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• Video shows no one other than Charleena Lyles leaving or entering apartment hours before shooting

  22-06-2017 23:22
  
  Charleena Lyles called police Sunday morning to say she had left her apartment for a few minutes and was burglarized. Video surveillance appears to show no one other than Lyles left or entered her apartment in the hours before she was shot by two officers.
  
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• Police: Video shows no one leaving or entering Charleena Lyles’ apartment for 24 hours before shooting

  22-06-2017 23:22
  
  Charleena Lyles called police Sunday morning to say she had left her apartment for a few minutes and was burglarized. Twenty-four hours of surveillance video shows nobody left or entered her apartment except the officers who shot her, police say.
  
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• Rainbow Family members start gathering in Oregon

  22-06-2017 23:03
  
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Concern is growing in a conservative, remote corner of Oregon as people start arriving in a national forest for a Rainbow Family of Living Light annual gathering, a counter-culture get-together expected to draw thousands. Officials with the Malheur National Forest said this week that around 600 Rainbow Family members are already […]
  
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• Rolling sequoia: Idaho tree tied to John Muir set for move

  22-06-2017 21:59
  
  St. Luke's Health System in Boise is spending $300,000 to move the 98-foot tree to city property about two blocks away, starting Friday.
  
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• Idaho sequoia in way of expansion to be moved 2 blocks away

  22-06-2017 21:59
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A sequoia seedling that naturalist John Muir sent to Idaho more than a century ago and was planted in a doctor’s yard has become a massive tree and an obstacle to progress. The sequoia planted in 1912 is in the way of a Boise hospital’s expansion but has become a city […]
  
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• Did you get the letter? WSU sends warning to 1 million people after hard drive with personal info is stolen

  22-06-2017 20:19
  
  Washington State University is alerting 1 million people that their personal information could have been accessed by thieves who broke into an Olympia storage locker.
  
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• Did you get letter? WSU sends warning to 1 million people after hard drive with personal info is stolen

  22-06-2017 20:19
  
  Washington State University is alerting 1 million people that their personal information could have been accessed by thieves who broke into an Olympia storage locker.
  
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• US officials to lift Yellowstone grizzly bear protections

  22-06-2017 20:05
  
  Thursday's ruling is certain to be challenged in court by conservation groups that argue the Yellowstone bears still face threats to their continued existence.
  
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• Patient stabbed in Renton hospital; woman in custody

  22-06-2017 17:50
  
  The injured man is in satisfactory condition, a Valley Medical Center spokeswoman said.
  
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• This type of firework disfigures people more than any other, UW study shows

  22-06-2017 16:53
  
  Shell-and-mortar fireworks are legal in Washington state, but a new UW study finds more disfiguring injuries came from accidents with shell-and-mortar fireworks than any other legal firework — and some illegal ones.
  
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• Social-media speculation after Charleena Lyles shooting — and the detail people got wrong

  22-06-2017 16:44
  
  Some people said a knife-wielding man wasn't shot during an hours-long standoff in Seattle because he was white. But, in fact, he was black.
  
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• Social-media speculation after Charleena Lyles shooting — and one thing people got wrong

  22-06-2017 16:44
  
  Some people said a knife-wielding man wasn't shot during an hours-long standoff in Seattle because he was white. But, in fact, he was black.
  
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• Experts: US exiting climate pact may doom some small islands

  22-06-2017 16:40
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — To small island nations where the land juts just above the rising seas, the U.S. pulling out of the Paris global warming pact makes the future seem as fragile and built on hope as a sand castle. Top scientists say it was already likely that Earth’s temperatures and the world’s seas will […]
  
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• Mayoral candidate Jenny Durkan seeks to keep her home address under wraps

  22-06-2017 16:00
  
  Seattle mayoral candidate Jenny Durkan is seeking to keep her home address out of public records, citing threats made against her in her former job as U.S. attorney.
  
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• In Spokane, psychologists open a window on brutal CIA interrogations — including waterboarding

  22-06-2017 15:30
  
  “I deliberated with great, soulful torment about this, and obviously I concluded that it could be done safely or I wouldn’t have done it,” a former military psychologist said in a newly disclosed deposition in a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of former CIA prisoners. The business he ran with another Spokane psychologist got $81 million from the CIA.
  
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• Seattle-area Muslims see chance to show what true Islam means, during first Ramadan of Trump era

  22-06-2017 15:00
  
  Ramadan is a time of giving, praying and fasting that some Muslims compare to Christmas for Christians. But this year — the first since the election of Donald Trump — feels different for many Muslims in Washington.
  
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• From Elvis to drag queen: ‘Georgia McBride’ follows one Florida man’s metamorphosis

  22-06-2017 15:00
  
  “The Legend of Georgia McBride” at ACT Theatre, about how a straight Southern man falls in with a few drag queens, is a perfect play for Gay Pride Week — but it poses questions we should ponder all year long.
  
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• During the first Ramadan under Trump’s presidency, Muslims see a chance to show what true Islam means to them

  22-06-2017 15:00
  
  Ramadan is a time of giving, praying and fasting that some Muslims compare to Christmas for Christians. But this year — the first since the election of Donald Trump — feels different for many Muslims in the Washington area.
  
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• Charleena Lyles death by police adds to a list that should shame us

  22-06-2017 15:00
  
  We resort to violence much more often than any other economically advanced democracy. This is the path our country has chosen. It doesn’t have to be this way.
  
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• The Amazon effect: Metro adds buses to handle new flock of summer interns

  22-06-2017 14:00
  
  However you measure it, Amazon’s impact on Seattle is indisputable. Here’s a new metric: summer interns. Amazon has so many that King County Metro has adjusted bus service just for them.
  
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• Cybersecurity is hot, and these Washington colleges teach it

  22-06-2017 13:00
  
  Cybersecurity experts are among the most sought-after workers in the tech field, and Washington colleges and universities are stepping up to help fill the many job vacancies.
  
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• Brazilian president says he built warm ties with Putin

  22-06-2017 12:30
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Brazilian President Michel Temer says he has built warm ties with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Temer, speaking in an interview with Tass news agency that was also broadcast by Russian state television Thursday, said he has “developed friendly personal ties” with the Russian president. Temer said his four-hour talks with Putin on […]
  
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• Senate GOP unveils ‘Obamacare’ overhaul, but not all aboard

  22-06-2017 09:55
  
  The measure represents Senate Republicans' effort to achieve a top-tier priority for President Donald Trump and virtually all Republican members of Congress. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., hopes to push it through his chamber next week.
  
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• Senate GOP releases ‘Obamacare’ overhaul, but not all aboard

  22-06-2017 09:55
  
  The measure represents Senate Republicans' effort to achieve a top-tier priority for President Donald Trump and virtually all Republican members of Congress. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., hopes to push it through his chamber next week.
  
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• Seattle mayor offers plan to make it easier for people with criminal pasts to find housing

  22-06-2017 06:45
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has sent the City Council a proposal aimed at helping people with criminal records get into housing. Landlords would be prevented from screening prospective tenants based on convictions more than two years old.
  
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• Insurance study ties legal pot to boost in car crash claims

  22-06-2017 06:29
  
  DENVER (AP) — A recent insurance study links increased car crash claims to legalized recreational marijuana. The Highway Loss Data Institute, a leading insurance research group, said in study results released Thursday that collision claims in Colorado, Washington, and Oregon went up 2.7 percent in the years since legal recreational marijuana sales began when compared […]
  
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• Seattle Pride making politics, race a part of conversation

  22-06-2017 05:46
  
  With a change in administration causing anxiety for some LGBTQ Seattlelites, Pride is making inclusivity a priority this year.
  
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• Mindful of Trump, Seattle Pride making politics, race bigger part of conversation

  22-06-2017 05:46
  
  With a change in administration causing anxiety for some LGBTQ Seattlelites, Pride is making inclusivity a priority this year.
  
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• KeyArena’s slanted roof closer to being named Seattle historical landmark

  22-06-2017 05:44
  
  OVG seeks up to $70 million in historical landmark tax credits for its possible renovation of the arena.
  
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• Trial begins in SWAT-sniper killing of unarmed black man in Fife

  22-06-2017 05:32
  
  The family of Leonard Thomas argues in the federal civil-rights case that he posed no threat to anyone when he was killed. But police defense attorneys say he was playing games with officers and using his son as a “pawn.”
  
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• SPD body cameras are stalled over contract talks

  22-06-2017 05:26
  
  Negotiations over the issue have left unclear when the rollout of a body-camera program approved by a federal judge will begin.
  
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• Hasegawa, Farrell win backing of Democratic groups in Seattle mayoral race

  22-06-2017 04:35
  
  Bob Hasegawa and Jessyn Farrell are the Seattle mayoral candidates most popular with the city’s Democratic Party legislative-district organizations.
  
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• Hasegawa, Farrell win backing of Democratic groups in Seattle

  22-06-2017 04:35
  
  Bob Hasegawa and Jessyn Farrell are the Seattle mayoral candidates most popular with the city’s Democratic Party legislative-district organizations.
  
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• Not just another pretty face

  22-06-2017 03:59
  
  As Lauren Bacall leaves the room in “To Have and Have Not” she says to Humphrey Bogart, “You know how to whistle, don’t you? You just put your lips together and blow.” It’s a sensuous scene, one of cinema’s most famous. Well, Dozer, the reasonably svelte and handsome 24-year-old Pacific walrus knows how to whistle […]
  
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• Will Ed Murray run as a write-in? He’s polling voters this week

  22-06-2017 02:55
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray is polling voters this week as he weighs relaunching his re-election bid as a write-in candidate. The announcement came soon after a pair of independent polls showed many voters would still like to support him.
  
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• Mayor Ed Murray to poll voters before deciding whether to run as a write-in candidate

  22-06-2017 02:55
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray is polling voters this week as he weighs relaunching his re-election bid as a write-in candidate. The announcement came soon after a pair of independent polls showed many voters would still like to support him.
  
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• What you need to know about Supreme Court’s upcoming action on Trump’s travel ban

  22-06-2017 02:20
  
  Key questions and answers about the legal dispute and the decisions the Supreme Court will make in the coming days
  
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• ‘Extraordinary’ Microsoft engineer Charles Thacker, who inspired the PC revolution, dies at 74

  22-06-2017 01:44
  
  Obituary: Charles Thacker, who helped usher in the modern personal computer as the designer of the Xerox Alto computer and worked at Microsoft Research for 20 years, died at his Palo Alto, California, home recently.
  
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• ‘Extraordinary’ Microsoft engineer Charles Thacker inspired the PC revolution

  22-06-2017 01:44
  
  Obituary: Charles Thacker, who helped usher in the modern personal computer as the designer of the Xerox Alto computer and worked at Microsoft Research for 20 years, died at his Palo Alto, California, home recently.
  
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• Roadkill: It’s what’s for dinner under new Oregon law

  22-06-2017 01:28
  
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Some folks in Oregon might not want to ask, when served an elk burger or a venison steak, where the meat came from. Under a roadkill bill passed overwhelmingly by the Legislature and signed by the governor, motorists who crash into the animals can now harvest the meat to eat. And […]
  
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• Oregon joins states where roadkill can be harvested for food

  22-06-2017 01:28
  
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A bill recently signed into law in Oregon allows drivers who crash into deer and elk on the road to harvest the animals’ meat for food. It’s not as rare as you might think. About 20 other states also let people take meat from animals killed by vehicles. And advocates say […]
  
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• Priced out of urban ‘dream’: This millennial is moving from South Lake Union to Wedgwood

  22-06-2017 01:06
  
  Sketched June 2, 2017 Here’s a glimpse at life in the millennial lane in booming Seattle. When Natasha Dunlap and her roommate found an ad for a $1,800-per-month studio apartment in the heart of South Lake Union last summer, they thought they had hit the jackpot. “We wanted it so badly,” she told me. “We […]
  
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• Man arrested in stabbing of his mother in Shoreline

  22-06-2017 01:01
  
  When deputies arrived at the home they were met by a 34-year-old man holding two knives and covered in blood. They told the man to drop the knives and detained him.
  
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• Soviet spymaster Yuri Drozdov dies at 91

  22-06-2017 00:22
  
  MOSCOW — Yuri Drozdov, the Soviet spymaster who oversaw a sprawling network of KGB agents abroad, died Wednesday. He was 91. The Foreign Intelligence Service, a KGB successor agency known under its Russian acronym SVR, didn’t give the cause of Drozdov’s death or any other specifics in a terse statement. Drozdov, a World War II […]
  
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• San Francisco to ban sales of vaping flavored liquid

  22-06-2017 00:06
  
  Other cities have passed laws reducing access to flavored, nicotine-laced vaping liquids for electronic cigarettes but San Francisco is the first in the country to approve a sales ban. The measure requires another vote by the board next week; it is expected to pass.
  
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• San Francisco to ban sales of flavored vaping liquids

  22-06-2017 00:06
  
  Other cities have passed laws reducing access to flavored, nicotine-laced vaping liquids for electronic cigarettes but San Francisco is the first in the country to approve a sales ban. The measure requires another vote by the board next week; it is expected to pass.
  
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