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• Angle Lake Station opens Saturday with celebration

  22-09-2016 22:00
  
  The start of service at Angle Lake Station in SeaTac will be the last light-rail station opening for five years.
  
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• Angle Lake light-rail station opens Saturday with party

  22-09-2016 22:00
  
  The start of service at Angle Lake Station in SeaTac will be the last light-rail station opening for five years.
  
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• Animal rescue team captures wayward manatee off Cape Cod

  22-09-2016 21:13
  
  FALMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — An animal rescue team has captured a manatee that repeatedly had been spotted off Cape Cod, far from its usual Florida haunts. Rescuers with the International Fund for Animal Welfare netted the 8-foot-long animal off Washburn Island near Falmouth, Massachusetts. IFAW spokeswoman Kerry Branon says experts planned to evaluate the manatee’s […]
  
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• Seattle Central College turns 50, celebrates history of social activism

  22-09-2016 21:00
  
  Seattle Central College is celebrating its history as an epicenter of social activism. The Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, Occupy Seattle, WTO, May Day — Seattle Central has been the starting or ending point of all these demonstrations and marches.
  
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• Microsoft researcher Bill Thies wins MacArthur grant

  22-09-2016 20:19
  
  Bill Thies, who works at a Microsoft Research unit in Bangalore, India, helped build a low-cost system to monitor delivery of medication to tuberculosis patients.
  
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• Freaked-out woman flips car after spider drops from rearview mirror

  22-09-2016 20:13
  
  The driver’s car was totaled in the rollover crash, but she was not hurt. No word on what happened to the spider.
  
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• Satellite-based radar confirms man-made Texas earthquakes

  22-09-2016 20:06
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists used radar from satellites to show that five Texas earthquakes, one reaching magnitude 4.8, were caused by injections of wastewater in drilling for oil and gas. In 2012 and 2013, earthquakes — five of them considered significant — shook East Texas near Timpson. A team of scientists for the first time […]
  
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• Rusty patched bumble bee recommended for endangered list

  22-09-2016 20:06
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials have made a formal recommendation to list the rusty patched bumble bee as an endangered species. The recommendation Thursday was made after the Portland, Oregon-based Xerces Society petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and presented studies showing the bee has disappeared from about 90 percent of its […]
  
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• 75 apartments in 5-story building planned for Greenwood explosion site

  22-09-2016 20:02
  
  A Seattle developer wants to build a five-story, mixed-use building to replace several Greenwood Avenue businesses destroyed in an explosion.
  
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• 75 apartments in 5-story building considered for Greenwood explosion site

  22-09-2016 20:02
  
  A Seattle developer wants to build a five-story, mixed-use building to replace several Greenwood Avenue businesses destroyed in an explosion.
  
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• 5-story building, 75 apartments planned for Greenwood explosion site

  22-09-2016 20:02
  
  A Seattle developer wants to build a five-story, mixed-use building to replace several Greenwood Avenue businesses destroyed in a March explosion.
  
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• Bicyclist killed in collision with pickup in North Seattle

  22-09-2016 19:20
  
  The 50-year-old driver who struck the bicyclist was interviewed by police and released. The driver showed no signs of impairment
  
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• A-tacked? Cyclists wonder if tires sabotaged on Westlake North bike lane

  22-09-2016 19:04
  
  Cyclists are blowing tubes along the Westlake Avenue North Cycle Track. Bike-shop owners say the culprit is small, black tacks. They wonder if someone deliberately sprinkled the tacks there.
  
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• Jails not liable for crimes after release, state Supreme Court says

  22-09-2016 19:02
  
  The ruling came in the case of Isaac Zamora, who was held in the Skagit County Jail and released a month later. Zamora had a psychotic episode and went on a shooting spree that left six dead.
  
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• US astronaut will vote from orbit if homecoming is delayed

  22-09-2016 19:00
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The lone American in orbit will end up voting for president from the International Space Station, if her homecoming is delayed. NASA astronaut Kate Rubins said Thursday that she doesn’t know yet whether she’ll return to Earth in late October as planned. The Russians have delayed the next crew launch […]
  
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• Allow Satan club, lawyer tells Mount Vernon schools

  22-09-2016 18:49
  
  The lawyer said the Mount Vernon School District would face costly litigation if it opposed the after-school club proposed by the Satanic Temple of Seattle.
  
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• Lawsuit settlement could mean housing for Yakima’s homeless

  22-09-2016 18:31
  
  Yakima Neighborhood Health Services plans to open a facility that would house up to 40 homeless people after it dropped a federal lawsuit against the city.
  
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• Passenger on Canada-bound cruise ship evacuated by Coast Guard

  22-09-2016 16:47
  
  A 66-year-old man was airlifted to a hospital from a Victoria, Canada-bound cruise ship, authorities said. The ship had left from Seattle last week.
  
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• Summer was blazing hot — but not in Seattle

  22-09-2016 16:21
  
  The rest of the country, and the world, had a toasty summer, while we remained at average temps.
  
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• Private wells in Northeast US coming up empty amid drought

  22-09-2016 16:07
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Private wells across the Northeastern United States are drying up in the face of a punishing drought that has lasted for much of the summer. Scores of homeowners from Vermont to Connecticut with shallow wells have in the past month found them depending upon relatives and neighbors for bottled water to […]
  
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• Private wells in New England coming up empty amid drought

  22-09-2016 16:07
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — When Roxanne Moore got up to make her morning coffee a few weeks ago, she turned on the faucet and got a burst of water — then nothing came out but air. That was the last time Moore had water at her home in Kingston, New Hampshire. The 70-year-old woman has […]
  
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• The I-405 traffic monster snakes through Bothell

  22-09-2016 15:00
  
  Sketched Sept. 21, 2016 The experience of drawing traffic from the Denny Way overpass a couple of days ago piqued my interest in documenting our congested roads. I usually avoid walking on freeway overpasses for two reasons: mild vertigo and the buzzing noise of traffic. But freeway overpasses are much better sketching locations than I […]
  
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• EU chief says bloc’s credibility at stake over climate pact

  22-09-2016 14:14
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The head of the European Union’s executive arm is lambasting member states for failing to ratify the Paris climate change pact, saying the EU is losing credibility for lagging behind. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Thursday that “the U.S. are ratifying, China is ratifying, India will ratify, Japan will ratify and […]
  
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• Tropical Depression Karl forecast to strengthen in Atlantic

  22-09-2016 12:24
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Depression Karl is forecast to strengthen in the Atlantic. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the depression’s maximum sustained winds early Thursday are near 35 mph (56 kph) with some strengthening forecast during the next two days. As of 5 a.m. EDT Thursday, Karl was centered about 625 miles (1,006 kilometers) […]
  
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• South Carolina medical school to stop using live pigs

  22-09-2016 10:47
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The University of South Carolina’s School on Medicine will stop using live pigs in its emergency training after an animal-rights group complained about the practice. The State of Columbia reports (http://bit.ly/2cSQexS) that the school’s dean sent an email with its decision Tuesday to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. The group, […]
  
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• Mylan CEO infuriates lawmakers at hearing on EpiPen costs

  22-09-2016 09:29
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Mylan CEO Heather Bresch infuriated lawmakers as she tried — and mostly failed — to explain steep cost increases of her company’s life-saving EpiPens. Outraged Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday grilled Bresch about the emergency allergy shot’s sky-high price and the profits for a company with sales in excess of $11 […]
  
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• Cows in Fukushima radiation zone find new purpose: science

  22-09-2016 09:06
  
  NAMIE, Japan (AP) — In an abandoned Japanese village, cows grazing in lush green plains begin to gather when they hear the familiar rumble of the ranch owner’s mini-pickup. This isn’t feeding time, though. Instead, the animals are about to be measured for how they’re affected by living in radiation — radioactivity that is 15 […]
  
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• Officials to tour Utah’s drought-stricken Great Salt Lake

  22-09-2016 08:08
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — On the southern shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, more than 100 boats are sitting high and dry in a parking lot, unable to sail the shallow, drought-stricken sea. North of the nearly empty marina, salt-loving bacteria thriving in the low water has turned the liquid pink. The massive lake, […]
  
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• Garfield players explain protest as team dad and ex-NFLer Eric Metcalf prepares ‘The Talk’

  22-09-2016 06:34
  
  Mekhi Metcalf plays for the Garfield football team, which kneeled during the national anthem. His dad, ex-NFL player Eric Metcalf, understands, and will have “The Talk” with his son about interacting with police.
  
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• Garfield players explain protest as Eric Metcalf, a team dad, prepares for ‘The Talk’ about police

  22-09-2016 06:34
  
  Mekhi Metcalf is a starter for the Garfield football team, which dropped to its knees during the national anthem last week. His dad, former NFL player Eric Metcalf, understands. He tells of “The Talk” he’ll soon have with his son about interacting with police.
  
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• Garfield players explain protest as a team dad prepares for ‘The Talk’

  22-09-2016 06:34
  
  Mekhi Metcalf plays for the Garfield football team, which kneeled during the national anthem. His dad, ex-NFL player Eric Metcalf, understands, and will have “The Talk” with his son about interacting with police.
  
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• Search for suspect in attempted carjacking, robbery in Redmond continues

  22-09-2016 06:14
  Redmond police on Wednesday released an updated description of the man who approached several women with a handgun Monday morning before crashing a stolen car.
  
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• Tacoma murder suspect turns himself in

  22-09-2016 06:11
  
  A 50-year-old man wanted in connection with a fatal shooting earlier this month surrendered to authorities Wednesday.
  
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• State doesn’t track old gas lines

  22-09-2016 05:16
  
  State regulators don’t keep records of decommissioned gas lines like the Puget Sound Energy one that caused a Greenwood explosion in March. It’s not clear if PSE does either. Another company, Cascade Natural Gas, faces a $4 million fine for lax record-keeping.
  
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• State doesn’t keep track of old gas lines like the one in Greenwood

  22-09-2016 05:16
  
  State regulators don’t keep records of abandoned gas lines like the Puget Sound Energy one that caused a Greenwood explosion in March. It’s not clear if PSE does either. Another company, Cascade Natural Gas, faces a $4 million fine for lax record-keeping.
  
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• Work advances on I-90 wildlife bridge

  22-09-2016 05:09
  
  The Washington State Department of Transportation is finishing up construction on the first of two archways for a bridge for animals just east of Keechelus Lake. The overpass is slated for completion in 2019.
  
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• ‘Elk like open; they don’t like stuff above their head’: I-90 wildlife overpass is under way

  22-09-2016 05:09
  
  The Washington State Department of Transportation is finishing construction on the first I-90 archway for animals east of Keechelus Lake. Eventually, the 15-mile stretch of freeway will feature 27 animal crossings, most of them underpasses,
  
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• Seattle school enrollment exceeds forecast, may force teacher reassignments

  22-09-2016 04:30
  
  Seattle may transfer teachers from one school or grade to another this year — weeks after school starts — because of wrong enrollment projections.
  
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• Bad drivers make autonomous cars inviting

  22-09-2016 04:18
  
  With news this week about a proposal to devote part of Interstate 5 to self-driving cars, such vehicles no longer seem so futuristic. They might actually keep us safer on the road. Question is, how fast can this happen?
  
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• Boeing gives $6 million to boost tech skills of Washington students

  22-09-2016 03:11
  
  Boeing has awarded $6 million in grant money to 50 nonprofits and education institutions to boost tech training throughout the region.
  
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• Bank robbery suspect wounded in shootout with Auburn officer

  22-09-2016 03:08
  
  Medics took the wounded man to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he remains as of Wednesday late afternoon.
  
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• Woman killed in three-car collision in Renton

  22-09-2016 02:37
  
  The area is temporarily closed to traffic while police investigate the deadly crash.
  
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• Razor clam digs next month delayed at Long Beach due to spike in marine toxins

  22-09-2016 02:09
  
  Another storm is brewing along the coast that is creating a wave of marine toxins in razor clams off the southwestern-most point of the state. State Fish and Wildlife has delayed the upcoming razor clam opener at Long Beach in the southern coast saw a spike in marine toxin levels. Test results showed levels of domoic […]
  
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• Garfield football team will continue to kneel during anthem, seeks meetings with police, community leaders

  22-09-2016 01:50
  
  Two more shootings of black men since team first knelt during the anthem Friday further prompted the team to protest to draw attention to social injustices.
  
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• Psychedelic Norwegian theater company brings mind-bending adventure to On the Boards

  22-09-2016 01:44
  
  Using field recordings from Calcutta, 60 speakers, 11 motorized vehicles and 195 feet of mini-train tracks, Norwegian company Verdensteatret turns On the Boards into a laboratory of hallucination.
  
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• Wendy Red Star named 2016 winner of Betty Bowen award

  22-09-2016 01:17
  
  Wendy Red Star is the 2016 winner of the award, which comes with a cash prize of $15,000 and an exhibition at SAM.
  
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