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• Washington Prisoners May No Longer Be Able to Receive Donated Books

  01-04-2019 23:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Let them read books!by Nathalie GrahamThe revised rules are meant to limit contraband from entering correctional facilities.MIVPIV/GETTY
  The Washington Department of Corrections quietly released a memo last month banning used publications from entering Washington prisons. Inmate advocates worry the move will stymie access to books.Many Washington state prisoners depend on book donations from organizations like Books to Prisoners, a Seattle nonprofit that has been donating thousands of books to i
  
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• The 71 Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week: April 1-7, 2019

  01-04-2019 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffChoreographer Mark Haim memorized hundreds of short dances submitted by people from all over the world. The result, Parts to a Sum, opens this weekend at Velocity Dance Center. Paul H. Taylor
  Our music critics have already chosen the 42 best music shows, but now it's our arts critics' turn to recommend the best events in their areas of expertise. Here are their picks in every genre—from the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival to Seattle Restaurant Week, and from the
  
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• Alaska authorities investigate trooper-involved shooting

  01-04-2019 22:38
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities in Alaska are investigating a trooper-involved shooting that left a 25-year-old Fairbanks man dead. Alaska State Troopers say Kevin Ray McEnulty was shot Sunday night in Fairbanks after he brandished a firearm. Troopers and officers from Fairbanks and the University of Alaska Fairbanks police departments had responded to a call […]
  
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• Senate kills resolution to nullify Equal Rights support

  01-04-2019 21:57
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s Republican-led Senate has killed a House resolution that seeks to rescind the state’s 1975 support of the Equal Rights Amendment. The resolution sponsored by seven male GOP House members says Congress’ deadline for ratification of the gender-equality amendment came and went 40 years ago and is no longer valid. […]
  
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• Looks Like Joe Biden Is Going to Run Despite an Accusation of Inappropriate Touching

  01-04-2019 21:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by Eli SandersFormer Vice President Joe Biden. Win McNamee / Getty Images
  On Friday, former Nevada state legislator Lucy Flores accused former Vice President Joe Biden of inappropriate contact at a 2014 campaign event, alleging that Biden came up behind her, smelled her hair, and planted "a big slow kiss” on the back of her head as she was waiting to give a speech.Biden says he's definitely an affectionate person at political events, a fact that's more than confirmed by photos—includ
  
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• Oregon Gov. launches committee to ensure fair Census count

  01-04-2019 21:38
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has formed an outreach committee to encourage response to the 2020 Census, ahead of a Supreme Court decision that could lead to undercounts of immigrant communities. The governor announced on Monday that the newly formed Complete Count Committee will ensure a fair and accurate Census count. The […]
  
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• Seattle Hard-Rock Band Thunderpussy Are Fighting to Trademark Their Name

  01-04-2019 21:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle hard-rock band Thunderpussy are engaged in a frustrating legal battle to trademark their name.by Dave SegalTwat's in a name? Thunderpussy at Sasquatch, 2018. Lester Black
  The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has thwarted all-woman Seattle rock band Thunderpussy's attempt to trademark their name. The PTO has accused the moniker of being "scandalous," going so far as to use an Urban Dictionary definition of it as a derogatory term to reject Thunderpussy's case. In response,
  
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• The 42 Best Music Shows in Seattle This Week: April 1-7, 2019

  01-04-2019 21:06 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's music critics' picks for the week.by Stranger Things To Do StaffThis week, our music critics have picked everything from Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra to space-rock group Spiritualized to Hop Along. Follow the links below for ticket links and music clips for all of their picks, and find even more shows on our complete music calendar. Found something you like and don't want to forget about it later? Click "Save Event" on any of the linked events below to add it
  
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• LA to tap tech to wipe out up to 50,000 old pot convictions

  01-04-2019 20:57
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles-area prosecutors are joining other district attorneys to use technology to wipe out or reduce as many as 50,000 old marijuana convictions years after California voters broadly legalized the drug. The county is working with the Code for America nonprofit tech organization, which uses computer algorithms to find eligible cases […]
  
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• California jury orders Chevron to pay $21M for cancer claims

  01-04-2019 20:47
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Northern California jury ordered Chevron Corp. to pay the families of two brothers who died of cancer a combined $21.4 million after concluding the company failed to properly warn the men about the dangers of a toxic solvent they worked with at a company-owned tire factory. The San Francisco Chronicle […]
  
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• Found: Big, Beautiful Street Beets

  01-04-2019 20:41 via thestranger.com
  
  Presumably not poisoned.by Katie HerzogPresumably not poisonedKHWhen semi-retired Stranger founder Tim Keck came into the office this morning singing about some "big, beautiful beets" he'd just found on the street outside our office, I naturally assumed that the boss had been macrodosing before breakfast again. He has, but it turns out the beets that Tim found do, in fact, exist, and are a part of a guerrilla marketing campaign by Cafe Nordo for the upcoming production of Tom Robbins's Jitterbug
  
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• Anchorage’s snow melt this year among earliest on record

  01-04-2019 20:23
  AMCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Meteorologists say they measured less than 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) of snow for the first time in 102 days at the Anchorage airport Saturday, possibly marking the onset of spring. The Anchorage Daily News reports that National Weather Service forecasters don’t expect more accumulation in the city, making this year’s snow […]
  
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• Alaska human rights commission to meet on personnel issue

  01-04-2019 20:08
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The state human rights commission plans to meet Monday on a confidential personnel matter. Additional details weren’t immediately released. The commission’s executive director, Marti Buscaglia, faced blowback last month, including from Gov. Mike Dunleavy, for pointing out a “Black Rifles Matter” sticker on a truck in the commission’s parking lot she […]
  
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• Army investigates Alaska soldier’s training death

  01-04-2019 20:04
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Army is investigating the death of a 20-year-old soldier who was shot during a live-fire exercise in Alaska’s interior. Army officials in Alaska said Monday Spc. Nicholas Peter DiMona III died Saturday after he was shot during the early morning drill at the Donnelly Training area near Fort Greely. Officials […]
  
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• Climate protesters bare almost all during UK Brexit debate

  01-04-2019 19:56
  LONDON (AP) — A dozen demonstrators have been arrested after stripping off their clothes in Britain’s House of Commons to protest climate change. The protesters stripped down to their underpants in the public gallery Monday while lawmakers were debating Brexit. Some had slogans including “SOS” and “stop wasting time” written on their bodies. The group […]
  
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• Senate approves legislation legalizing hemp in Idaho

  01-04-2019 19:47
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Senate has approved legislation to legalize hemp in Idaho. The Senate voted 32-3 Monday to approve the bill that would legalize the growing and selling of hemp products containing 0.3 percent or less of THC, the cannabis compound that gives marijuana its high. Backers say the state’s climate is ideal […]
  
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• German nurse charged with killing 6 of his patients

  01-04-2019 19:28
  BERLIN (AP) — Munich prosecutors say they have charged a nurse with murder on allegations he killed six patients in his care with injections of insulin that they didn’t medically need. Prosecutors said the 37-year-old man also faces counts of attempted murder for injecting three other patients who survived, the dpa news agency reported Monday. […]
  
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• UK’s only female giant panda artificially inseminated at zoo

  01-04-2019 19:02
  LONDON (AP) — Britain’s only female giant panda has been artificially inseminated in a bid to produce a cub. Officials at Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland said Monday it’s “far too early” to know if the procedure was a success. The zoo said Tian Tian had her annual health check on Sunday and was artificially inseminated […]
  
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• Senate amends Idaho bill to add Medicaid work requirements

  01-04-2019 18:49
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Senate has approved amendments to legislation involving Idaho’s voter-approved Medicaid expansion law that adds mandatory work requirements. The Senate on Monday debated nine amendments to a bill originating in the Senate before finishing with a bill that’s similar to a House bill a Senate committee killed last week. The Senate […]
  
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• Federal study gives new options for people with rare cancers

  01-04-2019 18:27
  ATLANTA (AP) — People with rare cancers have been out of luck — not only do most lack good treatments but drug companies also don’t pursue them because of small potential sales. Now, a federal study that pools these folks gives them strength in numbers and new options. The first results from this novel effort […]
  
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• The Aftermath Is Pure, Uncut Keira Knightley

  01-04-2019 17:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ned LannamannKeira Knightly plays the the mopey wife of an English colonel in a post-WWII Britain. FOX SEARCHLIGHT
  Let me summarize The Aftermath for you as briefly I can:
  Keira. Knightley.
  There. In two simple words, you already have all the background info you need. You have immediately intuited that The Aftermath is a period drama, in which succulent costumes and lavish sets do most of the visual work. You also have instantly sensed that The Aftermath is a stiff yet gooey story about repre
  
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• 2 missing after ATVs crash through Kuskokwim River ice

  01-04-2019 17:47
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two all-terrain vehicles carrying five people crashed through ice on the Kuskokwim River and two people are missing. Alaska State Troopers took a call on the accident shortly before 8:30 p.m. Sunday. The four-wheelers went through the ice near the upper end of Church Slough. Three people made it out of […]
  
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• Anchorage police find body at busy midtown intersection

  01-04-2019 17:37
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Anchorage police reopened a busy midtown intersection Monday morning after investigating a suspicious death. Police say patrol officers discovered the body of a man at Benson Boulevard and A Street. Police temporarily closed off Benson Boulevard between A Street and Denali Street. The man’s body was found in the road. Most […]
  
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• Anchorage police arrest suspect in death at intersection

  01-04-2019 17:37
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 25-year-old man is in custody on suspicion of second-degree murder in the death of a man found at a busy Anchorage intersection. Anchorage police say Martin Kignak was arrested Monday morning. Online court documents do not list his attorney or proceedings in the case. Officers on routine patrol spotted a […]
  
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• Slog AM: Seattle's Ferry System Needs Funding, A Bone-Dry March, Skrillex Stops Mosquito Sex

  01-04-2019 17:35 via thestranger.com
  
  by Timothy KenneyPic of me during summer if this bullshit keeps up.VMJONES/GETTY IMAGES
  The Ferries are Dying: Now that’s what KOMO should have called their hour-long special because maybe then we would have actually learned something and then nobody would have been exploited. Transportation budgets are getting kicked around Olympia this week for final changes before going to a vote. The biggest issues are the state’s aging fleet of ferries, road culverts that block fish access to st
  
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• SUV driver dies in rollover crash in south Anchorage

  01-04-2019 17:30
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man died in a one-car rollover crash in south Anchorage. Police say a driver in a sport utility vehicle Sunday morning was heading west on O’Malley Road and failed to negotiate the left-hand curve where the road turns into Minnesota Drive. The SUV rolled several times and came to rest […]
  
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• WWF sounds alarm after 48 lbs of plastic found in dead whale

  01-04-2019 17:15
  MILAN (AP) — The World Wildlife Foundation is sounding the alarm over plastics in the Mediterranean Sea after an 8-meter (over 26-foot) sperm whale was found dead off Sardinia with 22 kilograms (48.5 pounds) of plastic in its belly. The environmental organization said Monday the garbage recovered in the sperm whale’s stomach included a corrugated […]
  
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• French govt outlines measures to improve autism care

  01-04-2019 17:08
  PARIS (AP) — The French government has outlined measures to ensure early diagnostic testing for young children with autism and help for them going to school. In a statement following a Cabinet meeting Monday, the government promised that expenses linked to diagnostic testing will be fully reimbursed. Measures include opening specific classes at preschools and […]
  
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• Salem-Keizer teachers file labor complaint

  01-04-2019 16:55
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Salem Keizer Education Association has filed an unfair labor practice complaint against Salem-Keizer Public Schools for allegedly discriminating against and unfairly transferring an elementary school teacher, and restricting the union’s access to its members. The Statesman Journal reports the complaint was filed with the Oregon Employment Relations Board in early […]
  
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• Bill improving highway safety for tow trucks signed into law

  01-04-2019 16:49
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Legislation requiring motorists to slow down and move over when approaching tow trucks and maintenance vehicles parked along roadways with lights flashing has been signed into law by Gov. Brad Little. Little late last week signed the law that also requires motorists to slow down and move over when approaching a […]
  
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• Happy April Fools’ Day! Here are some pranks done right — and terribly wrong

  01-04-2019 16:12
  Is anyone still gullible enough to believe anything on the first day of April? Well, I am. My mother once called at 5 a.m. — before I realized what day it was — to tell me a satellite had hit her house and crushed my youngest sister’s leg. I was sobbing for a good 10 […]
  
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• A few of the best and worst April Fools’ Day jokes ever

  01-04-2019 16:12
  Is anyone still gullible enough to believe anything on the first day of April? Well, I am. My mother once called at 5 a.m. — before I realized what day it was — to tell me a satellite had hit her house and crushed my youngest sister’s leg. I was sobbing for a good 10 […]
  
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• Measles count in US this year already more than all of 2018

  01-04-2019 16:09
  NEW YORK (AP) — The number of U.S. measles cases through the first three months of this year have surpassed the count for all of 2018, health officials say. There have been 387 cases through March, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday. There were 372 last year. The numbers are preliminary, and […]
  
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• China cracking down on all types of fentanyl, fulfilling pledge to Trump

  01-04-2019 16:02
  China’s export of the drug, a family of synthetic opioids blamed for tens of thousands of overdoses in the United States, has long been a source of tension in relations and has, more recently, become tangled up in the continuing trade war.
  
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• Podcast: Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes defends efforts on drug crimes and homelessness

  01-04-2019 16:00
  In Episode 105 of The Overcast politics podcast, Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes defends his office's response to street crime and says a city income tax would solve a lot of problems.
  
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• In a first, electric cars outsell traditional ones in Norway

  01-04-2019 15:49
  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — In a symbolic first, electric cars outsold fossil fuel-powered ones in Norway last month. Christina Bu, the Norwegian Electric Vehicle Association’s general secretary, said Monday that 58.4 percent of new cars sold in the country in March were battery-powered, calling it “historically high.” Bu added that electric cars’ share of the […]
  
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• Union questions response to derailment, chemical fire that closed Eastern Washington rail line

  01-04-2019 15:00
  A Union Pacific rail line in Eastern Washington has reopened after a 23-car derailment and a subsequent chemical spill and fire that left union officials raising questions about the response. The accident was caused by a March 14 rock slide near the small Adams County community of Hooper. Thirteen of the cars derailed within a […]
  
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• The next time you’re around Montlake, stop and explore this little-known Seattle spot called Foster Island

  01-04-2019 15:00
  North of the Washington Park Arboretum, but across the water from Husky Stadium, is a little known spot called Foster Island. Stop by next time you're in the area for some great views and quiet contemplation.
  
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• New taxes ahead? Neighbors, politicians seek tunnels for future light rail to West Seattle and Ballard

  01-04-2019 15:00
  The biggest request is $700 million to drill through the hillside to the Alaska Junction station in West Seattle, instead of setting concrete guideway five stories high.
  
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• In Seattle talk, former ambassador to Afghanistan explains strategy to combat extremism in ‘fragile states’

  01-04-2019 15:00
  In his Seattle presentation, Karl Eikenberry detailed a key task force recommendation: A call for a U.S. counterterrorism focus on prevention, in partnership with the United Nations and other international organizations.
  
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• As we vent over homelessness in our ‘jewel’ of a city, let’s not forget our shared humanity

  01-04-2019 15:00
  KOMO-TV's "Seattle is Dying" was a missed opportunity to explore an issue that has sparked a contentious civic debate. But we need to remember to tackle our problems with heart.
  
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• Americans are drinking more ‘gourmet’ coffee. This doesn’t mean they’re drinking great coffee.

  01-04-2019 15:00
  Is America is becoming a coffee snob country? Here are a plethora of coffee facts from the National Coffee Association USA's annual survey.
  
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• We want to investigate your questions and solutions about nontraditional and special-education students

  01-04-2019 14:00
  We’re interested in students whose needs are not being met by the public education system — and we need your help. Share both your questions and solutions with us an we may investigate them.
  
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• South King County schools falling short in preparing students for college, careers, report says

  01-04-2019 14:00
  The vast majority of public-school students in seven South King County school districts want to continue their education after high school, but fewer than a third have earned a credential by the time they're in their 20s.
  
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• Germany mulls new rules to boost organ donations

  01-04-2019 11:01
  BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s health minister is launching a drive to tackle a shortage of donor organs with a reform that would make most people potential organ donors unless they object. At present, doctors in Germany can transplant organs only from people who actively register and carry a donor card. Under the new system proposed […]
  
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• Mozambique confirms 1st cholera death as cases above 500

  01-04-2019 10:59
  BEIRA, Mozambique (AP) — Mozambican authorities have announced the first cholera death among cyclone survivors in the hard-hit city of Beira as the number of cases rises to 517. Broadcaster TVM on Sunday night cited national health official Ussene Isse for the new toll. Cases of the acute diarrheal disease have risen dramatically since the […]
  
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• China to regulate all fentanyl drugs as controlled substance

  01-04-2019 06:14
  BEIJING (AP) — China said Monday it would begin regulating all fentanyl-related drugs as a class of controlled substances, in a change U.S. officials had long advocated as a way to stem the flow of lethal opioids from China. The sweeping change in the way China regulates drugs that mimic fentanyl takes effect May 1 […]
  
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• China changes all fentanyl varieties to controlled substance

  01-04-2019 06:14
  BEIJING (AP) — China announced Monday that all fentanyl-related drugs, as a group, would become controlled substances, effective May 1 — a step U.S. officials have long advocated as a way to stem the flow of lethal opioids from China. U.S. officials hope that the sweeping change in the way China regulates drugs that mimic […]
  
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• 2 Alaska high schools plan to merge their football programs

  01-04-2019 06:05
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Two Alaska high schools hope to end their difficulties fielding football teams by merging their programs. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported Sunday that Monroe Catholic High School in Fairbanks and Tri-Valley School in Healy have signed an agreement to establish a joint football team. School officials say Monroe has had 17 […]
  
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