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Kuhn vies for statewide Outstanding Teen title this weekend
Local Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 10:30amMiss Grays Harbor Outstanding Teen Erin Kuhn will compete for the statewide title and a share of more than $100,000 in prizes and scholarships this weekend at the Highline Performing Arts Center...
Salt Lake City has highest rate of same-sex couples raising kids
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 10:30amLOS ANGELES — Salt Lake City: the gay parenting capital of the United States?
Unexpected as it may sound, a new study finds that the Utah capital and its outskirts have the nation’s highest...
Naked Wenatchee attacker sentenced to 2 years
Northwest Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 10:30amWENATCHEE — A man who stripped naked and attacked a teacher on Lincoln Elementary School grounds last summer was sentenced Monday to just over two years in prison.
Dion A. Chaney, 40, of...
Former IRS commissioner ‘dismayed’ by inspector general’s report
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 10:30amWASHINGTON, D.C. — The former top official of the Internal Revenue Service told senators Tuesday he was “dismayed and saddened” by an inspector general’s report detailing how, during his tenure as...
Russian mice, gerbils dead in 30-day space ordeal; lizards live
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 10:30amLOS ANGELES — A crew of Mongolian gerbils may have gone where no Mongolian gerbil has gone before, but they did not come back alive. A Russian spacecraft filled with mice, lizards and other...
Reid to delay Senate votes on most Obama nominees until July
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 10:30amWASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that he will delay votes on several of President Barack Obama’s nominees for key posts until July, a decision raising the prospect...
UW expands online courses, this time from Harvard, MIT
Northwest Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 10:30amAdding to its growing catalog of free online-course offerings, the University of Washington announced Tuesday it is joining another free course provider — this one run by Harvard University and...
DNR urges wildfire vigilance for Memorial Day
Northwest Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 10:30amThe Washington State Department of Natural Resources is urging people to exercise caution this Memorial Day weekend for wildfire prevention. Statewide, there have already been 91 wildfires.
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Man arrested came to police already in handcuffs
Northwest Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 10:30amA 21-year-old man showed up at the Centralia Police Department in handcuffs Saturday evening requesting an officer’s help to take them off, according to police. The Centralia man, however, had an...
Obama: Nation to stand by Oklahoma survivors ‘as long as it takes’
Nation & World Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 10:30amWASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama on Tuesday assured the survivors of Oklahoma’s deadly tornado that the nation is “there for them” and that the government will keep its focus on the rescue...
