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The fireworks will go off Tuesday night in Poulsbo despite an explosion that destroyed the city&#82...
Stephanie Klein

Fireworks show will go in Poulsbo

The fireworks will go off Tuesday night in Poulsbo despite an explosion that destroyed the city's explosive supply.
15 years ago
97.3 KIRO FM Staff

Port Angeles burglar suspect found hiding in couch

It's fun to find money or your lost gift card under the couch cushion, but Port Angeles police found something much larger while investigating a burglary Monday morning.
15 years ago
Chris Sullivan

Family says man who died in police custody was tased

A mentally ill man from Tukwila has died while in police custody. His family says he was tased.
15 years ago
Chris Book performs maintenance work on the floor in the cargo hold of a Boeing 737 at the AAR in I...
Chris Sullivan

Boeing expects world will need more planes

Boeing says airlines and freight carriers around the world are going to need 34,000 new planes over the next 20 years.
15 years ago
97.3 KIRO FM Staff

Man stabbed while trying to break up fight in Auburn

A man was killed early Tuesday morning while trying to break up a fight in Auburn.
15 years ago
Days ahead of the annual Fourth of July fireworks display on Lake Union, crews began to transform G...
Brandi Kruse

Before fireworks display, crews work through months of stress

Days ahead of the annual Fourth of July fireworks display on Lake Union, crews began to transform Gas Works Park for the celebration.
15 years ago
A physicist explains the ATLAS experiment on a board at the European Center for Nuclear Research, C...
Chris Sullivan

Does the “God Particle” exist?

Imagine that you are about to find out that everything you have ever believed in was about to either be proved right or wrong. That's the situation for scientists around the world today who are waiting for an announcement from Geneva on the "God Particle," the particle on which every physics equation is based on. There's word that it finally has been discovered.
15 years ago
Ursula Reutin

Tacoma teacher charged with rape of 6th grade student

A Tacoma middle school teacher is accused of having sex with a 6th grade student over five years ago.
15 years ago
Babylonia Aivaz made headlines when she tied the knot with an abandoned warehouse at 10th and Union...
Brandi Kruse

Building bride booted from Seattle council meeting

The woman who married a Seattle building got herself booted out of a city council meeting Monday when she showed up in a wedding dress and announced yet another engagement.
15 years ago
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, right, and Airbus President & CEO Fabrice Bregier celebrate the an...
97.3 KIRO FM Staff

New Airbus plant could pose threat to Boeing

Boeing's archrival Airbus has taken a big step in the battle to dominate the global aviation industry.
15 years ago
Travelers eligible to participate are considered low security risks because they are high-mileage f...
MyNorthwest.com

Sea-Tac TSA PreCheck expands for more frequent fliers

You may be able to leave your shoes on the next time you go through security.
15 years ago
The “Magic Mike” soundtrack isn’t Allen’s first foray into film. (AP Photos...
MyNorthwest.com

Paul Allen makes appearance in movie about male strippers

Paul Allen makes an appearance in the movie about the lives of male strippers, but you won't see him taking anything off.
15 years ago
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is charged with 16 counts of premeditated murder and is being held at Fort ...
MyNorthwest.com

Wife of accused soldier in Afghan massacre believes he’s innocent

The wife of the soldier accused of killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan in March says she hasn't told their kids the truth about their father.
15 years ago
On July 4, 1917 Seattle dedicated the Lake Washington ship canal and Fremont Bridge and Thomas Merc...
MyNorthwest.com

Good ole days: Seattle’s best ever Fourth of July

Seattle's 2010 Fourth of July celebration may go down as the year Dave Ross and Tom Douglas saved the fireworks, but it's certainly not the most exciting of all Independence Days.
15 years ago
The weather is expected to be cloudy and mild, but might clear up a bit in time for fireworks shows...
MyNorthwest.com

Holiday weather expected to be typical of ‘Northwest summer’

The running joke in the Puget Sound area is that the Fourth of July marks the start of summer. Forecasters say that looks to be the case this year.
15 years ago
97.3 KIRO FM Staff

One woman killed, five injured at Seattle house party

A 21-year-old woman was killed and five others were injured in a shooting at a house party in south Seattle early Sunday morning.
15 years ago
Prosecutors and police agencies want the ability to use red-light cameras to see if they capture im...
97.3 KIRO FM Staff

Cops, prosecutors want to use red-light cameras for evidence

Prosecutors and police agencies want the ability to use red-light cameras to see if they capture images or videos that could help them solve other crimes.
15 years ago
97.3 KIRO FM Staff

Man wounded in Belltown shooting

A 50-year-old man was rushed to the hospital with a gunshot wound early Monday morning after a street fight in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood.
15 years ago
97.3 KIRO FM Staff

Two people found dead in Bremerton home in apparent murder-suicide

Kitsap County Sheriff's detectives say two people have died in a Sunday shooting at a home in Bremerton.
15 years ago
If you’re itching to shoot off bags full of fireworks, you might consider Long Beach, Washing...
Chris Sullivan

Long Beach Peninsula does Fourth of July right

Most Washington cities ban the cool fireworks, you know, anything that goes more than 6-feet in the air, because they don't want burning embers landing on houses and burning them down, but there's one spot in Washington where you can fire off just about anything.
15 years ago
Tolls for 520 increased for the first time on Sunday. WSDOT officials say the tolls are responsible...
Jillian Raftery

520 toll increase begins

On Sunday July 1 toll rates went up for the first time on the 520 Floating Bridge.
15 years ago
Methamphetamine, heroin and methadone found on a suspected drug dealer arrested this week in Seattl...
Kim Shepard

Cocaine shortage leading Seattle addicts to more dangerous drugs

A shortage of cocaine in the Seattle area may be leading addicts to seek out even more dangerous drugs.
15 years ago
A 2010 outbreak of Norovirus was recently linked to a reusable shopping bag that hadn’t been ...
Kim Shepard

You could be holding more than groceries in that reusable shopping bag

As Seattle's ban on plastic grocery bags goes into effect on Sunday July 1, some shoppers may not realize that they need to wash their reusable grocery bags or risk contamination with harmful bacteria.
15 years ago
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is encouraging a national discussion about what the American Dream in ...
Lisa Brooks

Starbucks CEO calls for restoration of American Dream

The head of the Seattle coffee company is attributed to writing the letter calling for a restoration of the American Dream.
15 years ago