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Gum Wall in Seattle's Post Alley
Gum Wall in Seattle's Post Alley Eric Fredericks • Monday June 30, 2008 I haven’t been posting much lately, but I want to start getting in the habit of doing so again. So, here’s a fun way to kick it off… with gum! A friend of mine just returned from Seattle and showed me some…
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BwtyKwns Present | Fourth of July BBQ
BwtyKwns Present | Fourth of July BBQ No Comment // Posted by: brelaxedhomie // Written on Jun 30, 2008 // Events // This is strictly for all my Seattle ninjas, unless you live out of state and want to fly in to be at the BBQ. This week is July 4th. What’s on July 4th? It’s Independence…
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Coast Guard cutter Eagle arrives in Seattle on Tuesday
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Eagle, nicknamed "America's Tall Ship," will be accompanied by the Coast Guard Heritage Fleet of vintage and famous Coast Guard vessels when it arrives in Seattle on Tuesday.
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Hang up and drive: Ban on hand-held cell phones begins
Starting Tuesday, drivers who don't use a headset or hands-free cell device while driving and talking will risk a $124 ticket.
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Donors help save Seattle jazz icon's home
The elderly jazz icon was down on her luck and about to lose her home to foreclosure. And then Seattle -- and the music world -- came to the rescue.
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Tukwila man charged with vehicular homicide
A Tukwila man accused of fighting with another man at a South King County casino and then running him over with his van now faces vehicular-homicide and hit-and-run charges.
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Renton man an Abu Ghraib torturer, suit says
A Renton man who worked as an interrogator for CACI Inc. is among defendants named in federal lawsuits filed Monday by three Iraqis and a Jordanian alleging that they were tortured by U.S. military contractors while detained at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003 and 2004.
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State Department fines Boeing $3 million
Boeing has agreed to pay a $3 million fine for exceeding value limits on purchases of parts from foreign suppliers for its military products.
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Coast Guard's Eagle to land in Seattle Tuesday
The majestic three-masted barque, as long as a football field and half as high, is making its first stop in 20 years in Seattle Tuesday before heading south for Tacoma's Tall Ships 2008 festival over the Independence Day weekend from July 3 to 7.
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Blaze that killed 3 people was arson
King County fire investigators have determined that a fire in Burien that killed three people and left six others injured was intentionally set.
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Megahomes: Seattle wants to limit sizes
After years of complaints about suburban-style "megahomes" eating lawns and encroaching on neighbors, Seattle may consider limiting the size of some larger single-family homes.
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Megahomes: Bellevue targets house concerns
The city of Bellevue has approved simple fixes to address megahome complaints but hasn't resolved thornier questions.
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School aide charged with molesting kids
A Seattle Public Schools instructional aide has been accused of sexually touching two female students during an English language immersion class at Aki Kurose Middle School.
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Glass museum to commission 'Bacon Boy' sculpture
HERMISTON, Ore. -- Superman has kryptonite and a man-of-steel physique. Spiderman can cling to walls, scramble up sides of buildings and shoot webs from his wrists. But Bacon Boy -- he fights crime using the power of bacon grease.
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Two Makah whalers sentenced to prison
A five-man team of rogue whalers from the Makah Tribe was sentenced Monday to a combination of prison time, supervised release and community service.
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Peddling 'Sea to Sea' to raise money for the down and out
The Sea to Sea 2008 Bike Tour aims to raise $1.5 million to end the cycle of poverty; it left Golden Gardens Monday, heading for New Jersey.
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Young couple caught skinny-dipping in Portland water reservoir
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Two twentysomethings were found skinny-dipping in Portland's Mount Tabor Reservoir over the weekend.
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Renton man dies while competing in Ore. triathlon
A 46-year-old Renton man died Sunday in Oregon while competing in the swimming leg of a triathlon.
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Cities skeptical of county's new jail plans
King County officials would like to keep providing jail services for the cities, after years of telling cities to pull their inmates out of county lockups by 2012. But the county's change of heart could be too late.
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Condo developers told: Pay more of renters' costs
Developers that convert apartments into condos will have to pay some moderate- and low-income Seattleites considerably more in moving expenses under a measure approve by the City Council Monday.
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Replacing Alaskan Way Viaduct with interchange would eat up parking spaces
Environmental assessment: Replacing part of Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct with a new $545 million interchange would at least temporarily close as many as 1,600 neighborhood parking spaces.
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State fails to meet foster care accords, judge rules
The state has lagged in its monthly visits to foster children, one of four areas where Washington has failed to comply with agreements made to settle a landmark suit in 2004, a judge ruled Monday.
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AG opinion asked on gun bans
Six Democrats from rural Washington districts called on Attorney General Rob McKenna to issue an opinion on a city's authority to ban people who legally possess firearms from city property and facilities.
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Man sues over fall from UW fraternity
A UW graduate who fell from a fourth-floor fraternity-house window three years ago filed a lawsuit against the fraternity earlier this month, claiming the fall stemmed from a culture that promotes alcohol consumption coupled with a dangerous sleeping environment.
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Seattle City Council approves police contract
The Seattle City Council voted unanimously Monday to ratify a new contract with the Seattle Police Officers Guild that boosts police oversight and makes officers the highest paid in the state.
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Police to increase patrols at Market after shooting
Seattle police plan to send extra patrols this week around Pike Place Market and Victor Steinbrueck Park after a shooting that wounded three people Sunday.
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Search ongoing for reported missing Snoqualmie rafter
Search crews were responding late Monday to reports of a missing boater in the Snoqualmie River.
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Penguins seen as 'canaries in climate coal mine'
Penguins have become the "canaries in the global warming coal mine," signaling the effects of climate change on oceans through their rapidly declining population, a UW researcher says.
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Neighbors come to rescue in raging fire that kills three
About 50 people were displaced Sunday morning after a three-alarm fire ripped through an apartment building in Burien, fire officials said. Three people are still missing and a teenage girl escaped by jumping from the second floor.
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It was hot at the Pride Parade. And so was the temperature
Hundreds of thousands of people attended the Seattle Pride Parade on Sunday and cheered on participants to celebrate the region's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered communities.
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Getting There: Elliott Avenue bus-only lane questions
More Elliott Avenue bus-only lane questions; and southbound cars backed up on Seward Park Avenue South
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SUV lifted off victim of rollover accident
A Ford Explorer rolled over onto an ejected passenger Sunday morning on Interstate 405 but passersby and a State Patrol sergeant lifted the vehicle off the man, officials said. The 18-year-old driver has been arrested on suspicion of DUI.
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Echoes of a distant, different war hum this July 4
On this Independence Day, stories of a distant, different war.
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Two women hurt in downtown parking lot brawl
A melee involving about 40 people broke out early Saturday morning in a downtown parking lot in the 800 block of Fifth Avenue. A woman was stabbed in her abdomen, the Seattle police reported.
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Toasty temperatures break state records
If you thought the weekend was hot, you were right. In fact, it tied a few records, especially on Saturday.
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4 shot near Pike Place Market
A fight at Victor Steinbrueck Park led to a shooting that sent four men to the hospital early Sunday evening as tourists and onlookers took cover near Pike Place Market.
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Family opposes Steinbrueck Park redo
The parks department wants to make changes to the layout of Victor Steinbrueck Park near Pike Place Market in an effort to reduce criminal activity. But his family and friends bristle at the idea, saying the design isn't causing the crime.
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Experts launch effort to end racial disparity in foster care
Experts began to sit down last week and figure out how to reduce the disparity of African-American and Native-American children in foster care.
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Hundreds of Seattle Marathon runners miss bus to starting line
About 400 runners, many of whom had spent months training for Sunday's Seafair Marathon, missed the shuttle to the starting line and didn't make the start, even though it was delayed 15 minutes after organizers realized there was a problem.
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$70 million shortfall, but politics to spare
It could be a rocky year ahead for King County, governmentwise. The reasons? Not enough money, and maybe too much politics.
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Law is true calling for 'Survivor' alum
Nick Brown is a Harvard Law School graduate, former Army officer and now a federal prosecutor. But it's for his appearance on "Survivor" seven years ago that, much to his chagrin, people remember him.
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The sky was no limit on her dreams
Marge Iten, now 86 and of Bellevue, became a pilot after World War II -- a rare feat for that era.
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