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• California wildfire emissions equal year of power pollution

  30-11-2018 22:32
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Wildfires in California in 2018 released the rough equivalent of about 68 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide — about the same amount of carbon emissions as are produced in a year to provide electricity to the state, U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Friday. The carbon dioxide figure — based […]
  
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• Pierce County’s outgoing prosecutor, Mark Lindquist, admonished by state bar over conduct

  30-11-2018 22:31
  Lindquist, who was criticized for politicizing the prosecutor's office and whose office was called out by the appellate courts for overzealous prosecutions, admitted to unprofessional conduct by appearing on the "Nancy Grace" TV show during a murder trial.
  
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• More strain for Seattle motorists: A Sodo onramp to the viaduct closes Jan. 4, a week early

  30-11-2018 20:42
  This change worsens the coming "Seattle Squeeze," by blocking access to the ramp for a fourth week, until the new Highway 99 tunnel and Sodo interchange open the week of Feb. 4. An average 12,500 drivers per weekday use this entrance off Royal Brougham Way South.
  
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• A Sawant challenger and 2 dropouts: Things are heating up ahead of 2019’s Seattle City Council elections

  30-11-2018 20:19
  A challenger to socialist Kshama Sawant is among the things to know so far about the 2019 Seattle City Council elections. Things are already heating up. Here are six things to know.
  
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• Hawk native to South America wows crowd in Maine park

  30-11-2018 20:08
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A hawk that is native to Central and South America drew a lot of attention from Maine’s birding community Friday after appearing in a park, where it brawled with a fellow raptor and dined on a squirrel. The great black hawk has been a source of fascination in Maine since it […]
  
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• Live updates on 7.0-magnitude earthquake near Anchorage: tsunami warning issued

  30-11-2018 19:29
  A tsunami warning was issued for parts of coastal Alaska.
  
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• Live updates on 7.0-magnitude earthquake near Anchorage: tsunami warning canceled

  30-11-2018 19:29
  Officials canceled a tsunami warning that had been issued for parts of coastal Alaska.
  
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• Live updates on 7.0-magnitude earthquake near Anchorage: ‘Not the Big One,’ but significant

  30-11-2018 19:29
  "It was sort of a shallower version of the Nisqually earthquake in 2001," said the director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.
  
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• 7.0-magnitude earthquake near Anchorage: ‘Not the big one,’ but significant

  30-11-2018 19:29
  "It was sort of a shallower version of the Nisqually earthquake in 2001," said the director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.
  
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• Back-to-back earthquakes shatter roads and windows in Alaska

  30-11-2018 18:43
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.7 rocked buildings and shattered roads Friday morning in Anchorage, sending people running into the streets and briefly triggering a warning to residents in Kodiak to flee to higher ground for fear of a tsunami. The warning was lifted without incident a short time later. There […]
  
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• 6.6 magnitude earthquake rocks buildings in Anchorage

  30-11-2018 18:43
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 6.6 magnitude earthquake rocked buildings Friday morning in Anchorage and caused lamp posts and trees to sway, prompting people to run out of offices and seek shelter under office desks. The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake was centered about 7 miles (12 kilometers) north of Alaska’s largest city. An […]
  
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• El Nino teases as Southwestern US remains in drought

  30-11-2018 18:09
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — National climate experts have been watching and waiting but El Nino has only been teasing, leaving the American Southwest to hang on longer until the weather pattern develops and brings more moisture to the drought-stricken region. Experts with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center and the National Weather […]
  
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• Principal: Long-term sub taped second-grade student to chair

  30-11-2018 15:20
  PASADENA, Md. — A substitute teacher has been suspended after her principal said she taped a second-grader to her chair. News outlets cite a letter this week from Lake Shore Elementary School Principal Julie Little-McVearry, who says she took action after learning about it from a parent. The letter says the long-term substitute taped the […]
  
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• Millennials are most likely to live at home with parents — but not in Seattle

  30-11-2018 15:00
  Only one in 10 people age 18 to 34 live under the same roof as their parents here, compared to one-third of millennials nationwide.
  
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• How the ‘Battery Street Subway,’ downtown Seattle’s other traffic tunnel, was built

  30-11-2018 15:00
  Originally called the "Battery Street Subway," this tunnel finally linked Aurora to the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
  
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• High-tech Seattle cancer center wins reprieve as lenders take $135M loss

  30-11-2018 15:00
  The massive write-down is part of a negotiated Chapter 11 bankruptcy that will provide the SCCA Proton Therapy Center some financial breathing room to seek profitability after a net loss of $81 million over the past two years.
  
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• High-tech Seattle cancer center gets new life as lenders get $135M ‘haircut’

  30-11-2018 15:00
  The massive write-down is part of a negotiated Chapter 11 bankruptcy that will provide the SCCA Proton Therapy Center some financial breathing room to seek profitability after a net loss of $81 million over the past two years.
  
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• Congressional bill would keep early earthquake-warning-system projects on track, if Trump signs it

  30-11-2018 15:00
  The earthquake-warning system could give warning 10 seconds to a minute before dangerous shaking begins in Seattle for a Cascadia megaquake.
  
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• Bucking national trend, Seattle millennials least likely to live at home with parents

  30-11-2018 15:00
  Only one in 10 people age 18 to 34 live under the same roof as their parents here, compared to one-third of millennials nationwide.
  
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• UW students to start online sexual-assault reporting system next fall

  30-11-2018 14:00
  Few University of Washington students report instances of sexual assault and harassment to their school. Student leaders and some administrators have proposed a solution to encourage students to speak up: an online reporting tool the school may implement as early as next fall. The third-party website, Callisto Campus, allows users to write and save a report of […]
  
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• UW may implement online sexual-assault reporting system as soon as next fall

  30-11-2018 14:00
  The third-party system, Callisto, aims to make survivors feel more in control of the reporting process and identify repeat offenders, which the company thinks will make it more likely survivors will report.
  
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• Student Voices: We shouldn’t eliminate gifted classrooms. We should make them equitable.

  30-11-2018 14:00
  General education was not meeting Millan Philipose's learning needs. Now a student at Garfield High School, he didn't love school until he entered a gifted program, which he argues must be preserved for students like him.
  
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• Russian immigrant’s handwritten note leaves many questions about treatment at Northwest Detention Center

  30-11-2018 14:00
  Was a Russian detainee thrown naked into a cold cell in the before he tried to hang himself in the Tacoma detention center? A handwritten note raises the possibility, and the case is drawing international attention.
  
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• Pullman cop arrested in sex assault of WSU student resigns

  30-11-2018 13:35
  A Pullman Police Department officer accused of sexually assaulting a Washington State University student in March has resigned. Pullman Police Chief Gary Jenkins said Thursday that Sgt. Dan Hargraves resigned Monday, the day before police investigators conducting an internal investigation were going to interview him. Jenkins says that investigation concluded that Hargraves violated multiple department […]
  
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• Fear that uproar over gene-edited babies could block science

  30-11-2018 07:47
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists working on the frontiers of medicine fear the uproar over the reported births of gene-edited babies in China could jeopardize promising research into how to alter heredity to fend off a variety of disorders. Researchers are rapidly learning how to edit DNA to fight such conditions as Huntington’s, Tay-Sachs and hereditary […]
  
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• Mystery ballot could sway control of Alaska state government

  30-11-2018 07:38
  JUNEAU, Alaska — Control of Alaska state government, at least for the next two years, could hinge on a mystery ballot that an election worker found on a table in a Fairbanks voting precinct more than three weeks ago. The uncounted ballot could break a tie in an Alaska state House race. A decision on […]
  
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• Every vote counts: Mystery ballot could decide Alaska race

  30-11-2018 07:38
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Control of Alaska state government, at least for the next two years, could hinge on a mystery ballot that an election worker found on a table in a Fairbanks voting precinct more than three weeks ago. The uncounted ballot could break a tie in an Alaska state House race. A decision […]
  
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• Fire-scarred California escapes large-scale rain damage

  30-11-2018 07:35
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A major storm brought localized mudslides and street flooding to California and some people had to be rescued from stranded vehicles, but the fire-scarred state escaped large-scale damage. Flash flood waters receded in Northern California and crews on Friday cleared debris from roads, culverts and levees that flooded in Chico, said […]
  
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• California floods recede after storms in wildfire burn areas

  30-11-2018 07:35
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After fleeing a wildfire that came dangerously close to his Northern California home earlier this month, Dale Word evacuated again when flash floods inundated roads and trapped motorists and residents. Swift water teams used boats to make rescues at three homes and officials told people in about 100 vehicles to stay […]
  
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• Snohomish School District disciplines students over racist wi-fi names

  30-11-2018 07:21
  During an assembly at Glacier Peak High School, attendees began receiving notifications about available hotspot networks with racist names. Two students have been disciplined, according to the school district.
  
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• 51 pilot whales die in another mass stranding in New Zealand

  30-11-2018 05:29
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Fifty-one pilot whales have died in a another mass stranding in New Zealand, less than a week after 145 pilot whales died in a different part of the country. The Department of Conservation says up to 90 pilot whales beached themselves late Thursday on the remote Chatham Islands. When staff […]
  
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• 51 pilot whales die in another mass stranding

  30-11-2018 05:29
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Fifty-one pilot whales died Friday in a mass stranding in New Zealand, less than a week after 145 pilot whales and nine pygmy killer whales perished in two other unrelated strandings. In the latest stranding, up to 90 pilot whales beached themselves late Thursday at Hanson Bay on the remote Chatham […]
  
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• Federal judge blocks HHS from releasing Seattle-based Planned Parenthood group’s grant application

  30-11-2018 02:26
  A federal judge in Seattle Thursday blocked  the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from publicly disclosing a Title X grant application submitted by the Northwest’s largest Planned Parenthood group, after the federal agency initially told the nonprofit it had received a request for the document when it had not. U.S. District Judge […]
  
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• Traffic alert: Highway 520 eastbound closed this weekend from Montlake to 92nd Avenue Northeast

  30-11-2018 01:37
  Drivers planning to travel east from Seattle on Highway 520 this weekend should prepare for an alternative route as eastbound lanes will be closed. The lanes will be closed from 11 p.m. Friday until 5 a.m. Monday between Montlake Boulevard and 92nd Avenue Northeast on the Eastside. All westbound lanes and ramps will remain open […]
  
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• Vanderbilt tight end Turner Cockrell dies of cancer at 21

  30-11-2018 01:32
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Vanderbilt tight end Turner Cockrell died Thursday at home after battling cancer for more than a year. He was 21. Cockrell was surrounded by family in Acworth, Georgia, when he died. The Commodores were told of Cockrell’s death at a team meeting Thursday afternoon, Vanderbilt spokesman Larry Leathers said. The tight […]
  
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• Mother orca who carried her dead calf at center of hearings over Trans Mountain pipeline

  30-11-2018 00:46
  Canada's National Energy Board was instructed by the courts to hear out First Nation concerns, as well as effects the pipeline expansion would have on orcas and marine environment.
  
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