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• Canned dog food recalled from Kent company

  08-09-2016 23:57
  
  Addiction Foods says it is recalling 355 cases its canned dog foods after testing showed elevated levels of Vitamin A and a slight variance in calcium / phosphorous ratios.
  
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• State attorney general won’t charge 3 Pasco cops in death of rock-throwing man

  08-09-2016 23:55
  
  The death of Antonio Zambrano-Montes was captured on video that went viral and sparked weeks of peaceful protests in Pasco.
  
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• 2 cases of Legionnaires’ disease at UW medical center under investigation

  08-09-2016 23:26
  
  Health officials are investigating two cases of the potentially serious type of pneumonia in patients treated at University of Washington Medical Center cardiac units, officials said Thursday.
  
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• Who Is Winning in Washington?

  08-09-2016 22:59
  Forecast for Washington's 12 electoral votes in the Presidential Election and its Senate seat.
  
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• Washington - 2016 Election Forecast

  08-09-2016 22:59
  Forecast for Washington's 12 electoral votes in the Presidential Election and its Senate seat.
  
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• Car plunges off cliff in Point Defiance Park; rescue under way

  08-09-2016 22:59
  
  Two people are trapped in a car that plunged 150 feet down a cliff, authorities said.
  
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• 2 rescued after car plunges off cliff in Point Defiance Park

  08-09-2016 22:59
  
  The victims were trapped in their car after it plunged about 150 feet down the cliff.
  
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• Tribe challenging pipeline has some advantages in courtroom

  08-09-2016 22:49
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The American Indians challenging an oil pipeline that would cross four states have some legal advantages in a courtroom, particularly their tribe’s status as a sovereign nation with long ties to the land in question. But stopping a major project like the Dakota Access pipeline after construction has begun is difficult, […]
  
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• Barack Obama is officially now a parasite (it’s an honor)

  08-09-2016 20:57
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s no Nobel Peace Prize, but Barack Obama has a new honor to brag about. Scientists have named a parasite after him — and there’s no worming out of it. Meet Baracktrema obamai, a tiny parasitic flatworm that lives in turtles’ blood. A new study officially names the two-inch-long, hair-thin creature after […]
  
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• Las Vegas middle school closed after mercury was found on campus

  08-09-2016 20:08
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Classes are cancelled at a Las Vegas middle school after the student body was quarantined for up to 17 hours over possible mercury exposure. The Clark County School District said all students and staff at Walter Johnson Junior High School in western Vegas were ordered to stay on campus to be […]
  
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• 1,200 students kept at school overnight after mercury found

  08-09-2016 20:08
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Hundreds of anxious parents staked out a Las Vegas middle school after mercury was found and federal officials kept more than a thousand students for up to 17 hours to screen them for exposure to the neurotoxin. Authorities were investigating how mercury got into Walter Johnson Junior High School on Wednesday, […]
  
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• Judge: Seattle cops weren’t required to monitor informant who committed crimes

  08-09-2016 19:51
  
  The man says he was kidnapped, robbed and assaulted by the police informant, Jessahel Ortega-Baldis, in 2012.
  
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• ‘She was really scared,’ family says of Montana woman who called them after kidnapping

  08-09-2016 19:24
  
  The Great Falls woman’s family told law enforcement that she said she’d been hit on the head and put in the trunk of her car at a rest stop north of Helena. Her body was found 325 miles away in Spokane.
  
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• ‘My mom had no enemies,’ says daughter of Montana woman who called family after kidnapping

  08-09-2016 19:24
  
  The Great Falls woman’s family told law enforcement that she been hit on the head and put in the trunk of her car at a rest stop. Her body was found 325 miles away in Spokane.
  
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• Seattle needs to revamp homeless programs, new reports say

  08-09-2016 19:00
  
  Seattle needs to revamp how it combats homelessness, two new reports say, and Mayor Ed Murray says he has a plan to do just that.
  
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• Student accused of posting threats to ‘shoot up’ Inglemoor High School

  08-09-2016 18:59
  
  Police said some of the threats from June referenced students and “certain staff at the school” in Kenmore.
  
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• Homeless man accused of hate crimes, harassment in University District

  08-09-2016 18:16
  
  A 44-year-old man targeted and harassed several Asian people in Seattle’s University District, prosecutors say.
  
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• How Sea-Tac biologist prevents birds from creating the next ‘Miracle on the Hudson’

  08-09-2016 18:10
  
  The wildlife biologist at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport helps prevent incidents like "The Miracle on the Hudson" by keeping birds from disrupting operations and endangering passengers.
  
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• NASA’s 1st asteroid-sampler poised for evening liftoff

  08-09-2016 17:04
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s first asteroid-sampling spacecraft is poised for an evening liftoff. The spacecraft, Osiris-Rex, will be aiming for asteroid Bennu (BEHN’-oo). The probe will orbit the big black rock, vacuum up some gravel, then haul the sample back to Earth. The entire quest will take seven years. NASA has gone after […]
  
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• Alaska gets $3M to fight opioid addiction, overdoses

  08-09-2016 16:10
  
  Anchorage, Juneau and other areas have been identified as areas of greatest need for federal funds to battle heroin addiction and overdoses.
  
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• How we got here: Key events of McCleary school-funding decision

  08-09-2016 15:31
  
  Washington's public-school funding issues go back decades. Take a look at the interactive timeline to see what led to the state Supreme Court's landmark McCleary decision.
  
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• Handymen, home care helps seniors trying to age in place

  08-09-2016 09:26
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Where you live plays a big role in staying independent as you age. Now researchers say an innovative program that combined home fix-ups and visits from occupational therapists and nurses improved low-income seniors’ ability to care for themselves in their own homes. Still to be answered is whether that better daily functioning […]
  
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• Colorado town on verge big changes amid Superfund cleanup

  08-09-2016 09:13
  
  DENVER (AP) — A historic Colorado mountain town is on the threshold of a transformation after the federal government announced it will embark on an ambitious campaign to stanch the flow of acidic wastewater cascading from abandoned mines. The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday designated an area north of Silverton as a Superfund site, clearing […]
  
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• California to extend most ambitious US climate change law

  08-09-2016 08:31
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown is set to extend the nation’s most ambitious climate change law by another 10 years on Thursday as California charts a new goal to reduce carbon pollution. The Democratic governor chose an urban natural park on the edge of downtown Los Angeles as the setting to sign the […]
  
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• California extends most ambitious US climate change law

  08-09-2016 08:31
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown extended the nation’s most ambitious climate change law Thursday by another 10 years as California charts a new goal to reduce carbon pollution. The Democratic governor signed the legislation in a Los Angeles park amid opposition from the oil industry, business groups and Republicans. It expands on California’s […]
  
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• California extends most ambitious climate change law in US

  08-09-2016 08:31
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A decade ago, California vowed to dramatically slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. With the nation’s most populous state on pace to meet that target, Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday charted a new goal to further cut carbon pollution by extending and expanding the landmark climate change law. It will “keep […]
  
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• Scientists use undersea drones to help predict hurricanes

  08-09-2016 06:59
  
  BOSTON (AP) — As Hermine worked its way up the East Coast, scientists deployed several underwater drones they say will help them better understand what sustains and strengthens hurricanes and tropical storms — and ultimately better protect life and property. The ocean gliders, as they are called, resemble yellow-winged torpedoes. They were released into the […]
  
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• Weekend I-90 work to jam eastbound lanes exiting Seattle

  08-09-2016 04:47
  
  A three-lane closure of eastbound I-90 this weekend will cause widespread congestion and slow the exodus of football fans from Sunday’s Seahawks game.
  
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• Fitness coach: For better life, learn and grow

  08-09-2016 04:17
  
  A fitness instructor who overcame many obstacles wants to share his rules for success.
  
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• Metro bus-service, security would get big boosts from Constantine plan

  08-09-2016 03:42
  
  Fast-growing sales-tax income would fund more bus service in King County and more transit police in 2017-18, under a proposal by Executive Dow Constantine.
  
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• Seattle cuts greenhouse-gas emissions 6 percent in six years, report says

  08-09-2016 03:21
  
  Seattle’s greenhouse-gas emissions are on a downward trend, dropping 6 percent between 2008 and 2014, despite a building boom and a 13 percent surge in population, according to a report released Wednesday.
  
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• Former employee charged with stealing $51,500 from Bothell police evidence room

  08-09-2016 02:22
  
  The alleged thefts prompted three separate audits of the Bothell Police Department’s evidence room, including one by the state Auditor’s Office that found “discrepancies” in how evidence was logged and stored.
  
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• Young veterans find purpose as cannabis watchmen in Colorado

  08-09-2016 01:59
  
  In Colorado, a curious marriage has formed between the booming retail cannabis industry — legal in the state since 2014, but not in the eyes of the federal government — and young war veterans, more than 200 of whom have jobs protecting marijuana businesses across the state.
  
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