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• China tells Vatican of crackdown on underground transplants

  14-03-2018 22:17
  ROME (AP) — Chinese health authorities have told a Vatican trafficking conference that Beijing’s efforts to crack down on illegal “underground” organ transplants have resulted in 220 arrests and 100 victims being rescued over the past 10 years. Dr. Haibo Wang, deputy chief of China’s organ donation and transplant foundation, provided the data as part […]
  
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• China tells Vatican it’s fighting illegal organ transplants

  14-03-2018 22:17
  ROME (AP) — Chinese health authorities told a Vatican trafficking conference that Beijing’s efforts to crack down on illegal “underground” organ transplants have resulted in 220 arrests and 100 victims being rescued over the past 10 years. Dr. Haibo Wang, deputy chief of China’s organ donation and transplant foundation, provided the data as part of […]
  
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• Off-duty Snohomish County deputy shocked with own Taser after confronting burglar

  14-03-2018 21:10
  The Snohomish County sheriff's sergeant attempted to arrest the man Saturday after he spent the night at the hangar he uses at the Arlington Municipal Airport.
  
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• Tim Eyman found in contempt over failure to hand over financial documents

  14-03-2018 20:58
  A Thurston County judge issued the contempt order and imposed a fine of $250 a day until Tim Eyman turns over documents sought by Attorney General Bob Ferguson.
  
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• PR executive Jay Rockey dies; promoted Seattle World’s Fair, mentored many followers

  14-03-2018 20:47
  Jay Rockey, message-crafter for the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, leaves a legacy of professionalism and mentorship that influenced generations of PR practitioners.
  
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• Lack of evidence put Hawking’s Nobel hopes in black hole

  14-03-2018 19:21
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Stephen Hawking won accolades from his peers for having one of the most brilliant minds in science, but he never got a Nobel Prize because no one has yet proven his ideas. The Nobel committee looks for proof, not big ideas. Hawking was a deep thinker — a theorist — and his […]
  
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• Co-pilot sues Alaska Airlines over alleged drugging, rape by flight captain during layover

  14-03-2018 18:51
  The lawsuit claims Alaska Airlines is liable for its captain’s alleged drugging and raping of the co-pilot during a June layover in Minneapolis, and for its subsequent failure to hold him accountable.
  
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• Here’s a look at some of the scenes from Seattle-area student walkouts protesting gun violence

  14-03-2018 18:31
  Our reporters and photographers captured the moment as students across the Seattle area walked out of school to protest gun violence on the one-month anniversary of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
  
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• Holmes surrenders Theranos, pays $500K after “massive fraud”

  14-03-2018 18:10
  NEW YORK (AP) — Elizabeth Holmes, a Stanford University dropout once billed as the “next Steve Jobs” has forfeited control Theranos, the blood testing startup she founded, and will pay $500,000 to settle charges that she oversaw a “massive fraud.” Under an agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, Holmes is barred from […]
  
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• Investigations begin into Ohio fertility clinic malfunction

  14-03-2018 17:34
  CLEVELAND (AP) — A fertility clinic where thousands of frozen embryos and eggs may have been destroyed in a storage tank failure is being investigated by two accreditation organizations and Ohio’s health department. It’s not clear yet what caused the malfunction on March 4 at the clinic run by University Hospitals in suburban Cleveland. It’s […]
  
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• Surgeons test glowing dyes to find hidden cancer cells

  14-03-2018 17:07
  Dyes are being tested to make cancer cells light up so surgeons can cut them out and give patients a better shot at survival. This may soon transform how hundreds of thousands of operations are done each year.
  
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• Photos: Students walk out across the nation to protest gun violence

  14-03-2018 16:35
  Thousands of students, emboldened by a growing protest movement over gun violence, walked out of their schools Wednesday in a nationwide demonstration, one month after a gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The 17-minute protests unfolding at hundreds of schools intended to pressure Congress to approve gun control […]
  
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• United mistakenly flies Kansas-bound dog to Japan

  14-03-2018 16:32
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — United Airlines says it’s investigating after mistakenly flying a Kansas family’s dog to Japan. KCTV reports that Kara Swindle and her two children flew from Oregon to Kansas City, Missouri, Tuesday on a United flight. They went to a cargo facility to pick up 10-year-old Irgo, a German shepherd, but were […]
  
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• New nickname for Pluto-explorer’s next target: Ultima Thule

  14-03-2018 16:12
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — There’s a new nickname for the icy world next up for the spacecraft that explored Pluto: Ultima Thule (THOO-lee). NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is headed toward a New Year’s Day encounter with this mysterious object or two, 1 billion miles beyond Pluto on the fringes of our solar system. Its […]
  
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• 5 Pi Day deals to help you celebrate the famous, irrational number

  14-03-2018 15:19
  There are plenty of places to get some inexpensive pie in the Seattle area on Pi day, celebrated predictably on March 14.
  
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• 4 Pi Day deals to help you celebrate the famous, irrational number

  14-03-2018 15:19
  There are plenty of places to get some inexpensive pie in the Seattle area on Pi day, celebrated predictably on March 14.
  
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• ‘We have nothing to lose’: Seattle-area students join nationwide walkouts in push for stricter gun control

  14-03-2018 15:01
  Students across the region are joining peers nationwide Wednesday in the massive protest. Follow our reporters and photographers for the latest.
  
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• How Seattle-area students, teachers and administrators are handling walkouts over gun violence

  14-03-2018 14:30
  Some Seattle-area school schools are planning events alongside the 17-minute walkouts planned at schools across the nation.
  
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• Puget Sound Energy’s blame game misses its mark in Greenwood gas blast

  14-03-2018 14:00
  Two years after a natural-gas explosion blew the heart out of Greenwood, Puget Sound Energy is still blaming others. Including — by mistake, they say — an innocent victim of the blast.
  
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• Critically endangered orcas have governor’s, tribe’s attention

  14-03-2018 14:00
  Gov. Jay Inslee is expected to announce a plan and a task force aimed at saving and protecting the critically endangered southern resident killer whales, whose number has fallen from 98 animals in 1995 to 76 living today.
  
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• Students to walk out nationwide protesting gun violence

  14-03-2018 06:04
  Empower, the youth wing of the Women's March, group urged students to leave class at 10 a.m. local time for 17 minutes — one minute for each victim in the Florida shooting -- and suggested demands for lawmakers, including an assault-weapons ban and mandatory background checks for all gun sales.
  
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• ‘Enough is enough’: US students walk out over gun violence

  14-03-2018 06:04
  Empower, the youth wing of the Women's March, group urged students to leave class at 10 a.m. local time for 17 minutes — one minute for each victim in the Florida shooting -- and suggested demands for lawmakers, including an assault-weapons ban and mandatory background checks for all gun sales.
  
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• Stephen Hawking, physicist who came to symbolize the power of the human mind, dies at 76

  14-03-2018 05:12
  Stephen Hawking, the British theoretical physicist who overcame a devastating neurological disease to probe the greatest mysteries of the cosmos and become a globally celebrated symbol of the mind's power, died Wednesday at his home in England.
  
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• Family spokesman says physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76

  14-03-2018 04:55
  LONDON (AP) — Family spokesman says physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.
  
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• Kent School District to lay off 127 employees, 9 administrators in the next school year

  14-03-2018 02:23
  It was not immediately clear what staff positions — ranging from teachers to secretaries to librarians — would be eliminated across the district's 42 schools.
  
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• T. Berry Brazelton, pediatrician who soothed generations of parents, dies at 99

  14-03-2018 01:50
  T. Berry Brazelton, a pediatrician whose best-selling guides to child-rearing soothed generations of parents, assuring them that they need not seek perfection and that the answers to many of their questions lay before them in their children’s behavior, died March 13 at his home in Barnstable, Massachusetts. He was 99. His daughter-in-law, Jennifer Brazelton, confirmed […]
  
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• Among glimmers of hope, stubborn problems persist in South King County schools

  14-03-2018 01:47
  Road Map’s annual report card measuring school results for South King County students shows reasons to be hopeful for younger students, but major holes in college preparation among older kids.
  
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• Mayor Durkan will ask Seattle departments for budget cuts

  14-03-2018 01:16
  Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan will ask city’s departments to trim their budgets by 2 to 5 percent for next year. She hinted at the plan in a speech last month.
  
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• Star Wars? President Trump proposes military space force

  14-03-2018 01:08
  WASHINGTON (AP) — America should create its own separate military space force, President Donald Trump mentioned in an offhand remark Tuesday that would change the course of U.S. space policy. But don’t expect Captain Kirk ordering phasers set on stun, Battlestar Galactica or ray guns blazing in orbit in the near future, space experts said. […]
  
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• Dog days at CenturyLink Field

  14-03-2018 01:02
  The Seattle Kennel Club Dog Show took place March 10-11 at CenturyLink Field. There were more than 1400 total entries, with 160 breeds and varieties featured.
  
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• Edmonds snowmobiler killed in avalanche near Mount Baker

  14-03-2018 00:34
  Seven people have been killed by avalanches in Washington state since Feb. 25.
  
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