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• Searchers find body of missing 2-year-old near Monroe

  29-01-2016 23:02
  
  The body of a 2-year-old who disappeared from his Monroe-area home Friday afternoon has been found in a nearby creek.
  
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• Search under way for missing 2-year-old in Monroe area

  29-01-2016 23:02
  
  A 2-year-old boy has been reported missing from his home near Monroe.
  
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• Massive sinkhole opens up near highway along Oregon coast

  29-01-2016 22:25
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Transportation officials say a massive sinkhole has opened near a highway along the southern coast of Oregon. The Oregon Department of Transportation says a sinkhole off Highway 101 has been plaguing the Curry County town of Harbor since heavy rains last month. A contractor was working on it Thursday when the […]
  
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• Medical-pot shops sue state, call licensing process ‘a mess’

  29-01-2016 21:53
  
  Several Seattle medical marijuana businesses have sued the state Liquor and Cannabis Board, alleging that regulators are not following rules in issuing new licenses for retail stores.
  
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• Fugitive found in ‘elaborate tunnel system’ at Alaska trailer park

  29-01-2016 21:15
  
  SITKA, Alaska (AP) — Authorities arrested a fugitive convicted on drug and theft charges after finding him hiding this week in what they called an “elaborate tunnel system” dug underneath a trailer home in Alaska. The tunnels narrowed as officers walked further in, forcing them to trudge through on their knees and then on their […]
  
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• Theater shooting victim: ‘Can’t believe it happened to me’

  29-01-2016 20:42
  
  Michelle Mallari, who was wounded by gunfire last week in a Renton movie theater, said she didn’t realize she had been hit by a bullet until she reached the lobby.
  
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• Soccer player Marco Pappa and ex-Miss Washington give conflicting accounts of December stabbing

  29-01-2016 19:52
  
  Former Miss Washington USA Stormy Keffeler and professional soccer player Marco Pappa gave police conflicting stories after the ex-Seattle Sounder suffered a stab wound in his apartment in December, according to a newly released police report.
  
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• Marco Pappa and ex-Miss Washington give conflicting accounts of December stabbing

  29-01-2016 19:52
  
  Former Miss Washington USA Stormy Keffeler and professional soccer player Marco Pappa gave police conflicting stories after the ex-Seattle Sounder suffered a stab wound in his apartment in December, according to a newly released police report.
  
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• Seattle’s Pronto bike-share program at risk of shutting down

  29-01-2016 19:39
  
  The city transportation department wants to take over the troubled, insolvent program. The City Council will be asked next week to approve $1.4 million to buy it.
  
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• Ski report: Heavy snowfall in Cascades will be joyful for skiers and snowboarders

  29-01-2016 19:13
  
  Skiers and snowboarders are rejuvenating themselves for what should be a wintery weekend filled with powdery fun. The heavy rain that made a quagmire of the hillsides will quickly be covered with plenty of snowfall as a winter-storm warning is posted for the southern Cascades, and a winter-storm watch to the north. Every ski area […]
  
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• Count of Seattle, King County homeless finds 4,505 people sleeping outside

  29-01-2016 19:13
  
  The 2016 tally of people without shelter represents a 19 percent increase over last year and comes in a week when homelessness took center stage in the news.
  
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• Starfish piling up on along some Florida Panhandle beaches

  29-01-2016 17:46
  
  PORT ST. JOE, Fla. (AP) — Wildlife officials say cold weather, storms and high tides have led to thousands of starfish washing up along the shoreline in Gulf County on Florida’s Panhandle. The Tallahassee Democrat (http://on.tdo.com/1TrvlrE ) reports that residents in Port St. Joe and visitors to Cape San Blas have been reporting and taking […]
  
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• Brazil leader vows to win war against Zika-carrying mosquito

  29-01-2016 17:44
  
  SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday announced a nationwide attack on the mosquito spreads that Zika virus, vowing to “win this war” against the insect that researchers in have linked to a rare birth defect. Rousseff said an operation to eliminate breeding areas for the Aedes aegypti mosquito began Friday at […]
  
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• Pulitzer Prize winner Eli Sanders revisits dark days of South Park rape and murder

  29-01-2016 16:00
  
  In the new book “While the City Slept,” writer Eli Sanders expands on his riveting article “The Bravest Woman in Seattle.”
  
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• Guest essay: The conversation I’m tired of not having

  29-01-2016 16:00
  
  Amid all the different conversations happening in education policy, teacher Nathan Gibbs-Bowling writes about the one conversation he's tired of not having.
  
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• Eli Sanders revisits dark days of South Park rape and murder

  29-01-2016 16:00
  
  In the new book “While the City Slept,” writer Eli Sanders expands on his riveting article “The Bravest Woman in Seattle.”
  
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• Manhunt in Tacoma: Woman shot by police, then armed man flees

  29-01-2016 15:54
  
  An officer-involved shooting led to an hourslong manhunt in South Tacoma early Friday morning, but the subject of the search eluded police.
  
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• Whatcom County man dies after being hit head-on by car trying to pass

  29-01-2016 15:31
  
  A 22-year-old man in a BMW caused the death of a Maple Falls man when he tried to pass a tractor trailer in Whatcom County on Thursday, police say.
  
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• Apartment owner ordered to install alarms after deadly Everett fire

  29-01-2016 15:08
  
  The city of Everett is ordering a company to install fire alarms on its residential buildings after a deadly apartment complex fire on New Year’s Eve.
  
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• Life at Zika epicenter a struggle for afflicted family

  29-01-2016 14:05
  
  RECIFE, Brazil (AP) — Around the fifth month of her pregnancy, Daniele Ferreira dos Santos fell ill with a high fever and angry red splotches on her skin. She soon recovered. But weeks later, when she went to the hospital for a prenatal exam, the news was horrific: The baby she was carrying likely had […]
  
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• Regulators get input — sort of — on self-driving car rollout

  29-01-2016 11:17
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators deciding how to permit the future rollout of self-driving cars have been told by consumer advocates that their cautious approach was right on, and by companies developing the technology that the current course will delay deployment of vehicles that promise huge safety benefits. The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles […]
  
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• FBI shows video of Tuesday shooting of Oregon occupier

  29-01-2016 09:45
  
  BURNS, Ore. (AP) — A video showing the shooting death of an occupier of an Oregon wildlife refuge appears to show the man reaching into his jacket before he fell into the snow. The FBI said the man had a loaded gun in his pocket. Authorities played the video shot by the FBI at a […]
  
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• FBI released video of fatal shooting of Oregon occupier

  29-01-2016 09:45
  
  BURNS, Ore. (AP) — Video of the fatal police shooting of an Oregon wildlife refuge occupier appears to show the man reaching into his jacket before he fell into the snow. The FBI said the man had a loaded gun in his pocket. Authorities played the FBI video Thursday amid claims that Robert “LaVoy” Finicum […]
  
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• Meeting draws hundreds frustrated by RVs, property theft in Seattle

  29-01-2016 07:57
  
  A community meeting drew several hundred people. Drug and property crimes associated with homelessness took center stage.
  
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• Chinese ship with advanced sonar to search for Flight 370

  29-01-2016 06:14
  
  CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A Chinese ship equipped with advanced sonar equipment will soon join the search for the Malaysian airliner believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean almost two years ago, an official said on Friday. The Dong Hai Jiu 101 will leave Singapore on Sunday to join the hunt for Malaysia […]
  
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• Officials hopeful spring chinook will return as forecast

  29-01-2016 05:08
  
  Last fall, officials predicted more than 500,000 coho would return to the Columbia River, but the number turned out to be only about 100,000.
  
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• A rendezvous of boat seekers

  29-01-2016 04:30
  
  The Seattle Boat Show opens Friday, Jan. 29, at the CenturyLink Field Event Center and also at South Lake Union. It ends Feb. 6.
  
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• Seattle schools seek $1 billion through special-election levies

  29-01-2016 03:39
  
  Sixteen school districts in King and Snohomish counties will have levy or bond measures on the Feb. 9 special election ballot.
  
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• FBI releases video that shows shooting of armed occupier near Burns

  29-01-2016 03:28
  
  The FBI released a video Thursday that they and Oregon State Police say shows the spokesman for the armed occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was shot when he reached for his waistband.
  
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• Lawmakers hire attorney for probe of prisoner-release error

  29-01-2016 03:11
  
  Washington state legislators conducting an inquiry into the state’s mistaken early release of prisoners have retained an attorney to help with their investigation. The vote occurred along party lines, with the GOP holding the majority.
  
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• Lawmakers hire attorney for investigation of prisoner-release error

  29-01-2016 03:11
  
  Washington state senators conducting an inquiry into the state’s mistaken early release of prisoners have retained an attorney to help with their investigation. The vote occurred along party lines, with the GOP holding the majority.
  
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• Kent apartment fire possibly set by tenant

  29-01-2016 03:02
  
  Three people suffered nonlife-threatening injurings in Thursday’s blaze.
  
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• Jefferson Airplane’s Paul Kantner dies at 74

  29-01-2016 02:26
  
  With Jefferson Airplane, Paul Kantner pioneered what became known as the San Francisco sound in the mid-1960s, with such hits as “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit.”
  
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• KUOW interviews Seattle Times reporter Jessica Lee about neighborhood security

  29-01-2016 02:09
  
  Lee highlights the difficulty of sorting out perception vs. reality on whether crime is rising in Magnolia, Ballard and Magnolia.
  
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• Questions, answers about Zika virus

  29-01-2016 02:06
  
  Answers and advice about the Zika virus outbreak.
  
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• Ex-Seattle cop acquitted of child-molestation charges

  29-01-2016 00:03
  
  A veteran Seattle police officer who retired after he was accused of molesting his ex-girlfriend’s daughter was found not guilty of four criminal charges by a Snohomish County jury on Wednesday.
  
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