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• Police: Caldwell woman made up drive-by shooting story

  09-03-2019 22:54
  CALDWELL, Idaho (AP) — Police say a Caldwell woman invented a story of a drive-by shooting to conceal that she was actually shot in her home. The Idaho Statesman reports that 49-year-old Aurora Quedaza told investigators she was shot in the shoulder while walking her dog last week by a suspect in a red vehicle. […]
  
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• Former deputy arrested in gun theft faces additional charges

  09-03-2019 21:34
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A former Marion County Sheriff’s deputy arrested in the theft of five guns last year now faces additional charges after investigators said they uncovered a wide range of illegal activity. The Statesman Journal reports that 49-year-old Sean Banks was indicted Friday by a Marion County grand jury on 25 counts including […]
  
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• Lawsuit: Driver’s diet contributed to pedestrian’s death

  09-03-2019 20:50
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A lawsuit filed by the estate of a woman run over and killed in a grocery store parking lot says the driver’s diet was partly to blame. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that Susan Matthies was loading groceries into her car in the parking lot of the Safeway in Dallas, in Polk County, […]
  
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• State public health-care plan clears Washington House

  09-03-2019 20:38
  The proposal would create a state insurance option that would be offered at a discounted rate to some. It would also require officials to plan expanded state subsidies for private insurance, including for part of the middle class.
  
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• Oklahoma judge denies delay requests in opioid lawsuit

  09-03-2019 20:13
  NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma judge has denied a request by 13 pharmaceutical companies to delay the state’s lawsuit accusing them of fraudulently marketing drugs that have fueled the opioid crisis. The Oklahoman reports that Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman rejected the motion Friday and says “the wheels of justice will continue to […]
  
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• Prince of Wales Island road reopened months after landslide

  09-03-2019 19:30
  KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — Officials have reopened a road linking the Prince of Wales Island communities of Kazan and Thorne Bay, two months after it was closed by a landslide. The Ketchikan Daily News reports the South Thorne Bay/Kasaan Road was reopened Tuesday. Sara Yockey, Kasaan’s tribal transportation director, says travelers can expect delays as […]
  
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• EPA report: Red Dog Mine as major chemical release source

  09-03-2019 19:24
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Red Dog Mine in northwest Alaska is major source of chemical releases, according to a new federal report. State officials said the Environmental Protection Agency report released Tuesday is not an accurate representation of releases, Alaska Public Media reported . The EPA’s 2017 Toxics Release Inventory National Analysis includes a […]
  
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• Companies decry ‘valve turners’ who shut down pipelines

  09-03-2019 16:33
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — As Enbridge prepared to move climate-damaging tar sands crude through a 40-year-old pipeline in eastern Canada in 2015, environmentalists and indigenous peoples including Vanessa Gray thought about what happened in Michigan just five years earlier: Another of the company’s lines had burst, sending oil into a river in one of the […]
  
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• Frenchman maintains lead in Alaska’s Iditarod

  09-03-2019 16:28
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Frenchman continues to lead this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Nicolas Petit was the first musher Saturday to leave the checkpoint at Eagle Island, about 592 miles (953 kilometers) into the 1,000 mile (1609 kilometer) race across the Alaska wilderness to Nome. Petit, who was last year’s runner-up, now […]
  
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• French, Norwegian mushers battling for Iditarod lead

  09-03-2019 16:28
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two men living in Alaska but with European ties continue to run neck-and-neck Saturday in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Norwegian musher and defending champion Joar Ulsom was the first musher to reach the checkpoint in Eagle Island, about 592 miles (953 kilometers) into the 1,000 mile (1609 kilometer) race […]
  
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• JBER’s oldest K9 retires after 8 year career

  09-03-2019 16:20
  JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) — After nearly eight years of military service, the oldest military working dog at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson will, for the first time, become somebody’s pet. Military Working Dog Kimba, an 11-year-old Belgian Malinois serving with JBER’s 673rd Security Forces Squadron, retired Friday in a ceremony attended by four of her […]
  
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• aska poet calls attention to environmental concerns

  09-03-2019 16:00
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Lately there’s been a sense of urgency to Mar Ka’s ecologically minded poetry. Ka, who traveled to more than 90 Alaska Native villages as an indigenous rights attorney and now writes poetry, said after a poetry reading at Hearthside Books in Juneau that bleak news about climate change definitely colors her […]
  
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• Ebola treatment center in Congo is attacked again; 1 dead

  09-03-2019 14:34
  KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Armed assailants again attacked an Ebola treatment center in the heart of eastern Congo’s deadly outbreak on Saturday, with one police officer killed and health workers injured. The early-morning attack in Butembo came less than a week after the treatment center reopened following an attack last month, which forced aid group […]
  
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• High school graduation gaps are narrowing in Washington state. So why aren’t all students performing better on state exams?

  09-03-2019 14:00
  For students from traditionally marginalized communities, graduation rates have soared by double-digits. But why haven't they made comparable growth on standardized tests?
  
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• After 60 years, a Tacoma bowling alley to close its doors

  09-03-2019 12:00
  “It’s a neighborhood hangout,” said Bill Hamilton, who bought the place in 1992. “People eat three meals a day here, other people have met and been married in here.”
  
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• After 60 years, a Tacoma bowling alley that made customers feel like family will make way for apartments

  09-03-2019 12:00
  “It’s a neighborhood hangout,” said Bill Hamilton, who bought the place in 1992. “People eat three meals a day here, other people have met and been married in here.”
  
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• CDC: Unvaccinated Oregon boy almost dies of tetanus; $1M to save him

  09-03-2019 05:29
  It was the first time Dr. Judith Guzman-Cottrill, the pediatric infectious- disease expert who treated the child, had ever seen tetanus because of widespread vaccination against it in the U.S.
  
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• Feds pull Medicaid money at Washington’s Rainier School, citing health and safety failures

  09-03-2019 04:52
  This is the latest in a series of crises facing the state's social-services system. This decertification of the Pierce County facility for developmentally-disabled people could cost Washington roughly $12 million in annual funding, according to state officials.
  
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• Sorry not sorry: Democrats are bailing out Trump, one tone-deaf tweet at a time

  09-03-2019 04:16
  Democrats seem determined to mimic the worst instincts of the tweet-ranter-in-chief — to only his benefit.
  
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• Don’t bring us your World War II-era explosive devices, Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office says

  09-03-2019 04:11
  In two unrelated incidents, people tried to safely dispose of old military explosives by bringing them to law enforcement. It’s not safe to transport such devices, a Sheriff's Office spokesperson says.
  
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• Man convicted in rape, prostitution case traced to Seattle homeless encampment

  09-03-2019 03:52
  Two teens joined a woman to testify against Nghia Nguyen, who was convicted of charges including rape, unlawful imprisonment, promoting sexual abuse of a minor and promoting prostitution. The case is notable because sexual assaults in homeless camps are often difficult to prosecute.
  
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• Scientists see improving ocean conditions off West Coast, but ‘we are not quite out of the woods yet’

  09-03-2019 03:17
  Research surveys in 2018 showed promising signs of rebounding sea life after The Blob, an unprecedented warming event that began in 2014 off the West Coast.
  
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• Alaska appeals court overturns murder conviction

  09-03-2019 02:47
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Court of Appeals has overturned the second-degree murder conviction of a man accused of fatally shooting another man at an Anchorage mall in 2010. Anchorage TV station KTUU reports Friday that the appeals court ruled the jury that convicted Terrence Gray should have been given instructions on the “heat […]
  
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• Slog PM: Unvaccinated Oregon Boy Gets Tetanus and It Cost Over $800,000, U.S. Women Team Sues for Gender Discrimination

  09-03-2019 02:38 via thestranger.com
  
  by Nathalie GrahamPictured: All of my heroes Ronald Martinez / Getty Images
  Slog PM tonight is brought to you by International Women's Day: And the fucking toilet seat being up again in The Stranger's offices. I just have to say, I notice this every goddamn time it happens and I ignore it and put the seat down and go about my business.PUT IT DOWN DAMMIT Nathalie Graham
  I grew up with brothers, I get it, standing is really fucking efficient and whipping your dick out is the definition of easy bre
  
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• Police say Idaho man made false sarin bomb threat

  09-03-2019 01:33
  CALDWELL, Idaho (AP) — A southwestern Idaho man has been charged with terrorism and other crimes after police say he falsely threatened to release deadly nerve gas in the city of Nampa. Twenty-two year-old Grant Charles Stevenson is charged with several felonies, including threatening to use weapons of mass destruction in connection with the threat […]
  
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• Alaska governor wants lawmakers to offer budget ideas

  09-03-2019 01:30
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Gov. Mike Dunleavy says he’s eager for the Alaska Legislature to offer alternatives for addressing the state’s ongoing deficit. Dunleavy says that while he attends an energy conference next week in Texas he hopes the legislature will “get serious” about budget proposals. House and Senate lawmakers have been working through details […]
  
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• It Looks Like America's Bible-Signing President Is Also a Pimp

  09-03-2019 01:25 via thestranger.com
  
  Dave t #TrumpSpaGateby Charles MudedeCreating jobs... SrdjanPav/gettyimages.com
  Here are the dots for connecting an important piece of information. Dot one: On February 22, 2019, the owner of the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft was charged with allegedly soliciting sex (a blowjob) at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida, on the morning of Superbowl 2019. The next dot: Today, the Miami Herald reported that "Trump cheered Patriots to Super Bowl victory with founder of spa where Kraft
  
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• Scientists revise magnitude of recent Alaska earthquake

  09-03-2019 01:01
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Seismologists announced Friday the magnitude of Alaska’s powerful Nov. 30 earthquake has been revised to 7.1 from the earlier magnitude 7.0. Alaska Earthquake Center officials say in a news release that the change comes after quake data was reviewed by multiple agencies and academic groups. U.S. Geological Survey spokesman Paul Laustsen […]
  
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• If You Like Westerns and Ethan Hawke, You'll Like The Kid

  09-03-2019 01:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ned LannamannEthan Hawke is the best thing in the movie by a country mile.Lionsgate
  Remember that crummy remake of The Magnificent Seven from a couple of years ago? Three of its titular septet—Ethan Hawke, Chris Pratt, and Vincent D’Onofrio—have reteamed for another western, perhaps to make up for the shortcomings of their previous attempt. While The Kid isn’t exactly good enough to right past wrongs, it’s a mildly diverting entry into a genre that you either lov
  
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• Oregon and political action committee settle voting case

  09-03-2019 00:37
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s elections director and a political action committee that disenfranchised nearly 100 voters by turning their ballots in late have come to an agreement in which most of its fine will be suspended and the group will detail its procedures, officials said Friday. The incident revealed a possible election vulnerability in […]
  
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• Flip the Beat of the Honey Drippers' Funk Classic "Impeach the President" in New Tracklib Contest

  09-03-2019 00:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Tracklib's holding a beatmaking contest revolving around samples of the Honey Drippers' funk classic "Impeach the President." Get your Nix on.by Dave SegalMake it so. Alaga Records
  The Honey Drippers' 1973 single "Impeach the President" has been sampled nearly 800 times, according to authoritative site WhoSampled, making it one of the building blocks of '80s and '90s-era hip-hop. You can hear it in tracks by Eric B. & Rakim, Digable Planets, N.W.A., Nas, De La Soul, Big Daddy Kane, EPMD&mdas
  
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• FDA approves 1st immunotherapy drug to treat breast cancer

  09-03-2019 00:26
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first immunotherapy drug for breast cancer. Swiss drugmaker Roche’s Tecentriq was OK’d Friday for treating advanced triple-negative breast cancer, which accounts for about 15 percent of cases. It’s to be given with chemotherapy, the standard treatment. Mount Sinai breast cancer specialist Dr. Amy Tiersten in New […]
  
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• Illinois Is Weighing the Costs and Benefits of Legal Weed

  09-03-2019 00:15 via thestranger.com
  by Josh JardineAnother state is looking to graduate from a medical to recreational weed marketplace. REX_WHOLSTER / GETTY IMAGES
  Perhaps taking a note from current cannabis legalization processes and their successes and failures, Illinois is sorting out some aspects of supply and demand with its current medical program. It looks like they're also thinking how best to serve the expected demand of an adult-use recreational cannabis program, which some analysts think could be passed as early as thi
  
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• We Heard From Many Satisfied Customers This Week...

  09-03-2019 00:11 via thestranger.com
  Savage Love Letter of the Day: Reader Advice Round-upby Dan Savage
  Recent Savage Love Letters of the Day: Should she listen to her gut and leave her boyfriend with the anger issues? How should he react to the news that the woman he repeatedly cheated on is now cheating on him? What should she do about the boyfriend who doesn't want to have sex with her (but does want to masturbate) and refuses to talk about it? And how should she feel about finding proof that her mother was sleeping with her own
  
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