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• National Geographic includes Seattle on list of best fall escapes

  01-09-2016 23:59
  
  Area singled out for active lifestyle, Ballard dining, vibrant music scene
  
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• Corpse plant is ready to reek it up at Volunteer Park Conservatory

  01-09-2016 22:42
  
  Northwest Wanderings: Floral smell attracts people in Seattle.
  
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• No charges for slayer of hatchet-wielding man at Burien 7-Eleven

  01-09-2016 21:41
  
  A man who fatally shot a hatchet-wielding assailant will not face criminal charges. Prosecutors concluded the man, a customer at a 7-Eleven store near Burien, used lawful force in defending a clerk who was wounded in the attack.
  
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• Girl raped off-campus by student sex offender can sue school district, court rules

  01-09-2016 21:18
  
  The 14-year-old left campus with a high-school student, who was also a registered sex offender, and was raped at her home.
  
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• Girl raped off campus by high schooler, sex offender can sue district, State Supreme Court rules

  01-09-2016 21:18
  
  The 14-year-old left campus with a high-school student, who was also a registered sex offender, and was raped at her home in 2007.
  
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• National Hurricane Center says Hermine has strengthened to a hurricane

  01-09-2016 21:07
  
  MIAMI (AP) — National Hurricane Center says Hermine has strengthened to a hurricane.
  
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• Inactive volcano spotted on largest object in asteroid belt

  01-09-2016 20:25
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A NASA spacecraft has spied what appears to be an inactive volcano on the surface of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The volcano is about half as tall as Mount Everest and likely last erupted several hundred million years ago, scientists reported Thursday. “It’s […]
  
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• Engineers give new meaning to the phrase ‘cool clothes’

  01-09-2016 20:23
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Engineers have created clothing for a warming world — a fabric that allows your body heat to escape far better than other materials do. It hasn’t been worn or tested by humans, so outside experts caution this is far from a sure thing, but a team at Stanford University engineered a fabric […]
  
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• Washington tribes stand with Standing Rock Sioux against North Dakota oil pipeline

  01-09-2016 19:51
  
  Washington tribal members encourage resistance against a North Dakota fossil-fuel project as a similar threat to developments they have opposed on their own ancestral lands.
  
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• Des Moines fed up with Pokémon Go players, asks to ‘opt out’ of game

  01-09-2016 19:38
  
  The South King County city voted to boot the game after hundreds of players swarmed the Des Moines waterfront.
  
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• Man with chain saw who was killed by police had threatened parents before

  01-09-2016 19:33
  
  Authorities have identified the man shot and killed by Pierce County sheriff’s deputies after allegedly threatening them with a chain saw.
  
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• Man with chain saw killed by police had threatened parents before

  01-09-2016 19:33
  
  Authorities have identified the man shot and killed by Pierce County sheriff’s deputies after allegedly threatening them with a chain saw.
  
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• Poll: Half of Americans wary of travel to US Zika zones

  01-09-2016 16:50
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Nearly half of Americans polled say they are wary of traveling to places in the U.S. where people have been infected with the Zika virus by mosquitoes, such as parts of Florida. A poll released Thursday on Americans’ health care attitudes by the Kaiser Family Foundation found 48 percent would be uncomfortable […]
  
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• Ex-NASA astronaut indicted in traffic deaths of 2 girls in Alabama

  01-09-2016 16:32
  
  A former NASA space-shuttle commander has been indicted in Alabama on four felony charges in the traffic deaths of two girls killed on a rural highway in June.
  
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• Explosion rocks SpaceX launch site in Florida during test

  01-09-2016 15:31
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An explosion rocked a SpaceX launch site Thursday during a routine rocket test. SpaceX was conducting a test firing of its unmanned rocket when the blast occurred shortly after 9 a.m., according to NASA. The test was in advance of a planned Saturday launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, […]
  
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• Explosion rocks SpaceX launch pad in Florida during test

  01-09-2016 15:31
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A massive explosion erupted at a SpaceX launch pad Thursday during a routine rocket test for a planned launch of a communications satellite. There were no injuries, but the rocket and the satellite onboard were destroyed, SpaceX said in a statement. The mishap dealt a severe blow to SpaceX, still […]
  
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• Explosion at SpaceX launch pad destroys rocket, satellite

  01-09-2016 15:31
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A massive explosion erupted Thursday at SpaceX’s main launch pad, destroying a rocket as well as a satellite that Facebook was counting on to spread internet service in Africa. There were no injuries. The pad had been cleared of workers before what was supposed to be a routine pre-launch rocket […]
  
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• In national poll, only a quarter of adults give schools a good grade

  01-09-2016 15:02
  
  Attitudes about the purpose of public education appear divided along political lines. A new poll shows that a majority of conservatives believe academic rigor should be the main goal, while liberals emphasize citizenship.
  
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• Red state, blue state: Watch 40 years of political change in Washington

  01-09-2016 15:00
  
  Washington state’s voting patterns have shifted over the past four decades, through 12 presidential elections.
  
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• In Cowlitz County, blue-collar men see economy — and votes — shifting

  01-09-2016 15:00
  
  BEHIND THE VOTE | Cowlitz County is a stronghold for the type of white, blue-collar men who are the backbone of Donald Trump’s national support. It’s long tilted Democratic, but disappearing jobs and slumping wages have put working- class votes up for grabs.
  
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• Astronauts take 2nd spacewalk in 2 weeks for radiator work

  01-09-2016 14:03
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts took their second spacewalk in two weeks Thursday, this time for some radiator work outside the International Space Station. Commander Jeffrey Williams and Kate Rubins headed over to a 44-foot-long thermal radiator that’s no longer in use and needs to be folded up to stay safe from space junk. […]
  
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• Troopers release names of 5 killed in Alaska midair crash

  01-09-2016 11:20
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities have released the names of four Alaskans and a Montana man who were killed in a midair collision of two small planes in western Alaska, and responders said Thursday that rough terrain is complicating efforts to recover the bodies. On one plane, pilot Harry Wrase, 48, of Wasilla and his […]
  
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• Rough terrain complicates efforts to recover bodies in crash

  01-09-2016 11:20
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Rough terrain complicated efforts Thursday to recover the bodies of four Alaskans and a Montana man who were killed when two small planes collided in western Alaska, authorities said. On one plane, pilot Harry Wrase, 48, of Wasilla and his passengers, Steven Paul Andrew, 32, of Kenai and Aaron Jay Minock, […]
  
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• 5 die in midair crash of 2 small planes in Alaska

  01-09-2016 11:20
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Two small planes collided in the air over a remote area of western Alaska, killing all five people aboard the two aircraft, officials said. State troopers said the crash occurred northwest of the village of Russian Mission, 375 miles west of Anchorage. The crash scene covers a large area that is accessible […]
  
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• Rain mixed with sunshine after hurricane downgraded

  01-09-2016 08:46
  
  HILO, Hawaii (AP) — Heavy rains hits parts of Hawaii and strong waves pummeled shorelines as a downgraded yet still-powerful Pacific storm passed near the island state. Though Tropical Storm Madeline was no longer a hurricane, the weather’s uncertainty couldn’t let Hawaii’s Big Island relax. There were periods of intense rainfall Wednesday as the National […]
  
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• Hawaii hit by strong rain, surf as tropical storm brushes by

  01-09-2016 08:46
  
  HILO, Hawaii (AP) — Heavy rains hit parts of Hawaii and strong waves pummeled shorelines as a downgraded yet still-powerful Pacific storm passed near the island state. Though Tropical Storm Madeline was no longer a hurricane, the weather’s uncertainty couldn’t let Hawaii’s Big Island relax. There were periods of intense rainfall Wednesday as the National […]
  
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• Hawaii dodges Madeline damage, prepares for second storm

  01-09-2016 08:46
  
  HILO, Hawaii (AP) — A tropical storm left parts of Hawaii’s Big Island soggy but intact Thursday as residents of the island state prepare for a second round of potentially volatile tropical weather. Hawaii Island was pummeled with heavy rains and strong waves overnight, but residents woke to blue skies but little damage after Madeline […]
  
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• Suspect flees after killing man, injuring bystander at SeaTac motel

  01-09-2016 07:51
  
  Investigators do not believe the victim and suspect knew each other before the shooting Wednesday night at the SeaTac motel.
  
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• Fatal shooting at SeaTac motel; authorities investigating

  01-09-2016 07:51
  
  One man died and another man was injured in the shooting. The King County Sheriff’s Office is investigating.
  
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• Almost a half-century after battle in Vietnam, Pierce County veteran gets Silver Star

  01-09-2016 06:15
  
  Edward Dvorak, of Lake Bay, was just 20 years old and an Army sergeant in the Vietnam War, when he led a patrol team in an intense gunbattle that left him seriously wounded — but somehow still able to fight.
  
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• Could artificial intelligence help humanity? Two California universities think so

  01-09-2016 05:40
  
  Even as science and technology pundits, including Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Elon Musk, warn of the overthrow of humanity by advanced artificial intelligence, scientists are increasingly looking to the ways in which AI might aid humans.
  
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• Some in Chinatown ID nervous about further restrictions on homeless sweeps

  01-09-2016 05:37
  
  There’s some anxiety in Chinatown International District about a proposal to further restrict the city’s ability to clear unauthorized homeless encampments, a museum director says. The neighborhood had problems with one over the summer.
  
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• Forecasters have issued a hurricane warning for portions of Florida’s Gulf Coast as Tropical Storm Hermine strengthens

  01-09-2016 05:21
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters have issued a hurricane warning for portions of Florida’s Gulf Coast as Tropical Storm Hermine strengthens.
  
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• Claim that rancher turned out cattle on wolf den untrue, WSU says

  01-09-2016 05:06
  
  A researcher’s statements about wolves interacting with livestock that stirred up controversy were inappropriate and inaccurate, Washington State University says.
  
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• Oregon Trail historical markers get a face-lift

  01-09-2016 04:42
  
  The Sacagawea chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is undertaking a mission to restore 11 markers that designate stopping points along the Oregon Trail.
  
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• Pat Gogerty, founder of Childhaven, dies at 86

  01-09-2016 04:25
  
  Pat Gogerty, who lived through a traumatic childhood and later founded Childhaven, the nonprofit that has taken care of thousands of children needing help, has died at age 86.
  
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• Quartermaster Harbor beaches closed for recreational shellfish harvesting

  01-09-2016 03:57
  
  Because of unsafe levels of paralytic shellfish poison (PSP), public-health officials have initiated the temporary closure.
  
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• WSP: Woman died in crash on I-90 near Snoqualmie Pass

  01-09-2016 03:17
  
  The woman was a passenger on a motorcycle that apparently lost control after another vehicle made an abrupt stop in a construction zone, troopers said.
  
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• Authorities: Man severely burned in Auburn fire has died

  01-09-2016 02:59
  
  Police found the 43-year-old man with severe burns while responding to the fire in an apartment on Monday. He died at Harborview Medical Center on Tuesday, medical investigators said.
  
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• Husband of Heart singer Ann Wilson charged with assault

  01-09-2016 02:29
  
  Dean Stuart Wetter, 65, is charged with assaulting two young male relatives at Heart’s Aug. 26 concert at White River Amphitheatre.
  
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• FDA orders stronger warnings about risk of using opioid painkillers with certain antidepressants

  01-09-2016 02:28
  
  The new FDA order calls for some 400 products to carry one of several “black-box warnings.”
  
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• Woman who says she was brutalized at Tacoma Mall adds city and police to lawsuit

  01-09-2016 01:59
  
  Monique Tillman, 15 at the time of the incident, has amended her suit to include two more security guards, the city of Tacoma and the police department.
  
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• Amazon, Wells Fargo student-loan promotion is off

  01-09-2016 01:38
  
  Wells Fargo’s offer of discounted student-loan interest rates for members of Amazon Prime Student has been canceled after an unusually short life.
  
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• Hurricane warning downgraded for Hawaii’s Big Island

  01-09-2016 01:32
  
  HILO, Hawaii (AP) — Forecasters on Wednesday downgraded Hurricane Madeline to a tropical storm as it veered past Hawaii’s Big Island, but officials reiterated warnings to prepare for heavy rain and strong winds. The National Weather Service downgraded the storm as its winds decreased to 70 mph. Its center wasn’t expected to make landfall on […]
  
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• Bail decision delayed in Selah explosives case

  01-09-2016 00:30
  
  Melvin Thomas Neifert, 41, is charged with receiving potassium nitrate and other materials to make a sugar bomb. Authorities questioned him the day of anti-capitalist May Day protests in Seattle.
  
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• Fact-checking Trump’s speech in Everett

  01-09-2016 00:17
  
  Fact check: Donald Trump correctly described Seattle’s heroin problem and the percentage of Washington Latino children in low-income homes during his rally Tuesday in Everett. But he also told a couple of whoppers.
  
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