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• King County jury awards $123 million to victims of Ride the Ducks crash

  07-02-2019 23:49
  The jury determined that Ride The Ducks International bore 67 to 70 percent of the responsibility for the 2015 crash and Ride The Ducks of Seattle was 30 to 33 percent at fault in the crash that killed five people and injured more than 60 others.
  
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• Michelle Obama reschedules Tacoma appearance

  07-02-2019 23:36
  Michelle Obama's talk at the Tacoma Dome has been rescheduled due to weather predictions.
  
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• Sexual harassment training In Salem upsetting to some

  07-02-2019 23:33
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Laura Hanson thought the sexual harassment training for legislative staffers at the Oregon Capitol would be a unifying event: a clear signal to everyone that harassment in Salem was not tolerated. Instead, the rape survivor had to leave the training for 20 minutes because she was so upset. And she warned […]
  
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• More Than a Mouthful

  07-02-2019 23:27 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan SavageOriginally published on Feb. 26, 2009.
  My boyfriend of 16 months and I have a great relationship. He loves my blowjobs, but he will not kiss me if I have his come in my mouth. It grosses him out. We have talked about this, and he won't even try. I have no problem if he kisses me after going down on me. I just want him to try. Is there something wrong with asking him to taste himself? I do it all the time and love it.
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• Seattle-area home prices drop to lowest point in two years — down $116,000 since last spring

  07-02-2019 23:20
  Homebuyers are starting to leverage the cooling market to their advantage, convincing sellers to take on closing costs and knock tens of thousands of dollars off their asking price.
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: A Great and Strange Interpretation of "Sympathy for the Devil" by Rolling Stones Backing Vocalist Bernard Fowler

  07-02-2019 23:12 via thestranger.com
  
  Rolling Stones backing vocalist Bernard Fowler delivers a stunning version of "Sympathy for the Devil," off his new album of radically rearranged Jagger-Richards songs.by Dave SegalWhat's puzzling you is the nature of his game. Rhyme & Reason Records
  Bernard Fowler, "Sympathy for the Devil" (Rhyme & Reason)
  As a backing vocalist for the Rolling Stones over the last 31 years, Bernard Fowler knows the legendary British rock group's songs better than almost everybody alive right now. So, th
  
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• Mentally ill Idaho death row inmate won’t face execution

  07-02-2019 22:47
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials have agreed to stop seeking to execute a man who has been in solitary confinement on death row for 30 years because he is too mentally ill to be legally put to death and doctors say he will not recover. The agreement, approved by a federal judge on Monday, […]
  
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• New Bills in Legislature Will Catch Your HOV Lane Cheating, So Cut It Out

  07-02-2019 22:40 via thestranger.com
  
  Stop driving in HOV lanes!by Nathalie GrahamBreak your bad, illegal habits or pay the price!AVID_CREATIVE/GETTY IMAGES
  There may be some sweet, sweet retribution around the corner for law-breaking motorists.Four new bills introduced in the Legislature last week seek to curb Washingtonian's bad habit of driving in lanes that they are not supposed to drive in.Yep! There are enough people sneaking into HOV and bus-only lanes that the Washington State Department of Transportation is turning to democ
  
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• Judge dismisses part of triple-murder wrongful death lawsuit

  07-02-2019 22:35
  The brother of a teenager who was killed by her ex-boyfriend in the shooting also sued the gunman, his parents and the store where the murder weapon was purchased.
  
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• Senate approves bill to maintain Idaho wolf control board

  07-02-2019 22:33
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Legislation to make permanent an Idaho board that pays a federal agency to kill wolves that attack livestock and elk has cleared the Senate. Senators on Thursday voted 30-5 to approve the legislation requested by the Idaho Wolf Depredation Control Board repealing a section of Idaho law that would end the […]
  
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• Opioid-related overdose deaths in Alaska down, data suggests

  07-02-2019 22:25
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Preliminary numbers released by the state show the number of opioid-related overdose deaths in Alaska fell between 2017 and 2018. Andy Jones with Alaska’s health department told lawmakers Thursday this suggests that steps being taken to address opioid abuse are working. But he said there is more work to do. The […]
  
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• Data suggests opioid-related overdose deaths in Alaska down

  07-02-2019 22:25
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Preliminary numbers released by the state indicate the number of opioid-related overdose deaths in Alaska fell between 2017 and 2018. Andy Jones, director of the state Office of Substance Misuse and Addiction Prevention, told a Senate committee Thursday that this suggests steps being taken to address opioid abuse are working. “Something’s […]
  
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• If Live Nation Replaces Sasquatch With a Bassnectar Show I Am Going to Scream

  07-02-2019 22:17 via thestranger.com
  
  There's new details about Sasquatch's replacement festival and they are womp womp depressing.by Lester BlackThere is literally no way Bassnectar could come close to matching the religious experience that was David Byrne at last year's Sasquatch. Lester Black
  Last month, Live Nation told us to keep our calendars clear on Memorial Day Weekend because they were going to replace the now-defunct Sasquatch! Music Festival (RIP) with "a new generation of contemporary artists" that would "carry on the t
  
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• Nevada seeks new injunction to block plutonium shipments

  07-02-2019 21:36
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s attorney general is making another bid for a court order blocking shipments of weapons-grade plutonium to a site near Las Vegas, declaring Thursday that the U.S. government’s assurances no more of the radioactive material is Nevada-bound “aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.” Attorney General Aaron Ford filed notice earlier […]
  
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• Oregon governor says Virginia’s Northam should resign

  07-02-2019 21:25
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Democratic Oregon Gov. Kate Brown called for her Virginia counterpart to step down over a racist photo in his 1984 medical school yearbook. “It’s appalling, all of it,” Brown told reporters Thursday when asked about Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. “He should resign. And then we have the next layer of issue, […]
  
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• Oregon governor says Virginia governor should resign

  07-02-2019 21:25
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s Democratic governor has weighed in on the political crisis in Virginia, saying her counterpart there should step down, and attributing the problem of whites wearing racist costumes to lack of awareness and stupidity. Asked about Virginia during a news conference Thursday, Gov. Kate Brown said the situation in Virginia shows […]
  
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• Parents sue for $56M after son, 5, drowns at camp

  07-02-2019 21:21
  CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — The parents of a 5-year-old boy who drowned at a Corvallis summer camp are suing the athletic club that hosted the camp for more than $56 million. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Thursday that the lawsuit alleges the Timberhill Athletic Club didn’t have a lifeguard on duty when Tomas Barreto Pizano rode a […]
  
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• Post-Analog As Fuck With Anthony White and Mount Analogue

  07-02-2019 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  Pioneer Square Art Walk Spotlight: Anthony White Curated Ultra Light Beams at Mount Analogueby Jasmyne KeimigA detail from Philip Gerald's "Manet, according to some art historians, was a really fun and interesting painter..." Jasmyne Keimig
  Not only is Seattle-based Anthony White (@culturalcrisis) a talented artist (you can read about him here and basically everywhere), but he also has a sharp curatorial eye. White is the second curator-in-residence in Mount Analogue’s Space Residency prog
  
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• Hall of Famer, pioneering manager Frank Robinson dies at 83

  07-02-2019 21:10
  The first black manager in Major League Baseball and the only player to win the MVP award in both leagues has died at 83.
  
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• Frank Robinson, baseball’s fearsome trailblazer, dies at 83

  07-02-2019 21:10
  The first black manager in Major League Baseball and the only player to win the MVP award in both leagues has died at 83.
  
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• Stanford probes faculty ties to China gene-edited baby work

  07-02-2019 21:01
  Stanford University has started a review of interactions that some faculty members had with He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who claims to have helped make gene-edited babies. Several Stanford professors have said they knew or strongly suspected He wanted to try gene editing on embryos intended for pregnancy. The work has been widely criticized since […]
  
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• Director of People's Harm Reduction Alliance Targeted for Helping Drug Users

  07-02-2019 20:56 via thestranger.com
  
  Shilo Jama is not shy about his drug use. In December, flyers featuring a photograph of his face started popping up in the University District and elsewhere in North Seattle.by Katie HerzogShilo JamaKelly O
  Jama is not shy about his drug use. The director of the People’s Harm Reduction Alliance (PHRA), Murphy, now 43, has been using drugs off and on since he was a teen. By this age, he says, he has more friends dead than alive, but despite living in a world where overdoses are not just com
  
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• Hospital officials warn of knock-off car seats

  07-02-2019 20:48
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Hospital officials in Idaho are warning parents about unsafe, knock-off car seats. KTVB-TV reports officials at St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital recently found two counterfeits. St. Luke’s Pediatric Education and Prevention Programs car seat technician Brittany Joplin came across a bogus car seat during a routine car seat check before discharging a […]
  
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• Giant heroin spoon art is moved again, to drugmaker’s gates

  07-02-2019 20:31
  COVENTRY, R.I. (AP) — An artist has moved his giant sculpture of a burnt spoon to a Rhode Island drugmaker’s office to protest the opioid crisis. The Providence Journal reports that 48-year-old Domenic Esposito, of Westwood, Massachusetts, and a partner placed the nearly 11-foot-long, 800-pound (3-meter-long, 360-kilogram) spoon at the front gates of Rhodes Pharmaceuticals […]
  
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• Fish pass mirror test, but does it mean they’re self-aware?

  07-02-2019 20:15
  NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists report that a fish can pass a standard test of recognizing itself in a mirror — and they raise a question about what that means. Does this decades-old test, designed to show self-awareness in animals, really do that? Since the mirror test was introduced in 1970, scientists have found that […]
  
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• Hey Landlords, It's Our Responsibility to Support Eviction Reform in Washington State

  07-02-2019 20:14 via thestranger.com
  
  Landlords, tenants and the whole community benefit from eviction reform.by Monica AnneySome landlords are good! SPARKY2000/GETTY
  In the conversation regarding our housing crisis, the landlord lobby would have our lawmakers believe that every Washington landlord is against strengthening tenant protections. This is far from the truth. We are both small landlords renting out property in Federal Way and Olympia, but we support reforming our eviction process to provide tenants more time to catch up o
  
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• Seattle, Where Are Your Favorite Places to Eat and Drink?

  07-02-2019 19:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani Polk
  For the 2019 edition of The Stranger’s Food & Drink guide, we’re Dining Around the Clock, offering a breakdown of our favorite Seattle-roasted coffee makers, where to get breakfast and brunch, lunch, dinner (including the best places to bring a date, your family, or an out-of-town guest), and late night options, as well as some of our favorite happy hours and locally-brewed beers.
  This year, we want to hear from you, our readers, about your favorites, too. We&rsqu
  
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• Police: Man admitted killing cancer-stricken wife

  07-02-2019 19:40
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a man admitted to killing his wife in a note to his two sons, saying she was suffering from terminal cancer. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that Michael D. Winchester, 52, of Lake Oswego is suspected of killing Heidi A. Winchester, 50, on Jan 30. Their 18-year-old son initially told dispatchers […]
  
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• Johnson & Johnson will list drug prices in TV commercials

  07-02-2019 19:38
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Johnson & Johnson said Thursday it will start giving the list price of its prescription drugs in television ads. The company would be the first drugmaker to take that step. The health care giant will begin with its popular blood thinner, Xarelto, said Scott White, head of J&J’s North American pharmaceutical […]
  
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• More eastern Idaho schools close because of illness

  07-02-2019 18:36
  IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — More eastern Idaho schools have been forced to close because of widespread flu-like illnesses. The Post Register reports that so far eight school districts have closed schools this week: Blackfoot, Firth, Shelley, Fremont, Ririe, Snake River, Teton and West Jefferson. Another district, Jefferson, was closed Tuesday and Wednesday before opening […]
  
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• Parks and Recreation budget includes possible woolly mammoth

  07-02-2019 18:31
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation has made a budget request that includes a mammoth item. The agency on Thursday told the Legislature’s budget-setting Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee that it wants to build a visitor center at Thousand Springs State Park that could include a life-sized woolly mammoth. The agency is […]
  
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• Suit: Pharmacy officer knew but didn’t stop excessive dosing

  07-02-2019 18:27
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A new wrongful-death lawsuit alleges that an Ohio hospital’s chief pharmacy officer knew about employees prescribing, approving and administering excessive painkiller doses but didn’t stop it from recurring. The lawsuit Thursday over the Nov. 20 death of 82-year-old Melissa Penix (PEHN’-ihx) names defendants including the Columbus-area Mount Carmel Health System, chief […]
  
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• The Weird Story Behind This Vaginal Showbox Shrine in Meadowbrook

  07-02-2019 18:15 via thestranger.com
  
  There's a giant shrine to the Showbox in Meadowbrook that looks a lot like a vagina. We went to investigate.by Lester BlackBuda is keeping Meadowbrook weird. Lester Black
  If you have driven on NE 35th Avenue in Meadowbrook in the last six months then chances are you’ve seen this extremely strange monument built from two diverging stumps. It’s ostensibly dedicated to saving the Showbox, a historic nightclub currently under threat of demolition, although looking at it always seems to r
  
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• The Weird Feud Behind This Vaginal Showbox Shrine in Meadowbrook

  07-02-2019 18:15 via thestranger.com
  
  There's a giant shrine to the Showbox in Meadowbrook that looks a lot like a vagina. We went to investigate.by Lester BlackBuda is keeping Meadowbrook weird. Lester Black
  If you have driven on NE 35th Avenue in Meadowbrook in the last six months then chances are you’ve seen this extremely strange monument built from two diverging stumps. It’s ostensibly dedicated to saving the Showbox, a historic nightclub currently under threat of demolition, although looking at it always seems to r
  
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• Pittsburgh water agency to spend $50M to replace lead pipes

  07-02-2019 18:10
  Pittsburgh’s beleaguered water authority will spend $50 million to replace lead service lines, give filters to low-income residents and take other steps to address the city’s lead crisis under a settlement approved Thursday by state utility regulators. It comes a week after the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office filed criminal charges against the Pittsburgh Water and […]
  
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• Bill Cosby, 81, moved to general unit at Pennsylvania prison

  07-02-2019 18:02
  COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. — Bill Cosby has been moved to a general population unit as he serves three to 10 years in prison for sexual assault in Pennsylvania. The move last week came after the 81-year-old actor spent about four months in special housing as he acclimated to SCI-Phoenix in suburban Philadelphia. Cosby, who is legally […]
  
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• I Am the Night: Family Secrets, the Black Dahlia, and Neo-Noir Clichés

  07-02-2019 17:45 via thestranger.com
  by Ciara Dolan TNT
  Directed by Wonder Woman's Patty Jenkins, TNT's new limited series I Am the Night is a strange hybrid of fact and fiction. It centers on the real-life story of Fauna Hodel, who was raised by black parents in Reno, Nevada, but later discovered that she was adopted and not multiracial, as she'd grown up believing. (The show is loosely based on Hodel's 2008 memoir One Day She’ll Darken: The Mysterious Beginnings of Fauna Hodel.)The truth of Fauna's origin has a connection t
  
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• Fire burns restaurant near previous arson fire in strip mall

  07-02-2019 17:45
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage firefighters fought a suspicious fire Thursday morning at a strip mall where an arson fire burned a restaurant earlier in the week. Anchorage television station KTUU reports the latest fire burned another restaurant, Noodle World Alaska. Traffic on busy east Tudor Road was blocked by the firefighting response. The latest […]
  
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• Legislation to examine maternal deaths in Idaho advances

  07-02-2019 17:44
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Legislation to determine why so many Idaho women die while pregnant or due to complications from childbirth in Idaho will get a hearing. Lawmakers on the House Health and Welfare Committee on Thursday voted unanimously to hear the proposal put forward by the Idaho Medical Association that would create a panel […]
  
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• Slog AM: Washington Is One Step Closer to Human Composting, A Green New Deal Has Arrived

  07-02-2019 17:24 via thestranger.com
  
  by Timothy KenneyThis could be you! amenic181/Getty Images
  A $15 minimum wage won’t ruin everything: A new UW study found that supermarket prices did not increase because of the increased minimum wage. Our minimum wage policies are setting a real trend across America, with a few other states following suit and Democrats calling for a nationwide $15 wage. Another UW study found that child-care businesses saw labor costs go up so you win some you lose some.
  Human composting bill passes state
  
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• Tests suggest scientists achieved 1st ‘in body’ gene editing

  07-02-2019 17:01
  Scientists think they have achieved the first gene editing inside the body, altering DNA in adults to try to treat a disease, although it’s too soon to know if this will help. Preliminary results suggest that two men with a rare disorder now have a corrective gene at very low levels, which may not be […]
  
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• Enrollment decline may force staff cuts at Linfield College

  07-02-2019 16:50
  MCMINVILLE, Ore. — Linfield College is preparing to cut faculty positions to save costs, as the small, private college based in McMinnville, Oregon, adjusts to a smaller student body. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that Linfield faculty members say up to 25 tenure, or tenure-track faculty positions are at risk as college leaders wrestle with tight […]
  
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