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• Middleton mayor arrested on domestic battery charge

  03-03-2019 21:11
  MIDDLETON, Idaho (AP) — A mayor in Idaho has been arrested and on a charge of domestic battery. According to a Canyon County jail roster, Middleton Mayor Darin Taylor was arrested Saturday night. The Idaho Press reports that no bail was set and he will remain in custody until he is arraigned on Monday. Canyon […]
  
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• 5 finalists vie to be Boise State University president

  03-03-2019 20:50
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Five finalists have been named in the search for the next president of Boise State University. The Idaho State Board of Education announced the finalists Sunday. They were picked from a list of more than 60 candidates vying to become the university’s seventh president. The finalists were selected after 12 semifinalists […]
  
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• Boise law school receives full accreditation

  03-03-2019 20:23
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The American Bar Association has granted full approval to a Boise-based law school that struggled with accreditation. Concordia University-Portland announced in 2007 it would open a law school in downtown Boise, and spent several years raising money to build the school. The first class opened with 75 students in 2012. In […]
  
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• Boise State students search for inmates’ unmarked graves

  03-03-2019 20:07
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — College students in Idaho are searching for the remains of inmates buried at a penitentiary decades ago. KBOI-TV reports the Idaho Historical Society asked the geophysics club at Boise State University for help with filling in some gaps in cemetery records. The society has records for 55 people buried in the […]
  
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• Deputies in Washington state shoot, kill man

  03-03-2019 19:29
  Chief Deputy Bruce Kimsey declined to provide details about the man's weapon.
  
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• Overloading, heavy ice and an open hatch: Coast Guard details what sank the Seattle-based Destination

  03-03-2019 19:19
  The Coast Guard report, issued Sunday, blames the crab boat's owner and captain for the 2017 disaster that unfolded on winter seas after ice built up on the hull and gear. "The crew had very little time, if any, to react," investigators wrote.
  
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• Underground fire at Arkansas dump raises health concerns

  03-03-2019 18:01
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — More than seven months after residents first noticed a fire at an illegal dumping site in northwest Arkansas, it’s still smoldering, sending noxious smoke throughout the town and seeping into homes, with costs to extinguish the fire estimated at tens of millions of dollars. Chris Nelson, 40, lives with his […]
  
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• Juneau looks at supplying power to cruise ships at docks

  03-03-2019 16:43
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Juneau officials are exploring the idea of expanding port infrastructure to allow more cruises ships to connect to the local electrical grid as a way to cut down on dock-side emissions. Princess Cruises has been connecting to shore power at a city dock since 2001, paying the local utility about $1 […]
  
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• Defending Iditarod champ remains self-proclaimed ‘goofball’

  03-03-2019 16:31
  WILLOW, Alaska (AP) — Joar Leifseth Ulsom may not be flashy or brash, but he has sled cred. The quiet, unassuming 32-year-old defending champion of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race leads the field of 52 mushers hoping to be the first to reach Alaska’s western coast after a thousand-mile (1,600-kilometer) trek across the wilderness. […]
  
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• Olympic National Park to launch online permit reservations

  03-03-2019 15:40
  Park officials say the new online system is more efficient and allows more time for specialists to answer questions and help with trip planning.
  
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• While Gov. Jay Inslee is out running for president, who’s running the state?

  03-03-2019 15:00
  As Inslee launches the first presidential campaign by a Washington politician in more than 40 years, the business of the state will carry on, with him present or not.
  
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• Commercial flights from Everett’s Paine Field to start Monday

  03-03-2019 15:00
  Alaska Airlines and United Airlines will offer a combined 24 daily departures from the Everett airport, with 1.4 million passengers expected each year.
  
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• Commercial flights from Everett’s Paine Field set to launch on Monday

  03-03-2019 15:00
  Alaska Airlines and United Airlines will offer a combined 24 daily departures from the Everett airport, with 1.4 million passengers expected each year,
  
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• Bills to cut Sound Transit car-tab taxes are back in Olympia, but passage remains uncertain

  03-03-2019 15:00
  One state representative says he has a plan to reconcile anger over car tabs without harming voter-approved rail and bus projects, but Sound Transit says his proposal would still harm transit.
  
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• US-built capsule with a dummy aboard docks at space station

  03-03-2019 11:54
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A sleek new American-built capsule with just a test dummy aboard docked smoothly with the International Space Station on Sunday, bringing the U.S. a big step closer to getting back in the business of launching astronauts. The white, bullet-shaped Dragon capsule, developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company under contract to […]
  
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• SpaceX’s new crew capsule aces space station docking

  03-03-2019 11:54
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX’s new crew capsule has arrived at the International Space Station, acing its second milestone in just over a day. No one was aboard the Dragon capsule launched Saturday on its first test flight, only an instrumented dummy. But the three station astronauts had front-row seats as the Dragon neatly […]
  
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• Milestone: Capsule with dummy aboard docks at space station

  03-03-2019 11:54
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A sleek new American-built capsule with just a test dummy aboard docked smoothly with the International Space Station on Sunday in a big step toward putting the U.S. back in the business of launching astronauts. The white, bullet-shaped Dragon capsule, developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company under contract to NASA, […]
  
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• Eastern Washington: 2 deaths in less than 24 hours in Tri-Cities, and both men were shocked by police Tasers

  03-03-2019 11:43
  A condition blamed for deaths connected to the weapons is called "excited delirium." It is linked specifically to people who died while, or shortly after, they were being arrested, according to a team of researchers from Canada writing for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
  
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• Pioneering Oregon politician, feminist, environmentalist Norma Paulus dies

  03-03-2019 03:58
  As an environmentalist, Norma Paulus required recycling in state office buildings, wrote legislation to limit the use of off-road vehicles on state lands. And as secretary of state, she instituted vote by mail.
  
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• Celebrating Chinese New Year with sun and a smooch

  03-03-2019 03:11
  February’s historic snowstorms postponed the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration in Seattle’s Chinatown International District. Sunny skies drew crowds to Saturday’s festivities, which featured dancing dragons, fireworks and martial-arts demonstrations. Chinese New Year was Feb. 5; it’s the Year of the Pig, or Boar.
  
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• Can this church be saved? Crumbling Tacoma icon needs $10M in repairs

  03-03-2019 02:49
  For 127 years, Tacoma’s Catholic community has gathered to share joy and sorrow at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary. Now the building is too dangerous to occupy, says the archdiocese.
  
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• Patient attacked 3 Western State Hospital nurses in 6 months, lawsuit says

  03-03-2019 02:38
  The lawsuit says the patient had a history of “sexually assaulting and targeting female staff” and that the hospital knew and didn’t address it appropriately
  
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