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Yakima Bomb Squad Blows Up Suspected Pipe Bomb ... Which Was Actually Just Full of Weed

Everyone - even the local paper - seems to have gotten a good laugh out of a brief bomb scare yesterday in Yakima.

According to the Yakima Herald-Republic, a utility worker with Pacific Power d...

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Post-Recession Young Adults Carry Less Debt

The Great Recession hurt everyone, but it's been especially tough for young adults, who are faced with high unemployment rates, rising tuition costs and enormous student loans. But despite these b...

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Off the Rails: Why Do King County Metro Electric 'Trolley' Buses Get Derailed So Often in Front of Seattle Weekly's Office?

Admittedly, this is far from pressing news. But, ever since Seattle Weekly moved into its new office - and, specifically, I moved into my new desk which overlooks where Third Avenue South connect...

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Go Fish: Sometimes That Seafood You're Getting May Not Be at All What You Think It Is

You'd be wise to take a closer gander at the flounder on your dinner plate. Why, it might hardly be flounder at all. And those pearly-white scallops reclining over a bed of rice, well, who can be ...

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Mortgage Settlement Gave $1.1 Billion to State Residents Last Year; How Much Involved a Shell Game?

Last year, Washington joined in a multi-state $25 billion settlement with the country's five largest banks, which stood accused of illegally rushing homes into foreclosure. Some of the money was t...

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Comment of the Day: DREAM Act Is the Next Logical Step

Yesterday on The Daily Weekly we looked into the DREAM Act, which passed out of the state Higher Education Committee today in a 14-4 vote and has the support of the likes of Sen. Ed Murray and One...

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Best Story of the Day: Woman, 104, Lies About Her Age on Facebook -- Because She Has To

Poor, Maguerite Joseph. She's 104, which is really something to be able to crow about and be able tell all her Facebook buddies. But she can't, because the Michigan woman is unable to post her act...

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DREAM Act Gains Momentum in Olympia

Today is a big day for dreamers, in particular for immigrant students who support House Bill 1817, or the DREAM Act.

The bill, which would extend state financial aid to Washington state immigra...

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KIRO Radio: City and Police Monitor Merrick Bobb Spar Over Expensed Pillow Case and Toilet Paper (Among Other Things)

Merrick Bobb is the man tasked with overseeing the City of Seattle's settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice - a job that comes in response to the damning 2011 DOJ report that concluded Sea...

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Suspicious Pattern: The Same Bus Has Been Pulled Over Twice in Last Two Weeks - And Each Time Someone's Been Arrested

It's either a peculiar coincidence, or something's fishy. Either way, according to The Olympian, the same private bus, with the same driver, has been pulled over by the same Washington State Patro...

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