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• Groups intend to sue over new Wyoming grizzly hunt law

  20-02-2019 23:56
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Environmental groups have filed notice they intend to sue over a new Wyoming law that could authorize grizzly bear hunting even though grizzlies are federally protected. The Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, Wyoming Wildlife Advocates and Western Watersheds Project sent the notice Wednesday to Wyoming officials including the director of […]
  
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• UW Medicine mistakenly exposed information on nearly 1 million patients

  20-02-2019 23:38
  The files contain patients' names, medical record numbers, a description of the information shared and a description of who it was shared with, UW Medicine said in a news release.
  
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• Why Won't Her Boyfriend Cut Off His Toxic, Violent, Vodka-Bottle-Swinging Ex?

  20-02-2019 23:16 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan SavageLong-time reader, first time writer here.
  I’m a 26-year-old bi woman dating a 36-year-old man for about ten months now. The relationship itself has been amazing. He’s an incredibly sweet, caring, and affectionate guy who goes out of his way to make me feel appreciated. Not to mention, he’s super fun to hang out with! And the sex is fantastic!
  There’s just one problem. He’s still friends with his ex-girlfriend. They were toge
  
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• Tortoise feared extinct found on remote Galapagos island

  20-02-2019 23:01
  LIMA, Peru (AP) — A living member of species of tortoise not seen in more than 110 years and feared to be extinct has been found in a remote part of the Galapagos island of Fernandina. An adult female Chelonoidis phantasticus, also known as the Fernandina Giant Tortoise, was spotted Sunday by a joint expedition […]
  
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• Federal judge grants settlement for homeless advocates in lawsuit against Aberdeen

  20-02-2019 23:01
  Three people had sued the city over a controversial permit system that required visitors to the major homeless encampment to get city authorization before entering the camps.
  
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• Truck rolls into Gardner River in Yellowstone

  20-02-2019 22:49
  GARDINER, Mont. (AP) — Two people escaped injury when their truck rolled into the Gardner River in Yellowstone National Park. National Park Service spokeswoman Linda Veress tells The Billings Gazette that the incident occurred about 5:45 p.m. Monday just north of the Boiling River thermal feature in the northern end of the park on the […]
  
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• King County Metro Security Boss Arrested on Suspicion of Human Trafficking

  20-02-2019 22:45 via thestranger.com
  The head of security for King County Metro was arrested on suspicion of engaging in pimping and human trafficking.by Lester BlackThe head of security for King County Metro was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of sex trafficking with a person who provided childcare for his children, according to the King County Sheriff's Office (KSCO).Mark L. Norton, the superintendent of transit security and emergency management for King County Metro, was arrested in Stanwood on Tuesday and booked into jail for all
  
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• Idaho gov: Legislature must fund Medicaid before adjourning

  20-02-2019 22:36
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little says the Legislature must fund a voter-approved expansion of the state’s Medicaid program before lawmakers adjourn for the year. Little made the remarks to the Idaho Press Club Wednesday morning during the club’s annual “Breakfast with the Governor” event when he was asked about Proposition 2: A […]
  
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• We Have Some Questions for Bernie Sanders About His Presidential Run

  20-02-2019 22:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by The StrangerEpisode 186 asks Bernie Sanders to explain some things about his second presidential campaign. Sean Rayford / Getty ImagesSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!
  Fresh off announcing his repeat presidential candidacy, Bernie Sanders drops by the Blabbermouth studios for an interview with Eli Sanders and Katie Herzog!Rich Smith is mysteriously absent during the conversation but shows up afterward to explain exactly where he is, and is not, feeling the Bern.After t
  
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• Government headed for close to half of nation’s health tab

  20-02-2019 22:04
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Even without a history-making health care remake to deliver “Medicare-for-all,” government at all levels will be paying nearly half the nation’s health care tab in less than 10 years, according to a federal report released Wednesday. The government growth is driven by traditional Medicare, which is experiencing a surge in enrollment as […]
  
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• Toothless Is DTF in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

  20-02-2019 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Erik Henriksen
  Heads up: If you've ever owned a dog, a cat, or a dragon, the final 20 minutes or so of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World will reduce you to a wheezing, weeping, snot-soaked wreck, and because this will happen at the very end of the movie, as soon as you stumble out of the theater, everyone is going to know that a children's movie about friendly dragons just reduced you to a wheezing, weeping, snot-soaked wreck, and this is a thing you will have to deal with for the re
  
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• DJ Miss Min.D Keeps Seattle's Underground Grooving to Many Styles of House and Breaks

  20-02-2019 21:23 via thestranger.com
  
  One of Seattle's most engaging DJs, Miss Min.D keeps the underground grooving to many styles of house, breaks, and DnB.by Dave Segal"I take pride in being a diverse DJ who tells a musical story throughout my set." Van Adam Davis/V.A. Davis Photography
  MISS MIN.D (MINDY CHRISTMAN; Fraktured)
  Current top 5 tracks:
  Aaron Smith Ft. Luvli, "Dancin (Steve Smooth & JJ Flores Remix)" (Moody, 2004)
  "When I started playing records in 2003, I played UK hard house on vinyl and hadn’t quite dabbled
  
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• Seattle, Where Are Your Favorite Places to Eat and Drink? VOTE NOW!

  20-02-2019 21:04 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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• Alaska cannabis industry cites uncertainty with new governor

  20-02-2019 20:58
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Recent appointments and proposed changes by Gov. Mike Dunleavy to a state regulatory board has some in the legal cannabis industry confused about his intentions, but a spokesman said Wednesday the first-term Republican has no intention of changing the fact that broad use of marijuana is legal in Alaska. Spokesman Matt […]
  
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• Yakima Valley dairy farms take $4M hit from cows lost in blizzard

  20-02-2019 20:27
  Up to 15 farms near Sunnyside lost cows, with one dairy reported to have lost about 600 cows in the Feb. 9 storm.
  
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• True Detective, Season 3: What Is Worse? Saying the N-Word to a Black Man, or Admitting You Are Thinking That Word?

  20-02-2019 20:24 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede HBO
  The seventh episode of True Detective (season 3), has lots of twists and turns. One of the turns concerns Tyson Hoyt Foods, a tentacular chicken corporation that apparently owns all of Arkansas. Every little fear, or worried whisper, or burst of panic, or deep secret, or mysterious death in the state of 3 million seems to lead all the way to the top, to the pharaonic owners of Hoyt. Here, we have total social power and nothing like what's theorized by the French philosopher
  
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• Corps releases draft review of Alaska Pebble Mine project

  20-02-2019 20:10
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released a draft report detailing potential impacts of developing a large copper-and-gold mine near the headwaters of a major Alaska fishery. The corps plans to take comments through March, April and May on its analysis of various development alternatives for the proposed Pebble Mine, […]
  
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• Biologists recruit Anchorage residents for moose survey

  20-02-2019 20:03
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — State wildlife officials want Anchorage residents to report moose sightings for three days starting Friday. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is conducting its third year of a survey that uses DNA taken from city moose to estimate moose numbers in the Anchorage Bowl. When residents report a moose, department […]
  
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• Oregon reports boom in camping, longer camping season

  20-02-2019 19:54
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department set a new record for the number of campers at state parks last year and the number of day-use visitors was the second-highest ever. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Wednesday that 2.9 million people camped in 2018 and 54 million people in total visited a park, the […]
  
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• Girl’s death haunted police until arrest made 45 years later

  20-02-2019 19:46
  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Investigators searched for decades for the killer of an 11-year-old girl who disappeared while walking home from summer school in a case that gripped a California seaside community. A photo of a smiling Linda O’Keefe has hung for years on the wall of the police department in Newport Beach, reminding […]
  
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• Arrests made in decades-old killings of 2 California kids

  20-02-2019 19:46
  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities said Wednesday that they solved two decades-old cold cases that stunned Southern California, arresting suspects in the separate killings of a boy and a girl who disappeared while walking home from school. Linda O’Keefe was strangled in 1973, and William Tillett was suffocated in 1990. They were both 11. […]
  
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• Oregon woman sentenced to 12 years for death of cyclist

  20-02-2019 19:45
  BEND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon woman was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for hitting and killing a cyclist while driving under the influence. KTVZ-TV reports Deschutes County Circuit Judge Michael Adler sentenced 42-year-old Shantel Witt on Tuesday, telling the court that it was the “most extreme reckless endangerment case” he had […]
  
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• The Music of Sonic the Hedgehog Video Game Landscapes and Over-Branded Loungewear

  20-02-2019 19:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Electronic musician George Clanton played a sold-out Barboza Monday night.by Jasmyne KeimigView this post on InstagramA post shared by George Clanton (@georgeclanton) on Nov 26, 2018 at 1:26pm PST
  Electronic musician George Clanton played Barboza Monday night. The show had been sold out for weeks, which he noted at the top of the act. He also lamented the fact that there was no fog machine—something I was secretly grateful for as all the bodies, scrunched in together underneath all the coa
  
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• George Clanton Is an Amphibious Icon

  20-02-2019 19:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Electronic musician George Clanton played a sold-out Barboza Monday night.by Jasmyne KeimigView this post on InstagramA post shared by George Clanton (@georgeclanton) on Nov 26, 2018 at 1:26pm PST
  Electronic musician George Clanton played Barboza Monday night. The show had been sold out for weeks, which he noted at the top of the act. He also lamented the fact that there was no fog machine—something I was secretly grateful for as all the bodies, scrunched in together underneath all the coa
  
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• Ex-Arizona lawmaker to be sentenced in June in Alaska murder

  20-02-2019 19:33
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Sentencing has again been delayed for a former Arizona state legislator who last year was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of a man at a remote cabin in southeast Alaska. Mark Desimone was found guilty in May of killing Duilio Antonio “Tony” Rosales during a 2016 hunting and fishing […]
  
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• Bill to raise fee for private forest owners goes to governor

  20-02-2019 19:22
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Legislation that will for the first time in 16 years raise the assessment private forest owners pay the state to make sure logging is done in a sustainable way and in compliance with Idaho laws is headed to Gov. Brad Little. The Senate voted 28-7 on Wednesday to approve the legislation […]
  
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• Neptune’s newest, tiniest moon likely piece of bigger one

  20-02-2019 19:15
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Neptune’s newest and tiniest moon is probably an ancient piece of a much larger moon orbiting unusually close. In the journal Nature on Wednesday, California astronomers shine a light on the 21-mile-diameter (34-kilometer-diameter) moon Hippocamp, named after the mythological sea horse. The SETI Institute’s Mark Showalter discovered Neptune’s 14th moon […]
  
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• Recent snowfall is helping Oregon snowpack recover

  20-02-2019 19:14
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Winter storms that have dumped snow on the Cascade Range this month have helped Oregon’s snowpack recover after lower-than-normal measurements in January and last year. The Capital Press reports that the entire state has seen a 20 to 30 percent bump in snowpack and 2 to 3 times the normal precipitation […]
  
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• Bill to form Idaho Council on Federal Lands goes to House

  20-02-2019 18:23
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho is a step closer to forming a permanent committee of state lawmakers to consider federal lands issues. The House State Affairs Committee voted 13-3 on Wednesday to send to the full House the bill to form the Idaho Council on Federal Lands comprised of four members from the House and […]
  
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• German Guitar God Michael Rother Talks Kraftwerk, Neu!, and the Dubious Term "Krautrock"

  20-02-2019 18:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Here's the first of a multi-part interview with Neu!/Harmonia guitar god Michael Rother, who has a box set of his first four solo LPs coming out this week.by Dave SegalThis humble musical revolutionary would rather you not use the term "krautrock," but he's not offended by it.GRÖNLAND RECORDSGerman guitarist Michael Rother helped to revolutionize music during the '70s in the groups Neu! and Harmonia. (He also briefly played in Kraftwerk in 1971, but couldn't fully express himself in that co
  
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• Troopers investigate 2 deaths at Wasilla residence

  20-02-2019 17:34
  WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers say the bodies of two people were found Monday night at a home in Wasilla. Troopers say 47-year-old Sarah Klingener and 57-year-old Shawn McVey, both of Wasilla, were found dead at on the property. Next of kin for both have been notified. The manner of death and cause […]
  
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• Slog AM: FDA Warns Not to Inject Young Blood, Washington May Stay on Daylight Saving Time Year-Round

  20-02-2019 17:29 via thestranger.com
  
  by Timothy Kenney"Selling this blood means I get dental insurance now!" Travelsouls/Getty Images
  Olympia may make daylight saving time year-round: And what a good riddance that would be. There’s evidence that “spring forward, fall back” has some serious negative impacts like increased car accidents and greater risk of heart attacks so this seemingly innocuous change could save lives. If we stayed on daylight saving time year round, then we would have long sunny summer days but
  
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• North Pole man sentenced to 15 years in child porn case

  20-02-2019 17:22
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 43-year-old North Pole man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for distribution and receipt of child pornography. Eric Whitebread also faces 35 years of supervised release. Federal prosecutors say Whitebread in 2015 distributed files of child pornography through an online file-sharing network. Investigators seized his computer and found […]
  
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• Today is the anniversary of the grand opening of Dick’s Drive-In

  20-02-2019 16:13
  Dick's Drive-In opened its first location on Feb. 20, 1954. An ad from that time trumpeted 19-cent hamburgers and "instant service."
  
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• Today is the anniversary of the first Dick’s Drive-In opening

  20-02-2019 16:13
  Dick's Drive-In opened its first location on Feb. 20, 1954. An ad from that time trumpeted 19-cent hamburgers and "instant service."
  
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• Snow unlikely to materialize in most of Seattle area, despite earlier warning

  20-02-2019 16:04
  Don't worry, Seattle. It's just rain. Warnings of a slim chance of snow are nothing to worry about, the National Weather Service says.
  
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• Don’t worry, Seattle: Snow isn’t likely this week, despite earlier warning

  20-02-2019 16:04
  Don't worry, Seattle. It's just rain. Warnings of a slim chance of snow are nothing to worry about, the National Weather Service says.
  
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• Vote: What do you want to know about why people are homeless?

  20-02-2019 15:11
  For the past eight months, Project Homeless has been trying to answer questions from readers about homelessness. We’ve tackled everything from “Why don’t police enforce laws against camping in Seattle’s parks and streets?” to “How many homeless people in Seattle are from here?” to “What can Seattle learn from cities where homelessness has dropped?” — all questions […]
  
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• With her new leg, 4-year-old Radhika is up and walking

  20-02-2019 15:00
  Back in India, Radhika Ennis was badly burned on both her legs before she turned 2. It left her unable to walk. Now with the love of her new parents and the help of experts at Seattle Children's, she has the confidence to take off running.
  
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• Jill Abramson is dealing with every journalist’s biggest nightmare

  20-02-2019 15:00
  Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson's new book, "Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts," works hard to explain the disruption of the news media over the past decade, and the erosion of trust in the country. But sales have been dogged by accusations of plagiarism.
  
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• Academic: Very few climate change doubters, issue now action

  20-02-2019 11:47
  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A prominent American economist says there are “very few” individuals left who still doubt climate change because the evidence of its impact is clear. Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs told the Associated Press Wednesday that public discourse has moved beyond whether climate change is really happening, to what needs to be […]
  
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• Oregon man with medical marijuana gets 12 years in prison

  20-02-2019 10:01
  CANTON, Miss. (AP) — An Oregon man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in Mississippi for possessing medical marijuana. The Clarion Ledger reports 46-year-old Patrick Beadle was originally convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to eight years in prison without parole. Beadle’s attorney, Cynthia Stewart, said Tuesday that a judge vacated the trafficking […]
  
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• Police union slams mayor’s criticism of lieutenant

  20-02-2019 07:55
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Portland police commanding officers union has filed a grievance against the city, citing a provision that says any reprimand of a police supervisor should be done in a way “least likely to embarrass” the officer in public. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the grievance stems from statements Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, as […]
  
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• Authorities suspend search for missing man amid winter storm

  20-02-2019 07:54
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Authorities in Idaho say they are suspending the “missing person” search for a 32-year-old man who left his car to get help after getting stranded with a woman and their infant. The Idaho Statesman reports the Owyhee County Sheriff’s Office announced the suspension Tuesday night on its Facebook page as a […]
  
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• Northern Red Sea coral reefs may survive a hot, grim future

  20-02-2019 07:46
  EILAT, Israel (AP) — As the outlook for coral reefs across a warming planet grows grimmer, scientists in Israel have discovered a rare glimmer of hope: The corals of the northern Red Sea may survive, and even thrive, into the next century. There is broad scientific consensus that the effects of climate change have devastated […]
  
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