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Bonneville Seattle is raising funds for the construction of a second Fisher House at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma and we need your help.-
June 20, 2013 @ 1:37 am
Birth control shots could alter life in poor areas
A decade ago, the Rosebud Sioux Indians in South Dakota were paying people to catch and shoot wild dogs. Continue reading > -
June 20, 2013 @ 1:07 am
Homes evacuated as wildfire flares near Denver
Dozens of homes were evacuated near Denver as a wind-driven wildfire flared, one of many in the western states where hot and windy conditions were making it easy for the wild land blazes to start and spread. Continue reading > -
June 20, 2013 @ 1:05 am
Zimmerman jurors reveal personal details
One potential juror at George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial belongs to the National Rifle Association. Another says she was the victim of a violent crime that is constantly on her mind. A third is a competitive arm-wrestler. Continue reading > -
June 20, 2013 @ 12:34 am
Texas auction house to sell John Brown leg irons
The leg irons that restrained abolitionist John Brown after his failed 1859 raid on a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry are being sold Saturday in Texas, but two historical parks dedicated to his legacy can't afford to bid on them Continue reading > -
June 20, 2013 @ 12:20 am
Developer: Kan. caverns could preserve human race
After most of the world's population is wiped off the map by a wayward meteorite or hail of nuclear missiles, the survival of the human race might just depend on a few thousand people huddled in recreational vehicles deep in the bowels of an eastern Kansas mine. Continue reading > -
June 20, 2013 @ 12:08 am
Youth leagues try to rein in 'bad news parents'
No parent here has rushed onto a playing field to jump a referee who made an unpopular call. No adult has gotten angry and slugged or pushed a coach or a young player, as has happened elsewhere. Nor have there been any of those embarrassing sideline brawls you sometimes see posted on online video sites. Continue reading > -
June 20, 2013 @ 12:00 am
Bulger trial: The hit man of Country Club Lane
He parks his silver Mercedes-Benz sedan behind his condo, below a deck decorated with white and pink flowers, where a couple of small dogs bark at the few passers-by. Continue reading > -
June 20, 2013 @ 12:00 am
Quotations of the day
"We're on the verge of doing something dramatic on the border. What we're trying to do is put in place measures that to any reasonable person would be an overwhelming effort to secure our border. This is a key moment in the effort to pass the bill." _ Sen. Lindsay Graham, after key senators expressed optimism were closing in on a bipartisan agreement to toughen the border security requirements in the immigration legislation. Continue reading > -
June 19, 2013 @ 11:56 pm
Victims' relatives to testify in Bulger trial
After hearing three days of testimony from a hit man who admitted killing 20 people, jurors in the trial of James "Whitey" Bulger will soon get to hear from the families of some of those victims. Continue reading > -
June 19, 2013 @ 11:40 pm
Police: Disabled Pa. man who died suffered neglect
A 32-year-old Pennsylvania man with Down syndrome was so severely neglected by his family that his body was covered in scabies and he weighed just 69 pounds when he died, police said in charging his mother and two sisters with murder. Continue reading > -
June 19, 2013 @ 11:27 pm
OH man to be sentenced in dying blink murder case
An Ohio man found guilty in a murder trial that hinged on a paralyzed victim blinking his eyes to identify his shooter is scheduled to be sentenced. Continue reading > -
June 19, 2013 @ 11:15 pm
NYC heir, 89, to hear whether he'll go to prison
An 89-year-old heir could end up in prison after a court date on his 11th-hour bid for a new trial in a case that shook New York society. Continue reading > -
June 19, 2013 @ 11:14 pm
4th suspect in Ohio enslavement case due in court
The first of four suspects is due in federal court in a forced labor case alleging an Ohio woman was held captive with her child, threatened and made to do housework. Continue reading > -
June 19, 2013 @ 8:18 pm
Actor James Gandolfini dies in Italy at age 51
James Gandolfini, whose portrayal of a brutal, emotionally delicate crime boss in HBO's "The Sopranos" was the brilliant center of one of TV's greatest drama series and turned the mobster stereotype on its head, died Wednesday in Italy. He was 51. Continue reading > -
June 19, 2013 @ 8:17 pm
Former TWA Flight 800 investigators want new probe
Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet. Continue reading >