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• Chinese man guilty of defrauding Apple out of 1,500 iPhones

  22-05-2019 23:34
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A Chinese national in Oregon sent hundreds of supposedly broken iPhones to Apple over two years, and got replacements under warranty of almost 1,500 devices. The other big problem, federal prosecutors say, is that the iPhones he sent were fake. He now faces three years in prison and a fine under […]
  
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• Ex-Oregon college student from China pleads guilty to trafficking in counterfeit iPhones

  22-05-2019 23:30
  Quan Jiang, 30, agreed as part of a plea deal to pay $200,000 in restitution before his Aug. 28 sentencing and forfeit a 2015 Mercedes Benz that investigators seized in March.
  
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• Police: Man in crisis climbs construction crane in Portland

  22-05-2019 23:29
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police say a man in crisis has climbed to the top of a construction crane in Southeast Portland. The Portland Police Bureau says their Special Emergency Reaction Team and Crisis Negotiation Team responded Wednesday afternoon to the area of Southeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Southeast Ankeny Street to help […]
  
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• Man climbs down from Portland crane, taken into custody

  22-05-2019 23:29
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police say a man in crisis who climbed to the top of a construction crane in Southeast Portland has climbed down and been taken into custody. The Portland Police Bureau says their Special Emergency Reaction Team and Crisis Negotiation Team responded Wednesday afternoon to reports of the man on a crane […]
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Hilarious Rap Battle "Woke as Me" by Wry MCs Open Mike Eagle & Phonte

  22-05-2019 23:05 via thestranger.com
  
  On the satirical "Woke as Me," wry MCs Open Mike Eagle and Phonte provoke more LOLs per minute than in any other rap track this year.by Dave SegalOpen Mike Eagle and Phonte flex their razor-sharp wit. YouTube screengrab/Comedy Central Stand-Up
  Open Mike Eagle & Phonte, “Woke as Me” (Comedy Central Stand-Up)
  Witness Open Mike Eagle and Little Brother member Phonte pulverize the old axiom that music and comedy don't mix well, as the rappers battle for the biodegradable crown of who
  
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• Neal Stephenson Interview: Tech Moguls, Brain Science, and Fall: or, Dodge in Hell

  22-05-2019 23:01 via thestranger.com
  Neal Stephenson Interview: Tech Moguls, Brain Science, and Fall: or, Dodge in Hellby Suzette SmithNeal Stephenson is one of the great authors of contemporary sci-fi—not only because he’s widely read, but also because his work unabashedly high-fives working scientific theories. Never one to underestimate his readers, Stephenson loves to wade in and explain interesting ideas kicking around the worlds of science, technology, and engineering, and then wrap them all up in a gripping specu
  
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• Flu outbreak sickens over 30 migrants at border center

  22-05-2019 22:59
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — More than 30 migrants have tested positive for influenza at a major processing center where a flu-stricken teenage boy died, the latest evidence of growing public health threats posed by inadequate facilities to deal with a surge of families and children reaching the U.S. border. It was unclear if anyone ill […]
  
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• Border holding center to reopen after 32 migrants get flu

  22-05-2019 22:59
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — More than 30 migrants have tested positive for influenza at a major processing center on the Mexican border that was temporarily closed to stop the outbreak, authorities said Wednesday. It was unclear if anyone ill came in contact with a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy who was held at the facility in McAllen, […]
  
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• Tougher vaccine rules move forward in California

  22-05-2019 22:50
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers moved ahead Wednesday with tougher rules that limit parents from choosing whether to vaccinate their children as a handful of opponents shouted “We will not comply” inside the Senate. Senators sent the measure to the Assembly as the nation struggles to stem the highest number of measles cases in […]
  
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• He Loves Having His Balls Sucked But It Hurts And That Sucks

  22-05-2019 22:48 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan SavageI'm a straight guy and I'm really into having my balls sucked—it's one of my favorite things and just thinking about it turns me on. But whenever I've had my balls sucked, it hurts, and ball pain is not a kink of mine! It hurts enough to override any pleasure, and I have to tell my partner to stop. Is this normal? Does ball sucking hurt for everyone? Is there something I can do to make it less painful?
  She Can't Roughly Osculate Trouser EggsThe next time you find yourself in a
  
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• Deadwood: The Movie Takes You Back to the Mud, Back to the Blood

  22-05-2019 22:47 via thestranger.com
  Deadwood: The Movie Takes You Back to the Mud, Back to the Bloodby Erik Henriksen“That left-cheek ass-blister’s a percolating son of a bitch,” mutters Calamity Jane, shifting in her saddle as she drunkenly steers her horse toward Deadwood, South Dakota. It’s been a decade since the hard-drinking, hard-punching Jane—played, phenomenally as ever, by Robin Weigert—has stumbled through the frontier town’s muddy, bloody streets and smoky, sweat-soaked saloons
  
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• Grateful Dead Drummer Announces His Own Line of Weed. Big Surprise.

  22-05-2019 22:18 via thestranger.com
  
  by Josh Jardine mindyourheadcannabis.comCelebrity endorsements of cannabis may be irritating (looking at you, then quickly looking away, Post Malone) or deeply offensive (Hell will see you soon enough, John Boehner). Sometimes the relationship between cannabis and public figures seems tenuous at best, leaving consumers to question if the endorser is truly a joker, a smoker, and/or a midnight toker. Because if you weren't down back in the day, not sure I can believe what you're shilling now.But t
  
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• Fugitive says he’ll surrender if people ‘like’ wanted poster on social media

  22-05-2019 22:12
  An expert in police ethics and procedure said Jose Simms is using social media to manipulate both the news media and police, who she said have no business negotiating a deal with a suspect, never mind one that involves Facebook "likes."
  
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• Fugitive says he’ll surrender if people like wanted poster

  22-05-2019 22:12
  An expert in police ethics and procedure said Jose Simms is using social media to manipulate both the news media and police, who she said have no business negotiating a deal with a suspect, never mind one that involves Facebook "likes."
  
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• Rallies for and against abortion fire up around the South

  22-05-2019 21:41
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Abortion opponents held a rally Wednesday at the Alabama Capitol, savoring victory after the state’s governor signed the nation’s most stringent abortion ban into law last week. Elsewhere in the South, pro-abortion demonstrators occupied much of a city block in New Orleans, chanting ‘My body! My choice!” Standing in front of […]
  
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• Abortion opponents savor victory in Alabama rally

  22-05-2019 21:41
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Abortions opponents held a rally at the Alabama Capitol, savoring victory as Alabama and other states seek stringent abortion bans. Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life of America said the Wednesday rally was to celebrate the passage of the Alabama law and to thank lawmakers. Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation that […]
  
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• State of Alaska looks to sell 2 fast ferries, citing costs

  22-05-2019 21:25
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s transportation department is looking to sell two of its so-called fast ferries, with a spokeswoman saying the vessels are too expensive to keep running. Aurah Landau says there have been long-standing plans to phase out the Fairweather and Chenega, which went into service within the past 15 years. Landau says […]
  
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• Some Karmic Justice Amid the Latest Trump Tantrum

  22-05-2019 21:18 via thestranger.com
  Episode 199 of the Blabbermouth podcastby The StrangerSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!Dan Savage is back and talks with Eli Sandersand Katie Herzog about a couple of uplifting political stories for a change! Then it’s right back into our nation’s Trump-directed tailspin, which this week features new lows from kakistocrats Ben Carson and Ken Cuccinelli.After that, Rich Smith checks in on how Nancy Pelosi’s go-slow strategy on impeachment is looking this
  
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• Memorial Day 2019 Weekend Festivals

  22-05-2019 21:17 via thestranger.com
  Hood Canal Shrimpfest, Northwest Folklife, and More Events from Vancouver to Vashonby Stranger Things To Do StaffMemorial Day yields the only official three-day weekend of spring, and it's prime time for major festivals in the Pacific Northwest. If you're sticking around Seattle, you'll find plenty of entertainment at the Northwest Folklife Festival and the Seattle International Film Festival. But if you're hankering for a road trip, the Juan de Fuca Festival in Port Angeles, the Artisan Food Fe
  
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• Study Shows CBD May Be Effective for Opioid Treatment

  22-05-2019 21:12 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogSmells good, looks great, might help people get off heroin.SEASTOCK/GETTY IMAGES
  CBD is everywhere. It’s in dog treats and bath bombs and hair gels and all manner of edibles, vapeables, and drinks, and people are using it to treat everything from epileptic seizures to gout, depression, and pain during butt stuff. But despite its near ubiquity in parts of the world (every storefront in Brooklyn is now mandated to sell CBD), there haven’t been all that many robust studie
  
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• Proposed Idaho powerline could help US cybersecurity efforts

  22-05-2019 21:12
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal officials are taking public comments on a plan to build a 16.5-mile (27-kilometer) powerline at an eastern Idaho nuclear site as part of a cybersecurity effort to bolster protections for the nation’s electric grid. The U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday it’s taking comments through June 21 on the plan […]
  
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• 24 Seattle-Area Memorial Day Weekend 2019 Festivals

  22-05-2019 21:12 via thestranger.com
  Hood Canal Shrimpfest, Northwest Folklife, and More Events from Vancouver to Vashonby Elaina FriedmanMemorial Day yields the only official three-day weekend of spring, and it's prime time for major festivals in the Pacific Northwest. If you're sticking around Seattle, you'll find plenty of entertainment at the Northwest Folklife Festival and the Seattle International Film Festival. But if you're hankering for a road trip, the Juan de Fuca Festival in Port Angeles, the Artisan Food Festival in Po
  
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• Dunleavy, Alaska lawmakers at odds over school funding

  22-05-2019 21:11
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration says there is no valid appropriation to fund Alaska public schools for the budget year starting July 1. Dunleavy and legislative leaders are at odds over the issue, which could end up in court. Lawmakers last year passed legislation approving K-12 funding for this upcoming fiscal year. […]
  
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• Report: Pilot saw flash just before Alaska midair collision

  22-05-2019 21:06
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A preliminary report says a pilot saw a flash on his left side just before his plane collided another plane in Alaska, killing six people. The National Transportation Safety Board says in the report released Wednesday that the two planes carrying Alaska cruise ship passengers were returning from a flightseeing tour […]
  
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• US lawmakers demand UN health agency change opioid guidance

  22-05-2019 20:49
  Two U.S. lawmakers are calling on the World Health Organization to withdraw pain care guidelines that include what they say are false claims about the safety of prescription opioids. They say the guidelines could lead other countries toward the same kind of addiction and overdose crisis that has plagued the U.S. in recent years. The […]
  
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• The Magical Second Chances of Dutch Film Afterlife

  22-05-2019 20:48 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jasmyne KeimigRomana Vrede and Sanaa Giwa in Afterlife
  What happens after we die? And, if given the chance to live our lives again, would we make the same choices? Dutch film Afterlife explores these questions with a touch of magic and humor.When 16-year-old Sam is killed in a bike accident, she chooses to spend eternity in the afterlife, reuniting with her dead mother. But when it’s determined that Sam was taken too early from the living, the girl and her mother (with the help of an an
  
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• Jury convicts 2 in 2018 robbery of Anchorage credit union

  22-05-2019 20:14
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A jury has convicted two men of robbing an Anchorage credit union. Thirty-year-old John Pierce and 46-year-old Michael Wayne Moore were convicted Tuesday in federal court of robbing a Credit Union One branch in March 2018. They face up to 25 years in prison and another seven years for brandishing guns […]
  
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• Nobody Really Likes Seattle's Proposed Hate Crimes Bill

  22-05-2019 20:13 via thestranger.com
  
  The city's own analysis says that giving the prosecutor's office more power to go after hate crimes "likely" won't protect the classes of people they're trying to protect.by Rich SmithThe closed captioning feature on Seattle Channel is constantly dunking on city council members and we need to start talking about it.After acknowledging "concerns" from the community and a request for delay from the director of the city's Office for Civil Rights, Councilmember Lisa Herbold moved on Monday to postpo
  
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• Construction workers find dinosaur fossils in Denver suburb

  22-05-2019 19:43
  HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (AP) — Construction workers have unearthed fossils in a Denver suburb that experts say could be from a rare horned dinosaur. The Denver Museum of Nature and Science said Monday that it is exploring the construction site near a retirement community in Highlands Ranch where a dinosaur’s lower leg bone and several […]
  
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• Oregon population will grow through migration as births drop

  22-05-2019 19:33
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A new report from the state says that in future years, Oregon’s population will mostly grow through people moving into the state rather than from new births. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports Wednesday that the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis predicts the state will see deaths outnumber births sometime in the next […]
  
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• In Excellent Hungarian Crime Thriller X - The eXploited, a Series of Suicides Might Be Murders

  22-05-2019 19:17 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede
  Much of this excellent crime thriller has aerial shots of an upside-down Budapest. On the ground, there is a detective, a woman who, with dread-filled eyes, can spot the clues that other cops miss, and also make the unseen connections between the dots visible. When she enters a crime scene, her feet are down and her head is up. But from the perspective of the upside-down Budapest—her city, and the city of the crimes she investigates—we see that it is the other way a
  
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• Ohio power company fulfills Louisiana wetlands agreement

  22-05-2019 19:14
  ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — An Ohio-based multinational power company has completed an agreement to pay for potential pollution by reforesting wetlands for a national wildlife refuge in Louisiana. American Electric Power, The Conservation Fund and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday that the final 4,100 acres (1,650 hectares) are now part of the […]
  
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• The Perfect Seattle Summer Will Be a Thing of the Past

  22-05-2019 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogThe daytime sun in Seattle as seen during the wildfires last August.JESSICA STEIN
  The last few summers in Seattle, as anyone who ever leaves the house will remember, have been plagued by wildfire smoke. For weeks at a time, the sky turns an apocalyptic shade of orange and breathing feels like you smoked a pack of Pall Malls and stuck your head in a wood-burning stove. It's not pleasant, and those of us in the largely un-air-conditioned Pacific Northwest are forced to choose betwee
  
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• Fairbanks man sentenced to 45 years for home invasion murder

  22-05-2019 18:23
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A 42-year-old Fairbanks man convicted of murder in a December 2015 home invasion has been sentenced to 45 years in prison. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports Steven John Hartman was convicted of killing 57-year-old Ron McKnight at McKnight’s home. A man who participated in the robbery, 21-year-old Noah Griffith, was sentenced […]
  
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• Linkpost: Hostile Waters Orcas in Peril

  22-05-2019 18:15
  Hostile Waters: Orcas in peril
  
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• I Skied Naked Down Mount Rainier

  22-05-2019 17:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Gregory ScruggsBecause it was hot, and why not. ROBERT YOUNG
  It was a warm September day with the sun high in the sky when we arrived at Paradise, elevation 5,400 feet. After a break at the visitors' center, one third of the way to Mount Rainier's peak, two friends and I saddled up our packs laden with skis and boots, preparing for the inevitable question from some tourist from Texas: "Where are you going skiing around here?!"
  The correct answer is to smile and point with a ski pole at the gi
  
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• Judge fines man for spreading chemicals at homeless site

  22-05-2019 17:49
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska judge fined an Anchorage businessman $6,500 for spreading a hazardous chemical on a site used by homeless people. Anchorage District Court Judge Leslie Dickson on Tuesday fined Ron Alleva and ordered the company he co-founded, Grubstake Auction, to pay a $35,000 fine. The Anchorage Daily News reports Alleva on […]
  
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• Slog AM: UW Basketball Gets a Boost, Baltimore Gets Hacked, North Korea Doesn't Like Biden

  22-05-2019 17:37 via thestranger.com
  
  by Timothy KenneyBaltimore didn't mine bitcoin and it shows. ZEFART/GETTY IMAGES
  Gov Inslee is spending a whole lot of dough on salmon: It’s not all out of the goodness of his heart either, the Supreme Court ruled last summer that Washington had to make a big investment in refurbishing our fish culverts, those drainage pipes underneath roads that can block salmon migration. Inslee ordered the state to spend $175 million more on salmon over the next two years after an initial $100 million i
  
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• Mining proposal for Skagit River headwaters in B.C. sparks outcry from congressional Dems, Gov. Inslee

  22-05-2019 17:34
  Washington state congressional Democrats asked the State Department to intervene over a mining company's application to begin exploratory operations in the Skagit River's headwaters in British Columbia.
  
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• Motorist saved after car falls 450 feet off California cliff

  22-05-2019 16:41
  NAPA, Calif. — A woman was rescued after the car she was driving plunged 450 feet down a Northern California cliff and a bicyclist just happened to witness the accident. Authorities say the car could have fallen another 800 feet on Tuesday but it hit a tree that stopped it. A California Highway Patrol flight […]
  
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• Driver saved after plunge off remote Napa road

  22-05-2019 16:41
  NAPA, Calif. (AP) — Northern California rescuers pulled a woman from a car that plunged 450 feet (137 meters) down a cliff. The car was prevented from falling another 800 feet (244 meters) when it hit a tree Tuesday in Napa. A California Highway Patrol flight officer and paramedic tells the Napa Valley Register it […]
  
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• Idaho governor appoints new member of Idaho House

  22-05-2019 16:27
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Republican Gov. Brad Little has appointed Megan Kiska to a seat in the Idaho House of Representatives. Little announced the appointment Tuesday. Kiska replaces former Rep. Tom Dayley, a Republican from Boise. Kiska is the inspector general and real property officer for the 124th Fighter Wing in the Idaho Air National […]
  
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• ‘Literally drowning in plastic’: 414 million pieces of trash washed up on remote islands

  22-05-2019 16:22
  When Jennifer Lavers first arrived to the remote collection of tiny islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, she saw all the makings of a “quintessential tropical oasis.” Beneath the waves, abundant coral reefs teemed with marine life. Clear turquoise water lapped against pristine white sand beaches lined with palm trees. Home to roughly […]
  
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• Israeli scientists brew beer with revived ancient yeasts

  22-05-2019 16:13
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli researchers raised a glass Wednesday to celebrate a long-brewing project of making beer and mead using yeasts extracted from ancient clay vessels —some over 5,000 years old. Archaeologists and microbiologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority and four Israeli universities teamed up to study yeast colonies found in microscopic pores in pottery […]
  
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• Series of small earthquakes detected in Washington and Oregon

  22-05-2019 16:12
  At least nine small earthquakes have been recorded over the past 24 hours in the quake-prone Pacific Northwest.
  
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• Epidemiologist killed in Southeast Alaska floatplane crash was traveling to see patients

  22-05-2019 16:01
  It was the second fatal crash in a week for Taquan Air, which has since suspended all operations.
  
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• Ciara heads to Harvard for business-school program

  22-05-2019 16:01
  Ciara announced in an Instagram post on Monday that she had been accepted into Harvard Business School’s four-day Executive Education program in Business of Entertainment, Media and Sports.
  
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• Eastern Idaho boy dies in backyard explosion

  22-05-2019 15:53
  AMMON, Idaho (AP) — Authorities in eastern Idaho say a 14-year-old boy building a homemade gun or cannon with a friend died following an explosion. The Bonneville County Sheriff’s Offices says Carson Eva of Ammon died Monday after a piece of wood from the explosion became impaled in his chest. Sheriff’s Office spokesman Bryan Lovell […]
  
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• $15M verdict reduced to $683K for woman in Portland light rail crash

  22-05-2019 15:05
  PORTLAND, Ore. — A judge has ruled that a woman who lost her leg when she dashed in front of a MAX light rail train is lawfully entitled to only $682,800 of the $15 million in damages awarded by a jury. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Andrea “Amy” Laing and her attorneys contended that she should receive […]
  
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• King County’s crusade against ‘ICE Air’ plays right into Trump’s hands

  22-05-2019 15:00
  King County's ban on immigration flights means it's now effectively against even the deportation of convicted felons — a position so extreme it could backfire.
  
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