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Court Rules That Seattle Federal Judge Does Not Owe Militia Co-Founder $100 Trillion

Yesterday's sentencing of 67-year-old Montana Freeman co-founder Daniel Petersen proves that despite the Tea Party's efforts to usurp the throne, no fringe political movement is as consistent a s...

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Lawsuit Challenges New Law Allowing State to Put Mental Hospital Patients Who Have Committed Crimes in Prison

In September 2008, a mentally-disturbed 29-year-old named Isaac Zamora went on a shooting spree in Skagit County, killing a sherriff's deputy and five others. He later pled guilty to multiple mur...

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Norman Sandretzky Accused of Beating Dog to Death With a Hammer, Telling Girlfriend "She's Next"

Stephanie Swanson says her boyfriend Norman Sandretzky hadn't been acting right since he hurt his head in a car crash last November.

The 41-year-old Arlington man was unemployed, drinking and c...

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The Ugliest Statue in Seattle

Inspired by a recently-completed, 160-foot Senegalese monument, Foreign Policy decided to countdown The World's 10 Ugliest Statues. As you might imagine, the list is dominated by Soviet-era, prop...

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The 'Well Regulated Militia' Makes Its Latest Death Threat Against Patty Murray

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It wasn't only Charles Wilson of Yakima County suggesting Sen. Patty Murray is better off dead for trying to keep people ...

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Mike McGinn's Even More Inclusive 520 Scheme Revealed

As the Times and others are reporting, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn continues to fight for light rail on the planned replacement of State Route 520 (the Evergreen Point Bridge). A new report he comm...

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Reader: Leaving Seattle Was the Best Thing I've Ever Done for My Family

Reader Steve Gibson responds to In Defense of Seattle's Kid-Friendliness.

"My son was born in Seattle and we moved to St. Louis when he was almost three, after spending 10 years in West Seattle ...

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Suspect Arrested For Murder of One-Time Machete Wielder

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Seattle police have caught a break in their investigation into the murder of Andrew Ray Johnson, the 24-year-old South Seattle man who was found shot dead last week near Rainier B...

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Suspect Arrested For Murder of One-time Machete Wielder

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Seattle police have caught a break in their investigation into the murder of Andrew Ray Johnson, the 24-year-old South Seattle man who was found shot dead last week near Rainier B...

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Seattle Is Country's Fourth Most Bike-Friendly City, But Also Broke

The good news: Bicycling magazine just named Seattle the fourth-most bike-friendly city, behind only Minneapolis, Portland and Boulder.Seattle has a 10-year, $240-million bike master plan that se...

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