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• Tim Eyman to file new anti-tax ballot measure

  17-11-2015 22:43
  While waiting to see what the courts do with an anti-tax initiative recently passed by voters, initiative promoter Tim Eyman says he’s already moving forward with another ballot measure.
  
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• King County prevails in fight over Brightwater tunnel costs

  17-11-2015 22:29
  
  King County will recover $144 million in a dispute about tunnel cost overruns in the Brightwater sewer project. A look at similarities -- and differences -- between this tunnel battle and the Seattle debacle involving Bertha.
  
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• Bruce Harrell wins Seattle’s District 2 seat; Tammy Morales concedes

  17-11-2015 21:43
  
  Seattle City Councilmember Bruce Harrell retained a spot on the council, with his opponent conceding the race on Tuesday.
  
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• Lynnwood to pay $60,000 to couple over violent traffic stop

  17-11-2015 21:29
  
  Lynnwood police have settled a civil-rights claim by a couple who say they were roughed up and arrested by an officer during a routine traffic stop.
  
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• New civilian watchdog to oversee King County sheriff

  17-11-2015 21:28
  Cheryle Bloom, a former King County auditor, has been appointed by the Metropolitan King County Council as interim director of the county’s Office of Law Enforcement Oversight (OLEO).
  
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• Lewis County mill owner admits to trafficking in illegally cut maples

  17-11-2015 20:55
  
  The owner of a Winlock lumber mill has pleaded guilty to trafficking in big leaf maple trees that were illegally harvested from national forest lands.
  
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• Student sues Portland university for $3M after rape

  17-11-2015 20:39
  
  A Portland university student who says another student raped her has filed a $3 million lawsuit.
  
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• Suit: Connecticut scoutmaster abused 19 kids in ’60s, ’70s

  17-11-2015 19:59
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Seventeen men and two women are suing the Boy Scouts of America and local chapters in Connecticut, saying a now-dead scoutmaster sexually abused them when they were children in the 1960s and 1970s. The suit alleges that some of the accusers were assaulted hundreds of times. The lawsuit filed in state […]
  
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• Man in wig, shorts sought in Capitol Hill flashing incidents

  17-11-2015 19:20
  
  A man responsible for a series of indecent-exposure incidents on Capitol Hill may have struck again last week, police said.
  
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• Klingon sword brandished after trash dispute in Spokane

  17-11-2015 18:59
  
  A 50-year-old Spokane man is facing assault charges after his neighbor says he swung a Klingon sword at him during an argument about trash.
  
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• Grand jury: Cop killed ex-wife while daughter, 7, was in car

  17-11-2015 18:54
  
  FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey police officer chased after his ex-wife and then gunned her down with his service weapon while their 7-year-old daughter was in his car, a grand jury alleged in an indictment unsealed on Tuesday. Neptune Township Sgt. Philip Seidle was charged with murder, weapons offenses and child endangerment in […]
  
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• Wintery storm brings snow to Colorado, twisters to Texas

  17-11-2015 18:53
  
  DENVER (AP) — A powerful wintery storm dumped heavy snow on parts of Colorado on Tuesday while bringing the threat of tornadoes to millions in Arkansas and Texas, where a handful of damaging twisters had plowed through that state’s Panhandle the day before. Much of Interstate 70, Colorado’s main east-west highway, was closed because of […]
  
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• NYC sets goal of screening all new mothers for depression

  17-11-2015 18:52
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City health officials are setting a goal of screening every pregnant woman and new mother for maternal depression. First lady Chirlane McCray and Deputy Mayor Richard Buery announced the initiative Tuesday. As a first step, the city’s public hospitals and Maimonides Medical Center have set a two-year deadline to […]
  
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• Mill owner admits to buying maples illegally cut in national forest

  17-11-2015 18:09
  The U.S. Attorney's office says Harold Clause Kupers and his Winlock company, J&L Tonewoods, admitted to buying the highly prized wood without requiring sellers to show they had a special permit.
  
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• Charlie Sheen’s statement on being HIV positive

  17-11-2015 17:59
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Charlie Sheen issued the following statement Tuesday. What follows is the complete, unedited letter: Roughly four years ago, I suddenly found myself in the throws of a seismic and debilitating three-day cluster-migraine like headache. I was emergently hospitalized with what I believed to be a brain tumor or perhaps some unknown […]
  
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• Northbound I-405 jammed by multiple-car collision

  17-11-2015 16:38
  
  Traffic on northbound I-405 came to a crawl Tuesday morning before 7 a.m. due to a collision involving up to 11 vehicles, according Washington State Patrol Trooper Chris Webb.
  
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• High winds to hit Puget Sound area: Flooding, downed trees, landslides possible

  17-11-2015 16:27
  A high-wind warning begins at 8 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. for the Puget Sound region.
  
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• High winds hit Puget Sound, bringing outages, flooding, downed trees

  17-11-2015 16:27
  
  High winds are downing trees, causing outages and threatening floods and landslides Tuesday in the Puget Sound area. A high-wind warning is in effect until 4 p.m.
  
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• Dual-language instruction will start in three more Washington districts

  17-11-2015 16:00
  
  For the first time, the legislature is giving financial support to districts that offer dual-language instruction. Five districts will receive the first grants.
  
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• Missouri would likely be alone with 10 percent black faculty

  17-11-2015 15:21
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — If the University of Missouri succeeds in meeting a student demand for a faculty that’s 10 percent black in two years, it will likely be alone among its peers. No state’s “flagship” public university campus had a black faculty population approaching that level, and only a handful topped even the 5 […]
  
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• Judge grants request to drop Craigslist ad murder appeal

  17-11-2015 15:19
  
  SUNBURY, Pa. (AP) — A judge has granted a newlywed husband’s request to drop his bid to have his guilty plea withdrawn after admitting he helped kill a Pennsylvania man who was lured through a Craigslist ad. A judge approved 24-year-old Elytte Barbour’s request on Monday after talking with him. Barbour and his 20-year-old wife, […]
  
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• Man sentenced for killing, dismembering boyfriend

  17-11-2015 15:10
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who killed and dismembered his boyfriend, leaving the head near the Hollywood sign, has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. City News Service says 40-year-old Gabriel Campos-Martinez was sentenced Monday by a judge who urged him to explain why he committed the murder. Campos-Martinez earlier declined […]
  
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• Man charged after 6 slain at rural Texas campsite

  17-11-2015 15:09
  
  PALESTINE, Texas (AP) — Six people were killed at a Texas campsite, authorities said, and a suspect has been arrested and charged in the weekend homicides. Anderson County Sheriff Greg Taylor said Monday that the bodies were found in a rural part of the county, southeast of Dallas. Authorities haven’t released the victims’ names and […]
  
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• Washington colleges continue to draw a large number of foreign students

  17-11-2015 15:02
  
  The number of international students coming to Washington for college continued its upward trend in the 2014-15 school year, although growth wasn't as strong as in previous years.
  
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• Charlie Sheen says he is HIV-positive; has been blackmailed

  17-11-2015 14:34
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Former “Two and a Half Men” star Charlie Sheen has HIV. In an interview Tuesday on NBC’s “Today,” the 50-year-old actor said he tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS about four years ago, but that, thanks to a rigorous drug regimen, he’s healthy. When asked by co-host Matt Lauer […]
  
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• Charlie Sheen says he has HIV virus

  17-11-2015 14:34
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Former “Two and a Half Men” star Charlie Sheen has the HIV virus. In an interview Tuesday on NBC’s “Today,” the 50-year-old Sheen said he tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS. But when asked by “Today” co-host Matt Lauer if he had transmitted the disease to others, he declared, […]
  
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• UW study: Puget Sound area may face more flooding as climate gets warmer

  17-11-2015 09:01
  
  A UW climate-change study for Puget Sound forecasts a temperature rise of 2.9 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit by midcentury, resulting in wide-ranging shifts as more storms bring rain rather than snow.
  
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• Western US hit with blast of winter-like weather

  17-11-2015 07:20
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A wintry blast of air brought blizzard-like conditions Monday to parts of the West after whipping up a damaging tornado in Central California and buffeting the Los Angeles area with gusts topping 70 mph, forecasters said. Drivers in Southern California mountain areas were urged to use caution as light snow and […]
  
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• Vast forest fires in Indonesia spawn ecological disaster

  17-11-2015 06:51
  
  KAMPAR, Indonesia (AP) — For farmer Achmad Rusli, it was a season of smoke: Ten weeks without sunlight for his oranges, guavas and durians, thanks to deliberately set forest fires that burned a chunk of Indonesia the size of New Jersey. The fires have finally died down with the arrival of monsoon rains, but too […]
  
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• Gates Foundation cuts fossil fuel investments — but why?

  17-11-2015 06:15
  
  Divestment campaigns intensify before Paris climate meeting, but Seattle charity is mum on whether profits or ethics led to unloading Exxon, other stocks.
  
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• Last dam-explosion worker released from Harborview

  17-11-2015 05:18
  
  Six workers were hospitalized with injuries that ranged in severity after an explosion at the Priest Rapids Dam last month.
  
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• Rainfall helps area’s potential water shortage problem

  17-11-2015 05:13
  
  Everett, Seattle and Tacoma have moved to the lowest stage of their plans for a water shortage, ending a summer request to customers to cut use by 10 percent.
  
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• The late Billy Frank Jr. and Ruckelshaus to receive Medal of Freedom

  17-11-2015 05:02
  
  The late Billy Frank Jr. and William Ruckelshaus are being awarded the highest civilian honor in the U.S. Both worked on environmental issues for decades.
  
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• Obama to present Medal of Freedom to 2 environmental leaders from state

  17-11-2015 05:02
  The late Billy Frank Jr. and William Ruckelshaus are being awarded the highest civilian honor in the U.S. Both worked on environmental issues for decades.
  
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• Navy vet’s death blamed on contaminated medical scopes

  17-11-2015 04:05
  
  Chief Petty Officer William Piersawl, 60, of Lynnwood, died in 2013 after developing drug-resistant pneumonia tied to improperly cleaned bronchoscopes at the Seattle Veterans Affairs hospital, a lawsuit claims.
  
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• AMA: Pot use in pregnancy may pose risks, warnings needed

  17-11-2015 02:38
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Warning: Marijuana use during pregnancy and breast-feeding poses potential harms. That message would be written on medical and recreational marijuana products and posted wherever they’re sold if the nation’s most influential doctors group has its way. The American Medical Association agreed Monday to push for regulations requiring such warnings be written on […]
  
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• Auburn man charged with killing woman, dumping body along Kent street

  17-11-2015 00:22
  
  King County prosecutors filed a second-degree murder charge against a 30-year-old Auburn man on Monday in connection with last week’s fatal shooting of a young woman whose body was left on the side of a road in Kent.
  
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• Auburn man accused of killing woman, dumping body

  17-11-2015 00:22
  
  King County prosecutors filed a second-degree-murder charge against a Francisco Escobedo, 30, on Monday in connection with last week’s fatal shooting of a young woman whose body was left on the side of a road in Kent.
  
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• Inslee: Washington welcomes refugees, including Syrians

  17-11-2015 00:18
  
  As some governors around the nation try to block Syrian refugees in the wake of the Paris attacks, Gov. Jay Inslee says they should be welcomed.
  
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• Inslee: Wash. state welcomes refugees, including Syrians

  17-11-2015 00:18
  
  As some governors around the nation try to block Syrian refugees in the wake of the Paris attacks, Gov. Jay Inslee says they should be welcomed.
  
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