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• Officials: Man accused of killing 3 at Oregon farm had been deported 6 times

  01-07-2016 23:39
  
  Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump tweeted about the case Friday, saying Bonifacio Oseguera-Gonzalez “should have never been here.”
  
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• Rusting gas plant endures as Seattle treasure

  01-07-2016 23:21
  
  Sketched June 29, 2016 Fourth of July brings to mind Gas Works Park, one of the most popular places in Seattle to watch the fireworks blast off from a barge in the middle of Lake Union. What a gem the park is. Can you imagine what might be there if the land had been developed? […]
  
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• Kirkland, Burien on list of fastest-growing small cities

  01-07-2016 22:41
  
  Kirkland ranked No. 2, while Burien came in at No. 10 in a list compiled by zippia.com, a career-advice website. While both are growing quickly, a good part of the growth came from annexations.
  
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• Dead whale stuck on Los Angeles beach ahead of holiday

  01-07-2016 21:58
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A dead humpback whale was stuck on a popular Los Angeles-area beach as the Fourth of July weekend got underway Friday, with visitors urged to steer clear of the huge carcass. Small waves washed around the decomposing leviathan on Dockweiler Beach, a long stretch of sand near the west end of […]
  
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• School district bought $175,000 in gear from Bellevue football coach

  01-07-2016 21:08
  
  The Bellevue School District has ceased all purchases to coach Butch Goncharoff’s company, saying payments to him violated district policies.
  
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• Minorities, punished most by War on Drugs, underrepresented in legal pot

  01-07-2016 21:07
  
  Blacks and Latinos were disproportionately prosecuted under the War on Drugs. Washington’s legal pot industry has not provided much relief, as relatively few minorities have an ownership stake in legal pot shops. Should government try to change that?
  
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• Blacks, Latinos underrepresented in pot-shop ownership

  01-07-2016 21:07
  
  Blacks and Latinos were disproportionately prosecuted under the War on Drugs. Washington’s legal pot industry has not provided much relief, as relatively few minorities have an ownership stake in legal pot shops. Should government try to change that?
  
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• State Patrol to request funds to resume aerial patrols

  01-07-2016 21:00
  
  The aerial patrols help spot speeders and impaired drivers, according to the Washington State Patrol.
  
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• Decision delayed on whether indicted Snoqualmie cop can possess firearm

  01-07-2016 20:39
  
  Officer Nick Hogan was indicted by a federal grand jury last month for allegedly violating the civil rights of a man in custody through excessive force.
  
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• Study: climate change warming Asian waters, altering monsoon

  01-07-2016 20:02
  
  NEW DELHI (AP) — Each year as temperatures rise across India, farmers look to the sky and pray for rain. The all-important monsoon forecast becomes a national priority, with more than 70 percent of India’s 1.25 billion citizens engaged in agriculture and relying on weather predictions to decide when they will sow their seeds and […]
  
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• Tony Ventrella ends campaign to challenge Rep. Dave Reichert

  01-07-2016 19:38
  
  Citing “tepid” support, veteran sportscaster Tony Ventrella has ended his short-lived campaign for Congress against U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert.
  
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• Unsolved mysteries about the solar system’s biggest planet

  01-07-2016 18:51
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Swirling storms. Dusty rings. Glowing polar lights. Glimpses of Jupiter have been beamed back by robotic explorers since the 1970s. Most visits were brief and only one spacecraft spent time circling the planet. So there’s still lots to learn about the biggest planet in the solar system and its four main […]
  
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• Witnesses say customer shot bank robber in Spokane Valley

  01-07-2016 18:42
  
  Witnesses say a customer shot the robber in the upper chest or shoulder, and the robber fled.
  
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• Worker dies in fall on West Seattle Bridge after truck strikes elevated boom lift

  01-07-2016 18:03
  
  One of two workers on the boom lift died after falling about 50 feet, police say.
  
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• 2 workers injured in fall on West Seattle Bridge after truck strikes elevated boom lift

  01-07-2016 18:03
  
  One of the workers suffered life-threatening injuries after falling about 50 feet, police say.
  
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• 2 workers injured in fall near West Seattle Bridge

  01-07-2016 18:03
  
  The workers were transported to the hospital.
  
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• Park Service uses ‘CSI’ tactics in response to bear attacks

  01-07-2016 17:20
  
  GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — In what amounts to an innocence project for bears, National Park Service rangers are turning to modern forensic technology, including DNA evidence, to make sure they don’t kill the wrong bear when a human is attacked in the mountains. Twice in the last two years the Park Service executed bears in […]
  
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• Crash on Highway 167 in Auburn leads to 6-mile backup

  01-07-2016 17:15
  
  Officials are investigating the incident as a possible vehicular assault.
  
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• Scientists hope new shark cam gives insight to deep dives

  01-07-2016 16:08
  
  MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — Researchers are developing a one-of-a-kind camera to mount on great white sharks in an effort to discover why the fish travel each year to a spot in the Pacific Ocean nicknamed the “White Shark Cafe.” Scientists know that white sharks meet at a part of the ocean about halfway between Mexico […]
  
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• Guest essay: Why ain’t the classics about my babies?

  01-07-2016 15:05
  
  I was reading Frankenstein recently in preparation for a seminar when I came across this: “I, like the archfiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.” It stood out not […]
  
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• Readers share their reactions to The Times’ ‘Under Our Skin’ project

  01-07-2016 15:00
  
  Hundreds of people sent us reactions to the 12 videos that make up our “Under Our Skin” video project. An equal number said the videos “resonated with” and “frustrated” them.
  
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• Spain: Woman arrested for death threats to physicist Hawking

  01-07-2016 14:49
  
  MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have arrested an American woman who had been threatening to kill famed British physicist Stephen Hawking while he was in Spain for an astronomy conference. A police statement Friday said the woman was arrested in a hotel near where a conference being attended by Hawking was being held […]
  
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• Mudslide kills 10 people in SW China; 12 remain buried

  01-07-2016 13:34
  
  BEIJING (AP) — Ten people were killed in a mudslide and 12 others remained buried under debris Friday in a mountainous region in China’s southwest, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The mudslide buried 29 people in a village in Guizhou province early Friday. By late afternoon, rescuers recovered 10 bodies and pulled out seven […]
  
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• Storm sweeps through Vegas, swamping roads, stranding people

  01-07-2016 11:34
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas was hit by flooding as heavy thunderstorms packing golf ball-sized hail, gusty winds and destructive lightning swept through the area, leaving at least one person hospitalized after she was plucked from a flooded wash, authorities said. The woman was believed to have suffered a heart attack while she and […]
  
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• Heavy rains, landslides kill at least 9 in northern India

  01-07-2016 10:48
  
  LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Torrential rains triggered heavy floods and landslides that poured down hills in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, killing at least nine people by Friday and destroying dozens of homes, officials said. The worst-affected villages were in the remote mountainous districts of Pithoragarh and Chamoli, state government official B.P. Ghidyal said. […]
  
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• Heavy rains, landslides kill at least 18 in northern India

  01-07-2016 10:48
  
  LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Torrential rains triggered heavy floods and landslides that poured down hills in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, killing at least 18 people by Friday and destroying dozens of homes, officials said. The worst-affected villages were in the remote mountainous districts of Pithoragarh and Chamoli. Many people were trapped under toppled […]
  
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• Heavy rains, landslides kill at least 10 in northern India

  01-07-2016 10:48
  
  LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Torrential rains triggered heavy floods and landslides that poured down hills in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, killing at least 10 people by Friday and destroying dozens of homes, officials said. The worst-affected villages were in the remote mountainous districts of Pithoragarh and Chamoli accounting for five deaths each, said […]
  
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• Investigators: US lab worker in Colorado faked test results

  01-07-2016 08:33
  
  DENVER (AP) — Investigators say a worker at a federal laboratory in Colorado intentionally manipulated test results for years — possibly tainting research that includes toxic metals in the Everglades, uranium near the Grand Canyon and coal in Afghanistan. The Interior Department’s inspector general released a report recently saying falsified data from a U.S. Geological […]
  
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• New diversion program for King County youths offers ‘cooling off’ options

  01-07-2016 04:58
  
  A new diversion option aimed at keeping juveniles out of King County’s criminal-justice system by offering counseling and other services instead of court hearings launched this week.
  
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• Boeing birthday bash gets its own special Alaska plane

  01-07-2016 04:50
  
  Alaska Airlines, which maintains an all-Boeing fleet, helped the aerospace giant mark 100 years of plane building. A crowd of 700 business and government leaders joined the festivities.
  
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• Medicaid fails to pay $90M to Washington’s health exchange, audit says

  01-07-2016 04:23
  
  For more than two years, Washington state’s health exchange has not been fully reimbursed by the state and federal Medicaid program.
  
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• Firefighters brace for holiday weekend, wildfire season

  01-07-2016 04:16
  
  Forecasters are predicting hotter- and drier-than-normal conditions for the region this summer, likely leading to fires, though fewer are expected overall from the previous year.
  
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• Religious centers try to balance openness with security in face of hate crimes

  01-07-2016 02:32
  
  Local and federal law-enforcement officials offered advice, and some low-cost measures, to ramp up security at houses of worship during a meeting with religious leaders this week.
  
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• A natural beauty ready for its close-up at the zoo

  01-07-2016 02:17
  
  The new Molbak’s Butterfly Garden at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle will open to the public Saturday, July 2.
  
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• Indicted Snoqualmie cop wants gun back so he can return to work

  01-07-2016 01:37
  
  Officer Nick Hogan was indicted by a federal grand jury last month for allegedly violating the civil rights of a man in custody by using excessive force.
  
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• State’s pot database won’t launch on time

  01-07-2016 00:39
  
  The state Department of Health said that a voluntary database available for medical marijuana patients that’s supposed to launch Friday isn’t ready yet, with no estimate on when it’ll be ready to go.
  
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• Hours to deadline, state’s pot database not ready

  01-07-2016 00:39
  
  The state Department of Health said that a voluntary database available for medical marijuana patients that’s supposed to launch Friday isn’t ready yet.
  
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• Hours to deadline, state’s database for medical marijuana users is not ready

  01-07-2016 00:39
  
  The state Department of Health said that a voluntary database available for medical marijuana patients that’s supposed to launch Friday isn’t ready yet.
  
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• Victim dies 2 months after assault, suspect arrested

  01-07-2016 00:15
  
  Seattle police arrested a 31-year-old man on investigation of homicide Thursday, nearly two months after a fight in the Chinatown International District. The 45-year-old victim died Sunday from a traumatic brain injury.
  
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• Victim dies 2 months after assault in Chinatown ID; suspect arrested

  01-07-2016 00:15
  
  Seattle police arrested a 31-year-old man on investigation of homicide Thursday, nearly two months after a fight in the Chinatown International District. The 45-year-old victim died Sunday from a traumatic brain injury.
  
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