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• Experts: Dirty tracking tag likely caused orca’s death

  05-10-2016 22:40
  
  An endangered orca was likely killed by tagging when a scientist failed to adequately sterilize the tag shot into its body, a panel of experts has found.
  
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• Dirty tracking tag likely caused orca’s death, experts say

  05-10-2016 22:40
  
  An endangered orca was likely killed by tagging when a scientist failed to adequately sterilize the tag shot into its body, a panel of experts has found.
  
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• Wet, wild and weird: Some answers about Hurricane Matthew

  05-10-2016 22:26
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hurricane Matthew is wet, wild and weird. Meteorologists say its path has been harder to pin down than that of other storms, but Matthew is definitely dangerous and may possibly stick around to bedevil the Southeast coast for a week or so. Here’s are some questions and answers about Matthew : ___ […]
  
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• Russia suspends cooperative nuclear research deal with US

  05-10-2016 22:19
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has suspended an agreement with the United States on research cooperation in the nuclear and energy sectors, the latest move underlining worsening tensions between Washington and Moscow. A suspension decree signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was posted Wednesday on the government website, which said the decree was a “countermeasure” to […]
  
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• Student arrested in clown-related school threats called a joke that ‘got out of control’

  05-10-2016 22:16
  
  A 17-year-old junior at Rogers High School is the suspect in a series of clown-related threats, authorities said.
  
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• Forging ahead: Pratt helps melt barriers for women in male-dominated art forms

  05-10-2016 22:16
  
  Since 1976, Pratt Fine Arts Center in the Central District has taught forging, woodworking, stone carving, welding and more — drawing a large cohort of women to study traditionally male-dominated art forms.
  
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• Clown-related school threats a joke that ‘got out of control’; suspect arrested, police say

  05-10-2016 22:16
  
  A 17-year-old junior at Rogers High School in Puyallup is the suspect in a series of clown-related threats, authorities said.
  
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• Pacific Northwest’s largest hotel, in downtown Seattle, will be a Hyatt

  05-10-2016 22:02
  
  R.C. Hedreen began construction earlier this year on the 1,264-room hotel on the block bounded by 8th and 9th avenues and Stewart and Howell streets, next to the planned massive expansion of the Washington State Convention Center.
  
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• Lawsuit against Seattle crow-feeding family settled

  05-10-2016 21:57
  
  A mystery remains over the terms of the settlement, but the plaintiff’s attorney said the deal included cash and an eight-year restriction on bird feeding.
  
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• US Southwest faces threat of megadroughts with rising temps

  05-10-2016 21:56
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Already dealing with parched conditions, the U.S. Southwest faces the threat of megadroughts this century as temperatures rise, says a new study that found the risk is reduced if heat-trapping gases are curbed. Oppressive dry spells lasting at least two decades have gripped the Southwest before, but scientists said future megadroughts […]
  
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• Gurgling lava splashes up Hawaii volcano walls in rare video

  05-10-2016 21:18
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — As the high-definition camera pans across the surface of an active Hawaii volcano’s viscous summit lava lake, a large bubble of volcanic gas grows and bursts, dramatically spewing molten rock into the air and sending a massive ripple of lava outward across the crater. Federal officials released high-definition video of the lava […]
  
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• Feds weigh mineral mining ban on 10M acres to protect bird

  05-10-2016 21:05
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The federal government is using a new assessment of mineral resources on 10 million acres in six Western states to decide whether to ban potential mining on the land to protect an imperiled bird. Scientists completed the 800-page review requested by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, and it was released […]
  
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• Man is charged after truck hit students at Maple Valley bus stop in April

  05-10-2016 20:18
  
  A 19-year-old Maple Valley man was charged with vehicular assault and reckless endangerment. Prosecutors say he suffers from epilepsy and drove that day despite a suspended license.
  
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• Driver who plowed into students at Maple Valley bus stop is charged

  05-10-2016 20:18
  
  A 19-year-old Maple Valley man, who suffered a seizure while driving in April and plowed into a group of children waiting for their school bus, was charged with vehicular assault and reckless endangerment.
  
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• Q&A: Polluted water pours into sinkhole at fertilizer plant

  05-10-2016 20:01
  
  GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Matthew’s heavy rains are predicted to soak much of Florida, and that could complicate efforts to manage the pollution flowing into a sinkhole that opened up beneath a fertilizer plant’s massive pile of toxic waste. The plant’s owner, Mosaic Co., is pumping out water through a well while preparing to […]
  
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• How long can people live? New study suggests there’s a limit

  05-10-2016 19:49
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Just how long can people live? New research suggests there may be a limit to our life span — one that’s hard to extend without some sort of breakthrough that fixes all age-related problems. The record for the world’s oldest person is 122 years and the odds of shattering that record […]
  
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• Carjacking suspect sought after chase with Seattle police

  05-10-2016 19:47
  
  Authorities are searching for a man after an overnight car chase through South Seattle, police said.
  
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• No injuries after gunman opens fire in Clark County Wal-Mart

  05-10-2016 18:58
  
  Deputies searched the Hazel Dell store for other possible accomplices but did not find any after the 7 a.m. report of an active shooter.
  
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• Blue Origin successfully tests escape system, lands rocket

  05-10-2016 18:06
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Rocket company Blue Origin has pulled off a double success. The aerospace startup led by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos tested the escape system of its space capsule Wednesday in remote west Texas. Not only did the capsule land safely under parachutes following liftoff, the rocket managed to fly back and land […]
  
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• NTSB unable to determine cause of mechanical failure that downed KOMO helicopter

  05-10-2016 17:18
  
  A National Transportation Safety Board report could not determine why a KOMO-TV helicopter lost “hydraulic boost” in a deadly March 2014 crash.
  
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• More tacks found on Westlake bike path as Seattle police investigate

  05-10-2016 16:33
  
  More tacks have been found in the city's new bike lane on Westlake Avenue North.
  
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• What You Get for … $1,000,000

  05-10-2016 16:01
  A log house in North Carolina, an old farmhouse in Virginia and a water view in Washington
  
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• $1 Million Homes in North Carolina, Virginia and Washington State

  05-10-2016 16:01
  A log cabin in Lake Toxaway, N.C., a farmhouse in Unison, Va., and a water view in Poulsbo, Wash.
  
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• Don’t expect Fitbits to improve health, help drop pounds

  05-10-2016 15:53
  
  LONDON (AP) — Wearing a fitness tracker may help you keep tabs on how many steps you take, but the devices themselves — even with the lure of a cash reward — probably won’t improve your health, according to the biggest study yet done on the trendy technology. Scientists say that although the activity trackers […]
  
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• Watch Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin test rocket escape pod — and likely blow up its booster

  05-10-2016 15:48
  
  The space-travel company doesn't expect its booster to survive today's test, and you can watch it live.
  
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• Metro plans overhaul of overnight bus service

  05-10-2016 15:05
  
  King County Metro seeks public comment on a plan to provide more-frequent overnight buses in Seattle, Shoreline and SeaTac.
  
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• For the first time, financial literacy will be required part of Washington’s school curriculum

  05-10-2016 15:02
  
  The state superintendent's office says the new financial-education standards are the first to ever be adopted here.
  
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• UW will host global center for disaster reconnaissance, research

  05-10-2016 15:00
  
  The University of Washington will host a center to assist reconnaissance missions to natural disasters around the world. Researchers hope to glean valuable information about disaster resilience before it vanishes in the chaos.
  
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• 3 share Nobel Prize in chemistry for tiniest machines

  05-10-2016 13:33
  
  The Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who helped develop the smallest machines known to man. They are Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, 71, of the University of Strasbourg; British-born Fraser Stoddart, a 74-year-old chemistry professor at Northwestern University in Illinois in the United States; and Dutch scientist Bernard “Ben” Feringa, 65, a […]
  
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• 3 win Nobel chemistry prize for world’s tiniest machines

  05-10-2016 11:56
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing the world’s smallest machines, work that could revolutionize computer technology and lead to a new type of battery. Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, British-born Fraser Stoddart and Dutch scientist Bernard “Ben” Feringa share the 8 million kronor ($930,000) prize for the “design […]
  
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• 3 awarded Nobel chemistry prize for ‘molecular machines’

  05-10-2016 11:56
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa have won this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing molecular machines. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says molecular machines “will most likely be used in the development of things such as new materials, sensors and energy storage systems.”
  
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• Nobel jury praises chemistry prize winners for ‘design and synthesis of molecular machines’

  05-10-2016 11:51
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nobel jury praises chemistry prize winners for ‘design and synthesis of molecular machines’
  
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• Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa win Nobel chemistry prize

  05-10-2016 11:50
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa win Nobel chemistry prize.
  
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• Officials worried about complacency as Matthew nears Florida

  05-10-2016 09:27
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Matthew’s slog toward the East Coast has government officials worried about complacency, especially in South Florida, which hasn’t seen a major hurricane in 11 years. South Carolina’s governor said she would issue an evacuation order Wednesday so that 1 million people would have time to leave the coast, and […]
  
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• Florida governor: State could be facing biggest evacuation

  05-10-2016 09:27
  
  Hurricane Matthew is a dangerous and life-threatening storm with sustained winds of 120 mph, and it is expected to be near Florida's Atlantic coast by Thursday evening. At least 11 deaths in the Caribbean have been blamed on the storm.
  
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• Florida governor: ‘If you’re able to go early, leave now’

  05-10-2016 09:27
  
  Florida canceled classes and theme parks kept a watchful eye as Hurricane Matthew picked up speed heading to the East Coast.
  
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• Florida closes schools, orders evacuations as Matthew nears

  05-10-2016 09:27
  
  Florida canceled classes and theme parks kept a watchful eye as Hurricane Matthew picked up speed heading to the East Coast.
  
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• Hurricane Matthew moves into Bahamas after battering Haiti

  05-10-2016 06:13
  
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Powerful Hurricane Matthew was passing through the sparsely populated islands of the southern Bahamas early Wednesday after inflicting heavy damage on southwest Haiti. Forecasters said the storm was on track to roll directly over the Bahamian capital of Nassau before nearing the Florida coast. At least 11 deaths had been blamed […]
  
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• Bahamas next up for Matthew after destructive path in Haiti

  05-10-2016 06:13
  
  PETIT-GOAVE, Haiti (AP) — Hurricane Matthew headed into the southern Bahamas with its dangerous winds early Wednesday, leaving behind widespread damage and human suffering in Haiti’s poor, rural southwestern peninsula where the hardest-hit area was cut off by flooding. At least 11 deaths had been blamed on the powerful storm during its weeklong march across […]
  
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• After battering Haiti, Hurricane Matthew hits the Bahamas

  05-10-2016 06:13
  
  Rescue workers in Haiti struggled to reach cutoff towns and learn the full extent of the death and destruction caused by Hurricane Matthew as the storm began battering the Bahamas.
  
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• New ban on pangolin trade may help most trafficked mammal

  05-10-2016 06:06
  
  KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Because of its distinctive coat of hard shells, the pangolin, or scaly anteater, has been called the world’s most heavily trafficked mammal. More than 1 million have been poached in the past decade, threatening the creature with extinction, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Although a global […]
  
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• Bundy testifies it was his ‘duty’ to join Malheur occupation

  05-10-2016 05:57
  
  Ammon Bundy told jurors Tuesday that he initially wanted to stay away from the dust-up in Oregon but eventually reversed course.
  
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• Bundy testifies it was his ‘duty to get involved,’ help Oregon ranching family

  05-10-2016 05:57
  
  Ammon Bundy told jurors Tuesday that he initially wanted to stay away from the dust-up in Oregon but eventually reversed course. Bundy said he was coping with the aftermath of his own family’s battles in Nevada with the federal government, and initially wary of the consequences of any new confrontation.
  
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• Citizen watchdog calls out Seattle City Council for blurring lines with advocacy groups

  05-10-2016 05:29
  
  A former Microsoftie turned obsessive Seattle City Council watcher has noticed that City Hall is now letting the activist groups write the laws for them.
  
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• State’s students falling short in level of education for new jobs

  05-10-2016 05:25
  
  A new report highlights a growing mismatch between the types of job openings here and the level of education that Washington public-school students are achieving.
  
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• State’s students falling short in level of education for jobs

  05-10-2016 05:25
  
  A new report highlights a growing mismatch between the types of job openings here and the level of education that Washington public-school students are achieving.
  
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• 1 person stabbed in North Seattle, police searching for assailant

  05-10-2016 04:50
  
  The victim, whose age and gender are unknown, was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
  
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• Dr. Thomas Shepard, UW pioneer in study of birth defects, dies at 93

  05-10-2016 03:25
  
  Dr. Thomas H. Shepard, a University of Washington pediatrician and scientist whose work shaped the study of birth defects — including recent confirmation of the devastating effects of the Zika virus — died Monday. He was 93.
  
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• Police: Deadly stabbing at Tukwila light-rail station captured on camera

  05-10-2016 03:18
  
  The 30-year-old suspect was ordered held on $1 million bail after a judge found probable cause to hold him on investigation of homicide.
  
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• Man killed early Sunday in Pioneer Square identified

  05-10-2016 02:58
  
  Brandon Perry, 27, was identified as the man fatally shot in Pioneer Square early Sunday.
  
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