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Be Proud, Gays!
Your votes require political pandering. Governor Christine Gregoire has agreed to be the honorary Grand Marshal of this years gay pride parade on June 29. According to parade sponsor Seattle Out and Proud, shell be marching behind the Dykes on Bikes. Although this is her first time marching…
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Watcha Doing Tonight?
Here's what we're doing, in case you need some ideas. Pot and film seem to be our top cravings tonight. Smoking weed and playing Maddin. Making ice-cream sandwiches from scratch. Seeing Be Like Others at the Harvard Exit. Traipsing through the purple forest and then seeing Otto…
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Sims Responds to Criminal Justice Dept; Phillips Responds to Sims
Posted by news intern Chris Kissel As Erica noted, I went downtown yesterday to catch Ron Sims' press conference, held in response to announcements by County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg and Sheriff Sue Rahr detailing their own responses to $68 million in King County budget cuts. After spending…
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Now Hanging, Pre-Pubescent Edition!
You can keep your Art Walks, and your First Thursdays big and small. Ive walked them all, baby, and so have you: Each of us in search of the answer to that ever-elusive question, who is this Art, and why does he walk on Thursday? But as everyone who knows anything knows damn good…
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Camp-In Against City's Encampment Crackdown
Even as shelters are turning away homeless Seattle residents with no more than a blanket, and even as people are sleeping outdoors, without shelter, in record numbers, the city of Seattle is continuing its crackdown on homeless "encampments" -- semi-permanent campsites at which homeless people set…
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Yummy yummy yummy
Seven women, two oranges, and one Metro bus. They don’t appear to speak English, and they are spread out through the front seats. The ladies peel and pass the fruit, giggling. The woman in front eats each section with a look halfway between a grimace and a smirk. It must be one of those…
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SweatFree Seattle - Now!
For our local readers, here's a quick bit of news on an exciting development for Seattle. San Francisco, Portland, Olympia and many cities across the country have passed SweatFree ordinances for procurement by their city. In the South Puget Sound, the Clean Clothes campaign is working to make…
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City will not restrict beach bonfires this year
Seattle Parks Department has backed off on considering restrictions on bonfires this year, and on possibly banning or charging fees for them at Alki and Golden Gardens beaches next year.
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Two displaced by motel fire
Fire damaged one room of a residential motel in Georgetown early Friday.
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County budget cuts could reduce law enforcement efforts
County officials could lay off more than 100 employees this year, including law enforcement officers.
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At least 8 hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning
Six SeaTac residents were rushed to Harborview Medical Center Thursday night after being overcome by carbon monoxide, and three investigating King County Sheriff's Office also were taken to the hospital as a precaution.
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Home buyers, it's your time to haggle
The median price of a King County house that sold in May was down 6.2 percent from a year earlier.
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Beach bonfires may be banned
Seattle Parks and Recreation staff is recommending reducing bonfires at Alki and at Golden Gardens beaches this summer, and possibly banning them altogether next year.
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22 years for plotting husband's death
A woman who once made emotional pleas for her husband's killer to come forward was sentenced Thursday to 22 years in prison for helping plan the deadly ambush that ended his life.
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Nine E. coli cases confirmed in Puget Sound region
Nine confirmed cases of E. coli infection in Thurston and Pierce counties could be linked to contaminated lettuce, according to the state department of health.
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Haq jury could not agree on 'intent to murder,' juror says
A few jurors thought Naveed Haq was guilty, but many apparently weren't convinced that he went to the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle intending to kill anyone.
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State hasn't caught up to mortgage woes of U.S.
Washington's mortgage delinquency and foreclosure situation worsened in the first three months of the year, although the state remained far better than the U.S. as a whole, according to a new report.
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Blogger spreads the gospel of science
One of the world's leading science bloggers, PZ Myers, returns to Seattle to visit his mom, attack religion and declare the Discovery Institute "irrelevant" in the debate between evolutionary scientists and creationists.
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Pastor sentenced to three years for abusing women
PORTLAND -- A pastor who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting five women in his Portland church was sentenced to three years in prison.
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'Top two' primary -- a state of confusion?
Is the "top two" primary a wake-up call for democracy -- or an invitation to confusion?
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No Parking Anytime: Vacant buildings looked lived in, perhaps by a ghost
The question for Sound Transit was what to do with those buildings it's going to tear down on Broadway.
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Reputed gang boss pleads not guilty to drug charges
Federal agents investigating border drug smuggling believe they've decapitated a violent British Columbia gang with the arrest of its founder and leader.
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Police catch suspected robber in West Seattle
Police had locked down a four-block area in West Seattle, where they had chased a robbery suspect into a home near around Southwest Henderson Street and 16th Avenue Southwest.
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Police still searching for rape suspect who escaped
Police are still searching for a man charged with second-degree rape who escaped last month from the King County Work Education Release Program.
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Police arrest suspected teen car prowlers
Lynnwood police have arrested two teens suspected in a string of car break-ins over the weekend.
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Homeless advocates fault camp cleanup
Workers hauled out 21 tons of debris from homeless camps last week on the western slope of Queen Anne Hill, a cleanup project that cost nearly $28,000, the office of Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels said Thursday.
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Case closed: Owner tracks down his stolen comic book collection
A Bellevue man has agreed to return most of a missing comic book collection to the owner, allowing police to close a brief investigation, the Bellevue Police Department reported Thursday.
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Feds, cops round up suspected drug dealers in Everett
Sixteen people have been arrested for drug and weapons violations in an undercover roundup around Everett's Casino Road area, federal and local authorities said Thursday.
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Millions granted to improve health care
On the heels of a nationwide study pointing to major discrepancies in patient care in hospitals across the U.S., the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation pledged $1 million to the Puget Sound Health Alliance to help improve health care quality.
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Shots from SUV hit Mercedes; no one hurt
Police were investigating a drive-by shooting early Thursday in the 900 block of Ninth Avenue. No was injured, Seattle police reported.
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4 more state superdelegates declare allegiance to Obama
More state Democratic superdelegates are joining Barack Obama's parade, including former House Speaker Tom Foley and Reps. Jay Inslee and Norm Dicks, as the party rallies around its presumptive nominee.
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Meredith Getches, 1944-2008: Ex-Seattle hearing examiner admired for sense of humor
Meredith Getches, former Seattle hearing examiner, died Wednesday at the age of 63.
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$6M prize unclaimed in Oregon Lottery
SALEM, Ore. -- The Oregon Lottery is looking for a Megabucks winner due $6 million.
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Trial starts for driver in crash that killed musicians
ALBANY, Ore. -- The trial has begun for a motorist accused of causing a crash that killed two members of the Eugene Symphony.
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