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• Old quarry near runway now saves airport $430,000 a year

  17-05-2016 23:16
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An abandoned rock quarry near a runway at Nashville International Airport was thought to be such a liability that authorities considered filling it in a decade ago. Now, the water-filled pit is enabling the airport to save $430,000 a year. By taking advantage of the quarry reservoir’s year-round 50-degree temperature, the […]
  
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• 2 kayakers reported missing in Sauk River near Darrington

  17-05-2016 22:36
  
  The Snohomish County sheriff’s helicopter is heading to the Sauk River near Darrington for reports of two missing kayakers.
  
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• 2 kayakers OK after brief search near Darrington

  17-05-2016 22:36
  
  Two kayakers who were the subjects of a brief search were found.
  
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• Suspect in Arlington couple’s deaths expected to be returned soon to Snohomish County

  17-05-2016 20:51
  
  Tony Reed, one of two brothers suspected in the disappearance and presumed slaying of an Arlington couple, surrendered to authorities and is awaiting extradition to face murder charges in Snohomish County
  
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• Black owner to sell Redmond shop, burn KKK robe left there

  17-05-2016 20:45
  
  Soon after news of the robe spread, hundreds of residents across the Eastside attended city-sponsored talks on racially charged harassment. Police investigated the incident, but prosecutors say hate-crime charges were ruled out for lack of evidence.
  
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• Black owner burns KKK robe left at the shop she now plans to sell

  17-05-2016 20:45
  
  Soon after news of the robe spread, hundreds of residents across the Eastside attended city-sponsored talks on racially charged harassment. Police investigated the incident, but prosecutors say hate-crime charges were ruled out for lack of evidence.
  
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• Man sets fire in stairwell of Capitol Hill apartment building

  17-05-2016 20:10
  
  Police arrested a 32-year-old man for arson early Tuesday after firefighters found him standing over a fire in the stairwell of a Capitol Hill apartment building.
  
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• Video shows 109-mph wind tossing man on Mount Washington

  17-05-2016 19:26
  
  MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H. (AP) — Winter has been over with for nearly two months, but you wouldn’t know it from recent conditions at the tallest peak in the Northeast. Video posted by the Mount Washington Observatory on Monday shows a worker being blown back by 109-mph wind on the snow-covered summit. The wind picks him […]
  
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• Seattle to shut down The Jungle homeless camp

  17-05-2016 19:17
  
  State and city officials Tuesday announced plans to move people out of Seattle’s homeless encampment known as The Jungle.
  
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• Seattle aims to clear out The Jungle homeless camp

  17-05-2016 19:17
  
  State and city officials Tuesday announced plans to move people out of Seattle’s homeless encampment known as The Jungle.
  
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• State bridge worker’s pickup reportedly in water near Hood Canal Bridge; worker missing

  17-05-2016 18:50
  
  Police and rescue crews are looking for red pickup that was reported to have gone into the water off the Hood Canal Bridge early Tuesday. The pickup belongs to a state bridge-maintenance technician, according to a statement from the acting state transportation chief.
  
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• Pickup reportedly in water near Hood Canal Bridge

  17-05-2016 18:50
  
  Police and rescue crews are looking for red pickup that was reported to have gone into the water off the Hood Canal Bridge early Tuesday. It’s unknown whether anyone is inside.
  
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• Men face complaint after walking to Yellowstone hot spring

  17-05-2016 18:21
  
  YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A Canada-based group of men who post pictures and videos of their travels on social media are in hot water with Yellowstone National Park officials after walking out to a hot spring where people are prohibited. Rangers filed a criminal complaint Monday against three members of the group known […]
  
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• Seattle City Council members laugh off sexist haters on ‘Full Frontal with Samantha Bee’

  17-05-2016 18:01
  
  The five councilwomen formed a team called the Seattle Seawards (pronounced "C-words," natch).
  
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• Wildfire near Gold Bar contained; Oso blaze well in hand

  17-05-2016 17:47
  
  A fire near Gold Bar is contained, and another near Oso is nearly out.
  
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• Company charged in oil spill that fouled California beaches

  17-05-2016 17:29
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Texas pipeline company responsible for spilling more than 140,000 gallons of crude oil on the California coast last year was indicted on dozens of criminal charges in the disaster that closed popular beaches and killed sea lions and birds, prosecutors said Tuesday. Plains All American Pipeline and one of its […]
  
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• Meteor captured on dashcam video lights up New England sky

  17-05-2016 17:10
  
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine police sergeant looking for speeders has captured a fireball streaking across the sky on his dashboard camera. The bright flash visible from several states early Tuesday was apparently left by a meteor burning up as it passed through the earth’s atmosphere. The American Meteor Society reported sightings in Maine, […]
  
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• Report: Genetically altered food safe but not curing hunger

  17-05-2016 17:03
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Genetically manipulated food remains generally safe for humans and the environment, a high-powered science advisory board declared in a report Tuesday. The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine concluded that tinkering with the genetics of what we eat doesn’t produce the “Frankenfood” monster some opponents claim — but it isn’t feeding […]
  
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• ‘GMA’ meteorologist Ginger Zee discusses fight with anorexia

  17-05-2016 16:32
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Good Morning America” meteorologist Ginger Zee has opened up about her childhood battle with anorexia. Zee says in an interview broadcast on Monday night’s “Dancing with the Stars” that she developed the eating disorder after her parents’ divorce. She says her biggest struggle with the disease came from ages 10 to […]
  
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• Drawing inspiration from Ship Canal Bridge’s traffic chokepoint

  17-05-2016 15:30
  
  Seattle Sketcher Gabriel Campanario finds himself stuck in some congestion behind the wheel.
  
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• Seattle teacher Shana Brown on Native history as U.S. history and her invitation to the White House

  17-05-2016 15:02
  
  Shana Brown, a Broadview-Thomson K-8 teacher and principal author of the "Since Time Immemorial" curriculum, was invited to the White House's Teacher of the Year ceremony.
  
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• Why SIFF should not be celebrating Woody Allen’s ‘Cafe Society’

  17-05-2016 15:00
  
  By giving Allen’s film its North American premiere, the Seattle International Film Festival is going against a community that has fought hard for underdogs and made a priority of nurturing young people.
  
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• New software to help Seattle streets respond to traffic

  17-05-2016 14:00
  
  Seattle is spending $651,000 on traffic-network-control software that adapts to major incidents and would enable better signal-timing citywide.
  
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• UN: Zika more worrying but Rio Olympics shouldn’t be moved

  17-05-2016 13:02
  
  GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization’s chief says the agency is increasingly concerned about the Zika virus, even though it does not recommend canceling or postponing the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics in hard-hit Brazil. “The more we learn about Zika, the more worried we get about it,” Dr. Margaret Chan said in a […]
  
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• Companies propose deep-water wind farms off Hawaii shores

  17-05-2016 10:37
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — Massive wind turbines could end up floating in deep ocean waters off Hawaii’s shores under proposals to bring more renewable energy to the islands. Two companies have proposed offshore wind turbine projects for federal waters off Oahu as Hawaii pushes to meet its aggressive renewable energy goals. Their plans would use technology […]
  
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• US. wildfire-fighters making plans for 2016 season

  17-05-2016 10:25
  
  The nation’s primary wildfire-fighters are getting ready for the 2016 season, which is expected to be worse than average in Hawaii, Alaska and the Southwest. U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will meet with regional forest officials Tuesday to discuss plans and preparations. The Forest Service is part of the […]
  
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• Senate likely to advance $1.1 billion in Zika funding

  17-05-2016 09:13
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — After a three-month delay, the Senate is acting on President Barack Obama’s request for money to combat the Zika virus. The Senate is slated to vote Tuesday on three competing plans to battle the virus, with a bipartisan plan that cuts Obama’s $1.9 billion request to $1.1 billion having the greatest chance […]
  
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• Tony Clyde Reed, suspect in slayings of Arlington couple, turns self in

  17-05-2016 06:08
  
  U.S. marshals reported they’ve arrested one of two fugitive brothers suspected in the presumed slayings of an Arlington couple. The other brother, John Blaine Reed, remains at large.
  
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• Tony Clyde Reed surrenders in slayings of Arlington couple

  17-05-2016 06:08
  
  U.S. marshals reported they’ve arrested one of two fugitive brothers suspected in the presumed slayings of an Arlington couple. The other brother, John Blaine Reed, remains at large.
  
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• Imported forest pests cause $2 billion in damage annually

  17-05-2016 06:08
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — When Gary Lovett was studying the effect of acid rain in New York’s Catskill Mountains 20 years ago, he ended the experiment early because so many trees in the test plots were dying — not from acid rain, but from insect attacks. “I consider air pollution and climate change to be […]
  
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• Rose garden’s buds abloom at Woodland Park Zoo

  17-05-2016 05:09
  
  The Woodland Park Rose Garden offers colorful specimens.
  
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• Deputies searching for gunman in Renton shooting

  17-05-2016 04:59
  
  The man reportedly shot and wounded a 21-year-old, according to King County sheriff’s officials. It’s unclear what led to the shooting.
  
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• BNSF whistleblower case begins in federal court

  17-05-2016 04:45
  
  A BNSF Railway whistleblower case over safety concerns is under way in Seattle federal court.
  
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• Navy Junior ROTC program to remain at Burlington-Edison High School

  17-05-2016 04:40
  
  A vote Monday by the School Board effectively keeps the district’s Navy Junior ROTC program alive for the next year.
  
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• Lakewood police investigating escape of Western State Hospital patient

  17-05-2016 04:11
  
  The patient, a 31-year-old man, has since returned to the psychiatric facility in Lakewood, Pierce County.
  
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• Man shot in Everett fast-food restaurant parking lot

  17-05-2016 03:39
  
  Police believe he and the shooter were sitting in their own vehicles when they got into an argument, which escalated to a physical fight in the lot.
  
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• Self-driving cars might cut costs but make traffic worse, researchers say

  17-05-2016 03:25
  
  Researchers believe the number of miles driven will skyrocket when self-driving cars hit the road. It’s less certain whether that will mean a corresponding surge in traffic congestion, but it’s a clear possibility.
  
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• Workers evacuated from Alberta oil camps due to wildfire

  17-05-2016 01:58
  
  FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta (AP) — Hundreds of workers at several small oil camps north of Canada’s main oil sands city were ordered to evacuate on Monday due to a quickly spreading wildfire, and a precautionary evacuation is under way for several thousand more workers in the area. The evacuations are taking place as the oil […]
  
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• 13-year-old arrested in fatal Des Moines shooting

  17-05-2016 01:56
  
  He is the third teen arrested in connection with the May 6 shooting death of a Kent man in an apartment complex parking lot.
  
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• Group trying to buy KPLU told to change how it collects donations

  17-05-2016 01:53
  
  An attorney for Pacific Lutheran University has told a community group trying to raise money to buy Tacoma-based public radio station KPLU that the group must alter how it collects donations on the station’s website.
  
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• Swedish gets green light for Cherry Hill campus expansion

  17-05-2016 01:48
  
  Swedish Medical Center will move forward with plans to double the size of its Cherry Hill campus. No date for construction is set; Swedish officials have to reduce traffic before it can begin.
  
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• Police increase patrols in Central District after 2 wounded in pair of shootings

  17-05-2016 01:44
  
  Seattle police have beefed up patrols in the Central District after two men were wounded in a pair of shootings last weekend.
  
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• UW researchers test drug to extend dogs’ years

  17-05-2016 01:32
  
  The drug rapamycin, which lengthened the lives of laboratory mice, is being tested on dogs as University of Washington scientists look for alternatives to treating the individual maladies that come with age in humans.
  
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• May Day protester mistakenly accused of tossing Molotov cocktail, sporting ‘man bun’

  17-05-2016 00:33
  
  Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole said Monday that investigators in her department determined a 23-year-old man had been mistakenly identified in the throwing of a Molotov cocktail.
  
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• Charge dismissed against May Day protester mistakenly accused of assaulting police

  17-05-2016 00:33
  
  Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole said Monday that investigators in her department determined a 23-year-old man had been mistakenly identified in the throwing of a Molotov cocktail.
  
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