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• State audit: Port of Seattle illegally gave out $4.7 million in raises

  03-02-2017 22:43
  
  It’s unclear if the nonunion employees who received the extra pay will have to give the money back.
  
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• Idaho man involved in fatal beating of gay man convicted

  03-02-2017 20:57
  
  The victim responded to a fraudulent advertisement for a male escort and was stripped, beaten and left for dead.
  
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• Beer and politics: Budweiser’s Super Bowl ad already making a splash in Seattle

  03-02-2017 20:15
  
  The 2017 Budweiser Super Bowl commercial focusing on co-founder Adolphus Busch’s journey to America has gotten millions of views – and sparked controversy. Some Trump supporters are calling for a boycott. In the temperate Northwest, folks are considerably more moderate.
  
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• SUV believed used in deadly Sammamish hit-and-run recovered

  03-02-2017 20:09
  
  The gold Infiniti SUV was allegedly used to run down a 22-year-old man at a Sammamish park last week.
  
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• How legal challenges to Trump travel ban are playing out

  03-02-2017 19:59
  
  Legal battles are playing out across the U.S. as opponents of President Donald Trump’s travel ban on citizens from seven predominantly Muslim nations take their fight to the courtroom.
  
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• Wapato cop sues city after mayor called him a murderer following deadly shooting

  03-02-2017 19:54
  
  Mayor Tony Guzman also said Officer Michael Campos “deserves to die in prison” in a Facebook post after the July shooting.
  
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• Plenty of snow accumulating at local ski resorts, totals already waxing average winter season expectations

  03-02-2017 19:45
  
  The good news for powder hounds is the long-range forecast shows no immediate end in sight with copious amounts of snowflakes coming down clear into next week. An active series of weather patterns will move over the Cascades through Monday. Most of the heavier snow arrives late Friday and Saturday as an upper level low […]
  
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• Texas votes to keep science lessons challenging evolution

  03-02-2017 18:29
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Board of Education has moved closer to tweaking — but still preserving — high school science curriculum requirements that teachers and academics say cast doubt on the theory of evolution. After debating the issue earlier this week, the Republican-controlled board took its first binding vote Friday. It votes again […]
  
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• Watch: Seattle dad and 4-year old daughter sing ‘You’ve Got a Friend in Me’ on ‘Ellen’

  03-02-2017 18:18
  
  They were invited on the show after their YouTube video was viewed nearly 150 million times.
  
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• Seattle dad and 4-year old daughter sing ‘You’ve Got a Friend in Me’ on ‘Ellen’

  03-02-2017 18:18
  
  They were invited on the show after their YouTube video was viewed nearly 150 million times.
  
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• Lakewood cop who shot, wounded suspect previously involved in 2 deadly shootings

  03-02-2017 18:09
  
  Officer Darrell Moore was off-duty and driving his patrol car home early Sunday when he encountered 24-year-old Thomas St. Clair and shot him in the arm.
  
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• Investigators: $60,000 cash, pot plants found at multiple-homicide site in Kitsap County

  03-02-2017 17:46
  
  The cash and pot were found in a home where three people were found slain on Saturday.
  
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• Trump’s Seattle-area supporters say he’s just doing what he promised

  03-02-2017 15:30
  
  As Seattle has erupted in protests since the inauguration of President Trump, his supporters, a distinct minority in the Puget Sound area, have watched and wondered what all the commotion is about.
  
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• Supporters say Trump is just doing what he promised

  03-02-2017 15:30
  
  As Seattle has erupted in protests since the inauguration of President Trump, his supporters, a distinct minority in the Puget Sound area, have watched and wondered what all the commotion is about.
  
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• McCleary roundup: How close are lawmakers to fully funding public schools? (Spoiler alert: Not very)

  03-02-2017 15:02
  
  Almost a month into this year’s legislative session and lawmakers still haven’t made much progress on finding a McCleary fix.
  
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• ‘We’re making us less safe’: Explaining and contesting Trump’s refugee crackdown

  03-02-2017 15:00
  
  In this week's episode of The Overcast, we talk with local immigrant-rights leader Jorge Barón about President Trump's controversial executive orders on refugees, sanctuary cities and border security. And data columnist "FYI Guy" Gene Balk breaks down local impacts.
  
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• The I-405 toll-lane experiment: How’s it working for drivers, and the state?

  03-02-2017 15:00
  
  It’s been more than a year since the state opened the 17-mile toll corridor along Interstate 405. It offers a quicker drive for those willing to pay up to $10 a trip, but has angered many drivers still stuck in heavy traffic.
  
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• The head of the Pike Place Market renovation wants to keep it weird

  03-02-2017 15:00
  
  It’s a big project with a lot of pressure, but Ben Franz-Knight is determined to help Pike Place Market grow with his city. The $74 million MarketFront expansion opens June 29.
  
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• Explaining and contesting Trump’s refugee crackdown | The Overcast

  03-02-2017 15:00
  
  In this week's episode of The Overcast, we talk with local immigrant-rights leader Jorge Baron about President Trump's controversial executive orders on refugees, sanctuary cities and border security. And data columnist "FYI Guy" Gene Balk breaks down how many people in Washington state were born in the seven majority Muslim nations singled out in Trump's latest order.
  
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• Explaining and contesting Trump’s refugee crackdown

  03-02-2017 15:00
  
  In this week's episode of The Overcast, we talk with local immigrant-rights leader Jorge Barón about President Trump's controversial executive orders on refugees, sanctuary cities and border security. And data columnist "FYI Guy" Gene Balk breaks down local impacts.
  
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• Challenge to Trump immigration ban from Washington attorney general to be heard Friday

  03-02-2017 15:00
  
  A federal judge in Seattle will hear arguments Friday in the lawsuit by Attorney General Bob Ferguson seeking to block enforcement of President Trump’s controversial executive order on immigration and refugees.
  
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• Overnight snowfall prompts school closures, delays in Seattle area

  03-02-2017 14:43
  
  UPDATE AT 6:42 A.M.: Classes in the Tahoma School District will start two hours late. There will be no morning preschool or kindergarten and no out-of-district transportation. UPDATE AT 6:19 A.M.: The Kent School District and Chief Leschi Schools are starting two hours late. Enumclaw schools are running one hour late and buses will be […]
  
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• Zoologists say dead whale in Norway full of plastic bags

  03-02-2017 12:55
  
  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norwegian zoologists have found about 30 plastic bags and other plastic waste in the stomach of a beaked whale that had beached on a southwestern Norway coast. The visibly sick, 2-ton goose-beaked whale was euthanized, Terje Lislevand of Bergen University said Friday. “The (whale’s) stomach was full of plastic,” Lislevand said, […]
  
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• In Norway, zoologist find 30 plastic bags in stranded whale

  03-02-2017 12:55
  
  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norwegian zoologists have found about 30 plastic bags and other plastic waste in the stomach of a beaked whale that had beached on a southwestern Norway coast. Terje Lislevand of the Bergen University says the visibly sick, 2-ton goose-beaked whale was euthanized. Its intestine “had no food, only some remnants of […]
  
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• Busy Alaska volcano: Seawater, magma figure in eruptions

  03-02-2017 08:13
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s remote Bogoslof Island is only 169 acres, a third the size of the average American farm. And its highest “peak” is just 490 feet, half as tall as the Eiffel Tower. Like other Aleutian islands, it’s swarming with sea lions. But it’s what’s below the surface that sets Bogoslof apart. […]
  
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• Alaska’s busy volcano: Seawater, magma figure in eruptions

  03-02-2017 08:13
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s remote Bogoslof Island is only 169 acres, a third the size of the average American farm. And it’s highest “peak” is just 490 feet, half as tall as the Eiffel Tower. Like other Aleutian islands, it’s swarming with sea lions. But it’s what’s below the surface that sets Bogoslof apart. […]
  
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• At Che Taylor inquest, judge OKs photo ban if witnesses ask

  03-02-2017 05:23
  
  In two cases, King County District Court Judge Janet Garrow instructed TV and other media photographers to not show the faces of a firefighter and a police officer.
  
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• Scientists find collagen in 195-million-year-old dinosaur bone

  03-02-2017 05:04
  
  For a long time, scientists believed that protein molecules, which make up soft tissues, could only last about 4 million years.
  
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• Cause of massive Lynnwood apartment fire remains unknown

  03-02-2017 04:51
  
  The blaze last week pushed about 150 people out of their homes, injured two firefighters and destroyed a senior apartment complex.
  
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• Alaska rejects marijuana consumption at retail pot stores

  03-02-2017 04:08
  
  Industry representatives argued the proposal would encourage safe use of cannabis.
  
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• State says no to special I-90 HOV access for Mercer Island solo drivers

  03-02-2017 03:46
  
  WSDOT won’t give Mercer Island special access to HOV lanes on I-90, according to a letter sent to the city Tuesday. The state said it will work onramp and local street improvements.
  
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• 3 held on $10 million bail in SeaTac diamond heist

  03-02-2017 02:58
  
  Three men accused of stealing $500,000 in jewelry from a private courier on Monday have each been charged with first-degree robbery and are each being held on $10 million bail.
  
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• Lawmakers, Inslee push for more statewide gun measures

  03-02-2017 01:20
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee and state lawmakers are pushing to pass legislation that would force people to store their guns safely and which they say would fix a loophole in the current law, which makes it easier to get an assault weapon than a handgun.
  
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• Lawmakers and Gov. Inslee push for more statewide gun measures

  03-02-2017 01:20
  
  Gov. Jay Inslee and state lawmakers are pushing to pass legislation that would force people to store their guns safely and which they say would fix a loophole in the current law, which makes it easier to get an assault weapon than a handgun.
  
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• Protesters should stand down at Standing Rock, tribal chairman urges

  03-02-2017 00:33
  
  As tensions heat back up over the future of the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Standing Rock Sioux chairman asks demonstrators to leave and stay away.
  
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• APNewsBreak: Deal allows Yellowstone bison slaughter

  03-02-2017 00:33
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana and federal officials have reached a deal that allows the mass slaughter of wild bison migrating from Yellowstone National Park, while sparing 25 animals that American Indians want. The Associated Press obtained details of the agreement Thursday. The spared animals will be kept at a government research facility to monitor […]
  
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• Port of Seattle CEO resigns after being placed on unexplained paid leave

  03-02-2017 00:31
  
  There has been mystery surrounding Ted Fick’s status since he first was away from the office more than a week ago in what was described as a “mutual” separation.
  
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• Port of Seattle CEO resigns after being placed on paid leave

  03-02-2017 00:31
  
  There has been mystery surrounding Ted Fick’s status since he first was away from the office more than a week ago in what was described as a “mutual” separation.
  
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• State senator defends Trump transition job, jabs at Democratic critics

  03-02-2017 00:14
  
  State Sen. Doug Ericksen defended his dual role as lawmaker and member of President Trump’s transition team, saying his situation was ethically tenable. The Republican from Ferndale suggested Democrats were complaining for political advantage.
  
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• State Sen. Ericksen defends second job in Trump transition, jabs at Democratic critics

  03-02-2017 00:14
  
  State Sen. Doug Ericksen defended his dual role as lawmaker and member of President Trump’s transition team, saying his situation was ethically tenable. The Republican from Ferndale suggested Democrats were complaining for political advantage.
  
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• Man shot in the leg in Sodo

  03-02-2017 00:01
  
  The victim claims he was shot by an unknown gunman in a mask.
  
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