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• Ten Seattle Sundaes to Try for National Hot Fudge Sundae Day Today

  25-07-2018 23:54 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffThe Cupcake Royale Coffee Lover's Sundae—with a tiramisu cupcake, a scoop of Stumptown coffee ice cream with dark chocolate ribbon, espresso, and hot fudge—offers an ideal afternoon pick-me-up for hot days. Cupcake Royale via Instagram
  Today is National Hot Fudge Sundae Day (which, curiously, does not fall on a Sunday, but on a Wednesday). Consider this your prescription for a refreshing, cool treat, a particularly welcome idea when this month is current
  
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• Wire’s First Three Albums Sound More Spacious and Vital Than Ever

  25-07-2018 23:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Wire’s Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, and 154 have been reissued on excellently pressed vinyl.by Ned LannamannWire first split up in 1980, after they’d recorded three miraculously inventive albums and a stack of 7-inches. Of course, the English band never really “broke up”; its members kept collaborating on various projects, and the Wire name has been resurrected several times over the years. Currently, Wire is an active, ongoing concern—they’ve released seven alb
  
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• Seattle City Light Removed Kite From Power Line, Averting Potential Disaster

  25-07-2018 23:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Saved!by Rich SmithThis thing was stuck pretty good. RS
  On the second day of Captiol Hill Block Party I looked skyward and saw a kite entangled in a power line running down Pine St. The toy, originally invented in 5th Century China, stayed stuck with its string dangling behind it until Wednesday afternoon, when a crew of six Seattle City Light workers brought it back down to earth.The rescue effort was slightly more complicated than you might imagine.One worker ventured out on a cherry picker to
  
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• ‘The whole thing’s crazy’: Police tracing trail of soldier from Renton slaying to shootings, suicide on Hood Canal Bridge

  25-07-2018 23:28
  Police are trying to determine Krishna Mahadevan-Prasad's whereabouts between when heleft a Renton motel and when he opened fire about 3:42 a.m. Tuesday on parked vehicles on the bridge before he killed himself.
  
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• It's National Hot Fudge Sundae Day

  25-07-2018 23:22 via thestranger.com
  Ten Seattle Sundaes to Try for National Hot Fudge Sundae Day.by Stranger Things To Do StaffToday is National Hot Fudge Sundae Day (which, curiously, does not fall on a Sunday, but on a Wednesday). Consider this your prescription for a refreshing, cool treat, a particularly welcome idea when this month is currently coming in second place for the hottest July on record in Seattle. If you'd like to celebrate by partaking in a river of ooey-gooey chocolate poured over some smooth, creamy scoops, we'
  
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• Seattle’s Showbox apparently to be demolished for apartment high-rise

  25-07-2018 23:19
  The music venue, which opened in 1939, would be replaced by a 442-unit apartment tower with ground-level retail under preliminary plans filed with the city.
  
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• When Does #Resistance to a Trump Hat Go Too Far?

  25-07-2018 23:15 via thestranger.com
  Blabbermouth Podcast Episode 159by The StrangerSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!It’s not the Trump tape we’ve all been waiting for, but the secret Trump recording released by Michael Cohen this week is pretty damn interesting, and Eli Sanders, Rich Smith, and Katie Herzog talk about all the weirdest details. (“Get me a Coke!” included.)After that, Charles Mudede and Katie debate how the left should respond to real-life trolls, like the MAGA-hat wea
  
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• Risk and Reward in Mission: Impossible - Fallout

  25-07-2018 23:05 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ben ColemanIf you told me there were seven Mission: Impossible movies, I’d believe you. If you told me there were five, I would too. And I write that as someone who’s seen and mostly enjoyed all [checks notes] six of them.
  But hell, it’s been 22 years of latex masks and quadruple crosses and tall structures for Tom Cruise to almost fall off—a person is bound to get confused. What Mission: Impossible - Fallout brings to the table is the best action choreography I’
  
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• 8th Congressional District primary goes negative with mailers on vaccination

  25-07-2018 22:53
  Washington's most closely watched Democratic congressional primary has gone negative with accusations over a doctor's position on mandatory vaccinations.
  
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• Guest Editorial: The Lost Lake Boycott Threatens My Livelihood

  25-07-2018 22:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Give us a chance to survive, plan, and heal.by Hannah KeithlyLost Lake Lester Black
  As a survivor of sexual assault (and a person with moral decency), I would never choose to support an establishment owned by an accused rapist. Further, I would never fault anyone for doing the same.
  As a trans woman with zero savings and limited job opportunities, I was devastated when KUOW published Sydney Brownstone's piece on Dave Meinert.
  Reading survivors’ accounts alone made my chest tighten. Realizi
  
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• His Gay Boyfriend Is Terrible at Being Gay

  25-07-2018 22:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  I've been dating a guy who I met on Match.com for 10 months, and we're monogamous. He's great overall, and I would say for the most part we both want it to work out, but I am having a problem with his friends and other lifestyle choices.All of his friends are straight, and almost all of them are women. All of my friends have always been gay men, like me, so I find this strange. I don't have any problem with women, but I don't hang out with any women, and neither do most of my frien
  
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• Hulu’s Castle Rock Gets Stephen King Right. Sort Of.

  25-07-2018 22:06 via thestranger.com
  You might be better off rewatching Stranger Things.by Bobby RobertsThis is not a Stephen King story. It has his blessing. It has his characters. It cites his publishing history, and it is set in one of his oft-visited fictional towns.But Castle Rock, the 10-episode series now available on Hulu, is not a Stephen King story. It isn’t even really a pastiche of his stories, like Netflix’s immensely successful Stranger Things. Instead, Castle Rock is a moody, intermittently creepy, and ul
  
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• Mariners' #MeToo Moment Has Arrived

  25-07-2018 22:01 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog SH
  This morning, Seattle Times reporters Geoff and Mike Baker broke a story about decade-old allegations of "inappropriate workplace conduct" against current Mariners President Kevin Mather as well as two former top executives, Chuck Armstrong and Bob Aylward.According to the Times, in 2009, Mather, who was at the time the executive vice president of finance and ballpark operations, was accused by two female Mariners employees of using inappropriate language and giving unsolicite
  
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• Spokane County deputy shoots, kills driver who accelerated toward him

  25-07-2018 21:54
  Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich says the shooting happened early Wednesday after a badly beaten and injured woman slipped a note to a clerk at a convenience store that indicated she needed help.
  
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• Deputy shoots, kills driver who accelerated toward him

  25-07-2018 21:54
  Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich says the shooting happened early Wednesday after a badly beaten and injured woman slipped a note to a clerk at a convenience store that indicated she needed help.
  
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• Police: Native American activist accused of rape in Santa Fe

  25-07-2018 21:40
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Santa Fe police say a man accused of raping unconscious women and recording the assaults has been arrested in Phoenix. Lt. Michele Williams told the Santa Fe New Mexican on Wednesday that 41-year-old Redwolf Pope had been taken into custody overnight. A warrant accuses Pope, who police say has residences […]
  
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• David Meinert’s Business Empire Fractures Following Rape Allegations

  25-07-2018 21:36 via thestranger.com
  
  The business partners behind The Comet, Lost Lake, and Queer/Bar have distanced themselves from David Meinert after he was accused of sexual misconduct and rape last weekby Lester BlackDavid MeinertKelly O
  If you live in Seattle and enjoy going out, then chances are you have bought a drink from David Meinert. The Seattle businessman either owns or co-owns some of Seattle’s most popular bars. For over two decades, Meinert's hands have stretched far and wide across the city.
  But Meinert&rsqu
  
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• Yesterday, the Showbox Turned 79—Today, Its Demolition Was Announced

  25-07-2018 21:11 via thestranger.com
  
  It seems like only yesterday...by Sean Nelson Kelly O
  All cities change, but the scope and pace of the change Seattle is currently undergoing is often breathtaking. Just yesterday, KIRO reported that it was the 79th anniversary of the Showbox opening its doors. The club has undergone many incarnations as a venue (nightclub, movie theater, burlesque house, comedy club), but has managed to survive. Then, today, the Daily Journal of Commerce reported that "Vancouver, BC-based Onni Group has filed p
  
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• Yesterday, the Showbox Turned 79. Today, Its Demolition Was Announced

  25-07-2018 21:11 via thestranger.com
  
  It seems like only yesterday...by Sean Nelson Kelly O
  All cities change, but the scope and pace of the change Seattle is currently undergoing is often breathtaking. Just yesterday, KIRO reported that it was the 79th anniversary of the Showbox opening its doors. The club has undergone many incarnations as a venue (nightclub, movie theater, burlesque house, comedy club), but has managed to survive. Then, today, the Daily Journal of Commerce reported that "Vancouver, B.C.-based Onni Group has filed
  
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• Sheriff: ‘Sociable’ Oregon couple still missing a week after remote house burned

  25-07-2018 21:11
  JOHN DAY, Ore. — A “sociable” couple whose remote house burned to the ground last week in Oregon remained missing Wednesday and police said there has been no sign of them on their phones or social media. Authorities have stopped short of calling the disappearance of Terry and Sharon Smith suspicious, but Grant County Sheriff […]
  
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• The Stranger's Primary Endorsements: Jason Rittereiser, U.S. Representative, Congressional District 8

  25-07-2018 20:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by The Stranger
  To read the rest of The Stranger's endorsements for the August 7, 2018 primary, click here.
  The stakes in this race couldn't be higher: Democrats need to flip Washington's 8th Congressional District from red to blue to retake the US House in November. Wanna see Trump and his goons held accountable for their crimes? Wanna see Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller perp-walked out of the White House? Wanna finally find out what's in Trump's tax returns? Then we gotta put Democrats in cha
  
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• Jason Spencer, Humiliated Georgia Rep, Steps Down

  25-07-2018 20:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Jason Spencer was the first—and maybe not the last—official to step down after a thorough pranking by Sacha Baron Cohen.by Katie HerzogJason Spencer, RIPShowtime/YouTube
  Jason Spencer, the Georgia lawmaker who yelled the n-word (repeatedly) and showed his ass (literally) on Sacha Baron Cohen's Who Is America? resigned Tuesday amid pressure from both colleagues and constituents.If you haven't watched Spencer's appearance on Who Is America?, you are in for a real treat (trigger warning
  
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• Mariners CEO Kevin Mather apologizes for past conduct, says he’s learned from mistakes

  25-07-2018 19:41
  In response to a Seattle Times story published Wednesday, the Mariners acknowledged that current CEO Kevin Mather had previously been the subject of two workplace complaints from female employees. The team said that it had "made amends" to the workers. Mather said he's learned from the mistakes.
  
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• Federal Way High student athlete dies after workout

  25-07-2018 19:17
  Federal Way Public Schools says it has suspended all outdoor athletic activities at middle and high schools pending a review of protocols.
  
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• Researchers use leaf blower to see how lizards endure storms

  25-07-2018 19:11
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tropical lizards have a stick-to-itiveness in high wind that puts TV weather reporters to shame. Now we know why, thanks in part to a high-powered leaf blower. Hurricanes Irma and Maria put a group of little lizards to the test, and scientists were perfectly positioned to see which anoles survived and why. […]
  
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• Portland Police Clear Occupy ICE Camp

  25-07-2018 19:07 via thestranger.com
  
  "For the most part, everything was done with very little incident."by Alex ZielinskiEditor's note: This story was originally published for our Portland-based sister paper The Portland Mercury.ALEX ZIELINSKI
  The Occupy ICE PDX camp is no more.
  Just over 24 hours after posting a notice to vacate, Portland police officers entered the Southwest Portland protest camp to ask the remaining campers to leave. According to Portland Police Bureau (PPB) Chief Danielle Outlaw, police only encountered around
  
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• Cox studies sale of Seattle’s KIRO, other TV stations after FCC loosens ownership rules

  25-07-2018 18:35
  The company said it may sell 14 stations in U.S. cities including Seattle, Boston, Orlando, and Charlotte, North Carolina. Together, they reach more than 31 million viewers.
  
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• Cox Media studies sale of Seattle’s KIRO, other TV stations around U.S.

  25-07-2018 18:35
  The company said it may sell 14 stations in U.S. cities including Seattle, Boston and Orlando.
  
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• Patriot Destroys Donald Trump's Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

  25-07-2018 18:28 via thestranger.com
  by Dan SavageCan't read about this...
  Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has been destroyed by a vandal reportedly wielding a pickaxe. Local reports suggested a pickaxe had been used to obliterate the pink stone star, which had been restored following previous damaged in 2016. US media reported that Los Angeles police were investigating after the perpetrator, who was said to have concealed the pickaxe in a guitar case, escaped.
  ...or look at the pics being posted to Twitter.
  
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• Drama in the 8th: Shannon Hader Slams Kim Schrier for Comments on Vaccines

  25-07-2018 18:13 via thestranger.com
  
  Doctor vs Doctorby Rich SmithThey're fighting.Courtesy of the Schrier and Hader Campaigns
  As predicted, one of the candidates in the race to replace Rep. Dave Reichert in Washington's 8th Congressional District is going after Kim Schrier for her comments on vaccines. I thought it'd be Dino Rossi, but the candidate going after Schrier is the other doctor in the race, public health official Shannon Hader.Hader is distributing a flyer criticizing Kim Schrier for the way she answered a question on v
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: A Cover of Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes' Folk Classic “Sœur De Race” by Circuit Des Yeux & Moon Bros

  25-07-2018 17:49 via thestranger.com
  
  Circuit Des Yeux & Moon Bros cover a Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes folk classic ahead of a big reissue campaign for the latter's first three albums.by Dave SegalCircuit Des Yeux's Haley Fohr reanimates a dark French folk ballad from 1969. MICHAEL VALLERA
  American's foremost troubadour, Haley Fohr (leader of Circuit Des Yeux), covering the French prog-folk group Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes makes so much sense, it's almost too on the nose. But let's let that slide, because any opportunity to hear Ms
  
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• Five arrested after two men are killed in Tacoma shooting

  25-07-2018 17:47
  Police haven't yet determined motives or relationships between the shooters and the victims.
  
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• Slog AM: #MeToo Unearths Mariners Executives' Shady Past, Duck Boats Designed by Man with Zero Credentials, SPD Lip Sync Is Here

  25-07-2018 17:18 via thestranger.com
  
  People want to slurp on mummy juice, the White House is editing history, there's water on Marsby Nathalie Graham"Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.”- Samuel Taylor Coleridge jhutchin/ Getty Images
  #MeToo hits Mariners execs: Back in the day, we’re talking 2009-10, the Mariners executives were embroiled in a case of inappropriate workplace conduct. They settled financially with the women who filed complaints. "The three women involved left their jobs. All three executive
  
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• Does Legalized Weed Lead to Increased Use Among Youth?

  25-07-2018 17:00 via thestranger.com
  Prohibition Arguments, Cannalyzed™!by Josh JardineYou know what bothers me? Yes, high treason by a flaccid, racist, sociopathic Nazi-lover who lost the popular vote by 2,864,974 votes, of course.But I’m none too wild about the arguments used by prohibitionists who oppose regulated cannabis programs, either. Now that legalization has had a few years to provide information for researchers, we’re getting a better idea of whether these prohibitionist arguments are valid. This week,
  
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• Water is buried beneath Martian landscape, study says

  25-07-2018 16:02
  NEW YORK (AP) — A huge lake of salty water appears to be buried deep in Mars, raising the possibility of finding life on the red planet. The discovery, based on observations by a European spacecraft, generated excitement from experts. Water is essential to life as we know it, and scientists have long sought to […]
  
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• Democrat Jason Rittereiser says Ellensburg roots give an edge in 8th District Congress race

  25-07-2018 15:00
  The former prosecutor is locked in a contest with rival Democrats Kim Schrier and Shannon Hader to squeeze past the top-two Aug. 7 primary and take on presumptive Republican standard-bearer Dino Rossi this fall.
  
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• A tale of two stories: Seattle’s brushes with hate

  25-07-2018 15:00
  Our rapidly fracturing national media ecosystem gave very different treatments to two local stories of hate this past week. The fair-minded way one victim dealt with it all is a beacon of hope.
  
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• Watch: Seattle police lip-sync Macklemore’s ‘Downtown’ as part of viral video challenge

  25-07-2018 14:49
  Seattle police have joined law-enforcement agencies from around the country in the latest installment of a lip-sync battle. Seattle Mariners superstar Felix Hernandez and Mayor Jenny Durkan make cameos.
  
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• Mariners execs faced workplace complaints; three women received settlements

  25-07-2018 14:00
  Three women accused Mariners executives of inappropriate workplace conduct in 2009-10, a Seattle Times investigation found. And in 2015, camera operators at Safeco Field shot up-close video of two female fans, with the footage compiled in a folder labeled “9-29-15 Blondes.”
  
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• EU top court rules new breeding techniques count as GMOs

  25-07-2018 12:26
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top court has ruled that a series of new biotechnology breeding techniques should fall under the EU’s rules of safety checks and labeling restricting genetically modified organisms. Biotech companies have been working on a new generation of technologies to change genetic material in plants or animals, and it had […]
  
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• Happy birthday, Louise Brown! 40 years after the first IVF baby, 8 million more and counting

  25-07-2018 12:22
  “I would hope that within a very few years … instead of this being a seven-day wonder this will become a fairly commonplace affair.” Those prescient words were spoken by Robert Edwards, a 52-year-old Cambridge physician on July 25, 1978, when he announced the wondrous birth of baby girl who was the first to be […]
  
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• Sergio Marchionne, who saved Fiat and Chrysler, has died

  25-07-2018 11:47
  MILAN (AP) — Sergio Marchionne, a charismatic and demanding CEO who engineered two long-shot corporate turnarounds to save carmakers Fiat and Chrysler from near-certain failure, died Wednesday. He was 66. The holding company of Fiat’s founders, the Agnelli family, announced Marchionne had died after unexpected complications from surgery in Zurich. That came days after a […]
  
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• Visitors leaving heart of Yosemite as fire rages nearby

  25-07-2018 08:13
  Yosemite Valley will be closed until at least Sunday, and at least 1,000 campground and hotel bookings will be canceled — to say nothing of the impact on day visitors, park workers and small businesses. The last time the 7.5-mile-long valley was closed because of fire was 1990.
  
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• Heart of Yosemite National Park to close as crews battle raging wildfire

  25-07-2018 08:13
  Yosemite Valley will be closed until at least Sunday, and at least 1,000 campground and hotel bookings will be canceled — to say nothing of the impact on day visitors, park workers and small businesses. The last time the 7.5-mile-long valley was closed because of fire was 1990.
  
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• Disappointed visitors leave Yosemite as fire rages nearby

  25-07-2018 08:13
  Yosemite Valley will be closed until at least Sunday, and at least 1,000 campground and hotel bookings will be canceled — to say nothing of the impact on day visitors, park workers and small businesses. The last time the 7.5-mile-long valley was closed because of fire was 1990.
  
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• Spokane to discipline 5 firefighters after harassment claims

  25-07-2018 07:51
  Many of the allegations involved behavior directed at probationary employees, who are new hires or recently promoted workers.
  
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• White House wants comment on replacement to Obama ocean plan

  25-07-2018 06:01
  The U.S. government is seeking input about a draft of a new plan to identify ocean research needs following President Donald Trump’s decision to scrap former President Barack Obama’s ocean policy. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s National Science and Technology Council has developed the plan. It’s called “Science and Technology for […]
  
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• Southern-resident killer whales lose newborn calf, and another youngster is ailing

  25-07-2018 05:22
  One calf lost within half an hour, and another youngster is ailing in the critically endangered population of southern-resident killer whales.
  
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• Kent woman charged with assaulting girl, 11, at basketball game

  25-07-2018 04:07
  The December game between the sixth-grade girls' basketball teams from St. Therese Catholic Academy and St. Philomena Catholic School was already marred by unsportsmanlike conduct. But things ratcheted up when a player's mother ran onto the court and strangled an 11-year-old on the opposing team, according to King County prosecutors.
  
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