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• Judge: Mining company in contempt for Idaho water pollution

  18-09-2017 23:34
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge is holding the Atlanta Gold mining company in contempt of court for allowing arsenic and iron to enter a tributary of the Middle Fork of the Boise River. Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald Bush released the decision on Friday, ordering the company to pay up to half a […]
  
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• Saving Multnomah Lodge: ‘We didn’t want Oregon to lose that’

  18-09-2017 23:14
  Most people have returned home and I-84’s westbound lanes opened last week, but the Eagle Creek fire continues to burn, just 32 percent contained. Here’s how crews saved Oregon’s historic landmark.
  
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• Saving Multnomah Falls Lodge: ‘We didn’t want Oregon to lose that’

  18-09-2017 23:14
  Most people have returned home and I-84’s westbound lanes opened last week, but the Eagle Creek fire continues to burn, just 32 percent contained. Here’s how crews saved the Oregon landmark.
  
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• Why some hurricanes linger while other storms die quickly

  18-09-2017 22:45
  WASHINGTON (AP) — This hurricane season is showing how wild and varied storms’ life cycles can be. Most storms seem to be tracked for days while others appear to pop out of nowhere. And some just linger around. Hurricane Jose is pushing the two-week mark as it meanders off the U.S. East Coast. Lee, named […]
  
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• Columbia Gorge fire update: Evacuation orders dropped in Oregon’s Hood River Valley

  18-09-2017 22:32
  PORTLAND, Ore. — Authorities have rescinded evacuation notices in Multnomah County and the Hood River Valley. The notices had been issued because of the large wildfire that’s been burning since Labor Day weekend in the Columbia River Gorge. Rain and lower temperatures have reduced the threat. Though fire danger has eased, rain falling on charred […]
  
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• Chappelle and Oliver make #DCPublicSchools an internet hit at Emmys

  18-09-2017 22:01
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It started as a fun onstage throwaway line at the Emmy Awards and turned into an unexpected Sunday night flood of attention for the Washington D.C. public-school system. Comedian Dave Chappelle, a D.C. native and graduate of the District’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts, issued a “Shout out to DC public […]
  
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• Man sentenced for trying to sell satellite secrets to Russia

  18-09-2017 22:00
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. attorney’s office says a Southern California engineer who worked for a defense contractor has been sentenced to five years in prison for selling sensitive satellite information to an undercover FBI employee he thought was a Russian intelligence agent. U.S. District Judge George H. Wu handed down the term Monday […]
  
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• Gov. Jay Inslee on East Coast to talk climate change: ‘States are leading the way’

  18-09-2017 21:26
  As the United States prepares to exit the Paris climate agreement under President Donald Trump, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is in New York and Connecticut to push for solutions, some at the state level, to climate change.
  
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• Seattle City Council picks Tim Burgess to replace Bruce Harrell as temporary mayor

  18-09-2017 21:04
  Harrell has been serving as mayor since Sept. 13, when Ed Murray resigned amid growing allegations that he sexually abused multiple teenagers decades ago.
  
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• City Council to pick another Seattle mayor today — the third in less than a week

  18-09-2017 21:04
  The Seattle City Council will attempt Monday afternoon to pick another of its members to replace Council President Bruce Harrell as the temporary mayor.
  
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• Swastika-wearing man punched on Seattle street, removes swastika, police say

  18-09-2017 20:55
  Seattle police are responding Monday to a viral video of a man wearing a swastika armband getting punched in downtown Seattle. Police said they they received several reports Sunday of a man wearing a swastika instigating fights at Third Avenue and Pine Street. Police said they were on the scene within five minutes and found […]
  
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• Police gear up for arrest of Bellevue man with gun powder

  18-09-2017 20:52
  The man was arrested without incident after police ordered him out of his home around midnight.
  
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• Earth sweltered to 3rd hottest August, summer on record

  18-09-2017 18:53
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth just sweated through the third hottest August and summer on record. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday the globe last month averaged 61.5 degrees (16.43 Celsius), which was a degree-and-a-half higher than the 20th century average, but behind 2016 and 2015. The average temperature for June through August was […]
  
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• Island County deputy fatally shoots armed man after standoff, struggle

  18-09-2017 18:47
  Deputies responded to the man’s Whidbey Island home after he shot and wounded a friend Sunday night.
  
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• Anti-Trump, anti-Nazi graffiti found on Tacoma school

  18-09-2017 18:32
  The painted messages at Stanley Elementary also included two images that could be pop-culture references. A district maintenance crew will paint over the graffiti.
  
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• Car hit by gunfire in Portland; 2 wounded

  18-09-2017 18:07
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland police say a man and a woman were wounded when their vehicle was sprayed with bullets in a gang-related shooting. Sgt. Chris Burley says officers applied a tourniquet to one of the victims Monday morning as paramedics responded to the scene. Both victims were taken to the hospital for treatment […]
  
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• Amazon to bring another 1,000 jobs to Oregon with 3rd fulfillment center

  18-09-2017 17:33
  PORTLAND, Ore. — Amazon has announced plans for a third Oregon fulfillment center. The company said Monday that online orders will be filled, packed and shipped at the center based in Portland, creating more than 1,000 full-time jobs. The online retail giant previously announced plans to put similar warehouses in Troutdale and Salem. Amazon says […]
  
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• Police say northern Idaho quarry remains belong to adult man

  18-09-2017 16:53
  COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — Authorities say human remains found in a northern Idaho rock quarry earlier this month are from a man older than 30 who was missing several teeth. Police in Coeur d’Alene told The Coeur d’Alene Press (http://bit.ly/2w3EcZ0 ) that two children were exploring when they found old articles of clothing along with […]
  
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• Washington state school reopens after 1 killed, 3 wounded

  18-09-2017 16:45
  ROCKFORD, Wash. (AP) — Students who ran in fear last week from a Washington state high school where a shooting left one dead and three wounded returned on Monday, with a counselor present in in every classroom. Retired teachers also showed up to offer support and help at the rural Freeman High School in the […]
  
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• Cops: Ammo, manifesto seized in school shooting suspect home

  18-09-2017 16:45
  SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Guns, ammunition, a Molotov cocktail and a school yearbook with pictures of faces marked with X’s were seized by police from the home of a Washington state high school sophomore accused of fatally shooting a classmate and wounding three other students, according to court documents filed in the case. Investigators last […]
  
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• WWF files Greece lawsuit over pollution from tanker sinking

  18-09-2017 16:14
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The World Wildlife Fund has filed a lawsuit in Greece over extensive pollution along Athens’ coastline following the sinking of a tanker near the country’s largest port of Piraeus. The environmental group’s Greek branch filed the lawsuit Monday against “anyone found responsible,” a common legal practice in Greece when the culprit […]
  
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• World Wildlife Fund sues over Greece oil spill from tanker

  18-09-2017 16:14
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The World Wildlife Fund filed a lawsuit Monday over extensive pollution to the coastline outside Athens following the sinking of a tanker near Greece’s largest port. The environmental group’s Greek branch filed the lawsuit in the port city of Piraeus against “anyone found responsible,” a common practice when a party that […]
  
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• We got more rain in the Seattle area yesterday than we did nearly all summer long

  18-09-2017 16:10
  Get ready, get set, go. And by go, I mean go find your rain jacket. Seattle-area residents on Sunday got more rain in a short stretch during the afternoon than was seen through most of the summer, according to Dustin Guy, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Seattle. “During a three-hour period between 2 and […]
  
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• No sole factor found in cluster of fatal birth defects in Central Washington

  18-09-2017 15:35
  YAKIMA — State health officials investigating a cluster of fatal birth defects in Central Washington have not been able to identify a cause for most of the cases. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports that the state Department of Health concluded that there was no sole factor to blame for the elevated rates of anencephaly, a rare […]
  
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• Neighbors in Pacific battle Honey Bucket operation over smell

  18-09-2017 15:00
  Four residents of Pacific claim in a lawsuit filed in Pierce County Superior Court that since a Honey Bucket operation expanded in their neighborhood, the odors, gases and fumes have exacerbated their asthma, caused headaches and devalued their properties.
  
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• Metro is expanding bus service in Seattle and King County beginning Saturday

  18-09-2017 15:00
  A sales tax and a car-tab hike approved by Seattle voters in 2014 are helping fund increased bus service on dozens of routes throughout the city. Increased service across King County will launch Saturday.
  
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• Let’s get something straight: Pedestrians always have the right of way at intersections

  18-09-2017 15:00
  We explain the rule and share people’s crosswalk stories. Reoccurring complaint? People crossing streets while looking at their phones.
  
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• APNewsBreak: Water project’s cost falls to more Californians

  18-09-2017 14:57
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Water districts and households across California could be compelled to help pay for Gov. Jerry Brown’s plans to build two giant tunnels to ferry water to cities and farms mainly in central and Southern California, under newly revealed plans to shore up funding for the struggling $16 billion project. The tougher […]
  
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• APNewsBreak: Millions of Californians on hook for water plan

  18-09-2017 14:57
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Water districts and households across California could be compelled to help pay for Gov. Jerry Brown’s plans to build two giant tunnels to ferry water to cities and farms mainly in central and Southern California, under newly disclosed plans to shore up funding for the struggling $16 billion project. The tougher […]
  
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• Body of pot-shop employee found days after he was kidnapped in Washington state

  18-09-2017 14:00
  SPOKANE, Wash. — Police say the body of a Cheney marijuana shop employee was found days after he was kidnapped outside of work. The Spokesman-Review reports that Spokane County Rescue found Cameron Smith’s body Friday afternoon off state Route 904 near Four Lakes. Police say his body was concealed in “heavy cover” several feet from […]
  
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• A soon-to-be empty nester wants help finding her second career

  18-09-2017 14:00
  As part of Education Lab IQ, Janet Carson, whose youngest child will be in college next year, asked where she could get help finding resources to help her starting a second career.
  
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• Michigan State using grant to boost yield of biofuel crop

  18-09-2017 11:39
  EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University is using a federal grant to explore ways to boost the yield of a biofuel crop that could offer environmental and agricultural benefits. The East Lansing school says it will lead a $10 million U.S. Energy Department grant to study the metabolism and genes of the camelina […]
  
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• Family faces future where son will always feel hungry

  18-09-2017 10:05
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Evan Brenneman doesn’t know it yet, but there will come a day when he will be hungry, and no matter how much he eats, he will never feel full. Natalie Brenneman dreads that day and the days that follow. Evan, who turns 2 in December, was born with Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare, […]
  
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• Alaska Native interns with NASA, helps with Mars mission

  18-09-2017 08:43
  BETHEL, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska Native interned with NASA this summer and was tasked with helping the administration get its next orbiter mission to Mars. KYUK-FM reports (http://bit.ly/2fdYpbC ) that Bethel resident Christopher Liu, an electrical engineering graduate student at Stanford University, worked on something called the missed thrust problem. It was Liu’s job […]
  
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• Magnitude 5.1 earthquake shakes Alaska, British Columbia

  18-09-2017 08:39
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A Magnitude 5.1 earthquake shook Alaska about 135 miles (217 kilometers) northwest of the state’s capital city Juneau. Coincidentally, the City and Borough of Juneau’s Disaster Preparedness Expo was winding down as the earthquake hit Saturday afternoon. No damage was immediately reported. The National Weather Service stated there was no tsunami […]
  
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• Literally lousy: Parasite plagues world’s farmed-salmon industry

  18-09-2017 07:06
  A surge of parasitic sea lice is disrupting salmon farms around the world. The tiny lice attach themselves to salmon and feed on them, killing or rendering them unsuitable for dinner tables.
  
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• Any lice with that salmon? Parasite plagues global industry

  18-09-2017 07:06
  ST. ANDREWS, New Brunswick (AP) — Salmon have a lousy problem, and the race to solve it is spanning the globe. A surge of parasitic sea lice is disrupting salmon farms around the world. The tiny lice attach themselves to salmon and feed on them, killing or rendering them unsuitable for dinner tables. Meanwhile, wholesale […]
  
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• Dangerous propellant is key to success of North Korean missile program

  18-09-2017 02:42
  Intelligence officials believe that the North’s program has advanced to the point where it is no longer as reliant on outside suppliers, and that it may itself be making the deadly fuel, known as UDMH.
  
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• Jellyfish clogging Italy’s warming seas. Can’t beat ’em? eat ’em

  18-09-2017 02:18
  The jellyfish invasion has now reached the point where there may be little to do but find a way to live with huge numbers of them, scientists say. One researcher thinks the answer is to eat them, as Japanese and Chinese diners do.
  
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• Manager stabs man during fight at Des Moines McDonald’s

  18-09-2017 01:57
  Police say a fast-food manager stabbed someone with a pocket knife during a melee after a group refused to leave.
  
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