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• Mecca Cafe Owner Explains Why She Sold Historic Diner to Alleged Rapist David Meinert

  20-06-2019 23:42 via thestranger.com
  
  The owner of the Mecca Cafe explains why she sold her restaurant to accused rapist David Meinert.by Lester BlackThe Mecca in Lower Queen Anne. Lester BlackIt looked like David Meinert was all but driven out of the Seattle entertainment business last year after 11 women accused the prominent businessman of sexual misconduct, including multiple allegations of rape. He sold off most of his restaurants and lost prominent artists from his music management company. But less than a year after allegatio
  
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• Universal Music Group, Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool, and Why We Can't Let Master Tapes Burn

  20-06-2019 23:28 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ned LannamannUniversal's new reissue of Birth of the Cool came out just before news broke of a disastrous 2008 fire at Universal's warehouse. UNIVERSAL
  Last week, the New York Times Magazine released a devastating, detailed report from Jody Rosen about a fire at Universal Studio’s Hollywood back lot in 2008. That fire incinerated an enormous warehouse filled with master tapes from Universal Music Group’s (UMG) mammoth catalog—much of those recordings ending there through mer
  
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• Man gets life for kidnapping, killing Oregon woman, 89

  20-06-2019 23:14
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A registered sex offender has been sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and killing an 89-year-old Portland woman and hiding her body in the trunk of his car. The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office says Timothy Mackley on Thursday was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 35 […]
  
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• Florida gov signs bill ratcheting up fight against red tide

  20-06-2019 22:47
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s governor signed a bill Thursday directing the state to work with a private marine institute to study and combat the red tide blooms that have hurt the state’s vital tourism industry and killed such wildlife as manatees, fish and dolphins. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill at the Mote […]
  
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• About the idea that you’re growing horns from looking down at your phone …

  20-06-2019 22:34
  Neck strain and bone spurs are certainly possible from poor posture, but some experts doubt that cellphones are the only culprit.
  
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• EU leaders fail to agree on 2050 climate goal

  20-06-2019 22:13
  BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders have failed to back a plan to make the bloc’s economy carbon neutral by 2050 in spite of promises to fight harder against climate change. Ahead of a U.N. meeting in the fall, the proposal was relegated to a non-binding footnote in the final statement of Thursday’s summit of […]
  
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• Ore. House moves forward with tax on tobacco, e-cigarettes

  20-06-2019 22:12
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon House approved an increase in the state’s tobacco tax to bridge a Medicaid shortfall. Lawmakers voted 39-21 to increase the cigarette tax by $2 and to impose a new tax on e-cigarettes. The measure heads to the Senate but would ultimately need approval from the voters in 2020. The […]
  
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• The Rentboy Was the Bait

  20-06-2019 22:00 via thestranger.com
  Savage Love Letter of the Dayby Dan Savage
  I have a rent-boy etiquette question. Recently, a client of mine, who lives in another state, invited me to join him at a resort where he was meeting up with friends. This included a nice-looking man who lives near me, whom I will call "Three." My client has been lusting after Three for a long time, and my job was to act as bait to lure Three into a three-way with my client and me. Things went really well, and the desired three-way happened on Saturday
  
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• Trial for couple accused of assault at UW during Milo Yiannopoulos appearance is delayed for appeal

  20-06-2019 21:54
  Jury selection in the trial for the Marc and Elizabeth Hokoanas, both 31, was scheduled to begin this week in King County Superior Court.
  
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• Man accused of attacking White Center woman he had raped is believed to be in Mexico — with a new look

  20-06-2019 21:39
  The King County Sheriff's Office released an updated photo of the suspect, Francisco Carranza-Ramirez, that shows that he has cut his long black hair short and shaved off his beard and mustache.
  
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• 20 Requests for KEXP's "The Longest Songs on the Longest Day" Program

  20-06-2019 21:31 via thestranger.com
  
  We audaciously present 20 requests for KEXP's "The Longest Songs on the Longest Day" programming on June 21.by Dave SegalGo ask (for) Alice. Impulse! Records
  Now this is a concept I can get behind. On Friday, June 21, Seattle radio station KEXP salutes the summer solstice by playing long songs during daylight hours. What is long, in KEXP's programmers' ears? Tracks whose duration surpass the 6:13 of Bob Dylan's 1965 folk-rock classic "Like a Rolling Stone." That song was the breakthrough which c
  
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• Idaho man convicted of animal cruelty banned from animals

  20-06-2019 21:22
  POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho man convicted of three animal cruelty charges has been banned from owning animals for nearly two years. The Idaho State Journal reports 46-year-old Shane Haggard appeared in Bannock County court Tuesday to answer to a probation violation. Haggard was convicted of misdemeanor animal cruelty in January for neglecting several […]
  
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• Woman charged with felony assault in fillet knife stabbing

  20-06-2019 20:47
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A Juneau woman has been charged with felony assault in the stabbing of a man at a home. Juneau police say 42-year-old Sonya Taton was arrested Monday and jailed at Lemon Creek Correctional Center. She is represented by the Alaska Public Defender’s Office, which did not immediately return an email request […]
  
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• Texas oil company denies wrongdoing in Idaho royalty lawsuit

  20-06-2019 20:30
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A Texas-based oil and gas company being sued in federal court by Idaho mineral rights owners over royalty payments says it has done nothing wrong and the lawsuit should be dismissed. Alta Mesa and other companies associated with it in court documents filed Wednesday deny any wrongdoing involving oil and gas […]
  
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• Lost wallet? More cash means you’re likelier to get it back

  20-06-2019 20:15
  NEW YORK — People are more likely to return a lost wallet if it contains money — and the more cash, the better. That’s the surprising conclusion from researchers who planted more than 17,000 “lost wallets” across 355 cities in 40 countries, and kept track of how often somebody contacted the supposed owners. The presence […]
  
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• Anderson .Paak & the Free Nationals Are Landing in Seattle Tonight. Oh, Earl Sweatshirt and Thundercat, Too.

  20-06-2019 19:23 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani PolkAnderson .Paak at the 2019 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Coachella
  The bill at WaMu Theater tonight is stacked. At the top leading his Best Teef in the Game Tour is the current darling of hip-hop/soul/R&B crossover (and among my current faves), Anderson .Paak. He’s got that warm, sandpapery rasp of soulful greats like James Brown or Wilson Pickett, but in a higher register, and he’s more prone to slick rhyme-slinging and s
  
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• Emergency responders pull man’s body from Fairbanks lake

  20-06-2019 19:16
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — The body of a man was found in a lake in south Fairbanks. Alaska State Troopers on Tuesday night received a report of a possible drowning in the lake at Lakeview Terrace, a mobile home development. The Fort Wainwright dive team and fire departments responded and emergency personnel recovered the body. […]
  
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• How Do We Turn Off the Trump Disinformation Machine?

  20-06-2019 19:14 via thestranger.com
  by The StrangerSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!Guess what? Donald Trump is running for president again, which means he spent a bunch of time this week holding a big stadium kickoff rally in Orlando, Florida, where he lied and lied and sounded like he still thinks he’s running against Hillary Clinton. Rich Smith, Katie Herzog, and Eli Sanderstalk about whether the media should even be paying attention to Trump rallies at this point, and what to do if you want to avo
  
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• British Avant-Fusion Trio the Comet Is Coming Bring Their Transcendent Music to Barboza

  20-06-2019 19:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Comet Is Coming's spacey, spiritual fusion is next level. See them at Barboza tonight.by Dave SegalThe Comet Is Coming Fabrice Bourgelle
  Another iteration of ascending London saxophonist/clarinetist Shabaka Hutchings’s fertile imagination, the Comet Is Coming—which also features Ibibio Sound Machine producer/keyboardist Dan Leavers and Soccer96 drummer Maxwell Hallett—have been injecting jazz with vital mutant energies for the past four years. As with a lot of the releases
  
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• Mother sperm whale and baby dead in fishing net off Italy

  20-06-2019 18:20
  MILAN (AP) — A mother sperm whale and its baby have died after becoming tangled in a fishing net in the Tyrrhenian Sea off Italy’s western coast, an Italian environmental group reported Thursday. The Marevivo group said the Italian Coast Guard had responded to the sighting and surmised that the mother, which measured 6 meters […]
  
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• Triple-fatal DUI crash means 19 years in prison for man

  20-06-2019 18:12
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A 32-year-old man has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for causing the death of his girlfriend and two of his co-workers while driving drunk near Gates, Oregon. The Statesman Journal reports that David Trimble, of Lebanon, previously pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree manslaughter and DUI. He was […]
  
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• Fairbanks pickup driver strikes sign, carries it for miles

  20-06-2019 18:08
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A 26-year-old Fairbanks man was charged with felony evidence tampering after his pickup struck a road sign and carried it for miles to a rural road. Fairbanks television station KTVF reports Cody James Brown also is charged with driving under the influence. His attorney at the Alaska Public Defender’s Office did […]
  
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• Man gets 27 years for trying to kill Salem homeless men

  20-06-2019 18:03
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A Portland has been sentenced to 26 years and eight months in prison for a series of attacks during which he tried to kill a man with a baseball bat and stabbed another man and forced him to walk into the river. The Statesman Journal reports that at least two of […]
  
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• Grizzly spotted first time in decade in north-central Idaho

  20-06-2019 17:22
  KELLY CREEK, Idaho (AP) — Wildlife officials are urging black bear hunters to choose their targets with care after a protected grizzly bear was spotted in north-central Idaho for the first time in a decade. A hunting guide restocking a black bear baiting site encountered the 3-year-old male grizzly in the lower Kelly Creek area […]
  
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• Endangered rhinos ready to be sent from Europe to Rwanda

  20-06-2019 17:15
  DVUR KRALOVE, Czech Republic (AP) — Officials say five critically endangered eastern black rhinos from wildlife parks in three European countries are ready for a transport back to their natural habitat in Rwanda, where the entire rhino population was wiped out during the genocide in the 1990s. Three female and two male rhinos from the […]
  
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• Slog AM: Washington Has an Autopsy Backlog; Iran Shoots Down U.S. Drone; Proposal or Crazy Instagram Marketing Scheme?

  20-06-2019 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Nathalie GrahamAnother inconsistency between life and CSI.fstop123/Getty Images
  Seattle summer smoke is here to stay: You know it's serious when city politicians finally do something to address the problem. When it comes to smoky summers, Seattle has unveiled a new program that will put new air filtration units in five public sites around the city. A nice band-aid to a problem that could have been addressed more directly in the state Legislature by giving Hilary Franz and the Department of Na
  
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• Redmond police investigating reported shooting

  20-06-2019 16:47
  Redmond police are investigating what  they describe as a “family disturbance involving a firearm.” The department says there is no imminent threat to the public. A Redmond officer reported a shooting on Twitter early Thursday and said it was related to a family fight. No further information was available on whether anyone had died, or where or […]
  
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• Redmond police investigating fatal Thursday morning shooting

  20-06-2019 16:47
  Redmond police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 48-year-old man in an early Thursday morning family dispute. Police spokesperson Andrea Wolf-Buck said the man was found lying in the street outside his home in the 6200 block of 154th Avenue Northeast shortly after the shooting was reported at 6 a.m. The victim was declared dead shortly after […]
  
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• Slain Sacramento officer had been on force just 6 months

  20-06-2019 16:13
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A rookie Sacramento police offer was fatally shot during a domestic violence call and laid wounded for about 45 minutes as the gunman kept officers at bay with volleys of bullets, authorities said Thursday. Officer Tara O’Sullivan, 26, was shot shortly Wednesday while helping a woman collect her belongings to leave […]
  
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• Alleged California officer’s shooter has violent history

  20-06-2019 16:13
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A rookie Sacramento police officer was shot during a domestic violence call and lay wounded for about 45 minutes as the gunman kept officers at bay with bursts of fire, authorities said Thursday. She was finally rescued with an armored vehicle but died at a hospital. “We are devastated,” Deputy Chief […]
  
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• Washington State Patrol cracking down on distracted drivers this weekend; know what’s legal and what isn’t

  20-06-2019 16:04
  The Washington State Patrol will be looking extra hard for distracted drivers this weekend. Using a personal electronic device while driving can get a driver a $136 ticket for the first offense.
  
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• State Patrol cracking down on distracted drivers this weekend

  20-06-2019 16:04
  The Washington State Patrol will be looking extra hard for distracted drivers this weekend. Using a personal electronic device while driving can get a driver a $136 ticket for the first offense.
  
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• Teach for America, restraint and seclusion, a school-bus driver’s retirement: What Education Lab is reading this week

  20-06-2019 16:00
  It’s the homestretch for Seattle students! June 20 marks the final day of school for the district’s high-school seniors, and everyone else will finish the school year next week on June 27. Of course, that doesn’t mean you have to stop learning. Take your much-needed break, unwind, then come back for these great education stories. […]
  
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• Saved from icy river, Estonian wolf “probably” shot

  20-06-2019 15:58
  HELSINKI (AP) — Estonian authorities say a wolf that captured international attention earlier this year after being rescued from an icy Estonian river by construction workers may have been killed. The Environment Agency told local broadcaster ERR late Wednesday the wolf’s GPS tracking collar hasn’t transmitted signals for a week. Estonian lawmaker Peeter Ernits, who’s […]
  
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• Liquor license suspended at Puyallup bar where owner is accused of dealing cocaine

  20-06-2019 15:44
  The owner of Johnny’s Bar & Grill in Puyallup allegedly sold cocaine to undercover law enforcement agents.
  
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• Seattle relocates firefighters from station known as ‘Cancer House’ until more tests are done

  20-06-2019 15:12
  Seattle has moved firefighters out of a fire station known as "Cancer House" after a new round of tests. Firefighters have repeatedly expressed concerns about the Northgate station, after many who worked there were diagnosed with cancer. More testing is ahead.
  
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• Portland chief relaxes officer hiring, grooming standards

  20-06-2019 15:05
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Portland Police Chief Danielle Outlaw is relaxing hiring and grooming standards for the bureau amid a critical staffing shortage. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that starting next month, a high school diploma or GED certificate will be sufficient and tattoos above the collar and beards will be allowed. The bureau has 128 […]
  
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• It’s harder to get a driver’s license in Washington than in any other state, study finds

  20-06-2019 15:00
  Washington was recently named the hardest state in which to get a driver's license, based on a variety of factors including cost and the difficulty of the two-part exam. Here's how often people fail the tests and how we stack up to other states.
  
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• University fraternity suspended until June 2021 for hazing

  20-06-2019 14:55
  EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The University of Oregon chapter of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity has been suspended for the next two years following a university investigation of hazing. The Register-Guard reported Wednesday the local chapter of Epsilon Omega lost its recognition by the university and all privileges associated with it until June 2021. The […]
  
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• Shooting near bar leaves 10 wounded; likely gang-related

  20-06-2019 14:37
  ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A street shooting in eastern Pennsylvania that left 10 people wounded early Thursday is likely to be gang-related, authorities said. The shooting outside the Deja Vu nightclub in Allentown occurred shortly before 2 a.m. Most of the victims had just left the nightclub and were standing on the sidewalk when the […]
  
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• The return of the wolf: Wild cubs born in the Netherlands

  20-06-2019 14:33
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Wolves are officially back in the Netherlands, two centuries after the animals were hunted to extinction in the country, after a pair produced a litter in the wild — news welcomed Thursday by conservationists. The province of Gelderland posted a video online this week showing three young wolves in a […]
  
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• Horns are growing on young people’s skulls. Phone use is to blame, research suggests.

  20-06-2019 14:30
  Mobile technology has transformed the way we live — how we read, work, communicate, shop and date. But we already know this. What we have not yet grasped is the way the tiny machines in front of us are remolding our skeletons, possibly altering not just the behaviors we exhibit but the bodies we inhabit. […]
  
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• Russia to release 100 illegally captured whales

  20-06-2019 13:30
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials have launched an operation to release nearly 100 illegally captured whales whose confinement in Russia’s far east has become a rallying cry for environmentalists. A state TV reporter made the announcement during President Vladimir Putin’s live Q&A show on Thursday, saying that by “coincidence” the operation began just before the […]
  
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• Asian nations scramble to contain pig disease outbreaks

  20-06-2019 12:46
  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Asian nations are scrambling to contain the spread of highly contagious African swine fever, with Vietnam culling 2.5 million pigs and China reporting more than a million dead in an unprecedentedly huge epidemic some fear is out of control. Smaller outbreaks have been reported in Hong Kong, Taiwan, North Korea, Cambodia […]
  
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• 1 in 6 ER visits or hospital stays triggers ‘surprise’ bill

  20-06-2019 09:11
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Roughly one in every six times someone is taken to an emergency room or checks in to the hospital, the treatment is followed by a “surprise” medical bill, according to a study released Thursday. And depending on where you live, the odds can be much higher. The report from the nonpartisan Kaiser […]
  
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• Poll: Tracking asteroids a favored focus for space program

  20-06-2019 07:06
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Americans prefer a space program that focuses on potential asteroid impacts, scientific research and using robots to explore the cosmos over sending humans back to the moon or on to Mars, a new poll shows. The poll by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, released […]
  
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• AP-NORC poll: Asteroid watch more urgent than Mars trip

  20-06-2019 07:06
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Americans prefer a space program that focuses on potential asteroid impacts, scientific research and using robots to explore the cosmos over sending humans back to the moon or on to Mars, a poll shows. The poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research , released Thursday, one month […]
  
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• Alaska lawmakers weigh governor’s call for new session venue

  20-06-2019 07:04
  WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — When Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy called for the Legislature’s next special session to be held in Wasilla, some agreed with him that a change of venue would be good for lawmakers struggling to finish their work after a drawn-out five months at the state capital. Others called it a means of […]
  
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