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• One person shot in Seattle’s Hillman City neighborhood

  27-07-2018 23:51
  The shooting took place on Rainier Avenue South and South Juneau Street.
  
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• Man shot, wounded in Seattle’s Hillman City neighborhood

  27-07-2018 23:51
  The shooting took place on Rainier Avenue South and South Juneau Street.
  
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• The Showbox's Greatest Hits, as You Remembered Them (Part 2)

  27-07-2018 23:29 via thestranger.com
  
  Memories from Celene Ramadan, Erik Blood, Erica C. Barnett, and more.by Dave SegalD'Angelo circa 2015, conjuring a steamy sexual atmosphere at the Showbox. Angela Garbes
  Yesterday on Slog, we ran a post relating the most memorable Showbox experiences from many local musicians, DJs, and music fanatics. Why? The beloved, venerable venue is slated for demolition after the land on which it dwells was bought by Vancouver's Onni Group. The outpouring of reminiscences was too massive for one post, so w
  
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• DNA to X-ray: Military has variety of tools to ID remains

  27-07-2018 22:57
  NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. military remains released by North Korea on Friday will be sent to a military lab in Hawaii, where they’ll enter a system that routinely identifies service members from decades-old conflicts. Identifications depend on combining multiple lines of evidence, and they can take time: Even after decades, some cases remain […]
  
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• “This Is Not Rocket Science,” Seattle Judge Orders Feds to Hand Over Information About Separated Families

  27-07-2018 22:56 via thestranger.com
  
  "These people are in our communities."by Heidi GrooverWashington and 16 other states want to know if separated immigrant children are living in their states. SPENCER PLATT / GETTY
  Telling lawyers for the Trump Administration “we need to find out where these children are,” a federal judge in Seattle ordered the federal government to turn over information about separated immigrant families to Washington and other states.
  In June, Washington led a lawsuit of 17 states and the District o
  
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• Seattle Judge Orders Feds to Hand Over Information on Separated Immigrant Families

  27-07-2018 22:56 via thestranger.com
  
  “This is not rocket science.”by Heidi GrooverWashington and 16 other states want to know if separated immigrant children are living in their states. SPENCER PLATT / GETTY
  Telling lawyers for the Trump Administration “we need to find out where these children are,” a federal judge in Seattle ordered the federal government to turn over information about separated immigrant families to Washington and other states.
  In June, Washington led a lawsuit of 17 states and the Distric
  
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• Navy Strength Wins a National Award and More Seattle Food News You Can Use: July 27, 2018 Edition

  27-07-2018 22:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffBelltown bar Navy Strength was recognized as the best new American cocktail bar this week by the 12th annual Tales of the Cocktail conference and festival in New Orleans. Navy Strength via Facebook
  This week, Seattle restaurants are receiving well-deserved national attention, as Navy Strength wins an award for best cocktail bar in America, Kamonegi is recognized as one of the best new restaurants in the country, and the Red Door gets featured in an episode of Guy Fi
  
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• Oregonians will vote in November on banning state funding of abortion

  27-07-2018 22:32
  SALEM, Ore. — Oregon voters will decide in November whether one of America’s most progressive states should keep funding abortions after backers of a measure to ban the funding gathered enough signatures to put it on the ballot. The Oregon Secretary of State’s web site showed Friday the petitioners gathered 117,799 validated signatures, just over […]
  
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• Oregon voters to decide on state funding for abortions

  27-07-2018 22:32
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon voters will decide in November whether one of America’s most progressive states should keep funding abortions. Opponents of the funding gathered just enough signatures to put the issue on the ballot, the secretary of state’s office said Friday. “I’m thrilled,” said Marylin Shannon, one of the chief petitioners. “We’ve been […]
  
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• ‘We won’t give up as long as she doesn’t’: Orca mother carries dead calf for fourth day

  27-07-2018 22:13
  A grieving mother orca is holding tight to her calf on the fourth day since it died shortly after birth.
  
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• Science Says record heat, fires worsened by climate change

  27-07-2018 21:51
  Heat waves are setting all-time temperature records across the globe, again. Europe suffered its deadliest fire in more than a century, and one of nearly 90 large fires in the U.S. West burned dozens of homes and forced the evacuation of at least 37,000 people near Redding, California. Flood-inducing downpours have pounded the U.S. East […]
  
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• Do the Mariners Need $180 Million in Public Funds?

  27-07-2018 21:48 via thestranger.com
  
  The plan will be debated Monday morning at the King County Council.by Lester BlackThis is where the Mariners play games. OTTO GREULE JR / GETTY
  Should the county spend $180 million on maintaining Safeco Field? The Mariners, which are valued at $1.45 billion, want hundreds of millions in county money before the team will sign a new 25-year lease and it looks like the county politicians want to cough up the cash.
  King County Executive Dow Constantine unveiled a plan in May to take $180 million out
  
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• Genevieve Hudson’s Pretend We Live Here Boldly Makes Queerness the Norm

  27-07-2018 21:26 via thestranger.com
  Genevieve Hudson’s Pretend We Live Here boldly finds a fitting home at Future tense Books.by Sophie Ouellette-HowitzIt makes perfect sense that Genevieve Hudson’s fierce collection of short stories, Pretend We Live Here, found a home at Future Tense Books. Previous releases from the Portland small press (like Wish You Were Me by Myriam Gurba and Excavation by Wendy C. Ortiz) indicate that editor and publisher Kevin Sampsell takes pride in publishing works that offer a sideways perspe
  
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• Effort to clean up contaminated groundwater in Washington may get federal help

  27-07-2018 20:18
  Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane and Naval Air Station Whidbey Island have conducted tests that showed levels of chemicals found in firefighting foam to be above federal guidelines. Elevated levels of the chemicals also were found at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
  
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• Canadians in the Cannabis Biz Could Get Banned from Entering the US

  27-07-2018 19:48 via thestranger.com
  
  by Josh Jardine kuriputosu / Getty Images
  O Canada! I hear you have made cannabis legal throughout your entire country! When added to your socialized medicine and much, much lower rates of "sadly unavoidable" shootings in schools, you are making it ever more enticing for me to renounce my US citizenship. And due to our syphilitic-brained, xenophobic, traffic-cone-colored Dictator-in-Chief, you're looking more attractive by the minute. I very much look forward to spending your "loonies," eating y
  
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• The Potential—and Promise—of the Center City Connector

  27-07-2018 19:10 via thestranger.com
  
  "Connecting us was a promise. Please don’t break it."by Quynh Pham"Whether it's bike lanes, street improvements or investments in rail projects, follow-through on previously planned mobility projects is important for maintaining integrity and community trust." Photo by David Cole
  As Mayor Durkan considers the path forward for the Center City Connector streetcar, we are concerned that the Mayor has not absorbed the important history and context in which this critical project is unfolding, a
  
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• After a life filled with sushi and calligraphy, world’s oldest person dies at 117

  27-07-2018 19:08
  In her family, Chiyo Miyako was known simply as “the goddess.” At age 117, she was not just their ancient, reigning monarch, but also the oldest person in the entire world. This week, the Japanese Health Ministry announced that Miyako died July 22. She was born in 1901, and her family said she loved sushi […]
  
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• Two New Pot Shops Are Coming to Capitol Hill

  27-07-2018 18:31 via thestranger.com
  
  Capitol Hill is about to have twice as many pot shops.by Lester BlackThe future home of a new Uncle Ike's. Lester Black
  Two new pot shops have won approval from the state to sell weed on Olive Way on the west end of Capitol Hill, doubling the number of pot shops on the hill and making buying cannabis in one of Seattle's busiest neighborhoods a whole lot more convenient.
  One of the shops is co-owned by Ian Eisenberg, the owner of the Uncle Ike's chain of stores, the other is the second location o
  
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• 2 Michigan communities told to stop using contaminated water

  27-07-2018 18:07
  PARCHMENT, Mich. (AP) — Authorities handed out thousands of free bottles of water Friday for two southwestern Michigan communities where the discovery of contamination from toxic industrial chemicals prompted a warning against using the public water system for drinking or cooking. Michigan and Kalamazoo County health officials announced Thursday that tests found perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl […]
  
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• Popular Idaho travel route open despite wildfire

  27-07-2018 17:54
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A wildfire in southwestern Idaho about 35 miles (56 kilometers) north of Boise grew on Friday, but officials say a heavily traveled north-south route that connects urban populations with outdoor recreation areas is open. Officials said the fire near Gardena grew to 5.5 square miles (14 square kilometers) but that Idaho […]
  
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• Woman charged with 149 counts of Alaska dividend fraud

  27-07-2018 17:50
  ANCHORAGE — A woman suspected of fraudulently applying for $70,000 in Alaska Permanent Fund dividends pleaded not guilty at arraignment. Anchorage television station KTVA reports 44-year-old Sheila McMahon entered the plea Thursday in Anchorage Superior Court. She faces one count of scheming to defraud and 148 counts of unsworn falsification. Assistant District Attorney Lisa Kelley […]
  
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• Kirkland closes popular Juanita beach due to sewage pollution

  27-07-2018 17:37
  Juanita Beach Park will remain closed while officials try to determine the source of bacteria.
  
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• Study: Climate change making Europe heatwaves more likely

  27-07-2018 17:07
  BERLIN (AP) — Researchers say heatwaves of the kind currently being seen in northern Europe have become twice as likely due to climate change. Scientists from the World Weather Attribution team said Friday they have compared observations and forecasts for the Netherlands, Denmark and Ireland with historical records going back to the early 1900s. They […]
  
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• Slog AM: Nine Parents Still Detained in Washington After Reunification Deadline, Sewage Contamination in Lake Washington

  27-07-2018 16:35 via thestranger.com
  
  Fires, firenados, hot weather, hot dog soup, and Seth Rogenby Nathalie GrahamIt's like the plot ofJawsbut with sewage instead of sharks.GJQuinlan / Getty Images
  Nine parents still detained in Tacoma and SeaTac facilities: The Northwest Detention Center and the Federal Detention Center are still holding nine mothers and fathers despite a July 26 deadline, reports Crosscut. As of yesterday, according to a ruling by a San Diego judge, families should have all been reunified. That is not the case in
  
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• Look for bright view of Mars tonight as it moves closest to Earth in 15 years

  27-07-2018 16:07
  The red planet and the sun will be on exact opposite sides of Earth.
  
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• Why do we make reporting rape so difficult?

  27-07-2018 15:00
  Sen. Patty Murray is co-sponsoring the Survivor’s Access to Supportive Care Act that, if passed, would fund state-level surveys to better understand sexual assault and rape survivors' access to health care, and develop and test a national standard of care.
  
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• Shannon Hader brings public-health background to 8th Congressional District race

  27-07-2018 15:00
  Like her Democratic rivals, Hader is a first-time candidate for elected office. But she has worked for years in the federal government, running public-health programs.
  
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• Podcast: It’s been a tough week in Burien. The deputy mayor explains the city’s immigration politics.

  27-07-2018 15:00
  A man turned himself in to police earlier this week in connection with an alleged attack on Burien Mayor Jimmy Matta, and detectives are investigating the incident as a hate crime because the man was apparently motivated by Matta’s political support of Latino immigrants. Elected to the City Council last year after a racially-charged campaign and […]
  
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• Podcast: Burien’s deputy mayor talks immigration politics in Seattle suburb

  27-07-2018 15:00
  A man turned himself in to police earlier this week in connection with an alleged attack on Burien Mayor Jimmy Matta, and detectives are investigating the incident as a hate crime because the man was apparently motivated by Matta’s political support of Latino immigrants. Elected to the City Council last year after a racially-charged campaign and […]
  
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• He’s Mexican. She’s American. A deportation order left this Washington state family with a difficult choice.

  27-07-2018 15:00
  “I’m scared as hell right now,” said Erika Lopez. Unless granted a last-minute reprieve, she and her husband, Juan, were taking their kids to Mexico. Like hundreds of thousands of people who are deported every year, they had to figure out a new life.
  
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• How you can help students with special needs find a place in college

  27-07-2018 14:00
  Students who receive special education services are much less likely to go to college after high school. But there are programs and strategies that can help them earn a two- or four-year degree.
  
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• It’s a girl,girl,boy,girl…! Baby boom at 2-zoo partnership

  27-07-2018 07:04
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — About a year after moving into spacious new digs in New Orleans, African animals are doing just what officials from two zoos had hoped when they created the forested paddocks: being fruitful and multiplying. Seven antelope have given birth, at least one more female is pregnant and others may be. The […]
  
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• It’s a girl, girl, boy, girl…! Baby boom at two-zoo partnership

  27-07-2018 07:04
  NEW ORLEANS — About a year after moving into spacious new digs in New Orleans, African animals are doing just what officials from two zoos had hoped when they created the forested paddocks: being fruitful and multiplying. Seven antelope have given birth, at least one more female is pregnant and others may be. The small […]
  
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• Before Lost Colony, he started 1st science lab in New World

  27-07-2018 06:16
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In North Carolina’s colonial history, the best known tales concern the legendary Lost Colony of English settlers who had vanished mysteriously by 1590. Less widely known, but perhaps more significant, is a story from a few years earlier about the first science center in the New World, headed by the first […]
  
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• People evacuated due to wildfire southeast of The Dalles

  27-07-2018 05:48
  DUFUR, Ore. — Authorities have issued mandatory evacuation notices to residents southeast of The Dalles because of a wildfire. The Wasco County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook Thursday evening that residents along the Deschutes River from Sherars Falls to Mack’s Canyon should leave their homes immediately. The Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center says the fire […]
  
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• 9-year-old girl struck, killed by car while biking in Leavenworth

  27-07-2018 05:12
  A 9-year-old girl was killed when she was struck by a car while riding her bicycle in Leavenworth, the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office reports.
  
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• Smokey brush fired closed I-5 near Northgate before it was controlled

  27-07-2018 04:17
  Smoky fire alongside Interstate 5 jammed up traffic north of Seattle.
  
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• Work to demolish Hanford nuke-weapons plant may resume in September

  27-07-2018 04:04
  DOE says it will implement new safety measures for workers and plans to resume work to demolish the former nuclear-weapons production factory at Hanford six months after 42 workers were exposed to radiation.
  
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• Seattle won’t be on hook for $100 million increase in cost to renovate KeyArena

  27-07-2018 03:30
  The Oak View Group is close to naming a contractor for the project and has revised its cost estimate to $700 million. Under an MOU and a development agreement, OVG would be responsible for the entire cost of the renovation, including overruns.
  
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• Prosecutors: 18-year-old student sexually assaulted another student in Ballard High School restroom

  27-07-2018 02:57
  An 18-year-old female student at Ballard High School was sexually assaulted in a school restroom in March, according to Seattle police. The suspect, also an 18-year-old student, was charged this week with third-degree rape.
  
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• Rep. Jayapal’s arrest during immigration protest will not trigger ethics investigation

  27-07-2018 02:52
  The Washington Democrat was arrested June 28 along with nearly 575 women during a sit-in to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
  
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