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• Nationwide internet outage affects CenturyLink customers

  27-12-2018 23:53
  Many CenturyLink customers across the U.S. were without internet Thursday amid a lengthy outage.
  
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• Nationwide internet outage affects CenturyLink

  27-12-2018 23:53
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Some CenturyLink customers across the country were without the internet as outages stretched from New York to California. The company said in a statement Thursday that its network was “still experiencing a disruption” and that it was working to restore services. It provided no other details, including how many customers were […]
  
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• Two dead in possible murder-suicide after tense standoff with sheriff’s deputies in Covington

  27-12-2018 23:26
  Deputy say a woman was shot to death and that a man was found dead in the home, possibly a suspect in the woman's death.
  
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• One injured, deputies surround house after shooting report in Covington

  27-12-2018 23:26
  One woman was being treated by medics shortly after 2 p.m. but her condition was not immediately known.
  
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• One dead, deputies surround house after shooting report in Covington

  27-12-2018 23:26
  One woman was being treated by medics shortly after 2 p.m. but her condition was not immediately known.
  
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• Barred from working by shutdown, federal attorneys seek filing delay in Seattle police reform case

  27-12-2018 22:50
  Federal attorneys say they can't respond to a judge's request for information about the status of court-ordered reforms because of the partial government shutdown.
  
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• The Best Things We Discovered in 2018 That Weren’t From 2018

  27-12-2018 22:25 via thestranger.com
  
  Victorian flower languages! Kombucha! The View!by Chase BurnsRed roses mean "true love." Buckbeans mean "calm repose." Wild tansy means "this is war."KATI LACKER
  1. Victorian Flower Languages
  In my piece on romantic customs for The Stranger's Valentine’s Day issue, I slipped down a deep and winding rabbit hole about how people in different cultures use flowers to communicate. Expanding on a practice started by Turkish concubines, the famously fastidious (and also famously horny) Victorians
  
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• On his way to a DUI award ceremony, East Wenatchee cop nabs another drunken driver

  27-12-2018 22:25
  Officer Josh Virnig stopped the vehicle right in front of his own destination: the Night of 1,000 Stars awards, which celebrates DUI enforcement.
  
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• Man hospitalized after stabbing in South Seattle

  27-12-2018 22:05
  Seattle police said they have detained another man in connection with the incident.
  
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• Bighorn sheep herds inter-mingling in southwestern Montana

  27-12-2018 21:15
  CAMERON, Mont. (AP) — If there’s anything better than seeing a bighorn ram, horns fully curled, it’s seeing 12. The number seemed to keep growing on a recent morning here, the tan bodies of wild sheep standing out against the steep white slope at the southern end of the Madison Range. Ewes and lambs were […]
  
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• Frenchman trying to cross Atlantic in barrel capsule

  27-12-2018 21:00
  PARIS (AP) — A 71-year-old Frenchman has departed on a journey across the Atlantic in a specially designed barrel capsule, which will use ocean currents alone to propel him across the sea. Jean-Jacques Savin set off from El Hierro in Spain’s Canary Islands on Wednesday and is aiming to complete his 4,500-kilometre (2,800-mile) journey to […]
  
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• Why Pacific Rim: Uprising Is the Most Important Film of 2018: It Revealed We Are Now in the Chinese Moment of Capitalism

  27-12-2018 20:27 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeThis is how we roll... Pacific Rim: Uprising
  If recent world history is considered with the brightest conceptual light available, we will clearly see that there are three established moments of a mode of social organization and production and reproduction that is called capitalism. There is the Dutch moment, the British moment, and the US moment. The first began at the end of the 16th century and effectively ended with the birth (1694) of the Bank of England (which was based on
  
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• Man held after using front-end loader to make get-away

  27-12-2018 20:02
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Police have arrested a 42-year-old Anchorage man suspected of stealing a front-end loader and using it as his get-away vehicle after a burglary. Police say Brian Petross was held Wednesday on suspicion of vehicle theft, burglary, theft, reckless driving and criminal mischief. Online court documents do not list his attorney. A […]
  
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• Slog Poll: How Did the T. Rex Use Its Tiny Little Arms?

  27-12-2018 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithBig lizard. Tiny arms.Dean Mouhtaropoulos / Getty ImagesOn my visit to the Burke Museum I learned that Seattle has one of the best—if not THE best—preserved T. Rex skulls known to scientists. But I also learned that paleontologists still debate the purpose of the terrible lizard's tiny arms. They're not much longer than human arms! Why is that? It's a mystery. Some think the dinosaur used the tiny arms for slash attacks. Some think the arms are merely vestigial. But who
  
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• Business owner searches after police leave, finds suspect

  27-12-2018 18:49
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — The owner of a Fairbanks car dealership decided he would continue searching after police left his business without finding a suspected thief. A security system alerted the manager of Gene’s Chrysler to a disturbance Monday night and video footage showed a man rummaging through vehicles in a storage yard. After police […]
  
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• Business owner finds burglary suspect after police leave

  27-12-2018 18:49
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Persistence paid off for the owner of a Fairbanks car dealership after police investigated a suspected burglary in progress but departed without finding a suspect. Lane Nichols, owner of Gene’s Chrysler, and his son continued the search Monday night in the dealership’s storage yard and found a man hiding in an […]
  
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• Medicaid expansion on the ‘must address’ list for lawmakers

  27-12-2018 18:48
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Despite legal challenges at the state and federal level, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare is moving ahead with a citizen-directed Medicaid expansion effort. Health and Welfare spokeswoman Niki Forbing-Orr said the agency expects to submit its amended state Medicaid plan to the federal government for approval by Feb. 15. […]
  
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• Families of 3 killed Idaho airmen file wrongful death claims

  27-12-2018 18:43
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The families of three Mountain Home airmen who died in a fiery crash on Interstate 84 have filed tort claims against the Idaho Transportation Department. The Idaho Statesman reports the families allege that inadequate signage and warnings ahead of a construction zone contributed to a June collision that killed four people. […]
  
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• You Only Have a Few Days Left to See This Sweet T-Rex Skull at the Burke Museum

  27-12-2018 18:42 via thestranger.com
  
  This is the last week to hang out at the Burke until Fall 2019. So get there soon, dummies!by Rich SmithA team of University of Washington researchers found this big boy in eastern Montana.RS
  For the last 17 months paleontologists at the University of Washington's Burke Museum have been scraping away at the sandstone encasing the "Tufts-Love" T. Rex, which was discovered in 2015 by two Burke volunteers at the Hell Creek Formation in eastern Montana.
  The fact that UW has this skull is a very big
  
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• Gray wolf arrives at New Mexico zoo for recovery program

  27-12-2018 18:37
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque’s zoo has received another Mexican gray wolf as part of an international recovery effort that includes breeding the endangered animals in captivity to ensure their genetic viability. The ABQ BioPark said Thursday it received the wolf earlier this month from the Binder Zoo in Michigan. The animal will be a […]
  
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• Pluto explorer ushering in new year at more distant world

  27-12-2018 18:03
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The spacecraft team that brought us close-ups of Pluto will ring in the new year by exploring an even more distant and mysterious world. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will zip past the scrawny, icy object nicknamed Ultima Thule (TOO-lee) soon after the stroke of midnight. One billion miles beyond Pluto […]
  
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• Yakima County meeting to address missing Native American women in state

  27-12-2018 17:54
  The January meeting is the result of state House Bill 2951, which requires the Washington State Patrol to work with the Office of Indian Affairs and tribal leaders to determine how to increase reporting and investigation of missing Native American women.
  
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• Meeting set for Toppenish to address missing Native women

  27-12-2018 17:54
  The January meeting is the result of state House Bill 2951, which requires the Washington State Patrol to work with the Office of Indian Affairs and tribal leaders to determine how to increase reporting and investigation of missing Native American women.
  
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• Woman whose daughter died in mass stabbing files lawsuit

  27-12-2018 17:44
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman whose 3-year-old daughter was killed in a mass stabbing in Boise has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the apartment complex owners and managers, the man charged in the killing and the tenant the lawsuit says let him stay at her apartment. Bifituu Kadir filed the lawsuit earlier this […]
  
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• Washington Supreme Court rules against challenge to King County’s $232 million youth jail, courthouse

  27-12-2018 17:25
  The court said the advocacy group End the Prison Industrial Complex didn't meet the 10-day deadline to file an objection to a 2012 ballot measure to fund the youth jail.
  
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• Washington Supreme Court rules against challenge to King County youth jail

  27-12-2018 17:25
  The court said advocacy group End the Prison Industrial Complex didn't meet the 10-day deadline to file an objection to a 2012 ballot measure to fund the youth jail.
  
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• Trump administration seeks to dismiss cities’ ACA lawsuit

  27-12-2018 17:22
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The Trump administration is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit filed by several cities for allegedly sabotaging the Affordable Care Act. The Daily Record reports that the defendants argued in a motion filed Monday that the dispute is a political disagreement outside federal court’s jurisdiction. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court […]
  
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• Magnitude 4.9 aftershock strikes near site of Alaska quake

  27-12-2018 17:07
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A magnitude 4.9 aftershock has shaken an area of south central Alaska near where a powerful temblor jolted the region last month. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake occurred at 5:21 a.m. Thursday and was centered 10.5 miles (17 kilometers) northwest of […]
  
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• Bend ‘worse-case scenario’ command center in big earthquake

  27-12-2018 17:05
  BEND, Ore. (AP) — A new state report says Bend would be the center of the state’s emergency response in the worst-case scenario of a catastrophic earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the Oregon Coast. The Bulletin reports that the Oregon National Guard Youth Challenge Program’s Bend campus is the fallback site for the […]
  
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• Brown victory, Hammond pardon top Oregon stories

  27-12-2018 16:56
  Gov. Kate Brown’s election to her first full term was voted Oregon’s top news story of 2018 by Associated Press staff. Other top news items of the past 12 months included President Donald Trump’s pardoning of the ranchers whose imprisonment sparked a standoff at a remote Oregon wildlife refuge, a fatal cougar attack near Mount […]
  
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• Slog AM: UW Gets Citation After Lab Monkey Death, Donald Trump Doxxes Navy SEALs

  27-12-2018 16:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Nathalie GrahamFor the troops!ALEX WONG / GETTY IMAGES
  Not enough punishment for primate death at UW lab: Activists say. Back in April, a monkey in a swanky new (and $142 million) research facility on the University of Washington campus was strangled to death. It was a whole thing. It was also the third primate death at that UW lab in two years. The U.S. Department of Agriculture investigated. It issued UW a citation, a slap on the wrist. Activists are pissed.Donald Trump visits the troops, r
  
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• Tour-bus driver is charged in D.C. deaths of Pierce County woman and her daughter

  27-12-2018 16:02
  WASHINGTON – District of Columbia police on Thursday arrested the driver of a tour bus in connection with the deaths of two tourists who were struck and killed last week as they crossed Pennsylvania Avenue in downtown Washington. Gerard Derrick James, 45, of Baltimore, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. It was not immediately clear […]
  
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• Strangling death of UW research monkey prompts federal warning; activist calls for stiffer punishment

  27-12-2018 15:00
  The incident marks the third primate death since February 2016 at the UW lab, which conducts studies related to human health and neuroscience on hundreds of monkeys in a newly-built $142 million underground facility.
  
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• ‘Virtually all schools’ in Seattle to be affected by viaduct closure, which will delay buses even more

  27-12-2018 14:00
  The closure guarantees on-time transportation will remain a problem for Seattle Public Schools buses into 2019.
  
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• Alaskan Way Viaduct closure is expected to spell even more delays for Seattle school buses

  27-12-2018 14:00
  The closure guarantees on-time transportation will remain a problem for Seattle Public Schools buses into 2019.
  
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• Man accused of ramming church a no-show in court

  27-12-2018 13:55
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A 35-year-old man who is accused of intentionally crashing his SUV into a Vietnamese church early Monday didn’t show up to a Portland courtroom as ordered. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Hieu John Phung was in Astoria when he was “picked up” and taken to a hospital, a member of the Clatsop County […]
  
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• Legal marijuana industry toasts year of global gains

  27-12-2018 07:06
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The last year was a 12-month champagne toast for the legal marijuana industry as the global market exploded and cannabis pushed its way further into the financial and cultural mainstream. Liberal California became the largest legal U.S. marketplace, while conservative Utah and Oklahoma embraced medical marijuana. Canada ushered in broad legalization, […]
  
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• Legal marijuana industry toasts banner year

  27-12-2018 07:06
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The last year was a 12-month champagne toast for the legal marijuana industry as the global market exploded and cannabis pushed its way further into the financial and cultural mainstream. Liberal California became the largest legal U.S. marketplace, conservative Utah and Oklahoma embraced medical marijuana, and the U.S. East Coast got […]
  
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• Legal marijuana industry had banner year in 2018

  27-12-2018 07:06
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The last year was a 12-month champagne toast for the legal marijuana industry as the global market exploded and cannabis pushed its way further into the financial and cultural mainstream. Liberal California became the largest legal U.S. marketplace, while conservative Utah and Oklahoma embraced medical marijuana. Canada ushered in broad legalization […]
  
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• New Alaska ferries need $30M in work before entering service

  27-12-2018 06:06
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Marine Highway System says an additional $30 million in public money is needed to install crew quarters on the state’s two new ferries. The Anchorage Daily News reports adding crew quarters will allow the ferries Tazlina and Hubbard to be used on longer routes than originally planned. The new […]
  
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• Fairbanks theater floods after sprinkler pipe breaks

  27-12-2018 06:05
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Officials say no long-term water damage is expected after a sprinkler pipe broke, flooding a Fairbanks theater. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the flooding occurred last week at the Pioneer Park Centennial Center for the Arts, which contains a theater, a civic center and an art gallery. Matt Want, a DJ […]
  
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• Pedestrian dies after being hit by car on Christmas Eve

  27-12-2018 06:03
  EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a 79-year-old woman was killed on Christmas Eve after she was struck by a car in northwestern Oregon. KVAL-TV reports Carol Warner Christen died at the scene of the crash Monday on U.S. Highway 101, north of Barview Jetty County Park. Oregon State Police say Christen, of Yamhill, was […]
  
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• Metal panels on Aerial Tram have previously become loose

  27-12-2018 06:02
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Emails from the Portland Bureau of Transportation indicate decorative panels on the Portland Aerial Tram had come loose twice before one fell and struck a pedestrian. KGW-TV reports a 21-year-old woman sustained minor injuries after a metal panel fell on her while she was on a pedestrian bridge earlier this month. […]
  
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• Satellite images show collapse of Indonesian island volcano

  27-12-2018 05:29
  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Radar data from satellites, converted into images, shows Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau island volcano is dramatically smaller following a weekend eruption that triggered a deadly tsunami. Satellite photos aren’t available because of cloud cover but radar images from a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency satellite taken before and after the eruption show the […]
  
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• Indonesia widens exclusion zone around island volcano

  27-12-2018 04:31
  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has widened the no-go zone around an island volcano that triggered a tsunami on the weekend, killing at least 430 people in Sumatra and Java. The country’s volcanology agency said Thursday that the Anak Krakatau volcano’s alert status had been raised to the second highest level and the exclusion zone […]
  
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• Indonesia widens danger zone around island volcano

  27-12-2018 04:31
  CARITA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has raised the danger level for an island volcano that triggered a tsunami over the weekend, killing at least 430 people in Sumatra and Java, and widened its no-go zone. The country’s volcanology agency said Thursday that the Anak Krakatau volcano’s alert status had been raised to the second highest […]
  
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• Man killed mother in Mason County on Christmas Day, sheriff’s office says

  27-12-2018 03:11
  The suspect, who lived with his mother in Hoodsport along the Hood Canal, told sheriff’s deputies he thought his mother was a demon, according to court documents.
  
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• A White Christian Nation Is No Place for Jesus

  27-12-2018 00:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede ysbrandcosijn Creative/gettyimages.com
  So, during the shutdown, these very Christian programs are at the bottom of the White American Christian totem pole:
  Some of the agency's offices to be hit hardest by the closure include the office of Food and Nutrition Services that oversees the Child Nutrition, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). By the end of the fifth day of the shutdow
  
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• Sigi Schmid, Sounders’ first MLS coach, dies at 65

  27-12-2018 00:51
  Former Sounders coach Sigi Schmid, who died Tuesday at age 65, got the team to the playoffs its first seven years of existence. Beyond that, he brought credibility and legitimacy to a franchise that became an MLS template for success.
  
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• ‘Fierce, independent’ Pierce County woman killed while on Washington, D.C., dream trip

  27-12-2018 00:48
  Cora Adams, 84, who operated a popular burger joint on the way to Mount Rainier National Park, was killed with her daughter when they were struck by a tour bus on Dec. 19.
  
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