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Fans of Hillary Rodham Clinton waited in line for hours to meet her at a book signing at Seattle&#8...
MyNorthwest.com

Hillary Clinton faithful camp out overnight for Seattle book signing

Seattle's University Bookstore expected a large crowd for former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's book signing. But managers never expected fans would begin lining up before midnight.
13 years ago
Josh Kerns

Seattle man arrested for bomb threat to delay ex-girlfriend’s flight

A 26-year-old Seattle man has been arrested for making a bomb threat about a Southwest Airline flight out of Sea-Tac Airport Wednesday morning.
13 years ago
Kim Shepard

Listen: 911 call of Tacoma teen reporting killing his father

Tacoma police have released the 911 recording of a 16-year-old reporting he murdered his father.
13 years ago
Clint Dempsey’s record-setting goal in the World Cup has been a boon to Kent-based Oberto, wh...
Josh Kerns

Clint Dempsey deal pays huge dividends for Kent-based Oberto

Kent-based Oberto's decision to sign up Sounders FC and U.S. soccer star Clint Dempsey as a spokesman for the jerky company is proving to be a shrewd move.
13 years ago
Sterling Norris didn’t get the OK from her school district, but the police department offered...
Jamie Skorheim

Lakewood police welcome third-grader’s chalk art after school fails to give OK

A young chalk artist petitioning the school board to allow students to draw on school property didn't get the OK from the district, but did get a canvas offer from another government agency.
13 years ago
Gathered Table pulls from a library of easy-to-understand recipes, according to Egan, which are pul...
Colleen O

Gathered Table hopes meal planning can help bring families back together

Family meals have taken a back seat in our busy, hectic lives. You either don't have time to plan the meals or you're too busy to cook. That's where Gathered Table comes in.
13 years ago
An explosion at a Tumwater fireworks plant Wednesday morning has killed one and injured two others....
Josh Kerns

1 dead, 2 injured in Thurston County fireworks plant explosion

One man was killed and two others injured after an explosion at a fireworks plant in Tenino, the Thurston County Sheriff's Office reports.
13 years ago
For the northern hemisphere, Saturday, the summer solstice, is the point when the Earth’s til...
Ted Buehner, NWS Meteorologist

Why summer doesn’t really start in western Washington until July 12

Summer in western Washington officially begins early Saturday morning, June 21, when the summer solstice occurs.
13 years ago
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos holds up the new Amazon Fire Phone at a launch event, Wednesday, June 18, 201...

Jeff Bezos unveils Amazon ‘Fire Phone’ in Seattle

Amazon's new smartphone will serve as your eyes and ears. Snap a photo of a book title, and it'll show you where to buy it. Listen to a song playing in the background, and it'll direct you to that tune on Amazon.
13 years ago
The Poulsbo City Council says their reason for banning recreational marijuana businesses is not abo...
Zak Burns

Poulsbo City Council bans recreational marijuana over cost

Another city council has voted to ban recreational marijuana businesses within its borders. But unlike Marysville, where the council unanimously voted to reject the will of the voters on moral grounds, Poulsbo's decision had nothing to do with their personal objection to smoking pot.
13 years ago
Noisy leaf blowers are apparently keeping important business from happening on the capitol campus i...
Jamie Skorheim

Loud leaf blowers halting work at Capitol in Olympia?

Noisy leaf blowers are apparently keeping important business from happening on the Capitol campus in Olympia.
13 years ago
The county is putting in a $1 million video system that will allow remote jailhouse visits. (MyNort...
Chris Sullivan

King County to allow video jailhouse visits

King County could be on the verge of eliminating in person jailhouse visits. A new video system is being installed.
13 years ago
Claudia Bingham Baker, the Washington State Department of Transportation in that region, said it&#8...
Chris Sullivan

JBLM isn’t the sole problem with I-5 traffic south of Tacoma

The 20-mile stretch of I-5 south of Tacoma, at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord exits, is on the most wanted list of traffic congestion in Washington. You can sit there for hours without there even being an accident, a stalled car, an Air Force plane, or Army helicopter to distract you.
13 years ago
Kathrina Tugadi said she believes the real problem isn’t the minimum wage, recalling a friend...
Stephanie Klein

Forward Seattle proposes $18 minimum wage, wants you to vote no

Two small business owners in Seattle are gathering signatures for a referendum that would put the mayor's and City Council's $15 minimum wage bill on the November ballot. Only the referendum uses $18.13 an hour.
13 years ago
T-Mobile CEO John Legere pulled no punches in blasting Amazon’s reported deal with AT&T f...
Josh Kerns

T-Mobile boss takes shots at Amazon ahead of “mystery” announcement

The CEO of Bellevue-based T-Mobile is taking shots across Lake Washington at Amazon over reports the company has tabbed AT&T to be the exclusive carrier for the Seattle company's new smartphone to be unveiled Wednesday.
13 years ago
UW student Amanda Knox proclaims her innocence in Italian in a photo on her blog. (Amanda Knox imag...
Josh Kerns

Amanda Knox appeals most recent murder conviction

University of Washington student Amanda Knox has filed a new appeal with an Italian court in hopes of overturning her recent murder conviction in the long running saga of the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher.
13 years ago
Police have released the 911 calls in a shooting on I-5 in Seattle Monday evening. (Washington Stat...
Stephanie Klein

Police release 911 calls from I-5 shooting

Police have released 911 calls from a shooting on southbound I-5 in Seattle Monday evening.
13 years ago
Josh Kerns

Man caught harassing, extorting Seattle fortune teller

Time behind bars could be in the cards for a Western Washington man accused of harassing and extorting a Seattle psychic.
13 years ago
Delta Airlines is adding new domestic flights at Sea-Tac Airport, a direct challenge to hometown co...
Tim Haeck

Delta expansion at Sea-Tac should mean lower fares

Delta Airlines is adding new domestic flights at Sea-Tac Airport, a direct challenge to hometown company Alaska Airlines. It should mean lower air fares.
13 years ago
Josh Kerns

Largest known collector of child porn in Western Washington sentenced to prison

A Bellevue man who prosecutors say had the largest known collection of child pornography ever seized in Western Washington has been sentenced to nine years in prison.
13 years ago
The sculpture features three figures, a firefighter, police officer and a flight attendant, holding...
Alyssa Kleven

9/11 memorial advocate disappointed in Kirkland’s reaction to patriotic sculpture

The City of Kirkland rejected a proposal to become the new home for a sculpture memorializing 9/11. But the woman who hoped Kirkland would embrace the sculpture as part of their landscape is shocked by why people would reject it.
13 years ago
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Alyssa Kleven

Howard Schultz: There will be ‘unintended consequences’ of $15 minimum wage

Following an announcement that Starbucks would be paying for its employees to get a college education, Howard Schultz joined "The Daily Show" and the topic of $15 minimum wage surfaced.
13 years ago
A University of Washington student who threatened to kill more women than the gunman in the Univers...
Josh Kerns

University of Washington student arrested for threats to ‘kill women,’ commit mass murder

A University of Washington student has been arrested for threatening to kill women in a shooting spree similar to last months mass shooting that killed seven and injured 13 others at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
13 years ago
A head-on collision on SR 522 near Monroe Monday afternoon has killed at two people and injured two...
Stephanie Klein

Two people killed in head-on collision near Monroe

A man and woman were killed and two people injured in a head-on collision on SR 522 near Monroe Monday afternoon.
13 years ago