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• Viadoom nightmare

  29-04-2016 23:54
  
  The Department of Transportation couldn’t have found a more qualified Seattleite to keep cars off Highway 99. For the real scoop about Viadoom, don’t forget to follow Seattle Times transportation reporter Mike Lindblom.
  
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• Mountain Loop highway and troubled Big Four Ice Caves trail reopen

  29-04-2016 23:52
  
  Falling ice and rock has claimed four lives at Big Four since 1998.
  
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• Oh smack: Garbage truck hits Alaskan Way Viaduct

  29-04-2016 21:41
  
  A garbage truck hit the Alaskan Way Viaduct around noon Friday, causing police to block off a few blocks to both cars and pedestrians in Belltown.
  
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• Island County man fined $100,000 for pointing laser at ferry wheelhouse

  29-04-2016 19:59
  
  An Island County man has been fined $100,000 for allegedly pointing a high-powered laser at a ferry’s wheelhouse last October.
  
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• For first time, Boeing reveals state tax breaks: $305M in 2015

  29-04-2016 19:58
  
  Boeing saved $305 million in state taxes last year thanks to Washington’s suite of aerospace tax incentives granted by lawmakers to keep the company building jets here.
  
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• Spokane police fatally shoot man with knife

  29-04-2016 18:52
  
  The officers shot a man outside a homeless shelter after he approached them with a knife.
  
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• ‘She grabbed her gun’: Sultan woman, 80, kills intruder after he stabs her husband

  29-04-2016 18:43
  
  The son of an 80-year-old Sultan woman who fatally shot an intruder who stabbed her husband Thursday said he’s proud of his mother’s bravery — and her aim.
  
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• Pop went the weasel and down went the Large Hadron Collider

  29-04-2016 18:30
  
  GENEVA (AP) — It’s one of the physics world’s most complex machines, and it has been immobilized — temporarily — by a weasel. Spokesman Arnaud Marsollier says the world’s largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN outside of Geneva, has suspended operations because a weasel invaded a transformer that helps power the machine […]
  
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• Pop goes a weasel, and down goes world’s biggest atom smasher

  29-04-2016 18:30
  
  GENEVA (AP) — It’s one of the physics world’s most complex machines, and it has been immobilized — temporarily — by a weasel. Spokesman Arnaud Marsollier says the world’s largest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN outside of Geneva, has suspended operations because a weasel invaded a transformer that helps power the machine […]
  
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• Homeless will benefit from Starbucks Chorus ‘Street Requiem’ performance

  29-04-2016 18:29
  
  The Starbucks Chorus is sponsoring a benefit concert on May 1, involving multiple community choruses and agencies, with proceeds helping people facing homelessness in King County.
  
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• Transgender supporters rally in Renton to oppose ballot measure

  29-04-2016 15:55
  
  Initiative 1515, which would restrict bathroom access for transgender people, isn’t on the November ballot yet. But the opposition is in place.
  
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• Highway 99 Alaskan Way Viaduct closure, day 1: What you need to know to get around

  29-04-2016 15:01
  
  ​The Alaskan Way Viaduct closed at midnight, kicking off what's expected to be a two-week shutdown while Highway 99 tunnel machine Bertha burrows below. Check back with us here for updates on the first morning commute, in which the traffic jams started early.
  
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• CEO makes fiery emails about Muslims part of the workday

  29-04-2016 15:00
  
  Long before Electroimpact President Peter Zieve sent postcards to Mukilteo residents about a planned mosque, he was drawing strong reactions from some of his 800 employees with messages about “terrorist savages,” sterilization, procreation and more.
  
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• Between the ears: How music skills may help babies learn language

  29-04-2016 15:00
  
  Babies who learned to keep waltz time during play sessions showed stronger brain responses to timing mistakes in both music and speech, suggesting that music training could help them learn to talk.
  
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• Parts of India ban daytime cooking as hundreds die of heat

  29-04-2016 12:39
  
  PATNA, India (AP) — With sizzling temperatures claiming more than 300 lives this month in India, officials said Friday they were banning daytime cooking in some parts of the drought-stricken country in a bid to prevent accidental fires that have killed nearly 80 more people. The eastern state of Bihar this week took the unprecedented […]
  
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• Drug company to pay Washington state $22.9M in rebates

  29-04-2016 09:54
  
  The money is part of a national payout by Wyeth, which allegedly underpaid rebates for the sale of two drugs.
  
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• Sea lion that made strange, 50-mile trek to Olympia driveway found dead

  29-04-2016 09:31
  
  After turning up in the driveway, the California sea lion was released into Puget Sound, only to be found dead under a bridge in Olympia a week later.
  
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• Woman, 80, fatally shoots intruder after he stabs her husband

  29-04-2016 08:32
  
  The woman called 911 after the man broke into her home and stabbed her 75-year-old husband, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.
  
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• Sultan woman, 80, fatally shoots intruder after he stabs her husband

  29-04-2016 08:32
  
  The woman called 911 after the man broke into her home and stabbed her 75-year-old husband, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.
  
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• Spokane police fatally shoot man outside homeless shelter

  29-04-2016 08:06
  
  Witnesses said the man had approached Spokane police with a knife, asking them to kill him.
  
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• Suit to require lawyers for children facing deportation will be heard

  29-04-2016 05:26
  
  Class-action lawsuit over rights of children facing deportation will go to trial, says judge
  
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• Lawsuit to require lawyers for thousands of children facing deportation goes forward

  29-04-2016 05:26
  
  A class-action lawsuit over the rights of children facing deportation will go to trial, says a federal judge in Seattle, who rejected the Obama administration’s effort to dismiss the case.
  
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• Japan abandons costly X-ray satellite lost in space

  29-04-2016 05:17
  
  TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency has abandoned its efforts to restore the operations of a multimillion-dollar satellite that was to probe the mysteries of black holes using X-ray telescopes. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency says it has determined that the satellite’s two solar arrays had broken off at their bases. Contact was lost with […]
  
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• Colorado considers universal health-care proposal

  29-04-2016 04:25
  
  The estimated $38 billion-a-year proposal, which will go before Colorado voters in November, will test whether people have an appetite for a new system that goes further than the Affordable Care Act. That
  
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• 2 arrested in death of woman found in Seattle alley

  29-04-2016 03:54
  
  The 26-year-old woman was found unconscious in the South Park neighborhood on Feb. 15, 2015. Medical investigators determined she died from blunt-force trauma to her head.
  
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• Scheduling deal means yes vote more likely to give up street for proposed Sodo arena

  29-04-2016 03:38
  
  Three major Sodo District pro teams and backers of a proposed arena reached an agreement to avoid scheduling conflicts in advance of Seattle City Council vote Monday.
  
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• Husky guide on UW cheerleading tryouts goes global

  29-04-2016 03:28
  
  A Facebook post with guidance on what to wear to Husky cheer-and-dance trials went viral this week, but not everyone agreed on what message it sent.
  
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• Seattle ‘recalibrating’ trash-snooping after judge’s ruling

  29-04-2016 03:26
  
  Seattle is “recalibrating” how much it can snoop into your garbage after the enforcement of its trash-check ordinance was ruled unconstitutional.
  
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• Strong bonds grow with bellies at program for pregnant Somali women

  29-04-2016 03:20
  
  A “centering pregnancy” program at Neighborcare Health provides prenatal care and community support to Seattle’s Somali-American population.
  
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• King County executive orders inquest into police shooting of Che Taylor

  29-04-2016 02:48
  
  King County Executive Dow Constantine announced the inquest after county prosecutors reviewed information provided by police on the fatal shooting in Seattle’s Wedgwood neighborhood.
  
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• County inquest to review fatal shooting of Che Taylor by Seattle police

  29-04-2016 02:48
  
  King County Executive Dow Constantine announced the inquest after county prosecutors reviewed information provided by police on the fatal shooting in Seattle’s Wedgwood neighborhood.
  
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• Charges: Man threatened to cut off Jim McDermott’s tongue

  29-04-2016 02:12
  
  A man who allegedly threatened to cut out U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott’s tongue because he felt his own voice was being “silenced” is charged with intimidation and telephone harassment.
  
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• Man in New York calls SPD, admits involvement in death of Cleveland High student

  29-04-2016 01:53
  
  In March 2015, 17-year-old Robert Robinson Jr. was gunned down on Seattle’s Beacon Hill. A couple months ago, a 23-year-old New York man contacted Seattle homicide detectives to confess because Robinson’s killing was “eating me alive,” according to a search warrant in the case.
  
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• Coastal razor clam digs happening soon at Long Beach and Mocrocks, and more digs offered later in May

  29-04-2016 01:29
  
  Dig this news. State Fish and Wildlife has approved another round of coastal razor clam digs at two beaches after latest test sample for marine toxins came back under the cut-off threshold. “We got approval for the latest digs at Long Beach, and added some weekdays to Mocrocks,” said Dan Ayres, the head state Fish […]
  
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• Higher taxes, fees: Ed Murray’s plan would pay for more Seattle police officers

  29-04-2016 01:24
  
  Mayor Ed Murray is proposing increased taxes and fees on Seattle businesses to help pay for the hiring of additional police officers.
  
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• Mother arrested after newborn found in Everett dumpster

  29-04-2016 00:56
  
  Everett police have arrested a woman in connection with a baby that was found in a dumpster at an apartment complex last month.
  
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• State fines ex-Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon for campaign violations

  29-04-2016 00:23
  
  The state Public Disclosure Commission has fined former Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon $4,200 for violating state campaign laws during his 2011 re-election campaign.
  
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