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• Police: Auburn detective shoots man after he crashes stolen car

  29-11-2017 23:43
  Few details were immediately available, but the department reported that no officers were injured and they aren't looking for a suspect.
  
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• Auburn police involved in shooting

  29-11-2017 23:43
  Few details were immediately available, but the department reported that no officers were injured and they aren't looking for a suspect.
  
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• Seattle’s new mayor, Jenny Durkan, names her City Hall team

  29-11-2017 23:23
  Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s new team includes a former ferries boss, holdovers from Ed Murray’s administration and political operatives with connections to top lobbying firms and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
  
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• Several injured after Bellingham bus jumps curb, hits shelter

  29-11-2017 23:15
  Firefighters evaluated two passengers and two bystanders and took two people to a hospital.
  
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• DNA analysis solves the ‘Yeti’ mystery: They’re bears

  29-11-2017 23:03
  After analyzing nine purported Yeti specimens, scientists found that the preserved “Yetis” were in fact bears. But they discovered some cool stuff about the bears of the Himalayas.
  
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• Reader responses: How do you feel about water-taxi network in Puget Sound?

  29-11-2017 22:12
  Transit leaders want to diversify Puget Sound ferry service, whether via public agencies or private companies. Here is what some of our readers think about the idea.
  
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  29-11-2017 22:08
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• Harassment-folo

  29-11-2017 22:08
  BELLINGHAM — It started with pornographic emails her boss sent from the House floor, according to Elisabeth Britt, and escalated to verbal abuse, threats and physical assaults before the aide to state Rep. Jim Dunn quit. By her last day in 1999, when she left the legislative aide position she considered a dream job, “my […]
  
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• Uber offers discounted rides from Eastside park-and-ride lots to Seahawk games

  29-11-2017 21:23
  Uber will offer discounted, flat-rate rides between two Eastside park-and-ride lots and CenturyLink Field on Seahawk game days for the rest of the year. The deal comes after the Seahawks canceled shuttle service from the Eastside.
  
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• Expanding DNA’s alphabet lets cells produce novel proteins

  29-11-2017 19:48
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists are expanding the genetic code of life, using man-made DNA to create a semi-synthetic strain of bacteria — and new research shows those altered microbes actually worked to produce proteins unlike those found in nature. It’s a step toward designer drug development. One of the first lessons in high school biology: […]
  
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• Man dead after officer-involved shooting in Spokane, police say

  29-11-2017 19:28
  Police say the man began firing at two officers while they were sitting in their patrol cars as they responded to a domestic violence situation.
  
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• Blaze destroys Lynnwood-area home with armed man inside

  29-11-2017 19:18
  When firefighters arrived, they found evidence the man was inside a vehicle in the garage, armed with a gun. Firefighting efforts were suspended to avoid any danger to the crew.
  
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• Belmiro de Azevedo, top Portuguese entrepreneur, dies at 79

  29-11-2017 19:05
  LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Belmiro de Azevedo, one of Portugal’s most successful businessmen who built his company Sonae into an international conglomerate, has died. He was 79. In a statement Wednesday, his company said Azevedo died Wednesday, but gave no further details. Azevedo, who had been ill for several years, became boss of the Sonae […]
  
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• Seattle man sentenced to 55 years for killing mother, stepfather in South Park

  29-11-2017 18:58
  Richard Parenteau Jr. was convicted earlier this month of two counts of first-degree murder for beating and suffocating Linda Parenteau, 70, and attacking David Wells, 69, with an ax after the couple told him he had to move out of their house.
  
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• Seattle man sentenced to 55 years for killing mother, stepfather in 2014

  29-11-2017 18:58
  Richard Parenteau Jr. was convicted earlier this month of two counts of first-degree murder for beating and suffocating Linda Parenteau, 70, and attacking David Wells, 69, with an ax after the couple told him he had to move out of their house.
  
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• Arizona State University joins consortium building telescope

  29-11-2017 18:26
  TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona State University is joining an international consortium building a large new optical telescope in Chile. Director Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State’s School of Earth and Space Exploration says participation in the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization is a leap forward institutionally for the university. The university says in a news release […]
  
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• US adopts recovery plan for Mexican wolves, lawsuit planned

  29-11-2017 18:01
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — After decades of legal challenges and political battles that have pitted states against the federal government, U.S. wildlife managers on Wednesday finally adopted a plan to guide the recovery of a wolf that once roamed parts of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. The plan sets a goal of having an […]
  
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• APNewsBreak: US adopts recovery plan for Mexican wolves

  29-11-2017 18:01
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — After decades of legal challenges and political battles that have pitted states against the federal government, U.S. wildlife managers on Wednesday finally adopted a plan to guide the recovery of a wolf that once roamed parts of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. The plan sets a goal of having an […]
  
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• Idaho National Laboratory upgrades power grid testing area

  29-11-2017 17:24
  IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Idaho National Laboratory’s electric grid testing area underwent recent upgrades to its infrastructure, allowing researchers to conduct full-scale experiments with new technology aimed at modernizing power systems. The Post Register reports the U.S. Department of Energy site in the desert west of Idaho Falls incorporated a wireless smart grid infrastructure […]
  
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• Drama flares at Seattle school-bus lot as striking driver jumps on hood

  29-11-2017 17:18
  At least one person jumped on the hood of a school bus that was leaving the Seattle lot as drivers picketed during a one-day strike. No one appeared to be injured.
  
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• Trump environmental picks headed to Senate confirmation vote

  29-11-2017 16:50
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican senators used their majority to advance two of President Donald Trump’s picks for key environmental posts over the objections of Democrats who say the nominees are unfit for office. The Environment and Public Works Committee voted along party lines Wednesday to send the nominations of Kathleen Hartnett White and Andrew Wheeler […]
  
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• Did your kids get a ride to school — or a day off? Let us know how you’re coping during Seattle’s school-bus strike

  29-11-2017 16:11
  Did your kids carpool or take a Lyft? Did you find a different, creative solution — or just throw up your hands and let them stay home for the day? We want to hear from you.
  
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• Trump is still trying to ban Muslim refugees — but in Washington state, he also got one elected

  29-11-2017 15:00
  Our state’s first Somali-refugee elected official, Zak Idan of Tukwila, says he was emboldened to run for office by the president’s travel ban.
  
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• Facebook Live Q&A: Join new Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan 1:30 p.m. Thursday

  29-11-2017 15:00
  Jenny Durkan faces tough challenges as Seattle's new leader. Affordable housing, the city's homeless crisis, and transportation woes are top concerns for residents. What are your most pressing questions?
  
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• Forest Service: Multnomah Falls Lodge to reopen this week

  29-11-2017 13:35
  PORTLAND — The U.S. Forest Service says the historic 92-year-old Multnomah Falls Lodge, closed for months by a fast-moving wildfire, is ready to open sometime this week. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Tuesday the reopening signals a milestone for officials working to get the public back into parts of the Columbia River Gorge affected by the blaze, […]
  
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• Yakima police kill suspect after convenience-store robbery, chase

  29-11-2017 10:50
  Police say the man fled in a car after the robbery and led officers on a chase with the suspect shooting at police vehicles.
  
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• Bali airport reopens, but volcano still spewing ash

  29-11-2017 08:19
  KARANGASEM, Indonesia (AP) — The airport on the Indonesian resort island of Bali reopened Wednesday after an erupting volcano forced its closure two days ago, but the country’s president said the danger had not passed and urged anyone within the mountain’s exclusion zone to get out “for the sake of their safety.” Volcanic ash reaching […]
  
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• Panel recommends reopening New England shrimp fishery

  29-11-2017 06:06
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An advisory group is recommending regulators reopen New England’s long-shuttered shrimp fishery next year. An arm of the regulatory Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission will decide on Wednesday in Portland if there will be a fishery this coming season. The advisory board’s recommendation clashes with an opinion from the commission’s technical […]
  
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• New England shrimp fishing closed for at least 1 more year

  29-11-2017 06:06
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — New England shrimp will be unavailable to seafood consumers for at least another year as the fishery struggles with environmental changes, regulators decided on Wednesday. An arm of the regulatory Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission made the decision at a meeting in Portland. New England shrimp fishing historically has been based […]
  
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• Decision due on whether New England shrimping can reopen

  29-11-2017 06:06
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A decision is due about whether New England’s long-shuttered shrimp fishery can reopen, but it looks like an extended shutdown is looming. New England shrimp fishing is based in Maine and has been shut down since 2013. An arm of the regulatory Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is meeting on Wednesday […]
  
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• Maine to release moth-eating flies to control invasive pest

  29-11-2017 06:05
  SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Forestry officials say they will set out parasitic flies in a Maine city to try to help control an invasive species of moth. The Maine Forest Service says the flies will be released in South Portland as part of an effort to get rid of winter moths. The flies are […]
  
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• UW students teach Alexa to have a little chat with us

  29-11-2017 04:02
  A University of Washington team has taken the grand prize in a competition to design a bot that can hold its own in a conversation.
  
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• Gotta dance! Toddler rocks at Magic in the Market

  29-11-2017 03:34
  Strum, Seattle's totally relaxed ukulele musicians, played at Pike Place Market’s 22nd annual Magic in the Market celebration Saturday.
  
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• Jenny Durkan sworn in as Seattle’s 1st female mayor since 1920s

  29-11-2017 01:09
  Durkan took the oath of office Tuesday afternoon. She was sworn in at the Ethiopian Community Center in Rainier Beach, the first of five neighborhood destinations as she planned to crisscross the city.
  
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• His Life Sentence for Robbery Was Commuted. Then, Police Say, He Killed Someone.

  29-11-2017 01:07
  Stonney Rivers spent 20 years in prison for robbery before the governor of Washington State granted him clemency in 2015. Now, he may again be sentenced to life in prison.
  
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• Reject oil-by-train terminal for Vancouver, Wash., state panel urges Gov. Inslee

  29-11-2017 00:29
  A Washington state energy council has recommended that Gov. Jay Inslee reject a permit for a crude-by-rail oil terminal at the Port of Vancouver.
  
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• Nuclear sludge at Hanford put in safer storage

  29-11-2017 00:08
  The sludge left over from the production of plutonium for nuclear weapons was transferred from the single-walled tanks into modern, double-walled tanks considered much safer, the U.S. Department of Energy says.
  
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• Sailor found dead on aircraft carrier in Bremerton

  29-11-2017 00:05
  Akiree Pointer, an engineman fireman recruit from Arlington, Texas, was found on the USS John C. Stennis and showed no obvious and apparent cause of death.
  
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• ‘I believe these women’: Seattle’s U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal calls for John Conyers’ resignation

  29-11-2017 00:01
  Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal of Seattle became the second House Democrat to call for the resignation of Michigan's Rep. John Conyers over allegations he sexually harassed women who worked for him.
  
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