NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, center left, holds a jersey after the NHL Board of Governors announced Seattle as the league’s 32nd franchise, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018, in Sea Island Ga.. Joining Bettman, from left to right, is Jerry Bruckheimer, David Bonderman, David Wright, Tod Leiweke and Washington Wild youth hockey player Jaina Goscinski. (AP Photo/Stephen […]
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Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist, dies
SEATTLE (AP) — Paul G. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates before becoming a billionaire philanthropist, technology investor and owner of several professional sports teams, has died. He was 65. He died Monday in Seattle, according to his company Vulcan Inc. Earlier this month Allen announced that the non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that […]
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Judge extends ban on posting untraceable 3D guns online
A U.S. judge in Seattle blocked the Trump administration Monday from allowing a Texas company to post online plans for making untraceable 3D guns, agreeing with 19 states and the District of Columbia that such access to the plastic guns would pose a security risk. The states sued to stop an agreement that the government […]
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Mom charged with choking 6th-grade player during girls' basketball game
SEATTLE (AP) — A suburban Seattle mother has been charged with felony assault following an attack last year on a sixth-grade girl at a basketball game between two Catholic schools. Authorities say 38-year-old Monique Altheimer of Kent got onto the basketball court during a December game in Seattle and choked the child who had fought […]
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Study of Seattle's $15 minimum wage says costs outweigh benefits
When Seattle officials voted three years ago to incrementally boost the city’s minimum wage up to $15 an hour, they’d hoped to improve the lives of low-income workers. Yet according to a major new study that could force economists to reassess past research on the issue, the hike has had the opposite effect. The city […]
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Henry ‘Hank’ L. Filliettaz
1933 – 2015 HAMPDEN — Henry “Hank” L. Filliettaz, born March 14, 1933, the fifth child of Brig. Gen. Charles M. and Catherine F. (Conley) Filliettaz, passed away peacefully Tuesday, Sept. 22, at his home, with his loving family by his side. Henry was born and raised in Lewiston, graduating from Lewiston High School in […]
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Live video: Shooting reported at high school near Seattle
MARYSVILLE, Wash. — Police responded Friday to a high school north of Seattle after it was locked down amid reports of a shooting. The Marysville School District said in a statement that “Marysville Pilchuck High School is currently in lock down due to an emergency situation. Police and emergency services have responded.” The district said further […]
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Red Sox crumble in ninth, fall to Mariners, 5-3
Red Sox closer Koji Uehara (5-4) held a 3-0 lead with two outs and a runner on first before the Mariners broke loose. Seattle ended a nine-game losing streak at Fenway Park. Jackson’s drive down the left-field line drove in two runs, Dustin Ackley followed with a two-run single to give the Mariners the lead […]
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Elizabeth Mitchell: taking life and career to the West Coast
Elizabeth Mitchell Bates College, art and visual culture major, May 2009 Current hometown: Seattle, Wash. Age: 26 Live at home/rent/buy your own home? Rent Current job? Very currently, as in, for two more weeks, I am coaching sailing at Sail Sand Point on Lake Washington. I had been working in the creative department at L.L.Bean […]
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Marijuana’s march toward mainstream confounds feds
WASHINGTON — It took 50 years for American attitudes about marijuana to zigzag from the paranoia of “Reefer Madness” to the excesses of Woodstock back to the hard line of “Just Say No.” The next 25 years took the nation from Bill Clinton, who famously “didn’t inhale,” to Barack Obama, who most emphatically did. And […]