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• Whole Foods closing its 365 store in Bellevue

  12-10-2017 23:34
  The store in Bellevue Square is closing just a year after it opened.
  
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• Whole Foods closing 365 store in Bellevue

  12-10-2017 23:34
  The store in Bellevue Square is closing just a year after it opened.
  
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• State Supreme Court rules theft of lawnmower not auto theft

  12-10-2017 23:15
  The high court's ruling Thursday affirmed an appellate court ruling in the case of a man charged after allegedly trying to steal a riding lawnmower from a property outside Leavenworth in 2015.
  
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• Trump’s executive order on health care blasted by Washington state officials

  12-10-2017 21:55
  Local reaction to President Trump's executive order regarding health care ranged from forcefully opposed to wait-and-see.
  
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• Readers’ responses: How do you use your bike lights, reflectors?

  12-10-2017 21:44
  “The only way to not blind the oncoming biker is to put my hand over the light when we are close,” one cyclist said. Traffic Lab spotlighted the equipment required by law for night riding earlier this week.
  
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• New UW computer science and engineering building named for Bill and Melinda Gates

  12-10-2017 21:34
  Bill Gates and Paul Allen were once the bad boys of the University of Washington’s computer science lab. Now, the school’s buildings are named in their honor.
  
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• Washington state sending firefighters, trucks to help in California

  12-10-2017 21:24
  Their own marathon wildfire season is winding up, so Washington state firefighting crews are heading down to help in Northern California.
  
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• Washington state sending crews, fire engines to help in California

  12-10-2017 21:24
  Their own marathon wildfire season is winding up, so Washington state firefighting crews are heading down to help in Northern California.
  
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• Police put hoods, earmuffs on protesters detained outside Portland ICE facility

  12-10-2017 20:30
  Portland police Sgt. Chris Burley said the hoods and ear protection were used because officers initially believed they needed spark-prone power tools to separate the protesters.
  
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• Another El Nino problem: More carbon dioxide in air

  12-10-2017 20:19
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A NASA satellite has found another thing to blame on El Nino: A recent record high increase of carbon dioxide in the air. A study published Thursday in the journal Science found that the super-sized El Nino a couple of years ago led to an increase of 2.5 billion tons of carbon […]
  
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• Collared wolf OR-33 shot dead northwest of Klamath Falls

  12-10-2017 18:43
  A collared gray wolf known as OR-33 was illegally killed in southern Oregon, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is asking the public to help solve the crime.
  
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• Expect sunshine this weekend — then our wet, rainy season begins, forecasters say

  12-10-2017 16:09
  Whatever you need to do outside, do it this weekend. Sun is forecast in the afternoons on both Saturday and Sunday, making this possibly the last sunny and dry weekend before the real rainy season begins, probably next week. The National Weather Service says the showers experienced in much of the Puget Sound this week […]
  
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• Washington fishermen are on front lines in fight against proposed Alaska mine

  12-10-2017 15:00
  Washington fishermen are at the forefront of the opposition to a proposed mine in the headwaters of the Bristol Bay region that sustains the world’s largest sockeye salmon runs.
  
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• Trump’s EPA decision on Alaska mining project reignites battle over protecting wild salmon

  12-10-2017 15:00
  Washington fishermen are at the forefront of the opposition to a proposed mine in the headwaters of the Bristol Bay region that sustains the world’s largest sockeye salmon runs.
  
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• Suspects’ phones led Northwest investigators to carcasses in one of the biggest poaching cases they’ve ever seen.

  12-10-2017 15:00
  A remote wildlife camera in Oregon led officers to the suspects. Then texts, videos and social-media posts on the suspects’ phones led the officers into the forest. (Note: Some people may find images disturbing.)
  
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• Seattle cathedral’s bells strike spiritual tones

  12-10-2017 15:00
  There’s far more to bell-ringing than knowing the ropes. There’s individual style married with religious intent. John Cox, with Saint Spiridon Orthodox Cathedral, says there’s a bell-ringer in California known as the Miles Davis of ringers. Cox says his approach is more like Viktor Kotelnikov of Moscow with “a measured, steady beat, with improvisation. It’s […]
  
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• Report: Family of 4 needs $76,000 just to ‘scrape by’ in Seattle

  12-10-2017 15:00
  The amount a family of four needs to scrape by in Seattle has risen 86 percent since 2001, and has increased at more than twice the rate of the Consumer Price Index.
  
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• Fish-farming company offered money for Lummi Nation’s silence about net pens, letters show

  12-10-2017 15:00
  Cooke Aquaculture offered the Lummi Nation a premium price for the fish it caught that had escaped from Cooke pens, in exchange for keeping silent about a ban on net pen Atlantic salmon farms in Washington. The tribe called the offer “insulting.”
  
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• Family of 4 needs $76,000 just to ‘scrape by’ in Seattle, new UW report says

  12-10-2017 15:00
  The amount a family of four needs to scrape by in Seattle has risen 86 percent since 2001, and has increased at more than twice the rate of the Consumer Price Index.
  
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• A millionaire can save kids, and so can communities

  12-10-2017 15:00
  Don’t give up on kids, just give them the boost they need.
  
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• Six Washington community colleges up for $1 million Aspen Prize

  12-10-2017 14:00
  Six Washington colleges are eligible for the Aspen Prize, which is awarded every other year to the nation’s top community college.
  
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• Russia postpones launch of cargo ship to space station

  12-10-2017 12:02
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Mission Control says the launch of an unmanned Russian cargo ship to the International Space Station has been postponed. The Mission Control didn’t immediately give the reason for the postponement of Thursday’s launch, which was announced minutes after the designated launch time at 12:32 Moscow time (0932 GMT). It said the […]
  
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• Volcanic eruption in Japan spreads ash in 4 cities, towns

  12-10-2017 07:12
  TOKYO (AP) — A volcano in southwestern Japan is erupting for the first time in six years and spread ash in nearby cities and towns Thursday. Japanese broadcaster TBS showed elementary school students wearing helmets and masks on the way to their school at the foot of the Shinmoedake volcano. Residents also described hearing rumbles […]
  
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• Rare photos by early NASA astronauts being auctioned off

  12-10-2017 06:34
  BOSTON (AP) — John Glenn was the first person to snap a photograph of Earth from outer space. Neil Armstrong took the first picture from the moon’s surface. The original prints of those are among 445 rare photos taken by American astronauts that are being sold by Skinner Auctioneers and Appraisers starting this week. The […]
  
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• Trump nominates AccuWeather CEO to head US weather agency

  12-10-2017 05:02
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has nominated the CEO of a private weather company to head the government agency that oversees the National Weather Service, an organization the nominee has at times clashed with. Barry Myers, who runs the pioneering weather firm AccuWeather, was chosen as undersecretary of Commerce and head of the National […]
  
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• Former Hanford manager gets $8M jury award for retaliation

  12-10-2017 04:19
  The Benton County jury made the award Tuesday to Julie Atwood, who resigned in 2013 from Mission Support Alliance, a contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy.
  
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• Foiled in Congress, Trump moves on his own to relax Obamacare standards

  12-10-2017 04:09
  President Donald Trump is expected to issue an order Thursday to allow the sale of health-insurance plans that are exempt from some Affordable Care Act rules.
  
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• Washington AG Ferguson seeks to challenge Trump’s 3rd travel ban

  12-10-2017 03:06
  The latest travel restrictions — which affect citizens of Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria and Yemen — go into effect Oct. 18.
  
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• Washington state Lottery director calls women “criers,” report says

  12-10-2017 02:15
  The report says Washington Lottery Director Bill Hanson didn’t deny treating women employees differently than their male counterparts, but said he didn’t “do it consciously.”
  
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• Veteran Seattle police detective fired in strip-club investigation

  12-10-2017 01:45
  An internal investigation revealed that Philip Wall, a longtime detective, used cocaine and provided marijuana-infused chocolates to a fellow officer, among other violations.
  
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• SpaceX launches communications satellite, lands booster

  12-10-2017 01:14
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX has launched and landed its second rocket in three days, this time from the U.S. East Coast. The unmanned Falcon — recycled following a February flight — blasted off with a communications satellite Wednesday evening from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Minutes later, the leftover booster landed on an offshore […]
  
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