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Cheerleader beats cancer with help from drug developed locally
PUYALLUP, Wash.-- Emerald Ridge High School cheer coach Kaitie Johnson has good reason to count her blessings. The young woman was sidelined by a cancer diagnosis, but she is alive today thanks to a new drug developed by Seattle Genetics in Bothell.The former cheerleader now a coach at her alma mater, says she's also alive thanks in part to the team. "I was diagnosed the summer before ...
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Report Canadians boosting e-commerce in Whatcom County
BLAINE, Wash. (AP) -- A new report from the state Department of Revenue shows that online commerce is a big boon for the Whatcom County towns of Blaine and Sumas on the Canadian border.The Bellingham Herald reports that many Canadians can save money on shipping costs by having items they order on Amazon.com and other sites shipped to mailboxes on the U.S. side of the border. A number of mailbox ...
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Thousands run in Seattle to fight juvenile diabetes
SEATTLE -- It was a race against time Sunday morning to end juvenile diabetes - and to beat the bridge.About 11,000 runners turned out in Montlake for the 31st annual Nordstrom Beat the Bridge eight-kilometer athletic race and fundraiser. Runners only had 20 minutes after starting at Husky Stadium to race across the University Bridge before it started going up - or risk being stranded on the ...
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Tornadoes hit Kansas Okla. causing some damage
EDMOND, Okla. (AP) -- A powerful storm system rumbled through the Plains and upper Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes that damaged roofs and structures near Oklahoma City and kicked up debris in Wichita, Kan.There were no immediate reports of injuries caused by the funnel cloud that touched down in the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond before moving off to the northeast, or the one that touched ...
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Firefighter Brian Flannellys competitive nature burns bright in Ski to Sea
Christian Carson, left, and Brian Flannelly from the Bellingham Fire Department team paddle in the last stretch of the canoe leg during practice on Friday, May 3, 2013 next to Hovander Homestead Park in ...
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Seattle labor activist Will Parry dies at 93
Will Parry was a newspaperman, cardboard-box factory employee, labor activist and writer who devoted his life to radical and progressive causes. He died last week at age ...
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Ruston moratorium baffles business owners
Some Ruston building owners say they've seen signs that the darkest days of The Great Recession might be ending. And yet, the town's council took what some merchants say was an inexplicable action, voting to freeze all development and building permits in the commercial zones for six ...
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Neighbors lift pickup truck pull trapped man to safety
CORNELIUS, Ore. – Scott Lakey said he was trapped under his truck with three broken ribs and no help in sight on Saturday. Then his neighbors rushed to his rescue. They lifted the truck and pulled him to safety. Lakey was working on his truck when it nearly crushed him to death. He had the front end of the truck up on ramps and was underneath it on a crawler when he said the pickup ...
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Seattle hopes Iwakumas consistency can halt skid
The Indians are 7-1 against Cy Young Award winners this season. They don't seem to care which opposing pitcher toes the rubber or whether they tote any hardware. At 17-4 over their last 21 contests, the Indians are enjoying their best stretch since September 2007, a month before they came within one win of a World Series ticket. "We don't look in the past. We don't look in ...
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FBI No arrests in case of Spokane ricin letter
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- The FBI says it still has not made any arrests after searching a downtown Spokane apartment as part of an investigation into the discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ...
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Snohomish County transit organization rejects anti-gun ad
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - The main transit organization in Snohomish County is declining to run advertisements from a statewide gun control group on public buses. The Daily Herald of Everett reports that Community Transit's board adopted a new policy May 2 banning political advertisements. Board members said the new policy was not directed at Washington CeaseFire, which wanted to run the ads. ...
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Scientists excited about new lab at bottom of Pacific Ocean
Chief engineer Gary Harkins talks about the frame that will hold titanium-housed instruments as part of an underwater observatory being built at the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine ...
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Traffic QA Safety concern leads to fresh paint
There’s a stretch of the entrance to southbound I-5 from Pacific Avenue in Tacoma that is in desperate need of repainting.The lanes are barely visible after all the reconfigurations during the construction of the new exit to state Route 16.I remember the last configuration of paint that was visible there, but people seem to have all kinds of other interpretations.It’s starting to get ...
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Report E-commerce a big boon for Whatcom County
A new report from the state Department of Revenue shows that online commerce is a big boon for the Whatcom County towns of Blaine and Sumas on the Canadian ...
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Billionaire Paul Allen gets V-2 rocket for aviation museum near Seattle
After World War II, the United States acquired some of Germany's V-2 missiles for rocket tests. This modified V-2 was fired from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on July 24, 1950. Only six Mittelwerk GmbH V-2 rockets remain in the United States, and software billionaire Paul Allen procured one of them for his Flying Heritage ...
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Suspected drunk driver hits police car and flees in N. Seattle
SEATTLE -- A woman alleged to be driving drunk hit a Seattle patrol officer's car in North Seattle early Sunday morning on 3rd Avenue Northwest.An officer in a fully-marked Seattle Police car was driving northbound after 3 a.m. in the 6700 block of 3rd Avenue NW, according to Detective Jeff Kappel.A car suddenly cut across 3rd Avenue NW traveling westbound and collided with the police car. ...
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Police seek armed robbery suspect after man shot in hand
SEATTLE -- Seattle Police are looking for man who allegedly pulled a gun on a man during an armed robbery Sunday morning in South Seattle.The man's gun went off during the incident wounding a man in his 30s or 40s in the hand, police said. The man who was shot was taken to Harborview Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.Police got a call of a shooting near ...
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Police search for missing Oregon woman in Hawaii
HONOLULU - Honolulu police are searching for a tourist from Oregon who has been missing on Oahu since Thursday. Police said Saturday that Ivanice "Ivy" Harris was last seen Thursday talking to a man outside a bar in Waikiki and has not been seen since. Harris traveled to Hawaii from Portland with friends to celebrate turning 29, which was Saturday. Her mother ...
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MLB Cleveland 6 Seattle 0
Justin Masterson struck out 11 over seven shutout innings Sunday, staking the Cleveland Indians to a 6-0 whitewash of Seattle. Masterson (7-2) ran his scoreless inning streak to 16 with the 106-pitch performance. The right-hander scattered three hits and walked two while lowering his ERA to ...
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Felix defense struggle in loss to Indians
SEA@CLE: Ibanez swings, misses and loses the handle CLEVELAND -- Felix Hernandez allowed more runs on Sunday than he had in his previous six starts combined, as the Indians mashed the Mariners, 6-0, for their third straight win in a four-game series that wraps up Monday. The Indians won the previous two games on walk-offs, but needed no such drama this time as Justin Masterson threw seven ...
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More wealthy Chinese buy Seattle-area real estate
HUNTS POINT, Wash. (AP) -- Real estate agent Joseph Ho climbed the gilded staircase of a Hunts Point mansion listed for almost $5?million, shooting video on his iPad and narrating in ...
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Smoak putting together strong stretch
Email CLEVELAND -- While he didn't hit his second home run of the season until the ninth inning of Saturday's 5-4 loss to the Indians, Mariners first baseman Justin Smoak has quietly been putting together a strong three-week stretch that has lifted his batting average to .254. Going into Sunday's game, Smoak had reached base safely in 12 straight starts and is hitting .328 ...
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Righty Farquhar impresses Wedge in scoreless debut
Email CLEVELAND -- Danny Farquhar made his Mariners debut on Saturday and it couldn't have gone better, with the right-hander throwing 2 2/3 innings of perfect ball with five strikeouts in Seattle's 5-4 loss to the Indians. Farquhar, called up Friday from Triple-A Tacoma, stranded two inherited runners that belonged to starter Joe Saunders when he entered with one out in the sixth, ...
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Ryan finding groove at the plate
Email CLEVELAND -- It's been so long since Brendan Ryan was in a groove at the plate that he's not going to overanalyze what's been happening the past week, as he put together a five-game hitting streak and laced his first two extra-base hits of the year with a home run and double the first two games against the Indians. Ryan hit his first home run since Sept. 23 of last year in ...
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Land trust opens new Oregon office raises profile
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) -- A Vancouver, Wash.-based organization dedicated to preserving land near the Columbia River has opened a new office in Hood River, Ore., in an effort to raise its ...
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