Mr. Freedom, which I've never seen but which The Stranger's calendar film editor assures me is wretched, but in kind of a good way. And then there are movies that are so terrible you can't tell if they are the work of a genius or just a waste of film. Godmonster of Indian Flats, a part horror, part Western monstrosity create
  
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• The Pee Tape and the Fall of an Empire

  07-07-2018 01:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede wissanu01/gettyimage.com
  The American Empire is being dismantled by the current American president because of a pee tape. (Please read this post before going any further.) But what exactly is the American Empire, and, therefore, what exactly is Trump dismantling for the enemies of the state he commands? We know three things for sure. One, American Empire followed the British Empire. Two, it became a reality right after the Second World War. And three, it had two key capitalist
  
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• Trump Is Playing Games With Our Cherries—and It Might Help a Dem Beat Rossi in the 8th

  07-07-2018 01:34 via thestranger.com
  
  The trade war might lower the President's approval ratings in the 8th District.by Rich SmithIn Trump's America, everyone has to eat their cherries off the goddamn porch. RUBEN RAMOS / GettyThe president thinks our $500 billion trade deficit is bad (it's not), and he thinks China is stealing our intellectual property (they are but it's not that bad), and so he's launched a full-on trade war against China. As many outlets reported, Friday at midnight he imposed significant tariffs on a range of go
  
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• This coral must die

  07-07-2018 01:26
  In a lab in Philadelphia, scientists are studying what it takes to kill “super coral” to understand the impact of human activities on the mysterious reefs of the deep ocean.
  
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• Let the stream run through it

  07-07-2018 01:25
  It’s taken two decades to clean up most of Silver Bow Creek, polluted from a century of mining. Now some Butte residents want the last two miles restored, to babble on through the city.
  
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• Last-Minute Plans: 107 Free, Cheap & Easy Things To Do In Seattle This Weekend: July 6-8, 2018

  07-07-2018 01:21 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffCatch live sets from Stas Thee Boss, Nappy Nina, Breaks and Swells, and others at KEXP Rocks the Dock on Saturday. Robert Wade
  Panicking because you haven't yet made plans for the weekend and you're short on cash? Don't worry—below, find all of your options for last-minute entertainment that won't cost more than $10, ranging from the Seattle Street Food Festival to Queer Press Fest, and from the closing ceremony of the 2018 Special Olympics USA Games to the Se
  
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• Judge sentences John Reed to life for killing Oso couple, blasts him as coldblooded

  07-07-2018 00:44
  "Why couldn’t you show these people the compassion you showed to their animals after you killed them?” the judge asked as he sentenced the killer of Monique Patenaude and her husband, Patrick Shunn. “You fed the cat and watered the chicks ... These people did nothing wrong to you.”
  
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• John Reed sentenced to life in prison in slaying of Oso couple, his former neighbors

  07-07-2018 00:44
  A former Oso man convicted of killing Monique Patenaude and her husband, Patrick Shunn, following an ongoing property dispute was sentenced Friday to life in prison.
  
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• My Great Aunt the Nun Was Reincarnated as a Celibate and He Sent Me an Email...

  07-07-2018 00:09 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Hi Dan,
  I have returned to the Roman Catholic Church and am considering a vocation.You've been a critical part of my journey home to the Sacraments.
  I think you're missing from the Church and you think it's not worth it.
  Also I'm loving celibacy but I had an invalid civil marriage to a sex worker and all my kinks we're part of the long journey, too.
  Wanna talk about human dignity and the penance of Rome on your podcast?
  Or over coffee?We need everyone to come home.
  Or maybe you wan
  
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• Wild high-speed chase from Bellevue to Seattle ends in arrest

  07-07-2018 00:00
  With the back door left open, packages flung out of the back all along Bellevue Way as the suspect drove west toward Seattle, said Bellevue Police Department Public Information Officer Tyler Seth.
  
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• Man steals FedEx truck in Bellevue, leads police on high-speed chase to Seattle

  07-07-2018 00:00
  With the back door of the truck left open, packages dropped out all along Bellevue Way as the suspect drove west toward Seattle, said Bellevue Police Department Public Information Officer Tyler Seth. The man was arrested.
  
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