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• Seattle’s Community Police Commission urges City Council to reject proposed police contract

  17-10-2018 23:37
   At a sometimes emotional meeting, commission members said they had wanted to support the agreement but that it contained too many rollbacks on hard-fought reforms.
  
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• Spokane City Council considering limits on Border Patrol

  17-10-2018 21:23
  A proposed ordinance would bar searches at non-public parts of the city's bus depot unless agents have a warrant.
  
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• Extensive search underway for rape suspect in Snohomish County

  17-10-2018 20:59
  A woman was attacked about 300 yards from the trailhead at Meadowdale County Park, north of Lynnwood.
  
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• Mexico’s vaquita porpoise gets new chance; 6 sighted

  17-10-2018 20:54
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Experts want to enclose a small area of the Gulf of California where the critically endangered vaquita porpoise remains after they sighted about a half dozen of the elusive creatures in September. One was a mother with her second new calf in two years. Vaquitas usually only reproduce once every two […]
  
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• Experts urge gulf refuge for endangered vaquita porpoise

  17-10-2018 20:54
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Experts called on Mexico’s government Wednesday to use floating barriers to enclose a small area of the Gulf of California where a half dozen critically endangered vaquita porpoises were spotted in September. The sightings were an unexpected mix of good and bad news for the world’s smallest porpoise, which has been […]
  
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• Shoe-shiner who gave $200K in tips to hospital dies at 76

  17-10-2018 20:27
  Albert Lexie, who for decades shined shoes part-time at a Pittsburgh children's hospital and donated his tips to its Free Care Fund, has died at 76. His gifts to the hospital amounted to more than $200,000.
  
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• Bothell police officer injured, 4 patrol cars damaged in man’s attempt to flee

  17-10-2018 19:36
  The man was arrested on suspicion of felony assault, eluding and driving under the influence, police said.
  
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• Oldest fossils on Earth? New look finds might just be rocks

  17-10-2018 19:35
  WASHINGTON (AP) — What were billed as the oldest fossils on Earth may just be some rocks, according to a new study. Two years ago, a team of Australian scientists found odd structures in Greenland that they said were partly leftovers from microbes that lived on an ancient seafloor. They were said to be 3.7 […]
  
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• Elderly man dies in Bonney Lake mobile-home fire

  17-10-2018 18:27
  Firefighters were dispatched to the house at 5:30 a.m., but it was already engulfed in flames.
  
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• EPA puts off final say on science transparency rule

  17-10-2018 18:20
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday it is putting off for at least a year any final announcement on a controversial proposal overhauling how the agency evaluates science. The agency’s so-called transparency in regulatory science rule was one of the most contentious proposed by former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who stepped down […]
  
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• All current US champions will compete at Skate America in Everett this weekend

  17-10-2018 18:08
  Skate America, the first of the International Skating Union's six-event Grand Prix series, opens in Everett on Oct. 19, and will feature a star studded lineup with numerous U.S. champions.
  
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• Startup plans to launch small satellites from Virginia coast

  17-10-2018 18:00
  NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A California-based startup says it will rocket small satellites into orbit from Virginia. Rocket Lab said Wednesday that it will build its launch pad at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport. The spaceport is located at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility where unmanned cargo missions already launch to the International Space Station. Huntington Beach, […]
  
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• Longview police fatally shoots suspect who shot at them

  17-10-2018 17:18
  The suspect began shooting at officers, who returned fire and killed him early Wednesday morning, police said.
  
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• France floods death toll rises to 14; 1 still missing

  17-10-2018 17:15
  PARIS (AP) — Authorities in the southwest region of France hit this week by destructive flash floods say the death toll has increased to 14, with one person still listed as missing. Previously, the toll from the floods in the Aude region had stood at 13, with three missing. The Aude prefect said Wednesday that […]
  
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• How to watch the lone debate between Dino Rossi and Kim Schrier tonight

  17-10-2018 15:28
  In the race to succeed retiring Rep. Dave Reichert, Dino Rossi has agreed to just the single debate with Kim Schrier.
  
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• State Sen. Maralyn Chase draws a serious challenger — fellow Democrat Jesse Salomon

  17-10-2018 15:00
  As she campaigns for her third term for the 32nd District Washington state Senate, Chase faces Shoreline Deputy Mayor Jesse Salomon. The race has split the Democratic Party.
  
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• Kim Schrier tries to make lack of political experience an asset in race with Dino Rossi

  17-10-2018 15:00
  As a first-time candidate with no record in elected office, Schrier makes a clear contrast with Rossi, a real-estate investor and legislative veteran making his fourth run for higher political office.
  
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• Judge orders political consultant, city of Seattle to disclose polling results, other records related to council’s abrupt head-tax repeal

  17-10-2018 15:00
  The latest rulings come amid contentious courtroom wrangling over a lawsuit contending the Seattle's City Council broke Washington's Open Public Meetings Act in the lead-up to its abrupt repeal of the employee-hours tax in June.
  
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• A $21,634 bill? How a homeless woman fought her way out of tow-company hell

  17-10-2018 15:00
  The car Amanda Ogle lived in was stolen, then towed, then sold off for a measly $175. Not even a court order could get it back. But she didn't give in, and this week won a victory in court to reclaim the old car — and her life.
  
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• Report: Washington foster kids sent to Iowa were abused in facility run ‘like a correctional institution’

  17-10-2018 14:48
  In response to the report by Disability Rights Washington, Washington officials say they will stop placing foster children at the Clarinda Academy and they're working to get children currently there into other situations by the end of January.
  
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• Tornadoes are spinning up farther east in US, study finds

  17-10-2018 11:06
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the past few decades tornadoes have been shifting — decreasing in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas but spinning up more in states along the Mississippi River and farther east, a new study shows. Scientists aren’t quite certain why. Tornado activity is increasing most in Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, […]
  
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• After storm shuts down radio stations, 2 hosts carry on

  17-10-2018 06:14
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — First Hurricane Michael damaged the radio station where they worked and then the owner shut the station down permanently — but that hasn’t stopped two Florida radio hosts from continuing their mission of informing their listeners during the disaster. Instead, Tiffany Dunning and Sean Streeter, turned to their Facebook page to […]
  
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• Tears flow as Mexico Beach residents come home after Michael

  17-10-2018 06:11
  MEXICO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — With stunned faces and tears, residents of hard-hit Mexico Beach returned home for the first time Wednesday about a week after Hurricane Michael hit to find pieces of their lives scattered across the sand and a community altered. Nancy Register sobbed uncontrollably after finding no trace of the large camper […]
  
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• Scope of Michael’s fury becomes clearer in Florida Panhandle

  17-10-2018 06:11
  PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Michael killed at least 16 people in Florida, most of them in the coastal county that took a direct hit from the storm, state emergency authorities said Tuesday. That’s in addition to at least 10 deaths elsewhere across the South. The scope of the storm’s fury became clearer after […]
  
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• Powerless victims of Hurricane Michael now suffer looting

  17-10-2018 06:11
  PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Armed looters are targeting homes and businesses that remain without electricity after being ravaged by Hurricane Michael a week ago. Sheriff’s Maj. Jimmy Stanford said deputies have arrested about 10 looters each night since Florida’s Bay County took a direct hit from the strong Category 4 storm last Wednesday. In […]
  
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• Mexico Beach residents return home 1 week after Michael

  17-10-2018 06:11
  MEXICO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Residents of hard-hit Mexico Beach began returning home for the first time Wednesday since Hurricane Michael to see homes devastated by wind and water and pieces of their lives scattered across the Florida sand. Nancy Register sobbed uncontrollably after finding no trace of the large camper where she’d lived with […]
  
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• Potentially deadly infection hits California sea lions

  17-10-2018 05:04
  SAUSALITO, Calif. (AP) — A rescue center says California sea lions are coming down with a potentially fatal bacterial infection in near-record numbers. The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito says more than 220 sea lions rescued this year have been diagnosed with leptospirosis. It’s the second-largest outbreak recorded by the rescue center. The center says […]
  
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• King County Council members clash over response to rape allegation against state Sen. Joe Fain

  17-10-2018 04:08
  Three county-council members say Councilmember Kathy Lambert's comments about rape allegations leveled against Sen. Joe Fain “do not represent the King County Council.”
  
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• County-council members clash over response to rape allegation against state Sen. Joe Fain

  17-10-2018 04:08
  Three county-council members say Councilmember Kathy Lambert's comments about rape allegations leveled against Sen. Joe Fain “do not represent the King County Council.”
  
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• Women accuse leaders of Seattle’s Mount Zion church of bullying

  17-10-2018 03:37
  Wracked by division in recent years, the "mother of black churches" in Seattle now faces a new challenge: accusations of bullying and toxic masculinity.
  
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• Lengthy civil trial begins in 2015 Ride the Ducks crash that killed 5 on Aurora Bridge

  17-10-2018 02:54
  Three years ago, a fatal crash of a Ride the Ducks amphibious vehicle left five people dead and more than 60 injured.
  
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• Remembering Paul Allen: In the beginning, there was Traf-O-Data and Hendrix

  17-10-2018 02:22
  Remembrances and appreciations of the polymath mogul poured in from friends and colleagues in the hours after his death Monday.
  
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• As election nears, Washington officials brace voting systems against computer hacking

  17-10-2018 01:47
  After Russia's hacking attempts in the 2016 elections, Washington state officials teamed up with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and National Guard to prevent voting disruptions.
  
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• Dreams of big profits as marijuana becomes legal in Canada

  17-10-2018 00:28
  The top 12 Canadian marijuana companies are now worth nearly 55 billion Canadian dollars ($42 billion), and investors are snapping up the stock.
  
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