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• Man charged with assault in Federal Way shooting of newspaper carrier

  01-06-2019 23:37
  Daniel Morgan McLaughlin, 30, has been charged with first-degree assault in connection with the May 25 shooting of a newspaper carrier in Federal Way.
  
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• Judge: Oregon prison must give transgender inmate new cell

  01-06-2019 23:19
  UMATILLA, Ore. (AP) — A transgender inmate being held at an Oregon prison for men has been granted new living arrangements. The Oregonian/Oregon Live reports Brandy Hall transitioned to female while in prison after being convicted of sex crimes involving abusing girls in 2007. A complaint filed last year claimed her incarceration with male cellmates […]
  
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• HUD: Idaho landlord rejected family with 7 kids for rental

  01-06-2019 22:24
  NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — The landlord who rejected a family seeking to rent a house in Idaho because they had seven children is being charged with violating federal housing law. The Idaho Press reports Nampa property manager Seth Ott and his parents, who are the homeowners Dwight “Steve” Ott and Elizabeth Ott, were charged on […]
  
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• Why are so many doctors burning out? Tons of real and electronic paperwork

  01-06-2019 22:10
  Last year, a friend took her dream oncology job in a big academic medical center on the East Coast. After a decade of medical school, residency and specialized fellowship training, she was treating and conducting high-level research on rare and complex adrenal cancers. She was living in her perfect city and loved her patients and […]
  
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• On the Astoria Bridge, a cormorant kingdom grows

  01-06-2019 21:03
  ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — It is near the peak of double-crested cormorant nesting season, but federal biologists have yet to see a single egg on a Columbia River island that once hosted the largest breeding colony in North America. The opposite is happening just upriver of East Sand Island on the Astoria Bridge. A network […]
  
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• Oregon lumber company cuts workforce by 40% over taxes, fees

  01-06-2019 20:28
  FOREST GROVE, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon lumber company is cutting its workforce by about 40%, citing the state’s “regulatory and tax creep.” The Stimson Lumber Company announced Friday that it would lay off 60 jobs from its Forest Grove operations. CEO Andrew Miller said environmental permit fees, Oregon’s Clean Fuels Tax and pending cap […]
  
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• Idaho GOP chair arrested for stalking estranged wife

  01-06-2019 19:56
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say the former Idaho Republican Party chairman was arrested Thursday for stalking his estranged wife, though Jonathan Parker’s lawyer claims it was a “grand misunderstanding.” Boise police say Parker appeared at or near his wife’s apartment complex in May and was seen repeatedly hiding in the bushes, masturbating and wearing […]
  
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• Bering Air donates airplane to UAF student mechanics program

  01-06-2019 18:35
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska commuter airline has donated an aircraft for training student mechanics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports Bering Air Inc. donated a 1978 King Air 200 to UAF’s Community and Technical College. Associate professor Kevin Alexander says it’s the first large commercial aircraft donation since […]
  
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• Interior Alaska officials prepare for influx at Eielson

  01-06-2019 18:29
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Communities near Eielson Air Force base are ready to provide housing for Air Force personnel and their families attached to two incoming F-35 squadrons, according to municipal and business leaders. Fairbanks North Star Borough Mayor Bryce Ward said an analysis of the housing market and his observations of new construction give […]
  
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• Man cited for walking on Yellowstone Park hot spring

  01-06-2019 17:57
  YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park rangers have cited a man for walking on a sensitive hot spring area. National Park Service spokeswoman Linda Veress says the incident occurred Thursday at Grand Prismatic Spring. Veress says another visitor saw the man leave the boardwalk, which visitors are required to stay on, and […]
  
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• Oregon court tosses sentences for teens who killed couple

  01-06-2019 16:55
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Supreme Court on has tossed the nearly 67-year sentences given to twins who were 15 when they murdered an elderly couple in Salem in 1993. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports court said Friday the sentences for Lydell White and Laycell White amounted to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the […]
  
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• Poland’s doctors march to demand more health care funding

  01-06-2019 16:45
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hundreds of doctors have marched through Poland’s capital of Warsaw to demand higher spending on health care to cut waiting times for medical procedures and stem the flow of underpaid doctors seeking jobs abroad. Polish media say some people have died as they waited to be admitted to the hospital, and […]
  
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• Massachusetts inches cautiously toward ‘cannabis cafes’

  01-06-2019 16:35
  BOSTON (AP) — If you’re at least 21 in Massachusetts, you can legally buy recreational marijuana at more than a dozen stores that have opened over the past several months. But when it comes to using those products, the law says you can only do so discreetly and privately. That could change. The state’s Cannabis […]
  
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• Tlingit artist studies how to weave increasingly rare tunics

  01-06-2019 16:05
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A Juneau artist is working to become the fifth person alive who knows how to make an increasingly rare type of traditional clothing. Tlingit weaver Anastasia Shaawat Kah Gei Hobson-George was recently announced as a winner of a Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Award, and she plans to use the $7,500 grant […]
  
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• 7 patients at new Ohio hospital diagnosed with Legionnaires’

  01-06-2019 15:24
  GROVE CITY, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s health authority has ordered a newly opened hospital where seven patients have been diagnosed with potentially fatal Legionnaires’ disease to immediately flush and disinfect its water lines and take other steps to protect the public’s health. Department of Health Director Amy Acton in a statement said the cluster of […]
  
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• Jelly-like creatures create ‘blue tide’ on Oregon coast

  01-06-2019 15:20
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon coast is once again seeing a “blue tide” of creatures called velella velella, which often wash shore this time of year. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports The Oregon Coast Aquarium announced Friday that the jelly-like organisms had arrived on Oregon beaches, in some places covering the sand in a carpet of […]
  
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• With Othello Square, a Rainier Valley community gets some help in the battle against gentrification

  01-06-2019 15:00
  Thanks to a novel mix of partnerships, community involvement, and philanthropy — including $8 million from Seattle Children's — a long-vacant parcel near Othello Station has become the centerpiece in a battle against gentrification in Rainier Valley.
  
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• Columbia City Beatwalk, homegrown musical pillar of a changing Seattle neighborhood, turns 25

  01-06-2019 15:00
  While the South Seattle neighborhood has changed a lot in the last 25 years, Beatwalk organizers say the community-driven music crawl's character and spirit have remained the same.
  
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• USDA says states can’t block hemp transports

  01-06-2019 09:01
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture says states can’t block the interstate transportation of hemp, but law enforcement in Idaho says it won’t follow those guidelines. Hemp doesn’t get a person high, but it still contains trace amounts of the chemical THC, which is found in marijuana. Under Idaho law, any amount […]
  
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• Woman wounded in Beacon Hill shooting dies; man arrested

  01-06-2019 04:48
  A 22-year-old woman is in critical condition after a shooting in Beacon Hill Friday night, according to the Seattle Fire Department.
  
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• Man arrested after woman critically injured in Beacon Hill shooting

  01-06-2019 04:48
  A 22-year-old woman is in critical condition after a shooting in Beacon Hill Friday night, according to the Seattle Fire Department.
  
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• Climate change is one of hottest issues. So why isn’t it working for Jay?

  01-06-2019 04:30
  Polls show climate change is one of most charged political issues in America. But even after the best month of Jay Inslee's campaign by far, it still isn't helping the climate change candidate. Columnist Danny Westneat looks at why.
  
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• In budget postmortem, Yakima Valley lawmakers decry changes to school funding

  01-06-2019 04:14
  Yakima Valley lawmakers decried disparities between rural and urban school districts created during this year’s legislative session. Four lawmakers discussed  the biennial budget session during a panel Thursday evening at the Washington State School Directors’ Association’s regional spring meeting in Sunnyside, Yakima County. Sens. Curtis King, R-Yakima, Jim Honeyford, R-Sunnyside, and Reps. Bruce Chandler, R-Granger, and […]
  
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• Man shot by Auburn police officer in critical condition at Harborview

  01-06-2019 04:13
  A man was shot by an Auburn police officer following a physical altercation Friday evening, according to the Auburn Police Department.
  
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• Driver sentenced for deliberately mowing down pedestrians in Bothell to avoid his job

  01-06-2019 03:52
  After he ran down the pedestrians in Bothell, Eli Aldinger told police he hated his job and didn't want to go to work.
  
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• Witness trauma adds to Tukwila man’s sentence for brutally killing girlfriend’s dog

  01-06-2019 03:29
  The Tukwila man was sentenced to 18 months in prison — 12 months for the dog's death and an additional six months because it traumatized a woman who witnessed it.
  
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• Slog PM: Lots of Death, It's Basically Pride Month, Boise Is Booming

  01-06-2019 03:23 via thestranger.com
  
  by Chase BurnsApple, reflecting on having to murder its child. PHOTO BY KEVIN FRAYER/GETTY IMAGES
  The world has lost an icon: iTunes is fucking DEAD. Well, almost. iTunes will finally fade into obscurity for good and be laid to rest next week. Apple will be separating all of iTunes' functions into separate apps—music, podcasts, and TV. Former Slog PM writer Nathalie Graham just quipped: "What's going to happen to all the music I bought in middle school?" She hopes her iTunes purchases such
  
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• Tim Burgess Forms a PAC For Rich People, the Possibility of No Black Representation, And More City Council Election News

  01-06-2019 03:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Here's the latest city council election news.by Lester Black Lester Black
  Rich chamber donors dish: The political arm of the Chamber of Commerce is raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend on flipping the city council, but what the hell do these hella rich fucks folks donating to the PAC want? The Chamber of Commerce says they want “transparent, accountable” politicians, but I guess that transparency doesn’t include the PAC's donors. My colleague Nathalie Graham reache
  
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• Take a peek aboard a new arrival in Seattle for the Alaskan cruise fleet

  01-06-2019 02:41
  Royal Caribbean's Ovation of the Seas arrived at pier 91 Friday, picking up passengers for a seven-day round trip to Alaska.
  
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• New arrival for Alaskan cruise fleet

  01-06-2019 02:41
  Royal Caribbean's Ovation of the Seas arrived at pier 91 Friday, picking up passengers for a seven-day round trip to Alaska.
  
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• Art Workers Union Forms at the Frye Art Museum

  01-06-2019 01:53 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jasmyne KeimigThe Art Workers Union is comprised of security guards who work at the Frye Museum of Art.Jasmyne KeimigFriday morning the Art Workers Union gathered in front of the Frye Art Museum's main entrance to call for the board of directors and CEO Joseph Rosa to voluntarily recognize the newly formed union, which consists of the Frye's security staff.Across the street, noise from the construction of twin 33-story luxury high rises being built by Vancouver developer Westbank Corp. on the
  
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• 4 Homer men fined for illegal commercial fishing in 2018

  01-06-2019 01:45
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Four Homer men convicted of illegal commercial fishing last year have been fined. Alaska State Troopers say the men in July fished illegally in closed waters of Dog Fish Bay or drove salmon from closed waters to open waters. District Court Judge Margaret Murphy on Wednesday found 66-year-old Mark Roth and […]
  
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• State forgives legal debt for man attacked as a child

  01-06-2019 01:36
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s attorney general says a man injured in a knife attack as a child is no longer liable for legal fees associated with the case. Stephen Hansell was 8 years old when the 2001 attack occurred. The Anchorage Daily News reports his parents sued the following year but eventually lost and […]
  
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• Our Bodies Our Doctors Offers an Intimate Look at the Compassionate Care of Abortion Providers

  01-06-2019 01:33 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogCourageous doctoring
  Nearly half a century after the US Supreme Court legalized abortion, the access to actually getting one is continually shrinking. But at the same time that states all across the US are making it harder, if not impossible, to get this basic health-care procedure, doctors are dutifully committed to serving their patients. Through the stories of abortion doctors in four different cities and towns, Our Bodies Our Doctors explores the stigma attached to this profes
  
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• That Word You Keep Using. To Describe That Thing That Happened To Me. That Thing I Did. Fuck the Fuck Off With That.

  01-06-2019 01:18 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Day: Reader Advice Round-upby Dan Savage
  Recent Savage Love Letters of the Day: She loves her husband but worries she's gay; one SLLOTD, two letters:One from a woman who should cheat, one from a woman who shouldn't have cheated; tall guys don't do it for him and short guys don't go to his gym; and, as always, last week's column and Savage Lovecast.
  Regarding our conversations about men and abortion on the Lovecast and Blabbermouth:In response to your statements on men's
  
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• Oregon man dies in rollover crash in North Dakota

  01-06-2019 01:18
  JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) — Authorities say a Portland, Oregon, man was the victim of a fatal rollover crash on Interstate 94 near Jamestown, North Dakota. Sixty-six-year-old Mike Caldwell died Wednesday evening. The State Patrol says it was responding to a report of a pickup truck driving recklessly when the truck veered off the interstate, onto […]
  
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• Family of pregnant mother beaten to death in Mountlake Terrace files $18M claim against Department of Corrections

  01-06-2019 01:06
  The family of a pregnant Mountlake Terrace woman allegedly beaten to death by a mentally ill felon last year has filed a claim for $18 million against the Washington state Department of Corrections.
  
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• Family of pregnant mother beaten to death in Mountlake Terrace files $18 million claim against Department of Corrections

  01-06-2019 01:06
  The family of a pregnant Mountlake Terrace woman allegedly beaten to death by a mentally ill felon last year has filed a claim for $18 million against the Washington state Department of Corrections.
  
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• Angels, Demons, and the End of the World in Good Omens

  01-06-2019 00:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ned LannamannEven David Tennant and Michael Sheen can't make this slogfest work. SOPHIE MUTEVELLAN
  All the right ingredients are present for Good Omens to work marvelously. It’s based on a very funny 1990 book by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, with Gaiman writing the teleplay for the six-episode series, which is a co-production between the BBC and Amazon. Its Pythonesque tale of the apocalypse, as seen from the perspective of an angel and demon, has ample room for fang-toothed satire
  
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• Man arrested in South Seattle beach shooting that injured woman, 2 children

  01-06-2019 00:32
  The man was arrested in Bellevue and later booked into King County Jail on investigation of drive-by shooting, assault and unlawful possession of a firearm.
  
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• Alaskan man who died in Mount Rainier rockfall identified; second climber in serious condition

  01-06-2019 00:22
  A man who died while climbing Mount Rainier Wednesday has been identified by the Pierce County Medical Examiner's Office as Arleigh William Dean, 45, of Alaska.
  
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• Brown appoints GOP state lawmaker to circuit court

  01-06-2019 00:21
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Gov. Kate Brown has appointed current Republican representative and private business lawyer Mike McLane to fill a vacant circuit court judgeship in Central Oregon. The governor said Friday that even though they may disagree politically, McLane has a “deep commitment to promoting the public good.” McLane served as House Republican leader […]
  
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• Scientists find flaws in plan to lift US wolf protections

  01-06-2019 00:06
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Scientists tasked with reviewing the government’s plans to lift protections for gray wolves across most of the U.S. say the proposal has numerous factual errors and other problems. The five-member scientific panel’s conclusions were detailed in a 245-page report released Friday. One reviewer, a Wisconsin professor, said the U.S. Fish and […]
  
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