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• Drive-thru democracy at work

  07-11-2017 23:20
  Sketched Nov. 7, 2017 More Seattle Sketcher Seattle Times news artist Gabriel Campanario has been capturing Seattle's places and people in hand-drawn sketches for more than a decade. To see past columns, visit the Seattle Sketcher home page. A selection of prints is available for sale through The Seattle Times store, or you may fill out an illustration […]
  
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• Apollo 12 astronaut Richard Gordon, who circled moon, dies at 88

  07-11-2017 21:58
  Seattle-born Richard "Dick" F. Gordon Jr. was a test pilot chosen in NASA's third group of astronauts in 1963. He died in California at age 88.
  
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• Apollo 12 astronaut Richard Gordon, who circled moon, dies

  07-11-2017 21:58
  Seattle-born Richard "Dick" F. Gordon Jr. was a test pilot chosen in NASA's third group of astronauts in 1963. He died in California at age 88.
  
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• Police seize 500 marijuana plants at Portland warehouse

  07-11-2017 19:25
  PORTLAND (AP) — Portland police acting on a tip discovered 16 people working in a marijuana-processing warehouse that investigators believe to be illegal. Sgt. Chris Burley said Tuesday that documents provided to investigators showed the marijuana was being grown for several patients under the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program. Burley says program guidelines would allow the […]
  
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• Hearing postponed on woman’s request for permanent protection order against Sheriff John Urquhart

  07-11-2017 19:19
  A woman who accused the King County sheriff of rape is seeking the order because she claims his office is disseminating her medical information to discredit her during his re-election campaign. Urquhart has denied the allegation.
  
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• Seattle lawsuit challenges bar on entry of refugee’s family

  07-11-2017 18:55
  The Des Moines man applied to have his wife and children join him after a years-long process, but due to President Donald Trump's various bans on travelers from certain nations and his suspension of the U.S. refugee program, they've been blocked from coming to the U.S.
  
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• With more snow forecast, Crystal Mountain could open for skiing Friday

  07-11-2017 18:46
  Weather systems Wednesday and Thursday could dump another 20 inches or more in the Cascades, the National Weather Service forecasts.
  
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• Wanted: Massachusetts marijuana inspector

  07-11-2017 18:03
  BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts is looking for an inspector for the state’s newest crop: marijuana. The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources has posted a job for an agricultural inspector for cannabis. A job description posted on the state’s website says it’s seeking someone to enforce laws and regulations involving hemp and marijuana. The person will […]
  
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• Wisconsin lawsuit blames drug makers for opioid crisis

  07-11-2017 18:00
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Nearly two dozen Wisconsin counties are suing makers of prescription painkillers, alleging in a federal lawsuit Tuesday that the companies’ “nefarious and deceptive” marketing campaigns precipitated the nation’s opioid overdose epidemic. The lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages and says the county health and law enforcement services “have been strained to the breaking […]
  
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• Live updates from Seattle mayor’s race, more Election Day 2017 results

  07-11-2017 17:26
  Follow our reporters and photographers as they gather reactions from voters and candidates, plus provide analysis so you know what’s happening and how it affects you.
  
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• Trump administration moves ahead with Obama menu-label law

  07-11-2017 17:18
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is moving ahead with Obama-era requirements to post calorie counts in restaurants, supermarkets, convenience stores and pizza delivery chains nationwide next year. Despite years of opposition by some food sellers, the Food and Drug Administration is offering only minor compromises to industry complaints about the difficulties of displaying calories […]
  
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• NASA seeks nickname for tiny, icy world on solar system’s edge

  07-11-2017 17:17
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Heads up, armchair travelers. NASA is seeking a nickname for a tiny, icy world on the edge of the solar system that’s the next destination for New Horizons, the spacecraft that surveyed Pluto. New Horizons whipped past Pluto two years ago. Now it’s headed for 2014 MU69 — gobbledygook to even […]
  
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• World Science Forum holds first Mideast conference in Jordan

  07-11-2017 17:01
  DEAD SEA, Jordan (AP) — The king of Jordan and the president of Hungary on Tuesday opened the World Science Forum, a biennial gathering of scientists and policy makers from around the world that is being held for the first time in the Middle East. Participants said science could pave a path to peace in […]
  
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• Drugstore pain pills as effective as opioids in ER patients

  07-11-2017 17:01
  CHICAGO (AP) — Emergency rooms are where many patients are first introduced to powerful opioid painkillers, but what if doctors offered over-the-counter pills instead? A new study tested that approach on patients with broken bones and sprains and found pain relievers sold as Tylenol and Motrin worked as well as opioids at reducing severe pain. […]
  
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• Idaho hunter found after vehicle goes off road

  07-11-2017 16:22
  WAREN, Idaho (AP) — Authorities in north-central Idaho say a missing hunter has been found dead outside his vehicle that went off the road. The Idaho County Sheriff’s Office in a news release Monday says family members found the body of 65-year-old Ernest Wright of Warren on Saturday on a U.S. Forest Service road about […]
  
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• Man gets death sentence for killing Idaho police sergeant

  07-11-2017 16:20
  COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — A man who prosecutors said was high on methamphetamine when he ambushed and killed an Idaho police sergeant was sentenced to death. District Judge Lansing Haynes imposed the death penalty Monday for Jonathan D. Renfro, who was found guilty of first-degree murder for killing Coeur d’Alene police Sgt. Greg Moore […]
  
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• Killer of Idaho police sergeant is sentenced to die

  07-11-2017 16:20
  COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — A convicted killer of an Idaho police sergeant was sentenced to death. The Coeur d’Alene Press reports District Judge Lansing Haynes imposed the death penalty Monday to Jonathan D. Renfro who was found guilty of first-degree murder for killing Coeur d’Alene police Sgt. Greg Moore two years ago. Haynes also meted […]
  
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• 2 people suspected in Pullman man’s death plead not guilty

  07-11-2017 16:15
  MOSCOW, Idaho — Two people suspected in the death of an 18-year-old man have pleaded not guilty to numerous charges. The Moscow-Pullman Daily News reports 17-year-old Keagan Tennant is accused of shooting and killing Timothy Reeves of Pullman during a camping trip in July. Eighteen-year-old Matthew McKetta is accused of helping Tennant hide Reeves’ body […]
  
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• Does Seattle area’s early, cold start to November mean we’re in for a big snow year?

  07-11-2017 16:09
  We saw some of the earliest snow ever recorded in a season this year. So what's the outlook for the rest of winter. Here's what the experts have to say.
  
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• Photos: Revamping Space Needle is like ‘building a ship inside a glass bottle’

  07-11-2017 15:29
  Construction for the reimagined observation deck and restaurant for the Space Needle will be complete in about six months.
  
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• Syria indicates it will sign Paris climate accord

  07-11-2017 15:18
  BERLIN (AP) — A Syrian official says the war-ravaged country plans to sign the Paris climate accord. Until now, it had been the only United Nations member state not to have done so. The move was announced Tuesday at a global climate meeting in Bonn, Germany. It means the United States would be the sole […]
  
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• Syria indicates it will join Paris climate accord

  07-11-2017 15:18
  BONN, Germany (AP) — Syria plans to join the Paris climate accord, an official from the war-ravaged country said Tuesday, a move that leaves the United States as the only United Nations member state not supporting the agreement. While the United States ratified the 2015 Paris Agreement last year, President Donald Trump announced in June […]
  
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• Highline district graduation rate increases by 4 percentage points

  07-11-2017 15:02
  Among Highline graduates, the rates among students of color in the King County district increased the most. Pacific Islander students had the biggest jump, with an increase of 31 percent from 2013 (47.9 percent) to 2017 (78.9 percent).
  
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• Yellowstone grizzlies may soon mingle with Glacier Park kin

  07-11-2017 15:00
  In a new paper, biologists say that as grizzly populations increase in both Glacier and Yellowstone, more adventurous males from both parks are journeying farther to stake out territory, winding up in places where they have not been seen in a century or more.
  
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• Will Seattle’s late voters lean left again?

  07-11-2017 15:00
  If past elections are a guide, late ballots in Seattle will come from substantially younger and more liberal voters. That swing may determine whether Jenny Durkan or Cary Moon wins the mayor’s race. Ballots in Washington state must be postmarked by Tuesday or placed in county dropboxes.
  
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• Hey, Election Day procrastinators. Spill coffee on your ballot? Wondering where’s your nearest dropbox? Read this.

  07-11-2017 15:00
  If you need a replacement ballot, want to find a dropbox, or need information on accessible voting centers,we've got you covered.
  
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• Back to the Future: Seattle soon will elect first female mayor in 91 years

  07-11-2017 15:00
  Seattle will elect a woman as mayor — either U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan or urban planner Cary Moon — for the first time since 1926.
  
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• Atlantic salmon net pen’s collapse followed earlier breakdown

  07-11-2017 15:00
  The collapse of a net pen full of farmed Atlantic salmon last August was preceded by a serious failure at the same pen less than a month earlier.
  
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• As wild salmon decline, Norway pressures its fish farms

  07-11-2017 15:00
  Norwegian fish farmers face new curbs designed to protect the country’s stocks of wild salmon, rules that have ignited anger from the industry and its opponents, prompting threats of court challenges from both sides.
  
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• Kenya male lions seen in intimate act; bonding, experts say

  07-11-2017 12:24
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Recent photos taken in a Kenyan wildlife area show a rare sight: a male lion mounting another male lion in what resembles a sexual act but is possibly a way of showing dominance. The spectacle of two wild male lions in such intimacy was also observed in Botswana last year and has […]
  
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• ‘It’s a real call to action:’ 170 women sign letter speaking out against harassment at the Washington Legislature

  07-11-2017 03:35
  The letter comes as the “#MeToo” movement has rippled across America, and as allegations surfaced last week of sexual harassment involving two former ex-lawmakers.
  
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• Seattle man convicted of luring teens, women into prostitution while posing as filmmaker

  07-11-2017 01:53
  David Delay, 51, faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced on numerous charges, including conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking, attempted sex trafficking of a juvenile through force, fraud or coercion and sex trafficking of adults through force, fraud or coercion.
  
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• Environmental groups suing over Oregon’s Willamette dams

  07-11-2017 00:54
  Wild steelhead returned to rivers such as the North Santiam and Molalla at such low numbers that state biologists say basin-wide extinction is a real possibility.
  
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