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• Watch: Man dives in after shark, catches it with his bare hands in Kitsap County

  29-06-2017 23:47
  
  Neither shark nor human was injured in the making of this video, said Kitsap County 19-year-old Alex Winn.
  
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• ‘Crikey, mate’: Kitsap County man dives in after shark, catches it with his bare hands

  29-06-2017 23:47
  
  Neither shark nor human was injured in the making of this video, said Kitsap County 19-year-old Alex Winn.
  
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• Zillow backs off threat to sue McMansion Hell after compromise

  29-06-2017 23:33
  
  After being down for days, the blog was back up Thursday, complete with old posts featuring Zillow photos.
  
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• Family of Covington man crushed by tree sues Oregon

  29-06-2017 23:20
  
  The suit asserts the Oregon Department of Transportation has a duty to maintain trees along Highway 30, and the tree that crushed 27-year-old Jorge Figueroa showed obvious signs of decay.
  
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• Endangered Hawaiian monk seal gives birth on Waikiki beach

  29-06-2017 22:33
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — An endangered Hawaiian monk seal has given birth on a Waikiki beach — the first such birth in at least several decades. The seal was born late Wednesday or early Thursday, said Angela Amlin, coordinator for the Hawaiian Monk Seal Recovery Program. Mother and pup attracted dozens of onlookers as they rolled […]
  
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• Endangered Hawaiian monk seal gives birth on remote beach

  29-06-2017 22:33
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaiian monk seal conservation volunteer has captured rare video of one of the animals giving birth. The seal known as RO28 had her pup on Kauai’s north shore on June 18. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s marine mammal response coordinator for Kauai says the pup is nursing well. Monk seals […]
  
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• Eastern Washington fires converge, grow to 47,500 acres

  29-06-2017 22:13
  
  Fires are burning in Grant, Douglas and Yakima counties. Residents at the northwest edge of Quincy, Grant County, have been warned they may have to evacuate.
  
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• Central Washington fires converge, grow to 47,500 acres

  29-06-2017 22:13
  
  Fires are burning in Grant, Douglas and Yakima counties. Residents at the northwest edge of Quincy, Grant County, have been warned they may have to evacuate.
  
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• Transgender woman convicted of 3 murders in Spokane

  29-06-2017 21:23
  
  Donna Perry was convicted of killing three women who worked as prostitutes during a four-month span in 1990. Their cases had gone unsolved until 2012, when Perry’s DNA was matched to the victims.
  
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• Prison sentence cut from life to 42 years for man who killed mother, daughter as a teen

  29-06-2017 21:02
  
  Brandon Backstrom was 17 when he killed 30-year-old Marine Walls and her daughter Korree Olin, 12, in Snohomish County.
  
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• Large study links key pesticide to weakened honeybee hives

  29-06-2017 20:40
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A massive new study in three European countries finds a common pesticide dramatically weakens already vulnerable honeybee hives. For their experiment, researchers planted fields of rapeseed, which is made into cooking oil. Some of the fields were planted with seeds treated with the class of insecticides called neonicotinoids, others with untreated seeds. […]
  
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• Climate change up close: Southern, poor counties to suffer

  29-06-2017 20:36
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Poor and southern U.S. counties will get hit hardest by global warming, according to a first-of-its-kind detailed projection of potential climate change effects at the local level. The study, published Thursday in the journal Science , calculates probable economic harms and benefits for the more than 3,100 counties in the United States […]
  
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• Furry fisher in South Cascades has a baby! Biologists say grainy photo shows kit

  29-06-2017 20:03
  
  Biologists caught Lilly the fisher on camera and with a kit. Fishers were driven out of Washington decades ago, and biologists are attempting to reintroduce the members of the weasel family to the south Cascades.
  
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• New Washington state budget would provide $7.3B more to public schools over four years

  29-06-2017 19:25
  
  Lawmakers were still hammering out details Thursday and had not publicly released a copy of the entire plan. Washington’s citizens may not see the fine print until Friday morning.
  
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• Lawmakers — and the public — will get little time to review budget draft before vote

  29-06-2017 19:25
  
  An actual draft of Washington’s proposed two-year state budget might not be released until as late as Thursday night. The public could have less than 24 hours to see the details before it gets approved.
  
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• ‘Decisions are made’: Lawmakers — and public — will get little time to review budget

  29-06-2017 19:25
  
  An actual draft of Washington’s proposed two-year budget might not be released until as late as Thursday night. The public could have less than 24 hours to see the details before the Legislature votes.
  
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• Michael Bond, creator of beloved Paddington Bear stories, is dead at 91

  29-06-2017 19:20
  
  The genial British author who created Paddington Bear, the polite, good-natured but disaster-prone little hero of children’s novels, picture and activity books, television series, and films, died at his home in London.
  
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• Seattle Mayor Ed Murray won’t be write-in candidate, endorses former U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan

  29-06-2017 19:06
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced his decision Thursday to not relaunch his re-election campaign as a write-in candidate — instead endorsing Durkan.
  
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• Mayor Ed Murray to announce ‘shake up’ in Seattle race

  29-06-2017 19:06
  
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray will announce his decision Thursday on whether to relaunch his re-election campaign as a write-in candidate.
  
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• Tacoma lifts ban on stun guns within city limits

  29-06-2017 18:55
  
  The ban in Tacoma was imposed after complaints of convenient stores selling a variety of weapons.
  
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• State Supreme Court orders Sunnyside police to return man’s car

  29-06-2017 18:40
  
  The BMW was seized in 2013 after police in the Yakima County city suspected it was purchased with drug-trafficking proceeds.
  
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• Governor declares state of emergency for NYC transit system

  29-06-2017 17:50
  
  The city's subways and commuter trains have been plagued by rising delays and unreliable service. Dozens of people were injured when a subway derailed Tuesday.
  
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• Science Says: Pregnant or trying? Don’t let Zika guard down

  29-06-2017 16:36
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Zika virus may not seem as big a threat as last summer but don’t let your guard down — especially if you’re pregnant or trying to be. While cases of the birth defect-causing virus have dropped sharply from last year’s peak in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, Zika hasn’t […]
  
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• Pregnant or trying? Don’t let Zika guard down

  29-06-2017 16:36
  
  WASHINGTON — The Zika virus may not seem as big a threat as last summer but don’t let your guard down — especially if you’re pregnant or trying to be. While cases of the birth defect-causing virus have dropped sharply from last year’s peak in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, Zika hasn’t disappeared […]
  
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• 2 minor earthquakes reported overnight near Bellingham, Bremerton

  29-06-2017 15:57
  
  A couple hundred people reported to the U.S. Geological Survey that they felt the tremors.
  
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• Seattle added more people last year than all of King County’s suburbs combined

  29-06-2017 15:00
  
  While Seattle’s population growth is soaring, the opposite trend is under way in surrounding King County. Last year, the suburbs experienced their slowest population gains in more than a decade.
  
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• Seattle added more people last year than all King County’s suburbs combined

  29-06-2017 15:00
  
  While Seattle’s population growth is soaring, the opposite trend is under way in surrounding King County. Last year, the suburbs experienced their slowest population gains in more than a decade.
  
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• By teaching computers to track asteroids, UW scientists may save the Earth

  29-06-2017 15:00
  
  In five years, a sky-scanning telescope in Chile will begin hunting the heavens for asteroids on a collision course with Earth, and scientists at the University of Washington are at the forefront of work to spot them.
  
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• Summer reading nudges kids into a world of controversy

  29-06-2017 14:00
  
  Summer reading lists for high-school students can be an illuminating lens on local tastes — and sometimes political proclivities. Education Lab offers a sampling from around the country.
  
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• Washington state budget deal reached, but details remain under wraps

  29-06-2017 05:53
  
  Washington lawmakers say they’ve struck a tentative budget deal, but are keeping it secret until Thursday. Will the education-funding plan within the budget satisfy the state Supreme Court’s McCleary decision?
  
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• Progress on I-90 light-rail work

  29-06-2017 05:49
  
  Work has just begun to convert the center express lanes of the I-90 floating bridge into a train corridor across Lake Washington by 2023.
  
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• Whales, gales and bioluminescence on paddleboarder’s epic Race to Alaska

  29-06-2017 03:08
  
  He's the first SUPer to complete the Race to Alaska, now in its third year pitting non-motorized craft in a 750-mile race from Port Townsend to Ketchikan.
  
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• SUPer-man: Orcas Island’s Karl Kruger talks about his amazing stand-up paddle race to Alaska

  29-06-2017 03:08
  
  Highs and lows, he had them like a barometer. One of the more adrenaline-charged experiences for Karl Kruger on his two-week, 750-mile stand-up paddleboard journey from Washington to Alaska, which ended Sunday, came on Johnstone Strait, on the inside of Vancouver Island, when an almost-unheard-of-in-those-parts windstorm from the south propelled him like a northward-spit olive […]
  
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• ‘Independence is paramount’ departing Seattle police watchdog tells City Council

  29-06-2017 03:06
  
  “There is a lot of subtle pressure on someone in this position to be less than independent,” Pierce Murphy, the departing civilian director of the Seattle Police Department’s internal-investigation unit, told a City Council committee Wednesday.
  
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• UW professor’s study links food scarcity to orcas’ failed pregnancies

  29-06-2017 02:30
  
  A new study nails dearth of chinook salmon as the primary cause of the endangered resident orca whale’s failure to rebound.
  
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• After long wait, Seattle to hold competition for homeless services

  29-06-2017 02:02
  
  Around $30 million in money planned for services for the homeless has been put out for competitive bidding.
  
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• South Carolina man charged in Belltown double homicide

  29-06-2017 01:47
  
  Seattle police homicide detectives arrested a 46-year-old South Carolina man this month in connection with a double homicide in Belltown on January 26. The suspect, who waived extradition, is to be arraigned Thursday.
  
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• Prehistoric stone fish trap discovered on Alaska island

  29-06-2017 01:08
  
  KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — Archaeologists have discovered a prehistoric fish trap constructed of rock walls near the mouth of a salmon stream on Alaska’s Kodiak Island. The trap is in a lower intertidal zone that’s covered by ocean water at high tide and exposed at low tide, the Kodiak Daily Mirror reported (http://bit.ly/2t0of5f) Tuesday. Archaeologists […]
  
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• ‘Bubbly kid’ was fatally shot by King County deputy hours before high-school graduation

  29-06-2017 00:56
  
  Tommy Le, 20, was fatally shot after deputies responded to reports of a man armed with a knife threatening residents of a Burien neighborhood. Deputies found Le was carrying a pen after the shooting. “I’m so angry,” his father says.
  
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