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• EPA reconsiders Washington state’s contentious water rules

  08-08-2018 23:18
  SEATTLE — The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering water-quality standards it approved for Washington state two years ago, taking up a review requested by industry groups. In November 2016, the EPA finalized water-quality standards for the state tied partly to how much fish people eat. The EPA approved some aspects of the state’s plan but […]
  
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• Pierce County prosecutor trails former chief deputy in primary, setting stage for tough general election campaign

  08-08-2018 23:11
  The result, an ominous sign for Prosecutor Mark Lindquist, suggests the hard-fought campaign will get nastier between now and November.
  
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• Colorado college reprinting up to 9.2K diplomas to fix typo

  08-08-2018 22:19
  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado university is offering to reprint up to 9,200 diplomas after the outgoing editor of the school newspaper found a big typo. Alec Williams was checking to make sure his name was spelled correctly on his Colorado Mesa University diploma when he noticed it said “Coard of Trustees” instead […]
  
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• Trump team blames wildfires on environmentalists, sparking a backlash

  08-08-2018 21:38
  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross are echoing the president in blaming this year's damaging fire season on environmentalists and their policies.
  
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• Famed California research center settles 2 gender bias suits

  08-08-2018 20:17
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in Southern California has settled two of three gender discrimination lawsuits filed by top female scientists. The renowned research center and two former plaintiffs, Kathy Jones and Vicki Lundblad, said in a statement Tuesday that they’ve agreed to “put our disagreements behind” and “move forward […]
  
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• Mandatory evacuations for wildfire near Entiat

  08-08-2018 19:25
  The fire is expected to continue growing over the next few days as temperatures rise into the triple digits.
  
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• ‘Considerable fog’ complicates search for ailing orca J50

  08-08-2018 19:00
  If J50 is found Wednesday, officials will seek to assess her health and possibly administer medicine.
  
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• Oregon man, 82, rebounds physically after years-long abuse

  08-08-2018 18:54
  MEDFORD, Ore. — Gary Bossingham of Medford has little left to his name after the years-long abuse he endured from a woman who was neither friend nor family. But as he laughs and flexes a muscle with the son his convicted abuser once told him had died, Bossingham now lives a life surrounded by love. […]
  
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• Rescuers free man trapped under truck for at least 2 days

  08-08-2018 18:53
  IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho man is recovering after being pinned underneath his truck for at least two days after it rolled into a ravine. Joe Rightmire’s sister, Tasha Goforth, found the 21-year-old pinned under the pickup near Idaho Falls on Monday night after he had been missing for several days. Idaho Falls […]
  
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• New Mexico gov hopefuls vow to help Trinity Test descendants

  08-08-2018 18:17
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates say want descendants of families who lived the Trinity Test to receive compensation from the U.S. government. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Rep. Steve Pearce, who currently both serve in the U.S. House of Representative, said this week they will continue as governor to […]
  
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• Yakima Valley under air-quality alert as wildfires spread smoke

  08-08-2018 18:04
  An air-quality alert is in effect through 10 a.m. Friday in the Yakima Valley, according to the National Weather Service.
  
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• UNC health textbook ditches claims about cancer, Holocaust

  08-08-2018 17:33
  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has revised a textbook for a required fitness course that called cancer “a disease of choice” and included a theory asserting Holocaust victims failed to tap into their inner strength. The News & Observer reports the university released a statement saying revisions to “21st […]
  
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• Olympic National Park, forests, impose fire restrictions

  08-08-2018 16:48
  PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — Fire restrictions go into effect Wednesday at Olympic National Park, Olympic National Forest and Mount Baker-Sqoualmie National Forest. The Olympian reports the coastal areas of Olympic National Forest are also included in the restricted zone. Campfires will be allowed only at developed campgrounds, picnic areas and rental cabins with cement […]
  
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• NRA, Second Amendment Foundation sue Edmonds over gun-storage law

  08-08-2018 16:12
  Under the Edmonds ordinance, gun owners face fines of as much as $10,000 for not keeping guns locked up safely.
  
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• Washington AG sues New York man, says he set up bogus charities here

  08-08-2018 15:28
  The 60-year-old man, is accused of setting up six fake nonprofits here, and establishing similar bogus charities in eight other states, all using variations on the names for the United Way, the American Cancer Society and the American Red Cross, according to the state's lawsuit.
  
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• Seattle mayor responds to Showbox preservation campaign, sends reps to meet with developer

  08-08-2018 15:00
  Mayor Jenny Durkan is signaling sympathy for the cause of saving the Showbox but is not ready to support legislation from City Councilmember Kshama Sawant to protect the music hall for at least two years by temporarily expanding the Pike Place Market Historic District.
  
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• Poland: Activists protest use of pesticide harmful to bees

  08-08-2018 14:55
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Environmentalists and beekeepers in Poland have staged a protest against the government’s authorization of a class of pesticides that the European Union says poses a serious risk to bees. Poland’s Agriculture Ministry said Wednesday the temporary permission it gave for the use of neonicotinoids on oilseed rape fields was a response […]
  
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• Red-hot voyage to sun will bring us closer to our star

  08-08-2018 14:34
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A red-hot voyage to the sun is going to bring us closer to our star than ever before. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will be the first spacecraft to “touch” the sun, hurtling through the sizzling solar atmosphere and coming within just 3.8 million miles (6 million kilometers) of the surface. […]
  
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• Watch with us: Tomorrow, state officials may approve a second for-profit private school in King County

  08-08-2018 14:00
  A nationwide for-profit, private secondary-school chain is seeking approval for a campus in Bellevue. State officials will decide on this and other issues during the State Board of Education meeting Aug. 9.
  
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• Battling 18 blazes, California may face worst fire season

  08-08-2018 08:00
  Some 14,000 firefighters from as far away as Florida and New Zealand are struggling to curb 18 fires in the midst of a sweltering summer that has seen wind-whipped flames carve their way through national forest land and rural areas, threaten urban areas and incinerate neighborhoods.
  
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• 14,000 firefighters, inmates to foreigners, aid California

  08-08-2018 08:00
  Some 14,000 firefighters from as far away as Florida and New Zealand are struggling to curb 18 fires in the midst of a sweltering summer that has seen wind-whipped flames carve their way through national forest land and rural areas, threaten urban areas and incinerate neighborhoods.
  
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• GOP tsunami sirens should be sounding as the blue wave arrives

  08-08-2018 07:18
  Donald Trump is now officially hanging around the necks of Republicans here, whether they like it or not. Voters gave the GOP a thrashing in our state’s primary Tuesday, one that reverberated all the way down the ballot.
  
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• Saving the orcas: meetings, meetings and more meetings

  08-08-2018 05:45
  Meetings and more meetings. Comments and more comments. Welcome to the Southern Resident Killer Whale Task Force that’s to come up with policy recommendations to help the distressed orcas.
  
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• Washington state primary election: GOP’s McMorris Rodgers, Herrera Beutler face tight races in November

  08-08-2018 05:44
  Republican House members Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Jaime Herrera Beutler are looking at tough general elections as each had less than half the vote on primary night. It was a good primary night for Washington state's Democrats, as all six incumbent House members had healthy leads.
  
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• In 8th District, Dino Rossi advances; Kim Schrier, Jason Rittereiser lead Democrats

  08-08-2018 05:30
  Rossi, who has lost three high-profile statewide elections in the last decade-and-a-half, advanced easily in Tuesday’s 8th Congressional District primary. His Democratic opponent this fall remains to be determined.
  
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• King County Automated Fingerprint Identification System levy passing in first-day returns

  08-08-2018 05:28
  The property tax-funded levy has been renewed by voters five times since 1986. It funds a centralized fingerprint-identification system maintained by the King County Sheriff’s Office and used by regional law enforcement.
  
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• U.S. Senate: Democrat Maria Cantwell to face Republican Susan Hutchison

  08-08-2018 05:21
  Cantwell was leading 28 primary-election challengers in Tuesday returns with 55 percent, while Hutchison was running second with 24 percent.
  
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• U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell crushes competition, will face Susan Hutchison in November

  08-08-2018 05:21
  Cantwell was leading 28 primary-election challengers in Tuesday returns with 55 percent, while Hutchison was running second with 24 percent.
  
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• One dead in head-on crash on Highway 18 involving wrong-way SUV

  08-08-2018 04:37
  The driver of an Acura TL died when he was driving Westbound and was hit front first by a Honda Pilot going Eastbound on the Westbound lane.
  
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• King County fined $118,500 for sewer-overflow violations

  08-08-2018 04:08
  Since 2013, both King County and the City of Seattle have been subject to consent decrees with the Environmental Protection Agency and state ecology department over sewage discharge.
  
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• Cashmere climber dies from injuries suffered in accidental fall on Forbidden Peak

  08-08-2018 02:21
  The National Park Service said the man initially survived the 100-foot fall, but succumbed to injuries before he could be taken off the mountain.
  
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• Alan Rabinowitz, champion of leopards, jaguars and other wild cats, dies at 64

  08-08-2018 02:16
  “The Indiana Jones of wildlife protection” had recently been a part of Journey of the Jaguar, a Panthera expedition covering about covering about 4,000 miles of the big cat's habitat.
  
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• Search for missing Seattle hiker goes into second week, with help from other agencies

  08-08-2018 01:55
  Law enforcement and search-and-rescue agencies from around the state continue to pull resources together to help search for Samantha Sayers, a Seattle woman who went on a solo hike near Vesper Peak last week and never returned. The search for Sayers, 27, is one of the longest for the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office in recent […]
  
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• Suspect suffers burns after Seattle police say he barricaded himself in ex-girlfriend’s RV, set fire to it

  08-08-2018 01:35
  A woman called 911 early Tuesday to report her ex-boyfriend had shown up to where her RV was parked in Seattle's Sodo neighborhood. The man locked himself inside the RV and set it on fire. He jumped out a window and was arrested.
  
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• Live updates and results from Washington state’s 2018 primary election

  08-08-2018 01:19
  Seattle Times reporters and photographers will provide live updates from watch parties in Bellevue, Auburn and Issaquah throughout the evening. Check back for results.
  
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• How it unfolded: Full coverage from Washington state’s 2018 primary election

  08-08-2018 01:19
  Seattle Times reporters and photographers dispatched live updates from watch parties in Bellevue, Auburn and Issaquah throughout the evening.
  
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• Walrus bones provide clues to fate of lost Viking colony

  08-08-2018 01:01
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Clues to the mystery of why Viking colonies in Greenland flourished and fell have been found in the DNA of medieval walrus bones housed in more than a dozen European museums. For almost 500 years, the Norse descendants of Erik the Red built churches and manor homes and expanded their settlements on […]
  
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