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Seattleites offered incentives to cut summer driving [Seattle PI]
"Mayor Greg Nickels is urging Seattle residents to curb their car driving by 10% through his "Give your car the summer off" campaign<sep/>
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This moral compass pointed at gold
Top aides to conservative presidents love to rake in big bucks for books that reveal the boss' dirty secrets while he still resides in the White House. Former presidential press secretary Scott McClellan is the latest to go for the gold.
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New vision for South downtown
Seattle planners unveiled their strategy Thursday for squeezing more homes and employers into some of the city's oldest and most culturally significant neighborhoods, including Pioneer Square and Chinatown.
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Raised height limits tied to livability in South Lake Union
Significantly raising height limits in South Lake Union is the best way to make the lake's south end and neighboring Queen Anne more livable in the future, City Council members were told Thursday.
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State surprise: Superdelegate goes to Clinton
Hillary Clinton picks up the support of a Washington state superdelegate to the Democratic convention, giving her bid for the presidential nomination a boost just before a weekend that could prove critical to her flickering chances.
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Everett attorney pleads guilty to fraud
An Everett attorney who admitted conning clients out of between $400,000 and $1 million pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Thursday to wire fraud.
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Boy partly off the hook in bid to sneak onto jet
Prosecutors won't press charges against Semaj Booker, 10, for trying to sneak aboard a flight out of Sea-Tac Airport.
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State hires divers to clear sea squirts from area marinas
The Fish and Wildlife Department says divers will be at several Puget Sound marinas through the end of June removing sea squirts from boat hulls.
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Kitchen grease fuels a wave of fry crooks
The biodiesel boom is turning into an unanticipated boon for a far-from-green portion of the population -- petty thieves, who are trading in the used cooking oil.
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Seamen's Club is a voyage back in time
An aging white sign befitting what was once a blue-collar neighborhood in a port town remains. Now, it looks more like a lonely piece of driftwood in a sea of chicness. "Catholic Seamen's Club," it says.
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Call to protect groves of trees is sent to Nickels
Spurred by a controversial proposal to partially raze a grove of trees in the Maple Leaf neighborhood, the Seattle City Council has called on Mayor Greg Nickels to bolster tree protection policies.
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Speller Zhang makes good run at Bee
WASHINGTON -- Advancing to the quarterfinals at the 81st annual Scripps National Spelling Bee Thursday was a triumph for Elizabeth Zhang, 13, especially because she learned English after she and her family moved to the United States from Beijing.
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First of 3 contracts awarded for cleanup at Hanford
YAKIMA -- The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded the first of three major cleanup contracts that were put out for bid to clean up the nation's most contaminated nuclear site at Hanford.
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Shooting suspect faces assault charge
A Snohomish man now faces a second-degree assault charge -- and the possibility of several years in prison -- in the shooting that left three people hurt and disrupted Seattle's usually laid-back Northwest Folklife Festival.
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No Parking Anytime: Is Sound Transit fighter plane sculpture threatened?
In an email circulating on the Web, the sculptor proposing chopped-up jet fighters at Sound Transit's future Broadway light rail station says his project is now in trouble.
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Driver charged with vehicular homicide
A 26-year-old Redmond man was legally drunk when his vehicle struck a motorcycle on state Route 202 on Monday, killing its rider.
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Teen boys admit to raping 16-year-old girl
Four teenagers have pleaded guilty in the rape of a 16-year-old girl who later helped police identify them through a Web page at MySpace.com.
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Columbia River monitored after acid spill in B.C.
Washington environmental officials are monitoring the Columbia River to see if pollution levels south of the Canadian border increase as a result of a 100-gallon spill of hydrofluoric acid at the Teck Cominco metal smelter in Trail.
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Four admit to raping teen, 16, who ID'd them on MySpace
Four teenagers have pleaded guilty in the rape of a 16-year-old girl who later helped police identify them through a Web page at MySpace.com.
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Hotel ID thief is sentenced to 6-year term
A Tacoma man who stole credit card slips from hotel guests and used the information to buy thousands of dollars worth of goods, including Rolex watches, was sentenced to 75 months in prison Thursday.
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More health care may not always be better
Too much medical care could be harmful to your health, according to a study that shows some hospitals give patients more aggressive care -- meaning more tests, longer hospital stays and more procedures and higher costs.
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Humpback whale visiting Puget Sound
OLYMPIA -- A humpback whale that has been sighted the past two weeks in Puget Sound around Vashon Island appears to be a young adult in good condition.
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Greenwood man gives up after 3-hour standoff
A man who was holed up in a Greenwood home with two boys after a fight with his wife has surrendered to Seattle police.
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Air ambulances address issue of obese patients
Airlift Northwest has a new safety policy in place, meant to give helicopter crews a heads-up when dealing with obese patients.
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Carbon footprint: Seattle is 6th-best in U.S.
Seattle has been ranked one of the best of the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas for the size of its "carbon footprint," or how much carbon dioxide the average resident emits. But don't launch a green pride parade quite yet.
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Rainier guide tops Everest for 10th time
A Mount Rainier climbing guide has scaled Mount Everest for the 10th time, becoming the first non-Nepalese to achieve the feat, mountaineering officials said Wednesday.
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Doctors' house calls on the rise
Once considered on the verge of extinction, physician house calls are making a comeback.
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Being a good neighbor is indeed heroic
He doesn't see himself as a hero. But when you come to the aid of a Seattle woman getting groped by a sex offender, that's what you are in my book.
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Being a good neighbor is indeed heroic
He doesn't see himself as a hero. But when you come to the aid of a Seattle woman getting groped by a sex offender, that's what you are in my book.
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Jury may be stuck on Haq murder charge
Jurors in the Jewish Federation shooting trial had not been unable to decide as of Wednesday morning whether Naveed Haq is guilty of murder and had apparently not yet begun deciding the 14 other criminal charges against him.
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Report criticizes King County investment policy
King County's failure to modernize its local-government investment pool has exposed the fund to unnecessary risk and meant missed opportunities for gains, says a report released Tuesday to the County Council.
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Schools told of WASL failures
OLYMPIA -- High schools were told this week which seniors have failed in their third-to-last attempt to pass the Washington Assessment of Student Learning or submit an approved alternative.
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From her water park to Australia
Savanna Reid is off for an adventure of her 13-year-old lifetime: a National Geographic expedition to Australia. And she owes it all to an essay she wrote on a little Mercer Island park.
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State's holiday traffic thins out
Record gas prices may be continuing to keep people off the roads, and state data released Wednesday show traffic was down about 3 percent this Memorial Day weekend compared with last year.
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Beating victim has footprints on his face
BREMERTON -- Police say a man, who was beaten so severely that he has footprints on his face, may not survive.
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Woman hurt after gunfire hits car; suspect remains at large
One woman was hurt after the car she was riding in was riddled with gunfire early Wednesday. The gunmen remain at large, Seattle police reported.
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Principal helps locate missing boy
King County sheriff's detectives tracked down a missing boy to family in California. A Renton school principal recognized the boy's photo in news coverage.
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Union seeks hearing over surveillance in Everett classroom
EVERETT -- The Everett teachers union says it will file a complaint against the Everett School District over the district's videotape surveillance of a high school teacher's classroom for about a month last year.
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Drug-using doctors plead guilty
Two Eastside physicians pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to misdemeanor drug possession in unrelated cases.
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Man with stun gun arrested at Olympia school
OLYMPIA -- Police arrested a man accused of threatening students with a stun gun outside Capital High School in Olympia.
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Man hospitalized after his car collides with truck
A 19-year-old man was flown to Harborview Medical Center after a Wednesday morning car crash that shut down part of 104th Avenue Southeast in Auburn.
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Student accused of threats against school
A student at Seattle Central Community College was arrested Wednesday following threats he allegedly made.
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Radical environmentalist says he has accepted plea deal
PORTLAND -- Tre Arrow, a radical environmentalist who was once one of the FBI's most-wanted fugitives, has announced on his Web site he has accepted a plea deal on federal arson and conspiracy charges.
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Fort Lewis soldier killed on Memorial Day in Afghanistan
A 21-year-old Army Ranger from Fort Lewis was killed Memorial Day in Afghanistan, the Defense Department said Wednesday.
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