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At Broadview-Thomson Elementary, teacher Laurence "Shayne" Hill "was going to get in trouble."

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Teacher Pets

A former fifth-grade teacher pleads guilty to child molestation, a former pupil sues the Seattle School District, and…

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Facing Our Losses – Iraq 2004

Washington's toll in Iraq in 2004.

Software, soft money, and Libertarians

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Software, soft money, and Libertarians

Microsoft is spreading its political gifts far and wide.

Chris Jackins in front of the $104 million Seattle School District headquarters.

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Let’s Check Their Math

The Seattle School District claims black ink is back. Inspired by a persnickety watchdog, we find that's only…

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Underside

No pressure here. Plugged into a live polygraph, Don Hennick listens to questions whose wrong answers could merely…

The days when newspapers were king.

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Read all about it

An old news stand lives on, thanks to the Internet.

Puget sub

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Puget sub

SHE’S 27 YEARS OLD, the grande dame of espionage. Highly decorated and purposely mysterious, the USS Parche, a…

Millie's case has split the Market.

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News Clips— Missing money

THE ONE UNDISPUTED FACT is that $76,000 in cash went through Millie Padua’s private bank accounts in three…

The tankers

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The tankers

These candidates are going down fighting.

Nope, no one getting murdered here.

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News Clips— Riot canceled; film at 11

“Failure of bridge to collapse Looms,” is a memorable Seattle Post-Intelligencer headline, though it never ran in the…

15 Remarkable characters from Seattle's streets

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15 Remarkable characters from Seattle’s streets

BACKWARDS LOUIE: walked everywhere backwards to fool people into thinking he was going the other way, not coming…

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Papering It Over

Monorail planners deny there are problems and defend costly, uninformative advertising.

One nation under whomever.

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One Nation Under God, If Not Zeus

At 9 a.m. sharp, they emerged from their chambers overlooking the snarled Seattle freeway. The ungodly, black-cloaked co-conspirators…

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Mr. Boss

A millionaire bookie's rise and fall: too much greed, too little paranoia.

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Beijing’s Boeing missile connection

Who knows what happened to the military machinery that Boeing's merger partner McDonnell sold to China? Or even…

Fiery protest: October's arson at the Gap warned City Hall about violence at the WTO.

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Happy-face hypocrite?

Mayor Schell told Seattle to come downtown and shop during the WTO, but City Hall's planning efforts suggest…

Sex, booze, and brain damage

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Sex, booze, and brain damage

Odor in the court! Odor in the court! If you think something is wrong with our judicial system,…

Local 174 leader Scott Sullivan, left, and challenger Dan Scott.

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Reform or Conform

Thousands of Seattle Teamsters are voting in an ongoing power struggle that pits top-down traditionalists against union reformers.

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Cops Jumping the Gun

Four Seattle police officers last year discharged or brandished firearms without sufficient cause. People could have been hurt…

CD with a beat

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CD with a beat

The recorded history of complaints against the Seattle Police Department.