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Thousands of Seattle residents ticketed on holidays to get refunds
The City of Seattle will be required pay refunds to about 4,000 people who were unlawfully issued parking tickets on legal holidays.
Survey showed little support for Ballmer KeyArena plan
A private, statewide survey indicated voters opposed, by a 2-1 margin, the KeyArena renovation plan from Steve Ballmer and others to keep the Sonics in Seattle.
Man, 19, gets life for killing cabbie, burning his vehicle
A King County judge sentenced a 19-year-old man Friday to life in prison without the chance of release for killing a cabbie last year in SeaTac, shooting the driver twice in the head and setting him on fire.
Hospital-only doctors on the rise
Called the fastest-growing medical specialty in the country by the Society of Hospital Medicine, the estimated number of hospitalists is projected to grow to about 30,000 by 2010 -- from 20,000 in 2008.
Choosing her child over drugs pays off
This will be a Mother's Day to remember for Pauline Walker. She is about to be reunited for good with her daughter after a stretch in prison.
Biased suspicion isn't just for ferries
Robert L. Jamieson Jr.: Those Middle Eastern-looking ferry passengers are innocent -- just European tourists mistaken for terrorists. But you don't have to be "Riding While Brown" on a ferry to get profiled. Just walk into a Seattle bookstore.
GPS will track police on the move
Starting next February, Seattle police officers should be able to track their colleagues with a new GPS-like system that will give officers and dispatchers a global view of where cops are deployed at any given moment.
The myth of the stay-at-home mom
Women are opting out of the work force to spend time with their children. Right? Wrong.
Group shares cultural recipes for understanding
The Seattle chapter of the World Affairs Council began organizing monthly meals at different ethnic restaurants last year.
Fort Lewis soldier killed in Iraq
A 19-year-old military policeman from Fort Lewis was killed in Iraq on Tuesday, the Defense Department announced Friday.
Sex offender caught
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Reichert puts on third veterans' resource fair
For the third straight year, U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., is sponsoring a veterans' resource fair to provide a one-stop-shopping clearinghouse of information for regional veterans and their families.
Plane crash into Covington home kills pilot
A single-engine kit airplane crashed into a house Friday afternoon near Covington, killing the pilot, officials said.
Bellevue sixth-grader proves he's No. 1 in math
A Bellevue sixth-grader has proved he's No. 1. in math, beating out more than 200 other middle-school students to take first place in a national math championship in Denver on Friday.
Car flips off Mercer offramp, lands on Broad
A Friday afternoon rush-hour collision sent a car plunging off a Mercer Street offramp guardrail to Aurora Avenue about 30 feet below, authorities said.
Seattle pays damages to injured firefighter
Firefighter Kevin Locke was hurt in a 2001 training accident. He filed a $1.8 million lawsuit against the city, alleging negligence, and won. Now, four years later, the city has finally agreed to pay.
Articles of Faith: Big battle over right to die misses the point
The "Death with Dignity" initiative on the Washington ballot is fiercely controversial, but for the terminally ill, it's all about choosing between "fast" and "slow" medicine.
FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2008
- Scholarship guru teaches kids the ropes
- Seattle Public Schools drops controversial office
- Woman pleads guilty in husband's murder
- Obama picks up another Washington superdelegate
- Caution flag raised in race to embrace biofuels
- Right-wing defector to make stop in Seattle
- Bush signs Wild Sky Wilderness into law
- Man killed by train devoted to family in Mexico, horses
- Governor raises twice challenger's money
- Facebook agrees to shield kids from adult content
- Father pleads not guilty to assault
- Teen charged in puppy stomping
- Seattle teacher caught with child porn might avoid jail
- Help for pregnant smokers
- Two people stabbed after cell phone theft
- King County Deaths
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2008
- Worlds unite: It's not your average love story
- McIver charged with ethics violation
- Man hit by train was on cell phone
- Reaching out in Myanmar's hour of need
- SPU shows children the joys of college
- Plan to end war may not help Reichert's rival
- Superintendent's new plan to set high marks
- Sea lions found dead at dam weren't shot, officials now say
- Emergency home loans approved by City Council panel
- South Lake Union group torn over zoning
- Duwamish tribe sues to reverse 'extinct' status
- Drink tap water, not bottled, city urges
- Broker offers to buy 2 surplus Washington ferries
- Saving marriages can save tax dollars, advocates argue
- Inmate found dead in Renton
- Belltown beating victim in intensive care
- Police investigate shooting in Rainier Valley
- Man shot in Skyway drive-by
- Auburn man charged with murder in bar shooting
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