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• Large crowds expected on Grays Harbor oil-terminal hearing

  07-10-2015 23:59
  ABERDEEN (AP) — State officials say large crowds are expected Thursday at a public hearing on two oil terminals proposed at the Port of Grays Harbor in Hoquiam. Two companies want to expand existing facilities to bring crude oil by train from the Bakken region of North Dakota and Montana. The oil would then be […]
  
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• Obituary: Ruth Velozo, 86, a founder of NW Harvest

  07-10-2015 23:25
  She started the hunger-relief agency almost a half-century ago, and it has since grown to serve 2 million meals to the hungry across Washington monthly.
  
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• Teen suspected of setting cat on fire in Bremerton

  07-10-2015 23:12
  
  Bremerton police have arrested a 16-year-old boy in connection with a disturbing case of animal cruelty.
  
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• Gates Foundation to keep pushing on teacher quality

  07-10-2015 21:28
  
  In Bill and Melinda Gates’ first major retrospective on education giving since 2009, they said they plan to continue their efforts to raise the quality of teaching.
  
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• Oregon college gunman killed himself after police shot him

  07-10-2015 21:20
  The gunman who fatally shot nine people at Umpqua Community College last week killed himself in front of his victims after two police officers wounded him.
  
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• Lights out: Copper wire thieves darken streets near Snohomish

  07-10-2015 21:08
  
  Authorities in Snohomish County say that thieves who made off with nearly $12,000 worth of copper wire darkened neighborhoods near Snohomish last month.
  
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• ‘It’s not cute anymore’: Bunny brouhaha as Langley is overrun with rabbits

  07-10-2015 19:35
  
  Proliferating rabbits are causing controversy in Whidbey Island’s Langley — a problem Seattle previously became all too familiar with.
  
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• Transplanting ovarian tissue helps some women have babies

  07-10-2015 19:05
  
  LONDON (AP) — The biggest study ever of women who had ovarian tissue removed, frozen and transplanted suggests the experimental technique is safe and can help about one third of them to have babies. The procedure is intended for women with cancer who wish to preserve their fertility, since cancer treatments can harm the ovaries. […]
  
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• Customer-friendly upgrades for gov’t health insurance site

  07-10-2015 18:55
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s health insurance website is getting long-awaited upgrades that should help consumers find out whether their doctors and medications are covered, and get a better estimate of costs. Detailed in an internal document, the customer-friendly changes to HealthCare.gov are still being tested. With the start of 2016 open enrollment season approaching, […]
  
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• Tantra teacher at clothing-optional retreat killed on trail

  07-10-2015 18:37
  
  FAIRFAX, Calif. (AP) — A tantra teacher who made DVDs on yoga for lovers and taught classes at a clothing-optional retreat was found shot to death on a hiking trail in Northern California, still holding onto the leash of his wounded dog, authorities said. Detectives are looking for three people of interest in the killing […]
  
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• Followers mourn tantra teacher killed on trail in California

  07-10-2015 18:37
  
  FAIRFAX, Calif. (AP) — Stunned students and supporters mourned a beloved teacher of tantra yoga on Wednesday after he was shot dead while walking his dog along a scenic California hiking trail. The body of Steve Carter, 67, was found Monday in Marin County, where he was living and caring for his cancer-stricken wife Lokita […]
  
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• Cartel enforcer admits 9 murders but won’t name associates

  07-10-2015 18:37
  
  VISALIA, Calif. (AP) — Once Jose Manuel Martinez acknowledged a vast killing spree that included nine people in California, officials set out to decide whether the self-described cartel enforcer actually carried out the horrific crimes. Details the 53-year-old Martinez provided confirmed his claims. He described with remarkable accuracy the victims’ clothes, body positions and the […]
  
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• Jury being picked in teen’s trial over math teacher’s death

  07-10-2015 18:35
  
  SALEM, Mass. (AP) — Jury selection has begun in the trial of a Massachusetts teenager accused of raping and killing his math teacher. Philip Chism was 14 when he was charged in the 2013 death of 24-year-old Colleen Ritzer, a teacher at Danvers High School. He is being tried as an adult. Jury selection began […]
  
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• Eastern Kentucky University cancels classes, cites threat

  07-10-2015 18:35
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Eastern Kentucky University says it has canceled classes for the rest of the week because of an escalating threat after the discovery of graffiti that threatened to “kill all” this week. The school said Wednesday that it increased police presence around the campus in Richmond, Kentucky. Officials say classes were canceled midmorning […]
  
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• As Bush campaigns, Florida struggles with his schools legacy

  07-10-2015 18:19
  
  In Florida, a troubled rollout of new standardized testing linked to the standards has created a large enough backlash that the GOP-controlled Florida Legislature agreed to spend nearly $600,000 to study whether the tests should continue.
  
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• Lawmakers question effectiveness of dietary guidelines

  07-10-2015 18:17
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers on Wednesday asked federal officials whether Americans should trust the government’s dietary guidelines, which inform everything from school lunches to advice from a doctor. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack defended the guidelines before the House Agriculture Committee, pointing out that the latest guidelines haven’t […]
  
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• Study: Mammals thrive in Chernobyl exclusion zone

  07-10-2015 18:11
  
  Elk, deer, wild boar and wolves are abundant in the zone around the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant nearly 30 years after the nuclear disaster, a new study says.
  
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• Israeli team advances in contest to send spacecraft to moon

  07-10-2015 18:07
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — A team of Israeli engineers is the first to advance in an international competition sponsored by Google to send a privately-funded spacecraft to the moon, contest organizers announced Wednesday. The Israeli nonprofit group SpaceIL has signed a contract with American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX to launch an unmanned spacecraft into lunar orbit — […]
  
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• Threat causes Southern Oregon University to cancel classes

  07-10-2015 17:47
  
  Schools throughout Oregon have responded to threats since Thursday’s mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg.
  
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• Dog beats fire alarm, alerts family to house blaze

  07-10-2015 17:47
  
  Hoquiam fire official say a family was able to escape a burning home because a dog barked and alerted them to the fire.
  
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• Dog-beater ordered to get animal-empathy counseling

  07-10-2015 17:46
  
  The Portland man pleaded no contest to beating a Chihuahua that belonged to his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend.
  
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• Federal investigators hope to find sunken ship’s recorder

  07-10-2015 16:45
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Federal investigators looking into the ill-fated voyage of a 790-foot freighter believed to have sunk in the Atlantic during Hurricane Joaquin say they still hope to recover a data recorder from the ship as search crews continue looking for any survivors. The National Transportation Safety Board sent a team to Jacksonville […]
  
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• U.S. experts warn plutonium stockpiles could soar in East Asia

  07-10-2015 16:30
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Experts warn that Northeast Asia could see a dangerous growth in stocks of weapons-usable plutonium — and U.S. lawmakers say Obama administration policies could be making matters worse. Japan plans to open as early as next spring a plant that could reprocess enough spent reactor fuel to make as many as 1,000 […]
  
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• South Carolina still on edge from flooding; 2 people missing

  07-10-2015 16:00
  
  GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) — Rivers rose and dams bulged Wednesday as South Carolina faced another anxious day of waiting for the floodwaters to recede, and dive teams searched for two people who disappeared in waters after they drove around a barricade. Along the coast, residents prepared for a second round of flooding as rivers swollen […]
  
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• Round 2: Downstream South Carolina towns brace for flooding

  07-10-2015 16:00
  
  GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) — Along South Carolina’s coast, residents were preparing for a second round of flooding as rivers swollen from days of devastating rains make their way toward the Atlantic. And in the Columbia area, where some have started to return home to assess damage and clean up, the threat of more flooding still […]
  
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• Some of 6,000 prisoners to get early release had gun, robbery convictions

  07-10-2015 15:10
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Drug criminals once described by prosecutors as unrepentant repeat offenders are among those poised to benefit from new sentencing guidelines that are shrinking punishments for thousands of federal prisoners, according to an Associated Press review of court records. Many defendants cleared for early release starting this fall fit a more sympathetic profile: […]
  
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• 2 men arrested in Lynnwood-area shooting death

  07-10-2015 15:06
  
  Two men were arrested Tuesday night in relation to the early-morning shooting death of a man in a Lynnwood-area parking lot, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said.
  
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• With high-tech, Seattle police will be tracking crime in real time

  07-10-2015 15:00
  
  Seattle police are set to launch a new crime center on Wednesday designed to spot patterns in real time.
  
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• With high tech, Seattle police to track crime in real time

  07-10-2015 15:00
  
  Seattle police are set to launch a new crime center on Wednesday designed to spot patterns in real time.
  
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• Scientists win Nobel for work on DNA repair

  07-10-2015 14:52
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists from Sweden, the U.S. and Turkey won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for showing how cells repair damaged DNA, work that’s inspired the development of new cancer treatments. Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and U.S.-Turkish national Aziz Sancar shared the 8 million Swedish kronor (about $960,000) […]
  
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• A glance at the Nobel Prizes in 2015

  07-10-2015 14:50
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — The 2015 Nobel Prizes are being announced this week and next. The $960,000 awards will be handed out in Stockholm and Oslo on Dec. 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel’s death in 1896. Below is a look at the winners announced so far: ____ MEDICINE The prize went to three […]
  
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• Seattle schools have one of nation’s largest equity gaps, new study says

  07-10-2015 14:00
  
  Seattle ranked near the bottom of a 50-city study on several measures of equity examining who was more likely to attend the highest and lowest performing schools.
  
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• Victim boards Metro bus after stabbing in SODO district

  07-10-2015 07:54
  
  The victim was stabbed near a bus stop around 8 p.m., according to a Metro Transit spokesman.
  
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• Victim boarded Metro Transit bus after stabbing in SODO district

  07-10-2015 07:54
  
  The victim was stabbed near a bus stop around 8 p.m., according to a Metro Transit spokesman.
  
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• In Washington, lives are saved when farm rules are enforced

  07-10-2015 07:27
  
  Washington state’s approach to workplace safety illustrates how death rates drop sharply when oversight covers every farm, no matter how small.
  
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• Study: Wildlife thriving near Chernobyl

  07-10-2015 07:15
  
  The findings, published in the journal Current Biology, hint that when it comes to threats to wildlife, a nuclear disaster may actually be less harmful than human encroachment.
  
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• Deputies say 12-year-old brought gun to school in Granite Falls

  07-10-2015 05:28
  
  Officers booked the middle-schooler on suspicion of possessing a firearm on school grounds.
  
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• A socialist proves democracy at work in Seattle

  07-10-2015 05:18
  
  When you find out who just broke the record for the richest campaign in Seattle City Council history, it might change your view on whether we really need to get “big money” out of city politics.
  
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• Sen. Karen Fraser announces run for lieutenant governor

  07-10-2015 05:10
  
  Sen. Karen Fraser announces run for lieutenant governor.
  
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• Neighbors turning up heat on Indonesia over forest fires

  07-10-2015 05:01
  
  Big corporations set fire to forests every year to clear land speedily so the peaty soil can be planted with trees that will be eventually harvested for paper pulp and palm oil, whose plantations earned $18.5 billion in Indonesia this past year.
  
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• Seattle-area teen loved football, says grieving father

  07-10-2015 04:27
  
  Evergreen football player Kenney Bui died three days after a traumatic brain injury suffered during a game, his father said Tuesday. The loss of the 17-year-old is “catastrophic,” Ngon Bui said.
  
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• Pilloried Seattle landlord giving free month’s rent

  07-10-2015 03:54
  
  A South Seattle landlord pilloried by City Council members for hiking rents at a rundown building said Tuesday he won’t charge rent this month. But a demonstration against him is still planned for Wednesday.
  
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• Join Seattle City Council candidates Sandy Brown and Debora Juarez for a Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ session

  07-10-2015 03:54
  
  Got questions for Seattle City Council candidates? Ask them anything on Reddit.
  
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• Amid drought, Rattlesnake Lake reveals its roots

  07-10-2015 03:53
  There are no rattlesnakes at Rattlesnake Lake just south of North Bend. Before there was a lake, there was a town. And the area was filled with camas plants. When the flowers were done, and their seed pods dried out and the wind blew, it sounded like rattlesnakes, according to the Cedar River Watershed Education […]
  
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• UW ranks 11th among global universities

  07-10-2015 03:30
  
  A new ranking of colleges looks at a university's global and regional reputation, academic research performance, and more.
  
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• Bremerton police release video in cat-killing case

  07-10-2015 02:58
  
  Police have released a video of a person who may be involved in a cat killing.
  
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• Woman stabbed in domestic dispute in Mountlake Terrace

  07-10-2015 02:34
  
  Medics took the woman to Harborview Medical Center with serious injuries, and as of 4:40 p.m. Tuesday, police reported no arrest.
  
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• ACLU lawsuit: Benton County jailing people who can’t pay court fines

  07-10-2015 02:12
  
  The Washington state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union sued Benton County on Tuesday, accusing it of sending people to jail or forcing them to toil on work crews if they fail to pay their court fines.
  
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• Judge dismisses lawsuit in death of Susan Powell’s sons

  07-10-2015 01:11
  TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Washington state brought by the grandparents of Charlie and Braden Powell. U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Leighton issued the 29-page decision Tuesday, ruling that the social workers involved were not at fault for the boys’ deaths. Josh Powell is believed to have killed […]
  
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• Judge dismisses lawsuit in death of Susan Powell boys

  07-10-2015 01:11
  
  TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Washington state brought by the grandparents of Charlie and Braden Powell. U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Leighton issued the 29-page decision Tuesday, ruling that the social workers involved were not at fault for the boys’ deaths at the hands of their father. The […]
  
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