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Holiday parking tickets will be refunded
Thousands of motorists who got parking tickets in Seattle will be getting a welcome piece of mail soon -- refund checks from the city.
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The myth of the stay-at-home mom
Women are opting out of the work force to spend time with their children. Right? Wrong.
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Oklahoma City wants the Sonics there -- or else
A private, statewide survey indicated voters opposed, by a 2-1 margin, the KeyArena renovation plan from Steve Ballmer and others to keep the Sonics in Seattle.
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Man, 19, gets life for killing cabbie, burning his vehicle
A King County judge sentenced a 19-year-old man Friday to life in prison without the chance of release for killing a cabbie last year in SeaTac, shooting the driver twice in the head and setting him on fire.
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Hospital-only doctors on rise here, in U.S.
Called the fastest-growing medical specialty in the country by the Society of Hospital Medicine, the estimated number of hospitalists is projected to grow to about 30,000 by 2010 -- from 20,000 in 2008.
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This mom's keeping her head above water
This will be a Mother's Day to remember for Pauline Walker. She is about to be reunited for good with her daughter after a stretch in prison.
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Public is asked to weigh in on Makah whaling
The federal government is asking for feedback on a proposal to allow the Makah Indian Nation to hunt Pacific gray whales off the Washington coast.
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Biased suspicion isn't just for ferries
Those Middle Eastern-looking ferry passengers are innocent -- just European tourists mistaken for terrorists. But you don't have to be "Riding While Brown" on a ferry to get profiled. Just walk into a Seattle bookstore.
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Police, dispatchers to arrange locations with tracking system
Starting next February, Seattle police officers should be able to track their colleagues with a new GPS-like tracking system that will give officers and dispatchers a global view of where cops are deployed at any given moment.
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Pub awash in mariners' familiar tales from the sea
Salty stories abound in the Seattle Maritime Festival's annual Stories of the Sea competition.
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Meals help group members welcome other cultures
The Seattle chapter of the World Affairs Council began organizing monthly meals at different ethnic restaurants last year.
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Fort Lewis on list of barracks needing repair
Officials at Fort Lewis were surprised to be on an Army list of eight installations that need to repair their barracks immediately in the wake of recent worldwide base inspections.
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Bellevue boy wins national math title
A Bellevue sixth-grader has proved he's No. 1. in math, beating out more than 200 other middle-school students to take first place in a national math championship in Denver on Friday.
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Car flips off Mercer offramp, lands on Broad
A Friday afternoon rush-hour collision sent a car plunging off a Mercer Street offramp guardrail to Aurora Avenue about 30 feet below, authorities said.
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Reichert puts on third veterans' resource fair
For the third straight year, U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., is sponsoring a veterans' resource fair to provide a one-stop-shopping clearinghouse of information for regional veterans and their families.
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Fort Lewis soldier killed in Iraq
A 19-year-old military policeman from Fort Lewis was killed in Iraq on Tuesday, the Defense Department announced Friday.
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Plane crash into Covington home kills pilot
A single-engine kit airplane crashed into a house Friday afternoon near Covington, killing the pilot, officials said.
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Seattle pays damages to firefighter
Firefighter Kevin Locke was hurt in a 2001 training accident. He filed a $1.8 million lawsuit against the city, alleging negligence, and won. Now, four years later, the city has finally agreed to pay.
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Articles Of Faith: Big battle over right to die misses the point
The "Death with Dignity" initiative on the Washington ballot is fiercely controversial, but for the terminally ill, it's all about choosing between "fast" and "slow" medicine.
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Scholarship guru teaches kids the ropes
Sam Lim, a University of Washington junior, knows scholarships. He has nearly 20, and they pay for his education. Now he's letting others in on his secret.
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Seattle Public Schools drops controversial office
As part of a reorganization, Seattle Public Schools is getting rid of an office whose director found herself mired in controversy over whether defining standard English is racist.
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Woman pleads guilty in husband's murder
A Des Moines woman who tearfully pleaded for her husband's killer to come forward three years ago pleaded guilty Thursday to his murder, a crime that initially looked like a random carjacking.
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Obama picks up another Washington superdelegate
U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen of Lake Stevens added his name Thursday to the growing list of Democratic superdelegates endorsing U.S. Sen. Barack Obama for the party's presidential nomination.
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Caution flag raised in race to embrace biofuels
Concerns about biofuels' impact on food supplies and the environment are causing Seattle, King County and UW officials to tap the brakes on their use.
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Right-wing defector to make stop in Seattle
Arianna Huffington: She's exiled from the Peacock Network, but coming here.
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Bush signs Wild Sky Wilderness into law
WASHINGTON -- For the first time in more than two decades, Washington state is getting a new wilderness area because President Bush signed legislation Thursday to protect more than 106,000 acres of forests and streams in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.
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Man killed by train devoted to family in Mexico, horses
The King County Medical Examiner's Office has identified the man killed Wednesday morning by an Amtrak train as 50-year-old Juan Martinez. Co-workers at Emerald Downs said he was going to wire money to family in Mexico.
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Governor raises twice challenger's money
Gov. Chris Gregoire raised twice as much money as GOP challenger Dino Rossi in April, according to figures provided by the respective campaigns.
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Facebook agrees to shield kids from adult content
Facebook has agreed to better protect children on its Web site, including developing technology to verify the age and identity of users.
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Father pleads not guilty to assault
A registered sex offender who allegedly caused his 4-month old son to suffocate when the baby wouldn't stop crying pleaded not guilty Thursday in King County Superior Court, the Prosecutors Office reported.
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Help for pregnant smokers
The Washington Department of Health has launched a new effort to help pregnant women quit smoking.
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Seattle teacher caught with child porn might avoid jail
A Whitman Middle School teacher accused of having dozens of sexually explicit images of boys on a laptop computer could avoid jail time in a recent plea agreement.
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Teen charged in puppy stomping
MEDFORD, Ore. -- A 19-year-old Medford woman has been charged with aggravated animal abuse that includes stomping a 3-month-old puppy.
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Two people stabbed after cell phone theft
A stabbing Thursday night over an alleged cell phone theft sent two people to the hospital -- one with life- threatening injuries -- and had three teens in Renton Police custody.
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