Arriving to the tabloid greeting of "Amen!," ex-Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow yesterday became the New York Jets' newest God-fearing backup QB. He replaces (numerically, at least) aging former ...
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A general court martial may be a long way off for Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the accused Afghan village mass murderer from Joint Base Lewis McChord. But if and when the time comes that the Army puts his...
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Down to a nine-dog team and reduced to super-gluing the skin cracks in her fingers, Edmonds' rookie musher Jan Steves finally glided past the Alaska finish line at 2:57 a.m. yesterday, officially end...
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Update: Browne likely to seek "diminished capacity" defense for Bales; also, the sergeant was found liable for part of a $1.4 million fraud judgment issued before he joined the Army. After the jump.
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It's the all-white-and-wealthy home of America's richest man, the enclave of billionaires and mere millionaires from Microsoft, Costco and Amazon, a town of just 3,000 where presidents go to raise cas...
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The death of an Oregon editor suggests just how much today's newspapers have both changed and remain the same. The 63-year-old editorial writer for The Oregonian died in bed with a woman who was not h...
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It was a murder that threw Tere Ryder for a loop in 1976 and, almost 35 years later, for a couple more. In 2010, she had just moved to Edmonds where the decomposed body of her 15-year-old half sister ...
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As if to explain the massacre of villagers in Afghanistan, local and international news media have been telling us - again - that Joint Base Lewis McChord is a "troubled" post, perhaps the worst of U....
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While it is still dealing with a sergeant who slaughtered his fellow troops in Iraq, and only months after completing the prosecution of a sergeant who led his "kill team" on missions to murder Afghan...
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Sovereign citizen Timothy Garrison of Mount Vernon went to federal prison for 42 months a few weeks back for filing false tax returns and threatening to arrest Skagit County officials for arresting hi...
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Heroin likely enabled rocker Kurt Cobain to take his life with a shotgun in 1994, and it was the drug most responsible for killing singer Layne Staley in 2002. In between, the heroin death rate soared...
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In recent years, investigators around Vancouver and Northwest Washington were counting suspected crime by the foot. Nine of them - human feet belonging to seven individuals - came bobbing ashore insid...
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At this point, Jan Steves, 55, is with her four-footed team mushing somewhere through the Alaska snowfields on a 1,000-mile journey between Anchorage and Nome, attempting to become, her brother says, ...
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It had to do with family, Norm Dicks said in announcing last week that he will retire after this 18th and final term as being known as the congressman from Boeing. The "Top appropriator" - a position...
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It's a non-binding straw poll that doesn't officially determine who gets most of Washington's GOP presidential delegates. But Mitt Romney will take it. By notching a roughly 38 percent plurality vote ...
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Federal inspectors have departed King County Jail after two years of monitoring its safety and civil rights procedures, prompting Claudia Balducci, director of the Department of Adult and Juvenile De...
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What does it say about the Mitt/Rick/Ron/Newt bandwagon rolling into Washington for Saturday's caucuses when the state Republican Party welcomes visitors to its website with this greeting: "Do you wan...
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Just down the road from Pullman, through the fertile Palouse and into north central Idaho, lies the 5,000-acre Flying B Ranch, a corporate big game hunting lodge where California Fish and Game Commiss...
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We now have this memorable assessment by statesman Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served Democrat and Republican White Houses, on the crop of 2012 GOP presidential contenders shuttling in and out of Washing...
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Lawyer Jim Egan thinks he's figured out why City Attorney Pete Holmes is suing him for requesting public records. It's not, as Homes contends, to settle a legal question, since that's already being a...
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The official amount Wendy McCaw received to exit her marriage with Eastside telecom billionaire Craig McCaw 14 years ago is pegged at $460 million, thought to be the world's 4th largest divorce settl...
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Clark County Superior Court Judge John Wulle has engaged in a "practice of discourteous, impatient and undignified behavior," the state Commission on Judicial Conduct charged yesterday. But while the ...
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