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• Sheriff’s detectives say a 67-year-old man died from homicidal violence

  21-09-2018 23:16
  The body of a 67-year-old man was discovered by two handymen who went to the victim's residence Thursday evening to do some work for him. A homicide investigation has begun but a sheriff's spokesman did not release details of the man's injuries.
  
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• Veteran Seattle police officer used racial slurs — including ‘N-word’ — while working off duty

  21-09-2018 23:03
  Police internal-affairs investigators have concluded a now-retired veteran Seattle police officer used the 'N-word' and other racial slurs while working off duty.
  
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• Judge upholds Seattle cap on move-in fees for renters

  21-09-2018 22:59
  Landlords had challenged the law, in one of several court cases ongoing between apartment owners and the city of Seattle over recent regulations concerning the local rental market.
  
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• Seattle homeless services providers see mixed results, some to face penalties

  21-09-2018 22:12
  Ending months of speculation and pleas from service providers, city officials said Friday that Seattle would impose financial penalties for missing contracted goals intended to boost the number of people who found "permanent exits" from homelessness.
  
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• Half of Seattle’s homeless-services providers miss performance targets, face penalties

  21-09-2018 22:12
  Ending months of speculation and pleas from service providers, city officials said Friday that Seattle would impose financial penalties for missing contracted goals intended to boost the number of people who found "permanent exits" from homelessness.
  
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• New allegation against Rep. Manweller: Former student says she had sexual relationship with him at age 17

  21-09-2018 21:54
  In the latest allegation of inappropriate conduct against Rep. Matt Manweller, a former high-school student of his says she had a sexual relationship with him in the early 1990s when she was a minor.
  
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• GOP leaders call for state Rep. Matt Manweller to resign after latest sexual misconduct allegation

  21-09-2018 21:54
  In the latest allegation of inappropriate conduct against Rep. Matt Manweller, a former high-school student of his says she had a sexual relationship with him in the 1990s when she was a minor.
  
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• GOP leaders call for state Rep. Matt Manweller to resign after latest allegation

  21-09-2018 21:54
  In the latest allegation of inappropriate conduct against Rep. Matt Manweller, a former high-school student of his says she had a sexual relationship with him in the 1990s when she was a minor.
  
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• Challenger for King County prosecutor suspends campaign, cites medical reasons

  21-09-2018 21:26
  Daron Morris, 45, had announced his candidacy for King County prosecutor in the spring. He suspended his campaign Friday.
  
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• King County health board recommends disaster response for homelessness crisis

  21-09-2018 21:25
  The board of health this week unanimously approved board member Bill Daniell's proposal to call homelessness a public health disaster and advise local governments to do whatever is necessary to get people inside.
  
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• Oklahoma astronaut corn maze photographed from space

  21-09-2018 20:39
  HYDRO, Okla. (AP) — It’s apt that a maze cut into an Oklahoma cornfield featuring the likeness of a former NASA astronaut can be seen from space — and has been photographed by a satellite orbiting Earth. The image of Oklahoma-born Thomas P. Stafford is cut into a 10-acre field at P Bar Farms in […]
  
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• Taiwan police arrest 3D-gun maker from Texas accused of sex with minor

  21-09-2018 17:52
  TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwanese media say authorities have arrested the owner of a Texas company that sells plans to make untraceable 3-D printed guns who is wanted in the U.S. for paying an underage girl for sex. The official Central News Agency says Taiwanese police found and arrested Cody Wilson in a hotel in Taipei […]
  
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• Oregon roads see a 13 percent increase in fatal crashes

  21-09-2018 17:43
  PORTLAND — The number of people killed in fatal crashes in Oregon has gone up by 13 percent from last year. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Thursday that the total number of deaths on city streets, freeways and county highways was driven up this summer by one of the deadliest crashes in recent state history. Eight people […]
  
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• Walk into my parlor: Greek spiders spin giant web over shore

  21-09-2018 17:12
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — It’s not quite the World Wide Web — but the spiders of Aitoliko in Greece have made a good start. Spurred into overdrive by an explosion in the populations of insects they eat, thousands of little spiders in the western Greek town have shrouded coastal trees, bushes and low vegetation in […]
  
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• Oregon House Speaker spurs talks on Interstate Bridge

  21-09-2018 16:53
  The project has been stalled since the Washington state Senate refused to consider a funding package in 2013.
  
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• Good rhino news in South Africa, where killing rate drops

  21-09-2018 16:38
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is reporting some cautiously good news for rhinos after years in which poachers killed them in record numbers. The government said Friday that most provinces have experienced “dramatic declines” in the killing of rhinos. It says poachers killed 508 rhinos in the first eight months of 2018, a 26 percent […]
  
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• Weekend roadwork mashup: viaduct, I-90, I-405, I-5, Highway 167 and more buses

  21-09-2018 16:14
  Drivers will encounter highway and interstate road closures across the Seattle area this weekend.
  
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• Want to end homelessness? Start with getting people into recovery

  21-09-2018 15:00
  As millions of dollars are being raised and spent to "end homelessness," columnist Nicole Brodeur worries not enough of those dollars are going to recovery services.
  
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• Evictions in Seattle, often over a month’s rent or less, add to homeless crisis, report finds

  21-09-2018 15:00
  Over half of Seattle renters hit with eviction notices last year owed one month’s rent or less, and many tenants who are ultimately evicted wind up homeless, according to a new study of evictions and their consequences. The study, conducted by the Seattle Women’s Commission and the King County Bar Association’s Housing Justice Project, sheds new […]
  
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• JBLM soldier charged with shooting girlfriend as he played with pistol

  21-09-2018 14:00
  The shooting happened after the couple had returned from going out for dinner.
  
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• I had to learn how to take care of my father at 13, when we both became homeless

  21-09-2018 14:00
  My dad and I haven’t had a home for three years. This is how I made it through.
  
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• Durkan makes pitch for free community college plan ahead of vote on $637.8 million levy

  21-09-2018 14:00
  Seattle voters will decide this November whether to approve a $600-million-plus education levy that will make community college free for students graduating from the city's public high schools.
  
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• Renton-area man found dead in his home; detectives investigating as homicide

  21-09-2018 13:35
  Two handymen found the man dead at about 7:15 p.m. Thursday, according to the King County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• Japan space rovers lowered to asteroid to collect data

  21-09-2018 12:09
  TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese spacecraft has released two small exploration robots on an asteroid in a research effort that may provide clues to the origin of the solar system. The Japan Space Exploration Agency said the two Minerva-II-1 rovers were lowered from the unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa2 to the asteroid Ryugu. The spacecraft arrived near […]
  
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• German energy company: saving threatened forest ‘illusion’

  21-09-2018 09:26
  BERLIN (AP) — A German energy executive whose company plans to clear an ancient forest to expand a lignite strip mine says it’s an “illusion” to think the woodland can be saved, and halting the project would cost his firm up to 5 billion euros ($5.9 billion). RWE wants to start cutting down half the […]
  
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• Memory’s frailty may be playing role in Kavanaugh matter

  21-09-2018 07:31
  NEW YORK (AP) — She says he sexually assaulted her; he denies it. Is somebody deliberately lying? Not necessarily. Experts say that because of how memory works, it’s possible that both Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford — the woman who says a drunken Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and groped […]
  
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• Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang dies of illness at 61

  21-09-2018 07:25
  HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang, the country’s No. 2 after the ruling Communist Party’s leader, died Friday after a serious illness, the government said. He was 61. Quang passed away despite “utmost efforts to treat him by Vietnamese and foreign professors and doctors and care by the party and state leaders,” the […]
  
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• Alaska troopers to cite bear watchers who stop on bridges

  21-09-2018 07:19
  KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — Alaska troopers said they will begin issuing citations to people found stopping on bridges around Kodiak to watch bears. Kodiak Post Alaska State Troopers and Wildlife Troopers have received and responded to multiple calls this summer about drivers and pedestrians stopping on bridges and roads to see the bears, the Kodiak […]
  
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• Reckoning with loss of homes, livelihoods after Florence

  21-09-2018 06:08
  SPRING LAKE, N.C. (AP) — With Florence’s floodwaters receding in some places and still menacing others, tired and waterlogged North Carolinians are finally getting a chance to take stock of the destruction from the wind and floodwaters. When rivers spilled from their banks this week, many were forced to flee their homes in multiple inland […]
  
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• New evacuations ordered because of Florence flooding

  21-09-2018 06:03
  WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A new round of evacuations was ordered in South Carolina as the trillions of gallons of water dumped by Hurricane Florence meanders to the sea, raising river levels and threatening more destruction. With the crisis slowly moving to South Carolina, emergency managers on Friday ordered about 500 people to flee homes […]
  
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• Florence evacuees return as others brace for more flooding

  21-09-2018 06:03
  WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — The crisis from Hurricane Florence is slowly moving to South Carolina along with the trillions of gallons of water dumped by the storm. People in coastal Horry County and nearby areas had enough warning and certainty about where the water was going that hundreds loaded furniture from their homes into trucks […]
  
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• FBI investigating death at Joint Base Lewis-McChord

  21-09-2018 05:20
  The woman was reportedly found September 13. A medical examiner ruled the woman's death a homicide.
  
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• Ivanka Trump tours NASA center in Houston, calls space crew

  21-09-2018 03:47
  HOUSTON (AP) — Ivanka Trump made a telephone call to the International Space Station and spoke to the crew while touring NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Trump, who is an adviser to her father, President Donald Trump, talked to the space station crew whose members are flying 250 miles (402 kilometers) above the Earth’s surface. She […]
  
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• Tech executives gather at City Hall for lessons on Seattle’s biggest problems

  21-09-2018 03:33
  Representatives from tech giants, like Microsoft and Twitter, met at City Hall Thursday to discuss homelessness and transportation woes.
  
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• Neighborhood concerns and increased patrols follow string of Central District shootings

  21-09-2018 03:19
  After a string of shootings and reports of shots fired in the Central District, Seattle Police plan to send K-9 and SWAT teams to the neighborhood.
  
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• Police still searching for suspects in Lynnwood, Skyway and Seattle shootings

  21-09-2018 02:49
  Suspects remain at large in several apparently unrelated shootings throughout the region, including the fatal shooting of a woman in Skyway Wednesday night.
  
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• One dead after dispute in downtown Seattle

  21-09-2018 02:40
  Seattle police said they were investigating a stabbing around 12:30 p.m. However, the victim's cause of death is unclear.
  
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• State Patrol crackdown on HOV violators snares more than 1,700 drivers in Puget Sound area

  21-09-2018 02:03
  The State Patrol spent last week emphasizing HOV rules, with a team of troopers dispatched to enforce them across King, northern Pierce and southern Snohomish counties.
  
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• Beacon Hill resident reports guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition stolen; police searching for suspected thief

  21-09-2018 00:42
  A Beacon Hill resident said guns, ammunition and weapons parts went missing from his home Wednesday.
  
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• Seattle police union overwhelmingly approves contract with city; includes raises, accountability reforms

  21-09-2018 00:30
  The outcome of mail balloting was announced Thursday by the Seattle Police Officers' Guild, which represents more than 1,300 officers and sergeants. The contract is now subject to approval by the City Council.
  
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• Seattle’s annual free medical clinic a lifeline for underinsured residents

  21-09-2018 00:02
  The clinic is being held in Key Arena through Sunday. Service providers don't ask for identification or legal status, while organizers provide translators and free parking.
  
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• King County sheriff’s officials defend arrest in a light-rail train that was captured on video

  21-09-2018 00:00
  The 57-second video clip shows the tail end of the confrontation, when the young man was being pinned down on the floor of a train by a sheriff's deputy and three of Sound Transit's contracted security workers.
  
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