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Seahawks Linebacker Leroy Hill Arrested After Domestic Dispute

At this point, it's safe to say that Leroy Hill is having a rough off-season. Less than two weeks ago the Seattle Seahawks starting linebacker plead guilty to charges from a 2009 incident where G...

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Seattle's Worst Driver Steers Using Only Her Mind

At least that's what it looks like. Because she's most certainly not holding the wheel with her hands.

Amazingly enough, Mary, our hands-free driver, was not declared Seattle's least competent ...

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Seattle Times Drops Burien Blog Because of Poorly Executed April Fools Day Posts

The Seattle Times has decided to cut ties with Burien-based B-Town Blog and four other "partner" neighborhood blogs after some poorly executed April Fools Day posts. PubliCola first reported the ...

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The McGuire Deathwatch Begins Now

- Hideous Belltown has spent the past year-plus documenting the downfall of the McGuire, the 25-story condo building now scheduled for demolition. But amidst the snark, there's some really crappy...

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Legislature's (Nearly) Final Budget Includes Deep Education Cuts

After three-and-a-half months, the Washington state legislature has a final proposal for dealing with its $2.8 billion deficit. There will be new taxes on beer, candy and cigarettes and the state...

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Medical Marijuana Case Prompts the Question: How Much Is Too Much?

This month's trial of John Gordon Reed and Karen Leann Mower confirms that there's still a lot of confusion over the state's medical marijuana law.

On April 2, a Mason County Superior Court jur...

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Man Says Shooting Death of Girlfriend Was Accidental, Part of Foreplay

Just in case you were wondering if you should incorporate firearms into your foreplay, a couple from Granite Falls have gone to the trouble of demonstrating definitively that guns and sex do not ...

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Seattle Times Wins Another Pulitzer Prize; National Enquirer Shut Out

The sun still rises in the east, Hell remains unfrozen over, and the National Enquirer did not win the Pulitzer Prize. But the Seattle Times did - for its breaking news reporting on the slayin...

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Why Is the U.S. Military Still Using Windows?

Spencer Ackerman wonders why the most powerful military in world history is using "inferior Microsoft products":
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David Copperfield Seeks to Make Lacey Carroll's Rape-Related Lawsuit Disappear

He made a train and the Statue of Liberty disappear. For his next feat, David Copperfield is attempting to make a lawsuit vanish in the midst of a Seattle courtroom.

Having already scored a rec...

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