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• Washington state man arrested in Alaska fatal stabbing

  15-10-2018 23:46
  Alaska state troopers say the two men got into a fight that ended with the deadly stabbing in southeast Alaska.
  
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• Black woman who had trailblazing Navy career dies at 83

  15-10-2018 23:31
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Raye Montague, a trailblazing black woman from Arkansas who revolutionized the way the U.S. Navy designed ships, has died. She was 83. Montague, who had a 33-year career in the Navy, developed a computer program that created rough drafts of ship specifications. She told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in 2012 that […]
  
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• Orca survival may be impossible without Lower Snake River dam removal, scientists say

  15-10-2018 22:46
  Southern resident orcas that frequent Puget Sound may not survive without breaching the Lower Snake River dams to help the salmon the orcas live on, scientists say.
  
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• Soak up some fresh air and fall color at Seattle Japanese Garden

  15-10-2018 20:42
  The festival wrapped up over the weekend, but the fall colors are still spectacular.
  
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• 2 Spokane-area dogs who were trapped in silo for 21 days get an award

  15-10-2018 19:09
  Nationwide Insurance is giving the dogs the Hambone Award for the most unusual insurance claim they receive during a given year.
  
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• 2 dogs who were trapped in silo for 21 days get an award

  15-10-2018 19:09
  Nationwide Insurance is giving the dogs the Hambone Award for the most unusual insurance claim they receive during a given year.
  
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• NASA X-ray Space Telescope back online after brief shutdown

  15-10-2018 18:56
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — One of NASA’s space telescopes is back in business after a two-day shutdown. NASA said Monday that the Chandra X-ray Observatory came back online Friday. Chandra’s trouble occurred less than a week after the Hubble Space Telescope was sidelined. In both cases, the problem was in the pointing system. Officials […]
  
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• In posthumous message, Hawking says science under threat

  15-10-2018 18:27
  LONDON (AP) — Stephen Hawking spoke from beyond the grave Monday to warn the world that science and education are under threat around the world. The words of the scientist, who died in March at 76, were broadcast at a London launch event for his final book “Brief Answers To The Big Questions.” Hawking warned […]
  
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• Idaho man survives grizzly bear attack in Montana wilderness

  15-10-2018 17:11
  COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — A roughly 500-pound grizzly bear attacked a Hayden, Idaho, man, and the man lived to tell about it. The Coeur d’Alene Press reports the bear attacked Bob Legasa Saturday morning while Legasa and his hunting partner, Greg Gibson, were bow hunting elk south of Livingston, Montana. The pair spotted the grizzly […]
  
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• Grizzly attacks hunter in mountains north of Yellowstone

  15-10-2018 17:11
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A grizzly bear attacked an elk hunter who surprised the sow and her cub north of Yellowstone National Park, with the bear sinking her teeth into his arm and clawing his eye before another hunter drove her off, the victim recounted Monday. The mauling of Bob Legasa, 57, in the Gallatin […]
  
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• Global warming to leave us crying in our costlier beer

  15-10-2018 17:02
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Add beer to chocolate , coffee and wine as some of life’s little pleasures that global warming will make scarcer and costlier, scientists say. Increasing bouts of extreme heat waves and drought will hurt production of barley, a key beer ingredient, in the future. Losses of barley yield can be as much […]
  
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• Power switched off in Northern California amid fire fears

  15-10-2018 16:34
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Northern California’s biggest utility has shut off power to tens of thousands of customers in an unprecedented step to prevent wildfires amid rising winds and official warnings of extreme fire danger. Pacific Gas & Electric began turning off the lights in California’s wine country and other areas near the San Francisco […]
  
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• California utilities shut off power amid wildfire concerns

  15-10-2018 16:34
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Concerned about downed power lines sparking wildfires, two major California utilities took the rare step of cutting power to customers amid high winds — and another power provider was considering similar action. Pacific Gas & Electric for the first time began cutting power Sunday night to tens of thousands of customers […]
  
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• Seattle could break a record as temperatures rise to the upper 70s this week

  15-10-2018 16:12
  Seattle could break a record on Wednesday, when its high temperature may climb into the upper 70s.
  
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• Don’t miss October sun: Seattle forecast is warm and dry this week

  15-10-2018 16:12
  Seattle could break a record on Wednesday, when its high temperature may climb into the upper 70s.
  
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• West Coast military installations eyed for US fuel exports

  15-10-2018 15:16
  The administration is interested in partnering with private entities to ship coal or liquefied natural gas through naval installations or other federal facilities, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said.
  
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• APNewsBreak: US eyes military bases for coal, gas exports

  15-10-2018 15:16
  The administration is interested in partnering with private entities to ship coal or liquefied natural gas through naval installations or other federal facilities, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said.
  
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• With light rail coming in 2021, U District is planning for more people moving around the neighborhood

  15-10-2018 15:00
  A U District community group created a detailed transportation plan in hopes of avoiding what it says are shortcomings in the transit connections for riders at the University of Washington light-rail station at Husky Stadium.
  
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• ‘Trump … blinked, Seattle won,’ Durkan says as police get federal funds despite ‘sanctuary city’ threats

  15-10-2018 15:00
  Mayor Jenny Durkan and City Attorney Pete Holmes are declaring the news a victory for Seattle and its policies, including a law that in most cases prohibits police officers and other city employees from asking about a person's immigration status.
  
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• Jimi Hendrix’s ‘experience’ in Morocco made my own more powerful

  15-10-2018 15:00
  For Hendrix in his time, and me in my own, visiting the African continent highlights the unlikely journey of the descendants of slaves.
  
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• Despite ‘sanctuary city’ threats, Trump administration approves money for Seattle police

  15-10-2018 15:00
  Mayor Jenny Durkan and City Attorney Pete Holmes are declaring the news a victory for Seattle and its policies, including a law that in most cases prohibits police officers and other city employees from asking about a person's immigration status.
  
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• Trial beginning on suit alleging racial bias in Harvard admissions

  15-10-2018 14:53
  BOSTON — One side says Harvard University’s admissions process unfairly excludes academically talented Asian-Americans in favor of students from other races. Harvard denies any discrimination and says it considers race as only one of many factors as they select from thousands of applicants a year. Now, the case is going to trial. Opening statements are […]
  
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• Harvard: Race can only help, never harm, applicants’ chances

  15-10-2018 14:53
  BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University intentionally uses a vague “personal rating” to reject Asian-American applicants in favor of students from other racial backgrounds, according to a trial that started Monday and carries weighty implications for dozens of other U.S. colleges. Harvard’s legal team denied any discrimination in its opening statement at Boston’s federal courthouse, saying […]
  
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• Cyclone strands families in eastern Yemen

  15-10-2018 14:46
  CAIRO (AP) — A Yemeni governor is calling for help to evacuate some 50 families stuck amid flooding, strong storms, and heavy rain in the eastern city of Ghaida, after cyclone Luban hit the region. Rageh Bakreet posted on Facebook images of men standing on top of their buildings in the governorate of Mahra in […]
  
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• New tropical storm brings rains to central Mexican coast

  15-10-2018 14:15
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A newly formed tropical storm is drifting off the central Pacific coast of Mexico. Forecasters say Tropical Storm Tara is already bringing heavy rains onshore, though its center is likely to remain out to sea while remaining near the coast The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tara was centered about 105 […]
  
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• AP-NORC Poll: Many caregivers neglecting their own health

  15-10-2018 14:01
  Four in 10 Americans have provided long-term care to an older relative or friend, a volunteer workforce that's growing as the population ages. A new poll found that many providing this help are neglecting to care for their own physical and mental health.
  
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• Seattle’s big education levy has no organized opposition, but are voters feeling generous?

  15-10-2018 14:00
  Supporters of the city education levy have raised nearly $300,000, have no organized opposition and have seen voters approve similar measures four times before. But they also have some cause to be wary.
  
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• Seattle property-tax levy to test voters’ generosity toward education

  15-10-2018 14:00
  Supporters of the city education levy have raised nearly $300,000, have no organized opposition and have seen voters approve similar measures four times before. But they also have some cause to be wary.
  
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• ‘I shot a whole family of baboons’: Idaho Fish and Game official faces fury after Africa trophy hunting boasts

  15-10-2018 13:38
  Squatting amid loose red dirt and rocks, Blake Fischer posed for a picture, a triumphant grin stretching across his face. Arranged in front of him, resembling a macabre family picture, are the bodies of four baboons. The smallest one’s head is lolled back, its mouth slightly agape. Crimson blood stains its abdomen. A quiver of […]
  
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• French Interior Ministry: 13 killed, 1 missing, 5 seriously injured by floods in southwest France

  15-10-2018 13:15
  PARIS (AP) — French Interior Ministry: 13 killed, 1 missing, 5 seriously injured by floods in southwest France.
  
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• France: 12 die in floods unseen in more than a century

  15-10-2018 08:56
  PARIS (AP) — Flash floods that tore through several towns in southwest France following an overnight storm killed at least 12 people, authorities said Monday. Some residents had to be helicoptered from rooftops as the equivalent of several months of rain poured down in a few hours and turned waterways into raging torrents. Initially, the […]
  
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• Flash floods kill at least 7 people in southwest France

  15-10-2018 08:56
  PARIS (AP) — Flash floods tore through towns in southwest France, turning streams into raging torrents that authorities said killed at least seven people and seriously injured five others. Some people had to be helicoptered to safety from the roofs of their homes as overnight storms dumped several months of rain in just a few […]
  
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• Flash floods kill at least 6 people in southwest France

  15-10-2018 08:56
  PARIS (AP) — Flash floods killed at least six people in southwest France, with roads swept away and streams become raging torrents as the equivalent of several months of rain fell overnight in the space of hours, authorities said Monday. The regional government in the Aude region said that four deaths were clustered around the […]
  
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• Flash floods kill at least 13 people in southwest France

  15-10-2018 08:56
  PARIS (AP) — Flash floods tore through towns in southwest France, turning waterways into raging torrents that killed at least 13 people, nine of them in just one town, authorities said Monday. People had to be helicoptered to safety from the roofs of their homes as overnight storms dumped the equivalent of several months of […]
  
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• French government official says that floods have killed 5 people in southwest France

  15-10-2018 08:45
  PARIS (AP) — French government official says that floods have killed 5 people in southwest France.
  
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• Study: Without Medicaid expansion, poor forgo medical care

  15-10-2018 06:51
  Aides to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who requested the analysis, said the 70-page report is the most detailed look yet at real-world differences that Medicaid expansion can make. Medicaid expansion is on the ballot in Idaho, Nebraska and Utah next month.
  
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• Trump to visit Florida, Georgia; search ongoing for missing

  15-10-2018 05:36
  MEXICO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Upon touring the damage in several towns along Florida’s Panhandle, Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Brock Long called the destruction left by Hurricane Michael some of the worst he’s ever seen. On Monday, President Donald Trump plans to visit Florida and Georgia and see the recovery effort for himself. Trump […]
  
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• Seattle homeless camp that allows alcohol, drug use loses activist management group ahead of city’s shutdown

  15-10-2018 03:28
  Human Services Department officials announced late last month that they planned to close Licton Springs' tiny-house village in March, when the site’s permit expires.
  
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• Trump says climate change not a hoax, not sure of its source

  15-10-2018 02:01
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is backing off his claim that climate change is a hoax but says he doesn’t know if it’s manmade and suggests that the climate will “change back again.” In an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday night, Trump said he doesn’t want to put the U.S. at […]
  
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