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Medical Marijuana Activist Steve Sarich Accuses Cops of "Assault By Bodily Fluids"

If Steve Sarich is to believed, he's had a rough couple of months. First, the medical marijuana activist got sprayed with a shotgun blast during an attempted robbery of his Kirkland home. Then, w...

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William Wallace's Head Gets Chopped Off Again, But Pigeon Point, Like Scotland, Is Free (For Parking)

As you learned in last week's April Fool's edition, a developer blocked off a street far from my house, causing the 125 bus to South Seattle Community College to be rerouted to my street. And be...

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William Wallace's Head Gets Chopped Off Again, But Like Scotland, Pigeon Point Is Free (For Parking)

As you learned in last week's April Fool's edition, a developer blocked off a street far from my house, causing the 125 bus to South Seattle Community College to be rerouted to my street. And be...

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Charles Alan Wilson's Death Threats Against Patty Murray

Charles Alan Wilson is the 64-year-old Selah man arrested by the FBI for calling in threats to Senator Patty Murray's voicemail. According to Murray staffers, an anonymous man going by the initia...

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Even If You Find a Job, Health Care Is Getting Harder to Come By

The state's unemployment rate just keeps creeping up--now at 9.5 percent. So 2014--the year Obamacare goes into effect--might seem really far off if you lost your job and with it your employer-pr...

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Asteroids Record-Holder Plays for Two Days Straight

- Further cementing its status as the official home of accomplished video game obsessives, a Seattle locksmith is the new owner of the Asteroids all-time high-score record.

- Starbucks Gossip pl...

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Asteroids Record-Holder Plays For Two Days Straight

- Further cementing its status as the official home of accomplished video game obsessives, a Seattle locksmith is the new owner of the Asteroids all-time high-score record.

- Starbucks Gossip pl...

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The West Seattle Water Taxi's All Grownzed Up

Last year, as a crowded field of King County Council candidates rounded the primary's backstretch, it seemed as though the West Seattle Water Taxi might die a toddler. But then West Seattleite Do...

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Reader: An Offended Puppet Responds

Enis the Puppet responds to our April Fools slideshow, which had some not-so-nice things to say about his people.

"As an actual puppet i am offended by your comments. Unfortunately, some of your...

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The Job That Most Americans Still Won't Touch

Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat recently reminded us of just how desperate people are in this recession. In a particularly poignant column, he wrote about a onetime TV producer who applied...

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