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• Homeless man charged with shooting woman at Seattle encampment

  14-07-2016 23:08
  
  Prosecutors have charged a 22-year-old homeless man with first-degree assault, accusing him of shooting a woman in the abdomen at a Seattle encampment on July 3. The 36-year-old woman is expected to survive.
  
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• Seattle police set up massage parlor in sex-sting operation, arrest 204 men

  14-07-2016 23:04
  
  In the first sting operation of its kind for the Seattle Police Department’s Vice & High Risk Victims Unit, detectives set up shop in a massage parlor they had shut down in the spring. They never expected the volume of business they got from men seeking sex.
  
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• Ruth Woo, influential behind-the-scenes figure in state politics, dies at 89

  14-07-2016 23:01
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray called Ruth Woo “perhaps the most politically important person in this state, decade after decade.” She died Wednesday.
  
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• O’Toole rejects claims of retaliation in police transfers trial

  14-07-2016 22:55
  
  Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole testified she transferred a sergeant, lieutenant and captain out of the South Precinct to diffuse a “powder keg” between officers, contradicting claims she retaliated against them in response to a dispute about OT pay.
  
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• Missing woman, 84, with dementia was last seen in Bellevue

  14-07-2016 21:23
  
  Police said Ajsa Sukovic doesn’t know her birthday, address or contact information.
  
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• Missing Bellevue woman, 84, found

  14-07-2016 21:23
  
  Police said the woman didn’t know her birthday, address or contact information.
  
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• A banner week for images from outer space: Jupiter, Earth, their moons, and the Orion Nebula

  14-07-2016 20:30
  
  This week, we saw NASA spacecraft Juno's first pictures from Jupiter and the deepest view yet of the Orion Nebula.
  
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• Scientists find evidence of new Stone Age farming population

  14-07-2016 20:07
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Scientists say a previously unknown group of Stone Age farmers may have introduced agriculture to South Asia, challenging earlier theories that attributed the spread of farming to a different population. Previous research held that a single group of hunter-gatherers developed agriculture in the Middle East some 10,000 years ago and then migrated […]
  
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• State ordered to appear in court to explain school-funding plan

  14-07-2016 19:37
  
  The state Supreme Court has ordered the state to explain its actions on court-ordered K-12 education funding at a Sept. 7 hearing.
  
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• State ordered to appear in court over school funding

  14-07-2016 19:37
  
  The Washington state Supreme Court has ordered the state to a Sept. 7 hearing to answer a series of questions — the latest step in the tricky task of resolving the court’s McCleary decision.
  
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• State ordered to appear in court as part of McCleary case to explain school funding

  14-07-2016 19:37
  
  The Washington state Supreme Court has ordered the state to a Sept. 7 hearing to answer a series of questions — the latest step in the tricky task of resolving the court’s McCleary decision.
  
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• You’ve been warned: There’s no summer break for rats in toilets

  14-07-2016 18:48
  
  Rats are one of the most reviled (and successful) urban-wildlife nuisances. One route into your home? The toilet.
  
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• You’ve been warned: Summer is season for rats in toilets

  14-07-2016 18:48
  
  Rats are one of the most reviled (and successful) urban-wildlife nuisances. One route into your home? The toilet.
  
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• You’ve been warned: Summer is peak season for rats in toilets

  14-07-2016 18:48
  
  Rats are one of the most reviled (and successful) urban-wildlife nuisances. One route into your home? The toilet.
  
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• Woman charged in shooting of homeless man in South Seattle

  14-07-2016 17:36
  
  The dispute that led to the shooting was over $100 the victim told police he owed to the woman.
  
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• UW increases patents, ranks No. 19 worldwide

  14-07-2016 17:01
  
  The University of Washington was granted 93 patents last year, with theUW’s CoMotion division saying its goal is to turn university research into startups and commercial products.
  
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• Thirteen arrested in child-rape sting in Spokane County

  14-07-2016 16:57
  
  Thirteen people have been arrested in Spokane County in a major sting operation targeting would-be child rapists. Nine of the suspects appeared in Spokane County Superior Court Monday afternoon and four had hearings last week. Most responded to an online classified ad on Craigslist posted by detectives from the Missing and Exploited Children Task Force, […]
  
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• Morning Brief: Premera vs. Providence, Ginsburg’s regrets, ‘Seismic Neglect’

  14-07-2016 16:53
  
  (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning! Here’s what’s happening:   NEED TO KNOW As many as 500,000 health-care consumers in the state could be affected after negotiations broke down between insurer Premera and Providence Health & Services, including those who receive care through Swedish Medical Center. You can’t fire me; I quit: The […]
  
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• Egypt displays oldest papyrus, accounts on pyramid-builders

  14-07-2016 14:46
  
  CAIRO (AP) — The Egyptian Museum in Cairo has put on display the country’s oldest papyruses, which date back 4,500 years, detailing the daily life of the pyramid-builders. The items are from the 4th Dynasty of King Khufu, or Cheops as he was also known, for whom the Great Pyramid of Giza was built as […]
  
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• Most drivers admit angry, aggressive behavior or road rage

  14-07-2016 09:21
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 8 of every 10 U.S. drivers admit expressing anger, aggression or road rage at least once in the previous year, according to a survey released Thursday by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. The behavior could include following too closely, yelling at another driver, cutting them off or making angry gestures. […]
  
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• Utah national monument proposal stirs fierce debate

  14-07-2016 09:03
  
  BLANDING, Utah (AP) — Laminated sheets of papers held in place by rocks rest inside ancient cliff dwellings nestled underneath a spectacular red rock overhang in southeastern Utah. “Don’t erase the traces of America’s past,” the signs read. “Please do not enter interior rooms.” The weathered signs and a similar warning at the trailhead are […]
  
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• Push to create Utah monument marks latest Western land fight

  14-07-2016 09:03
  
  BLANDING, Utah (AP) — Laminated sheets of paper held in place by rocks rest inside ancient cliff dwellings nestled underneath a spectacular red rock overhang in southeastern Utah. “Don’t erase the traces of America’s past,” the signs read. “Please do not enter interior rooms.” The weathered signs and a similar warning at the trailhead are […]
  
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• Fire quickly put out in vacant old Seattle Times building

  14-07-2016 06:35
  
  The old Seattle Times building, at 1120 John St., in the South Lake Union neighborhood, has been a running problem for public-safety officials because of squatters who set up home there.
  
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• Highway 99’s tunnel ‘double-decker’ begins to take shape

  14-07-2016 06:18
  
  As tunnel-boring machine Bertha makes good progress, crews are pouring the road decks for the Highway 99 tunnel.
  
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• Highway 99 tunnel’s double-decker roadway begins to take shape

  14-07-2016 06:18
  
  As tunnel-boring machine Bertha makes good progress, crews are pouring the road decks for the Highway 99 tunnel.
  
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• Puget Sound VA cites progress on cutting wait times for mental-health services for veterans

  14-07-2016 04:36
  
  Puget Sound VA officials say they are having some success in one of the faster-growing veterans’ health-care systems in the nation.
  
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• Puget Sound VA cites progress on cutting wait times for mental-health services

  14-07-2016 04:36
  
  Puget Sound VA officials say they are having some success in one of the faster-growing veterans’ health-care systems in the nation.
  
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• Seattle mayor, seeking more diverse input, cuts ties with district councils

  14-07-2016 04:03
  
  With an executive order, Mayor Ed Murray will cut ties with the city’s 13 district councils to make way for a more racially and socioeconomically inclusive model for community engagement.
  
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• Mayor seeks more diverse community input, cuts ties with Seattle’s district councils

  14-07-2016 04:03
  
  With an executive order, Mayor Ed Murray will cut ties with the city’s 13 district councils to make way for a more racially and socioeconomically inclusive model for community engagement.
  
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• Bellevue game-maker Valve moves to choke off $7.4 billion gambling market

  14-07-2016 03:41
  
  Valve says it will crack down on websites that use Steam, its gaming software, to facilitate gambling, a reversal from its previous support of those sites.
  
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• Pair charged with murder, arson in ambush-style Auburn slaying

  14-07-2016 03:27
  
  Two suspects were charged Wednesday with first-degree murder, first-degree arson and first-degree burglary in the ambush-style slaying of a 19-year-old Auburn man. His body was later found in the burned-out trailer where he lived with his father.
  
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• Gotta catch ’em all? ‘Pokémon Go’ caught me — for a spell

  14-07-2016 02:25
  
  The sudden craze over the mobile game, which has people wandering about staring and swiping at their phones, swallowed up a reporter and evoked memories of childhood and a song.
  
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• Gotta catch ’em all? ‘Pokémon Go’ caught me — but not for long

  14-07-2016 02:25
  
  The sudden craze over the mobile game, which has people wandering about staring and swiping at their phones, swallowed up a reporter and evoked memories of childhood and a song.
  
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• Gotta catch ’em all? ‘Pokemon Go’ caught me — for a spell

  14-07-2016 02:25
  
  The sudden craze over the mobile game, which has people wandering about staring and swiping at their phones, swallowed up a reporter and evoked memories of childhood and a song.
  
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• Police and citizens need our empathy

  14-07-2016 02:20
  
  Empathy could help us reduce violent deaths.
  
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• Seattle Police union president says he quit over Facebook post before his board tried to fire him

  14-07-2016 00:24
  
  Ron Smith, president of the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild, said Wednesday he decided to resign over a controversial Facebook post about the fatal shootings of five Dallas police officers before the Guild board could oust him for other reasons.
  
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