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• 2 moose found frozen mid-fight near remote Alaska village

  18-11-2016 20:56
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two moose were recently discovered frozen in battle and encased in ice near a remote village on Alaska’s unforgiving western coast. Brad Webster, a middle school social studies and science teacher in Unalakleet, captured images of the massive animals poking through the ice as they lay on their sides with antlers […]
  
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• California zoo’s lion cub romps, naps and needs a name

  18-11-2016 20:25
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A zoo in central California is showing off a new lion cub and asking visitors to choose his name. The Fresno Bee reports (http://bit.ly/2eNMsI5 ) that reporters got a glimpse of the 5-week-old cub Thursday at Fresno Chaffee Zoo as he rolled in his enclosure and napped on his mom, Kiki. […]
  
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• Famed Texas heart surgeon Denton Cooley died at 96

  18-11-2016 19:59
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Dr. Denton Cooley, a Texas surgeon who performed some of the earliest heart transplants and implanted the world’s first artificial heart, has died. Linden Emerson, a spokeswoman for the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, says Cooley died on Friday. He was 96. In 1969, Cooley implanted the world’s first artificial heart as […]
  
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• Man shoots at clerk, flees with a beer in Everett robbery

  18-11-2016 19:10
  
  The man opened fire after he was asked to remove his mask, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office says.
  
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• Crash on I-5 causes delays in downtown Seattle

  18-11-2016 18:41
  
  Two northbound lanes of Interstate 5 were closed following the crash, officials said.
  
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• Police escort train after removing protesters from downtown Olympia tracks

  18-11-2016 18:05
  
  Police cleared the protest camp from the tracks Friday morning.
  
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• ‘Don’t send them to the wall’: Kids write letters to Trump on Seattle mom’s Facebook page

  18-11-2016 17:26
  
  A Seattle mom has created a Facebook page called “Dear President Trump: Letters from Kids About Kindness.”
  
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• ‘Don’t send them to the wall’: Kids’ letters to Trump go viral on Seattle mom’s Facebook page

  18-11-2016 17:26
  
  A Seattle mom has created a Facebook page called “Dear President Trump: Letters from Kids About Kindness.”
  
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• Vulnerable countries pledge to go all-renewables, with help

  18-11-2016 16:03
  
  MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — More than 40 developing nations on the front lines of climate change have pledged to pursue 100 percent renewable energy. The Maldives, the Marshall Islands and other small island nations threatened by rising seas, drought-hit African countries and low-lying nations such as Bangladesh were among those who backed the declaration at […]
  
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• UN climate talks end with pleas for Trump to join fight

  18-11-2016 16:03
  
  MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — The first U.N. climate conference after the landmark Paris Agreement closed Friday with delegates appealing to Donald Trump to join the battle against global warming and inviting him to see its impacts in Pacific islands. Suddenly faced with the possibility that the U.S. could withdraw from the emissions pact adopted in […]
  
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• Trump invited to Pacific island to see effects of warming

  18-11-2016 16:03
  
  MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — Countries appealed to Donald Trump on Friday to join the battle against global warming, with Fiji’s prime minister inviting the U.S. president-elect to visit the Pacific island nation for a first-hand look at the impacts of climate change. Suddenly faced with the possibility that the U.S. could withdraw from the emissions […]
  
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• Host of UN climate talks asks Trump to show ‘pragmatism’

  18-11-2016 16:03
  
  MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — A Moroccan official hosting United Nations climate talks appealed to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday to be pragmatic and to engage with the rest of the world in halting the global temperature rise. Moroccan Foreign Minister Salaheddine Mezouar, the president of the two-week talks in Marrakech, said the conference’s “message […]
  
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• Discovery Park’s Capehart forest attracting friends, funds

  18-11-2016 15:40
  
  The volunteer stewards of Seattle’s newest forest are pleased to see a good start on campaign to protect forest and add trails.
  
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• Want to make a difference? Your donations to Fund For The Needy can bring joy to others

  18-11-2016 15:00
  
  Fund For The Needy donations benefit all corners of our community, from children in foster care to senior citizens. Seattle Times readers gave more than $1.4 million last year, setting a record, and more than $20 million since the fund launched in 1979.
  
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• ‘This person I’ve been wanting to be’: How your Fund For The Needy donations help many get back on their feet

  18-11-2016 15:00
  
  Fund For The Needy donations benefit all corners of our community, from children in foster care to senior citizens. Seattle Times readers gave more than $1.4 million last year, setting a record, and more than $20 million since the fund launched in 1979.
  
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• The new ‘needy’: Seattle’s growth has people seeking help for the first time

  18-11-2016 15:00
  
  As this year’s Seattle Times Fund For The Needy kicks off and Seattle’s income gap widens, columnist Nicole Brodeur takes a look at who might need a hand.
  
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• Section 8 tenants flee Seattle’s high rents, compete for what’s left

  18-11-2016 15:00
  
  Seattle has been bleeding Section 8 tenants for years. But now, as rents skyrocket, even the county’s smaller towns are pricing out tenants who need affordable housing. “What we’re seeing now is this ripple effect,” said Seattle Housing Authority spokeswoman Kerry Coughlin.
  
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• Section 8 tenants flee Seattle’s high rents, compete for housing in smaller cities

  18-11-2016 15:00
  
  Seattle has been bleeding Section 8 tenants for years. But now, as rents skyrocket, even the county’s smaller towns are pricing out tenants who need affordable housing. “What we’re seeing now is this ripple effect,” said Seattle Housing Authority spokeswoman Kerry Coughlin.
  
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• It’s a holiday lights wrap for this man in tree

  18-11-2016 15:00
  
  Sketched Nov. 17, 2016 I’m watching Eric Greenberg put on a safety harness and climb into a basket to get closer to the top of the giant sequoia tree on Fourth Avenue. Now, there’s a “man in tree” who truly deserves some attention! Every November, the Greenwood resident takes it upon himself to decorate the […]
  
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• How your Fund For The Needy donations help the community

  18-11-2016 15:00
  
  Here is a list of some of the ways agencies used Fund For The Needy donations last year.
  
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• Dad of rescued family won’t take ‘church rig’ on drive into woods next time

  18-11-2016 14:57
  
  Jason McAlister said he would have taken his truck, but it was full of hay.
  
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• Tests show high lead levels in water at 60 Cleveland schools

  18-11-2016 13:34
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland’s school district will replace hundreds of drinking fountains, restroom faucets, outdoor spigots and other water fixtures after tests found high lead levels in the water at 60 of its buildings. All but nine of the buildings checked had water fixtures with elevated lead readings, the district said Friday. The district will […]
  
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• Today’s energy system could blow Paris climate goals

  18-11-2016 11:28
  
  JAENSCHWALDE, Germany (AP) — Amid whiffs of chemicals and the electric hum of transformers, Kraftwerk Jaenschwalde rises like an ash-colored fortress over a landscape disfigured by decades of open-pit coal mining. The communist-era colossus in eastern Germany is one of Europe’s dirtiest power plants, belching 24 million tons of climate-warming carbon dioxide into the air […]
  
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• Current energy system could eat up entire carbon budget

  18-11-2016 11:28
  
  JAENSCHWALDE, Germany (AP) — Amid whiffs of chemicals and the electric hum of transformers, Kraftwerk Jaenschwalde rises like an ash-colored fortress over a landscape disfigured by decades of open-pit coal mining. The communist-era colossus in eastern Germany is one of Europe’s dirtiest power plants, belching 24 million tons of climate-warming carbon dioxide into the air […]
  
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• In graveyard of dead coral in Pacific, hope and life bloom

  18-11-2016 09:23
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a ghost town of dead coral off a remote Pacific island, scientists have found a bit more life. In excursions a year ago and then last April, scientists examined the normally stunning coral reefs around the island of Kiritimati and pronounced it mostly a boneyard of dead coral. About 85 percent […]
  
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• System drops heavy snow, zaps mild temps in northern Plains

  18-11-2016 08:00
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A wintry blast dropped heavy snow Friday in northern Plains states, ushering in howling winds that made driving dangerous and erased what had been almost summer-like temperatures. Whiteout conditions were reported Friday morning in Brookings, South Dakota, and surrounding areas, and officials warned against trying to drive in the worst-hit areas. […]
  
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• Northern Plains brace for blizzards, freezing temperatures

  18-11-2016 08:00
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The unseasonably mild conditions of recent days will be ushered out by a jolt of wintry weather that’s expected to bring blizzards, freezing temperatures and high winds to northern Plains states. The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning for Friday in eastern parts of North and South Dakota and […]
  
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• Emergency care shock: Patients hit with surprise out-of-network bills

  18-11-2016 07:57
  
  Patients who go to hospitals covered by their medical plans often receive a bill from a doctor who was not in the insurer’s network.
  
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• 3 people injured in vehicle crash in downtown Seattle

  18-11-2016 07:53
  
  The extent to which they were injured remains unknown.
  
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• China astronauts return from monthlong space station stay

  18-11-2016 07:26
  
  BEIJING (AP) — A pair of Chinese astronauts returned Friday from a monthlong stay aboard the country’s space station, China’s sixth and longest crewed mission and a sign of the growing ambitions of its rapidly advancing space program. Veteran mission commander Jing Haipeng and first-time space traveler Chen Dong were reported in good health after […]
  
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• China astronauts return from month-long space station stay

  18-11-2016 07:26
  
  BEIJING (AP) — A pair of Chinese astronauts have returned from a month-long stay in the country’s space station, China’s sixth and longest crewed mission to date. Veteran mission commander Jing Haipeng and first-time space traveler Chen Dong landed in their Shenzhou 11 return vehicle on the frozen steppes of Inner Mongolia on Friday afternoon. […]
  
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• Leon G. Billings, architect of Clean Air Act, dies at 78

  18-11-2016 05:38
  
  As the first staff director of the Senate environment subcommittee and an alter ego of Sen. Edmund Muskie, D-Maine, Mr. Billings was also instrumental in drafting the 1972 Clean Water Act, as well as amendments, passed in 1977, to both landmark antipollution laws.
  
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• Cause of big downtown Bothell fire in July remains unknown

  18-11-2016 04:46
  
  “We’re having to move forward whatever the cause of the fire was,” a city leader said. Officials recently received a report from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which helped investigate.
  
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• State senator calls for direct elections of Sound Transit board member

  18-11-2016 02:38
  
  Pierce County voters’ opposition to Sound Transit 3 has prompted state Sen. Steve O’Ban to propose direct elections of transit-board members.
  
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• Polio-like illness not to blame for one child’s hospitalization in King County

  18-11-2016 02:36
  
  Three potential new cases of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) were reported this week, but tests show one child did not have the condition.
  
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• To remember those killed in Seattle traffic, 240 silhouettes

  18-11-2016 02:35
  
  To raise awareness and memorialize victims of traffic wrecks, community organizations will place cardboard silhouettes throughout Seattle on Sunday.
  
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• 240 white silhouettes to be placed on Seattle streets to remember those killed in traffic

  18-11-2016 02:35
  
  To raise awareness and memorialize victims of traffic wrecks, community organizations will place cardboard silhouettes throughout Seattle on Sunday.
  
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• Man gets 34 years for killing popular Seattle art teacher in Belltown

  18-11-2016 02:13
  
  Brent McDonald, a 49-year-old teacher at Coyote Central in the Central District, was killed without provocation on Dec. 12.
  
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• Journalist and author Ruth Gruber dies in NY at age 105

  18-11-2016 02:13
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — When Ruth Gruber saw a report during World War II that 1,000 Jewish refugees were being brought to the United States, she rushed straight to her job with the Secretary of the Interior. “I got rid of my breakfast and rushed to the office and said, ‘I have to see the […]
  
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• Burien man sought in double homicide in Pioneer Square

  18-11-2016 01:32
  
  The victims were shot in the 400 block of Second Avenue Extension South around 5:30 a.m. March 30.
  
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• Mother gets year in prison for kidnapping her 2 children from Bellevue

  18-11-2016 00:35
  
  The Los Angeles-area woman pleaded guilty in September to two counts of international parental kidnapping.
  
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• Blue Nile adds Bellevue Square showroom

  18-11-2016 00:26
  
  Online jeweler Blue Nile is expanding its bricks-and-mortar footprint as the company prepares to open one of its small-format ‘webrooms’ in Bellevue Square next week.
  
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• Plan for Seattle’s empty block is a better deal, says mayor’s office

  18-11-2016 00:20
  
  How does Mayor Ed Murray’s latest plan for the hole across from Seattle City Hall compare to one then-Mayor Greg Nickels drew up almost a decade ago? Murray officials argue it’s a better deal.
  
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• Latest plan for Seattle’s empty block is a better deal, says mayor’s office

  18-11-2016 00:20
  
  How does Mayor Ed Murray’s latest plan for the hole across from Seattle City Hall compare to one then-Mayor Greg Nickels drew up almost a decade ago? Murray officials argue it’s a better deal.
  
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• Homelessness in Washington state up 7.3 percent this year

  18-11-2016 00:18
  
  Homelessness was up in Washington state but down nationwide this year, according to a report released Thursday.
  
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