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• Central Oregon wildfires spread before solar eclipse, but key routes remain open

  18-08-2017 23:29
  The Milli Fire west of Sisters and Nena Springs fire on the Warm Springs Reservation have been spreading.
  
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• Youth programs to close, layoffs coming at Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission

  18-08-2017 22:01
  Fundraising hasn’t met goals, so Seattle’s Union Gospel mission will cut several activity programs for vulnerable kids.
  
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• Budget shortfalls force layoffs at Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission

  18-08-2017 22:01
  Fundraising hasn’t met projects, so Seattle’s Union Gospel mission will cut several activity programs for vulnerable kids.
  
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• Concrete driver strike that slowed Seattle construction ends with labor deal

  18-08-2017 21:39
  The strike had threatened to slow Seattle’s record construction boom — 74 major projects are under way now in downtown Seattle alone.
  
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• Special eclipse glasses selling out quickly

  18-08-2017 21:15
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Eclipse mania is building and so is demand for the glasses that make it safe to view the first total solar eclipse to cross the U.S. in 99 years. Lines are forming, prices are rising and shelves are emptying as people scurry to obtain special eyewear to view the sun […]
  
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• Eclipse mania sends Americans scurrying to find safe glasses

  18-08-2017 21:15
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Eclipse mania is building and so is demand for the glasses that make it safe to view the first total solar eclipse to cross the U.S. in 99 years. Lines are forming, prices are rising and shelves are emptying as people scurry to obtain special eyewear to view the sun […]
  
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• Former JBLM soldier sentenced to 20 years in child porn case

  18-08-2017 20:59
  Luis Alberto Morales was arrested last year after his estranged wife found videos on his cellphone of Morales raping a two-year-old autistic child.
  
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• Eclipse weather forecast: Best in West, least in East

  18-08-2017 20:56
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The early eclipse weather forecast looks best in the West and least in the East with patchy clouds muddling up the picture in between. The forecast as of Friday shows Oregon and Idaho as most promising to have clear sky views, while South Carolina is the most likely to find the sun […]
  
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• Conspiracy monger Alex Jones roams Seattle streets, gets coffee dumped on him

  18-08-2017 20:50
  Alex Jones hasn't received much of a warm welcome as he's roaming downtown Seattle, confronting people and recording his encounters.
  
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• Battling demons in a community looking to Trump for change

  18-08-2017 19:32
  In Grays Harbor County, the rate at which people die from despair — from drugs, alcohol and suicide — is nearly twice the national average. Here are some of the stories of those caught in the cycle of addiction.
  
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• US post offices in path of eclipse offer special postmarks

  18-08-2017 19:03
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — More than 110 U.S. Postal Service offices are offering special postmarks for Monday’s total solar eclipse. The post offices are in or near the path of the full eclipse, which cuts across the United States, from Oregon to South Carolina. Spokesman Mark Saunders says the postmarks will be unique in some […]
  
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• Trump won places drowning in despair. Can he save them?

  18-08-2017 18:18
  In Grays Harbor County, Wash., the collapsed logging economy has been replaced by despair, homelessness, drugs and alcohol. Some Trump voters here maintain confidence in him; others are afraid.
  
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• Trump won in Grays Harbor County and other places drowning in despair. Can he save them?

  18-08-2017 18:18
  In Grays Harbor County, Wash., the collapsed logging economy has been replaced by despair, homelessness, drugs and alcohol. Some Trump voters here maintain confidence in him; others are afraid.
  
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• Initiative to ban heroin safe-injection sites in King County qualifies for ballot

  18-08-2017 18:12
  King County voters will get a chance to decide whether to ban proposed safe-injection sites for heroin and other drugs. Initiative 27, which would impose such a ban, qualified for the ballot by receiving the required 47,443 valid signatures from registered voters, county officials confirmed Thursday. King County Executive Dow Constantine and Seattle Mayor Ed […]
  
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• Police dog Apollo finds escaped Vancouver, Wash., inmate who buried himself in sand

  18-08-2017 18:11
  The escaped inmate completely buried himself in sand and was not visible, authorities said.
  
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• Gray whale stranded on Olympic National Park beach

  18-08-2017 15:31
  SEATTLE (AP) — Olympic National Park officials say a juvenile gray whale is stranded on a beach in the park. Officials with the park and NOAA Fisheries said Thursday the whale is believed to have become stranded in the Kalaloch area of the park on Tuesday. Response teams providing supportive care report the whale is […]
  
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• Detectives seek ‘person of interest’ in Skyway bowling alley double homicide

  18-08-2017 15:02
  The two men were found shot in the bar area of Skyway Park Bowl early Friday morning, according to the King County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• 2 dead in shooting at Skyway bowling alley, authorities say

  18-08-2017 15:02
  The two men were found shot in the bar area of Skyway Park Bowl early Friday morning, according to the King County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• Steelhead struggling home in record low numbers

  18-08-2017 15:00
  Warm-water conditions in the Columbia and Snake Rivers are challenging cold water salmon and steelhead — and the problem is likely to get worse because of climate change.
  
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• Rate of suicide among teen girls reaches 40-year high

  18-08-2017 15:00
  The rate of teen girls who committed suicide is double what it was in 2007, and the highest in 40 years for that age group, according to newly released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  
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• Podcast: local GOP on Trump and Charlottesville; sizing up Moon vs. Durkan for Seattle mayor

  18-08-2017 15:00
  How Washington's members of Congress responding to President Trump's much-condemned equivocation on the racist violence in Charlottesville? And what lies ahead for Seattle's Jenny Durkan vs. Cary Moon mayoral race?
  
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• Podcast: Local GOP on Trump and Charlottesville; sizing up Moon versus Durkan for Seattle mayor

  18-08-2017 15:00
  How Washington's members of Congress responding to President Trump's much-condemned equivocation on the racist violence in Charlottesville? And what lies ahead for Seattle's Jenny Durkan vs. Cary Moon mayoral race?
  
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• Million-dollar homes on the rise in Seattle and the Eastside: how many in your neighborhood?

  18-08-2017 15:00
  Just a few years ago, it was hard to find a ZIP code where at least 10 percent of homes were worth $1 million — now, it’s the new normal for a majority of Seattle and the Eastside.
  
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• Here’s what could happen if you stare at the solar eclipse with no eye protection

  18-08-2017 15:00
  Permanent damage can be done with even the slightest look into direct sunlight, an eye doctor says.
  
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• 5 stories about why we’re attracted to a total solar eclipse: Finding love, getting stoned

  18-08-2017 15:00
  Five eclipse stories — from finding love, to getting stoned at the big event, to spending 15 years preparing.
  
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• NASA launches last of its longtime tracking satellites

  18-08-2017 14:31
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has launched the last of its longtime tracking and communication satellites. The end of the era came with Friday morning’s liftoff of TDRS-M (T-driss-M), the 13th satellite that’s part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite network. An unmanned Atlas V rocket provided the lift from Cape Canaveral, Florida. […]
  
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• NASA, PBS marking 40 years since Voyager spacecraft launches

  18-08-2017 13:46
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Forty years after blasting off, Earth’s most distant ambassadors — the twin Voyager spacecraft — are carrying sounds and music of our planet ever deeper into the cosmos. Think of them as messages in bottles meant for anyone — or anything — out there. This Sunday marks the 40th anniversary […]
  
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• In the Yakima Valley, Serious Wines and Sweeping Vistas

  18-08-2017 11:21
  Tasting rooms without attitude, wine-friendly menus and fields of wheat and spearmint are among the many charms of this region of Washington State.
  
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• Eclipse concerns cause school district to cancel classes

  18-08-2017 08:07
  JEFFERSON, Ohio (AP) — A school district in Ohio has canceled classes on Monday over concerns about students damaging their eyes while looking at the solar eclipse. The superintendent of Jefferson Area Local Schools said Thursday that the eclipse could pose a risk to students who view it even inadvertently while at school or on […]
  
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• Oregon county buys bill counter to handle pot cash

  18-08-2017 05:07
  So many permits and fees were being paid for with marijuana money that the Josephine County Community and Economic Development Department needed such a counter.
  
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• Bellevue investment adviser gets nine-year sentence in Ponzi scheme

  18-08-2017 03:26
  Bellevue investment adviser Chris Young Yoo, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and making false statements for diverting millions of dollars from clients at Summit Asset Strategies, was sentenced to nine years in prison and payment of nearly $3.7 million in restitution.
  
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• Seattle Mayor Ed Murray calls for removal of Confederate monument, Lenin statue

  18-08-2017 02:51
  Murray has called for both the monument to Confederate soldiers at Capitol Hill’s Lake View Cemetery and a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Fremont to be taken down.
  
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• Whale found dead off Cape Cod identified as frequent visitor

  18-08-2017 02:10
  BOSTON (AP) — A right whale found dead in waters near Cape Cod this week has been identified as a frequent visitor to the area that was first spotted off the Cape in 1992. The Cape Cod Times reports (http://bit.ly/2wf5xv1 ) the 26-year-old female whale named Couplet was identified Thursday through photos in a database […]
  
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• Man imprisoned for cyberstalking faces new charges over alleged death threats

  18-08-2017 02:00
  Sloan Stanley, 41, of Seattle, was convicted in 2015 of cyberstalking four women he met at a Ravenna pub. Police say while he was in prison he threatened to kill the women as well as others connected to his case.
  
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• Interactive: How your neighborhood and others voted in the Seattle mayor’s race — and what it means

  18-08-2017 00:22
  Jenny Durkan won wide swaths of Seattle in the Aug. 1 primary for mayor, precinct-level data shows. Cary Moon carved out some strongholds. We examine the candidates’ results, the voters’ turnout, what it all might mean in the general election.
  
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• Interactive: Breaking down Seattle’s mayoral primary, with an eye on November

  18-08-2017 00:22
  Jenny Durkan won wide swaths of Seattle in the Aug. 1 primary for mayor, precinct-level data shows. Cary Moon carved out some strongholds. We examine the candidates’ results, the voters’ turnout, what it all might mean in the general election.
  
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• How your neighborhood and others voted in the Seattle mayor’s race — and what it means

  18-08-2017 00:22
  Jenny Durkan won wide swaths of Seattle in the Aug. 1 primary for mayor, precinct-level data shows. Cary Moon carved out some strongholds. We examine the candidates’ results, the voters’ turnout, what it all might mean in the general election.
  
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• Breaking down Seattle’s mayoral primary, with an eye on November

  18-08-2017 00:22
  Jenny Durkan won wide swaths of Seattle in the Aug. 1 primary for mayor, precinct-level data shows. Cary Moon carved out some strongholds. We examine the candidates’ results, the voters’ turnout, what it all might mean in the general election.
  
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• Chasing eclipses across the globe is a way of life for some

  18-08-2017 00:14
  WASHINGTON (AP) — For most people, a total solar eclipse is a once-in-a-lifetime event. For some eclipse chasers, it’s a way of life. These veteran eclipse chasers spend lots of money and craft intricate plans all to experience another mid-day darkening of the sky. Many work in science and related fields and they’ll travel around […]
  
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• Portland, Ore., hospital gave away recalled eclipse glasses

  18-08-2017 00:01
  PORTLAND, Ore. — Legacy Health in Portland, Oregon, says some of the glasses it gave away at public events for viewing the upcoming total solar eclipse may be among those recalled by Amazon. The hospital said Thursday that people who got solar glasses from Legacy Health at public events should discard them and buy new […]
  
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