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Groping suspect arrested
The man arrested Thursday on suspicion of forcefully groping a woman in South Seattle last week and charged with fourth-degree assault is a registered sex offender with a previous conviction for molesting a teenage girl, according to court documents.
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Whidbey bomb disposers pay high price to protect troops
These Whidbey Island sailors are coveted by troops in Iraq. They dispose of the bombs that are the leading killers in the war.
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U.S., Canada agree to cuts in 2 major salmon fisheries
Against a worrisome backdrop, negotiators for the United States and Canada on Thursday announced steep cuts in two major salmon fisheries, one Canadian and one American.
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Did gunman know right from wrong?
King County jurors must now decide if accused gunman Naveed Haq was an angry, suicidal man who planned the Jewish Federation shootings with the intent to kill and deliver a message -- or if he was criminally insane.
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Corrosive ocean water moving inland
The ocean is getting more corrosive, closer to shore, decades earlier than anyone expected, thanks in large part to all of the carbon dioxide being pumped into the air, according to new research from scientists in Seattle.
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Police raid pot house on Beacon Hill
Seattle police raided a suspected marijuana grow operation early Wednesday morning at a Beacon Hill home, where they seized 244 plants.
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Under The Needle: Fuel costs driving truckers into red
For independent truckers, these are trying times. Many are under contracts that force them to absorb soaring fuel costs.
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Five corrections officers suspended for sharing porn
King County has ordered five corrections officers at the jail to be suspended for three days each after they were caught sharing pornographic images with each other through the county e-mail system.
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Patrol cracks down on sale of cars that are a piece of work
The State Patrol has begun cracking down on scam artists selling cars with troubled histories. So far this year, $200,000 in fines have been issued against the scam artists, dubbed curbstoners.
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Spring marches in with the Rainbow City Band
The Rainbow City Band, a predominantly gay and lesbian band made up largely of musicians long past their high school band days, practices in the Central Area.
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Council debates extending tax break to ease housing costs
Aiming to encourage construction of housing affordable to middle- and low-income Seattleites, officials might soon to make it easier for developers to qualify for a tax break.
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Drug conviction tossed out over illegal police frisking
OLYMPIA -- In another nod to the Washington Constitution's broad privacy protections, the state Supreme Court has thrown out the drug conviction of a man who was searched by police solely because of his weird behavior.
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'Cowboy Mike' guilty in rape, murder
OLYMPIA -- Jurors have convicted a former country singer known as "Cowboy Mike" of rape and first-degree murder in the death of a Lacey woman.
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Discovery of body in alley spurs homicide inquiry
Seattle police are investigating a homicide after a man's body was found in the View Ridge neighborhood of North Seattle.
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Boats may idle awhile near Spokane St. Bridge
Seattle has asked the Coast Guard to keep the low-level Spokane Street Bridge over the Duwamish River open to vehicle traffic during peak commuting hours, a move that would close the span to marine traffic four hours each weekday.
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We're stuck with nation's worst road funding gap
Seattle-Puget Sound area has the largest gap between transportation infrastructure needs and secured funding than any metropolitan area of the country, according to a study.
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Plan to camp this weekend? Call first
Memorial Day weekend is a great time to go camping -- if you can find a place to camp. Late snow and spring flooding have closed many campgrounds across Washington state. Most of the sites not affected by the weather are reserved for the weekend.
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Thieves cut down more than 20 maple trees
BREMERTON -- Two old maple trees -- one nearly 4 feet in diameter -- were cut down at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds and more than 20 other large maples were removed from the Bremerton watershed.
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Seattle's historic INS building sold
INS Holdings LLC of Seattle has purchased the old Immigration and Naturalization Service building on Airport Way South for $4.4 million and plans to use it as office space, a company spokesman said Thursday.
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Area home prices up 2.8% from year ago
The typical Seattle-area house was worth 2.8 percent more in this first quarter of 2008 than it was in the first three months of 2007, but 0.4 percent less than in the final quarter of last year, according to a new report.
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Death of work-release inmate under investigation
Corrections officials are investigating the death of a 51-year-old man on work release.
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Ambulance struck by wrong-way driver
Two women were badly hurt when their car crashed head-on into a King County Medic Unit late Wednesday night.
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Pedestrian hit, driver arrested
Seattle police arrested an allegedly impaired driver after he drove into a pedestrian Wednesday afternoon.
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Seattle police look for carjacking suspect
A woman called Seattle police early Thursday to report a man had slugged her, then stolen her car.
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Patrol car struck by speeding driver
A State Patrol trooper escaped injury because he was out of his vehicle when a speeding driver crashed into it Wednesday night.
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Motel hell adds a layer to homeless problem
Seattle has vowed to reduce homelessness. But how can city officials and agencies do that when they can't even help the small group of soon-to-be homeless folks facing ouster from the run-down Green Lake Motel?
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Restaurant menu promises buried in calories, fat
Dishes targeted to health conscious consumers at popular chains contained as much as twice the calories and eight times the grams of fat than the restaurants claimed in their published nutrition information, a Scripps investigation revealed.
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Large restaurant chains in King County must document nutrition claims
In King County, nutritional labeling rules that will go into full effect next year will require large chain restaurants to document how they've calculated how many calories and fat grams are in dishes, officials say.
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Seattle school chief's plan puts district to the test
The strategic plan Seattle Public Schools chief Maria Goodloe-Johnson unveiled Wednesday would mean less autonomy for schools, more rigor for all students, more frequent testing to track academic progress and a streamlined central office.
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UW cutting 66 jobs in technology division
The University of Washington plans to cut 66 employees from its technology division, marking the university's biggest announced job cutback since 1994.
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Landmark status can't preserve Ballard Denny's
The city Landmarks Preservation Board decided Wednesday not to require preservation of the Ballard landmark that formerly housed a Manning's Cafeteria and then a Denny's Restaurant.
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Closing arguments begin in Naveed Haq murder trial
Closing arguments have begun in the Seattle trial of the man accused of killing a woman and wounding five others at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle's downtown office.
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Seattleites offered incentives to cut summer driving
Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is urging residents to curb their car driving by 10 percent through his "Give your car the summer off" campaign.
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Seattle police say they have suspect in groping cases
Seattle police detectives were looking Wednesday for a man they have identified and think groped more than 20 Asian women in South Seattle during the last two years, including one this week.
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'Indiana Jones and the legend of the obsessed fan'
He's put on some mileage since 1981, when "Raiders of the Lost Ark" transformed his life and made fedoras the headwear of choice for swashbucklers. But time hasn't dimmed Michael Ryan's obsession with all things Indiana Jones.
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Voters lose Hanford waste ruling
Washington citizens had no right to vote to bar the federal government from dumping additional waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation, a federal appeals court decided Wednesday.
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Court to rehear 'don't ask, don't tell'
A decorated Air Force nurse who lost a challenge to the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy and was fired for having a lesbian relationship won a partial victory Wednesday in a federal appeals court.
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Witness says Haq's actions were deliberate
Naveed Haq planned his shooting rampage at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and even adapted his actions to overcome anything that might get in his way, according to the final witness in his trial.
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Ban on cruise ship sewage discharges near shellfish beds
The NorthWest CruiseShip Association has agreed to prohibit discharges of treated sewage within a half mile of shellfish beds as recommended by the Washington State Department of Health.
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Gun may have skirted security at courthouse
A security screener at the King County Courthouse spotted what appeared to be a gun inside a bag Tuesday morning, but identified the bag's owner too late to stop him from entering.
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Chinese student groups at UW raise $6,000 at event
The University of Washington, which has deep roots in Washington, is seeing its students raise thousands for earthquake relief in China.
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Construction worker hit in the head with sledgehammer
A Seattle construction worker was rushed to Harborview Medical Center Wednesday after a sledgehammer fell and hit him on the head.
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Belfair couple plead guilty to stealing private information
A Belfair couple pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to stealing identities and using trickery to obtain confidential medical, tax and employment information for private investigators who paid them fees for the information.
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Suit filed over staph infections at jail
Lawyers representing a former King County Jail inmate filed a class action lawsuit Wednesday claiming that jail conditions are so poor that they violate inmates' constitutional rights.
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Rally urges change as health care costs continue to rise
Fed up with the health care system, more than 200 people who gathered Wednesday in Bellevue voiced their frustration with skyrocketing costs.
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Man shot in Columbia City
Seattle police are looking for two men seen running after a shooting that left another man hurt early Wednesday.
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Tough times could ease holiday driving crunch
Higher gas prices and a shaky economy this year mean that slightly fewer Memorial Day weekend travelers on state highways will travel shorter distances.
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A moment with ... Jerry White, global activist
Nobel Prize winner Jerry White will speak Thursday night at Town Hall Seattle about his new book, "I Will Not Be Broken."
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Interstate accident spills 200 gallons of fuel into Duwamish
An accident on Interstate 5 punctured a semi truck's fuel tank, draining about 200 gallons of fuel into a freeway storm drain that empties into the Duwamish River.
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