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• Seattle transportation director Scott Kubly won’t be Austin’s city manager

  11-12-2017 23:46
  SDOT Director Scott Kubly had been among six finalists who traveled to Austin last week for interviews. Kubly’s status at the helm of SDOT remains uncertain under new Mayor Jenny Durkan.
  
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• Teen suspected of shooting 2 near Graham school arrested

  11-12-2017 23:17
  Authorities say the shooting happened at the site of a prearranged fight between one of the suspects and a Graham-Kapowsin High School student.
  
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• Woman impaled by limb when tree falls on house in Oregon

  11-12-2017 21:56
  CORBETT, Ore. (AP) — A tree has fallen into a house near Portland, Oregon, impaling a woman who was inside. The incident happened Sunday night in Corbett. The 65-year-old woman had a tree limb in her lower torso. A rescue crew secured the limb and evacuated the woman, who was conscious, to a hospital. A […]
  
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• Washington state Rep. Matt Manweller placed on leave at CWU job

  11-12-2017 21:23
  Central Washington University said Monday it is investigating the conduct of state Rep. Matt Manweller and has placed him on administrative leave from his job as a political science professor. Officials at the Ellensburg school declined to discuss the details of the investigation or what prompted it.  Manweller, who has taught at the university since […]
  
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• Fatal crash on I-5 in Seattle possibly linked to road rage, police say

  11-12-2017 21:04
  Police say the victim's SUV and another vehicle were reported to have been involved in a road-rage incident before the Sunday morning wreck.
  
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• Trump wants to send man back to moon, on to Mars

  11-12-2017 20:56
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wants to send man back to the moon — and on to Mars. Trump signed a policy directive Monday instructing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to “refocus America’s space program on human exploration and discovery.” The move, Trump said, “marks an important step in returning American astronauts to […]
  
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• Mining to resume at nuke waste dump for 1st time since leak

  11-12-2017 20:49
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Officials at the nation’s only underground nuclear waste repository are flipping the switch on an interim ventilation system this week, allowing mining to resume for the first time since a 2014 radiation release contaminated part of the facility. Still, they caution it will take a few years and cost hundreds of […]
  
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• “Help me,” kidnapped woman mouths, is rescued

  11-12-2017 19:35
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A man authorities say kidnapped a woman and her child and held them at their home has been arrested after he took her to a store and she mouthed the words “help me” to several people. Christopher Hahn-Collins, 25, of Salem, is scheduled for a hearing Monday afternoon at Marion County […]
  
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• SpaceX launching recycled rocket, supply capsule for NASA

  11-12-2017 19:21
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space Age hand-me-downs are soaring to a whole new level. On Tuesday, SpaceX plans to launch its first rocket for NASA. The unmanned Falcon 9 — last used in June — will carry up a Dragon capsule that’s also flown on a previous space station supply run. NASA’s International Space […]
  
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• Twin Falls charter school considers expansion project

  11-12-2017 17:51
  TWIN FALLS, Idaho — A free public charter school in Twin Falls is low on classroom space, prompting a committee to consider how to accommodate increasing student enrollment. The Times-News reports that Xavier Charter School has become overcrowded with about 700 K-12 students and a waiting list of nearly 300 children a decade after opening. […]
  
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• Dollar Tree co-founder Macon Brock dead at 75

  11-12-2017 17:21
  VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Macon Brock, a retailer who co-founded the Dollar Tree chain of discount stores that grew into a Fortune 500 company, has died. He was 75. News outlets report Brock died Saturday at his home in Virginia Beach. His wife said he died of complications from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease. […]
  
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• Woman dies after early-morning house fire in Salem

  11-12-2017 17:05
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A woman has died following a house fire in Salem. The Statesman Journal reports that more than a dozen firefighters responded to reports of smoke billowing out of the home early Sunday morning. Firefighters noticed fire in the back portion of the building, entered the home and knocked the fire down […]
  
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• Woman says she complained about Washington state Rep. Manweller’s conduct this year

  11-12-2017 15:00
  After a dinner in Olympia with state Rep. Matt Manweller, a legislative staff member complained about his conduct. Manweller said he was just being polite and helping the woman find a job.
  
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• Woman says she complained about state lawmaker’s conduct this year

  11-12-2017 15:00
  After a dinner in Olympia with state Rep. Matt Manweller, a legislative staff member complained about his conduct. Manweller said he was just being polite and helping the woman find a job.
  
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• Tips for getting around Seattle safely, on foot and behind the wheel

  11-12-2017 15:00
  We’ve compiled tips and tricks for getting around safely and lawfully, ranging from rules on parking to pedestrian do’s and don’ts at intersections.
  
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• A lost ship, a billionaire’s discovery and what a Seattle woman learned about the father she never knew

  11-12-2017 15:00
  Jae Anderson’s father died on the USS Indianapolis weeks before the end of World War II and months before she was born. After a team led by Paul Allen found the ship this year, she answered a question she’d always had about her father: What are parts of him are parts of me?
  
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• This week we’ll be on Reddit answering questions about gifted education in Washington

  11-12-2017 14:00
  The term “gifted” is a loaded one. Education Lab reporter Claudia Rowe will be on the r/SeattleWA subreddit to answer your questions about what being gifted means in Washington’s classrooms.
  
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• Rethinking Electric Power, Prompted by Politics and Disaster

  11-12-2017 12:35
  On the West Coast, a center for alternative energy technology, researchers see opportunities for new ideas in Puerto Rico’s wrecked power grid and Washington’s turn from climate policy.
  
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• Snow wreaks havoc on travelers in Britain; schools closed

  11-12-2017 10:41
  LONDON (AP) — Snow and wintry weather are still wreaking havoc on travelers in Britain, with flights cancelled, roads sheathed in ice and rail travel disrupted. With temperatures dropping overnight as low as minus 11.6 Celsius (11 degrees Fahrenheit), hundreds of schools were closed Monday. Europe’s largest airport, Heathrow, warned Monday that some flights would […]
  
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• US Nobel laureate fears US politics could undermine science

  11-12-2017 09:51
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — An American scientist who shared this year’s Nobel Prize for medicine bluntly criticized political developments at home in his address at the awards’ gala banquet, saying that U.S. scientists are facing funding cutbacks that will hurt research. Michael Rosbash, who was honored for his work on circadian rhythms — commonly called the […]
  
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• France to name winners of anti-Trump climate change grants

  11-12-2017 09:42
  PARIS (AP) — Several U.S.-based climate scientists are about to win multi-year, all-expenses-paid grants to relocate to France. The “Make Our Planet Great Again” grants are an effort by French President Emmanuel Macron to counter U.S. President Donald Trump on the climate change front. Macron announced a competition for the grants hours after Trump declared […]
  
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• France to lure climate scientists with lucrative ‘Make Our Planet Great Again’ awards

  11-12-2017 09:42
  PARIS (AP) — Several U.S.-based climate scientists are about to hit the jackpot, as French President Emmanuel Macron prepares to award them multiyear, all-expenses-paid grants to relocate to France. The “Make Our Planet Great Again” grants are part of Macron’s efforts to counter U.S. President Donald Trump on the climate change front. Macron announced a […]
  
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• France names winners of anti-Trump climate change grants

  11-12-2017 09:42
  PARIS (AP) — Eighteen climate scientists from the U.S. and elsewhere hit the jackpot Monday as French President Emmanuel Macron awarded them millions of euros in grants to relocate to France for the rest of Donald Trump’s presidential term. The “Make Our Planet Great Again” grants — a nod to Trump’s “Make America Great Again” […]
  
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• Subway paleontology: LA construction unearths fossil trove

  11-12-2017 09:12
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — As part of the crew digging a subway extension under the streets of Los Angeles, Ashley Leger always keeps her safety gear close by. When her phone buzzes, she quickly dons a neon vest, hard hat and goggles before climbing deep down into a massive construction site beneath a boulevard east […]
  
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• Los Angeles subway work uncovers array of Ice Age fossils

  11-12-2017 09:12
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — As part of the crew digging a subway extension under the streets of Los Angeles, Ashley Leger always keeps her safety gear close by. When her phone buzzes, she quickly dons a neon vest, hard hat and goggles before climbing deep down into a massive construction site beneath a boulevard east […]
  
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• A cafe where no one is homeless: one solution to youth on Seattle streets

  11-12-2017 09:00
  Homeless youth are often kicked out of cafes in the cold winter months when it’s not easy to be outside. Yet in the U District, many youth don’t choose to take shelteror access services. So advocates are experimenting with opening a cafe for them.
  
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• Renton-based Providence in talks for massive hospital merger with Ascension

  11-12-2017 04:41
  Sources say Providence St. Joseph Health is exploring a merger with Ascension Health that would create a U.S. hospital network of unprecedented size.
  
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• $43 million public high school finds home on Oracle’s campus

  11-12-2017 02:00
  Putting a charter school on the campus of a tech giant is a new twist on the evolving relationship between big tech companies and schools.
  
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• Oregon pot shops say Nazi-linked mix-up causing harassment

  11-12-2017 00:27
  EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Two Oregon pot shops say they’re getting harassed for having a similar name to another marijuana business owned by a white nationalist. The Register-Guard reports that Oregon Growers Analytical, known as OG Analytical, is a state-accredited marijuana testing lab, whose owner has been linked to white pride events and neo-Nazi groups. […]
  
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• 2 wolves shot in Eastern Washington; poachers feared

  11-12-2017 00:15
  Two wolves were killed last month in northeastern Washington; conservationists offer $10,000 reward while county official doubts poachers at fault.
  
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