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City Attorney: Etherly Agrees to 'Dispositional Continuance' In Hit-and-Run Case

According to the Seattle City Attorney's Office, Leo Etherly - the man who was captured by dash-cam video on the wrong end of SPD officer Eric Faust fists as part of an investigation into an Oct....

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Hey Ma and Pa: Forget the Skim Milk, It's Pretty Much Water and Doesn't Do a Lick to Prevent Childhood Obesity

Admit it, you've always sort of suspected that skim and low-fat milk wasn't all it was cracked up to be as far as weight-loss goes. You were right! Giving your kiddies skim milk doesn't do a thing...

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North Seattle Med Co: Keep On Roland

From time to time, I meet a budtender who's so damn good at what he does that I leave the access point happy, excited, and dazzled. I'm not talking about run-of-the-mill "adequate" budtenders, bu...

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Old Dogs, New Tricks: SPD Desensitizing Drug-Sniffing Dogs to Pot

Caught on the bus ride from hell this morning I got a chance to read an interesting story from KOMO on drug-sniffing dogs in our state in the post-I-502 world. As the story notes, many law enforce...

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The Police Loophole: How a Local Detective Sold Up to 2,000 Guns on the Black Market

Until he went off to prison last year for gun running, Roy Alloway was best known as the man most likely to kick down your door and take your weed. As a Bremerton and WestNet federal task force de...

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Further Proof Idaho Hates Pot And Doesn't Care About Cancer Patients

In case you wondered where the state of Idaho stands on pot, let it make itself abundantly clear: It's not for it - in any form. Or, at the very least, that seems to be the direction things are go...

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Wish George W. Bush a Happy 10th Anniversary on His Private E-Mail

We are referring, of course, to the 10th anniversary of the day Dubya began his asinine assault on Iraq.

A hacker calling himself (or herself) Guccifer, reports Gawker, has penetrated the electro...

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Seahawks No. 1 in 2013 NFL Power Rankings -- Take That, Niners!

It's only March, so it's pretty meaningless, right Seahawk fans?

But you'll take it, anyway.

ESPN is out with its pre-draft Power Rankings, and the Hawks are sitting pretty at No. 1. A lot of t...

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Smashed in Sammamish: Beware of Teenage Drunks Behind the Wheel

Sammamish, that shining city on the hill, has grown like a weed since its incorporation a dozen years ago. There are now nearly 47,000 people here, living the dream -- and most of them are very we...

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Sad and Shocking: Nearly One in Five Snohomish County High School Sophomores Contemplated Suicide

Distressing news out of Snohomish County this morning: According to a Healthy Youth Survey, nearly 19 percent of 10th graders said the seriously thought about taking their own lives, and almost 15...

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