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Distant relatives on the minds of local Burmese
The cyclone that struck Myanmar, also known as Burma, was a hot topic Saturday as about 200 people attended a Burmese food festival in Shoreline to raise money for a permanent home for a Burmese Buddhist monastery in Lynnwood. But money was also collected for cyclone relief efforts.
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Tugboats races just part of Maritime Festival
Thousands of people lined the city's waterfront Saturday to participate in the Seattle Maritime Festival, which focuses on working boats. The festival featured what organizers called the world's largest tugboat race.
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Local man honored: Helped U.S. in WWII
Vietnamese officials in Seattle on Saturday honored a long-forgotten hero of World War II who was both a compatriot of the revolutionary father of Vietnamese independence, Ho Chi Minh, and an agent of American military intelligence.
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No injuries in officer-involved shooting
Federal Way police are investigating a shooting during which an officer fired at a gunman, but missed. The gunman was arrested.
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Passenger's 'jest' prompts bomb scare, halts ferry service
Ferry service between Kingston and Edmonds was temporarily halted Saturday morning after the Washington State Patrol received a call that a bomb might be on board one of the vessels. Troopers found no bomb.
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New link in Burke-Gilman trail officially opens
Mayor Nickels held a ribbon cutting to mark the opening of a new segment in the Burke-Gilman Trail. Also Saturday, residents were asked to fill out surveys identifying their favorite walks.
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Toddler survives 15-foot fall from window
A 21-month-old boy fell from a second-story apartment window Saturday but appeared to suffer no major injuries.
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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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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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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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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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Instant profiling reveals the biases in us all
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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