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Controllers to return; flight delays sway Congress
Furloughed air traffic controllers will soon be heading back to work, ending a week of coast-to-coast flight delays that left thousands of travelers ...
Wash. judge tells police to return marijuana
Police in Tacoma could soon be in real trouble over pot. The department could be found in contempt if they continue to refuse to return a small amount ...
Lil Danger convicted of murder in Spokane shooting
A rapper who goes by the name "Lil Danger" faces life in prison without parole after his conviction in a shooting that killed another rapper at an ...
Washington AG slaps T-Mobile USA for new plans
Washington state's chief prosecutor says there's a catch to T-Mobile's new cellphone plans, which replace the traditional two-year service contract ...
Drug czar: Pot legalization won't change mission
The nation's drug czar said Wednesday the legalization of marijuana in Washington state and Colorado won't change his office's mission of fighting the ...
Governments may push workers to health exchange
In a quest to save money, political leaders in Washington state are exploring a proposal that would shift some government workers out of their current ...
Long-term care in aging US: Not for me, poll says
We're in denial: Americans underestimate their chances of needing long-term care as they get older — and are taking few steps to get ready. A new poll ...
Judge considers motions in Afghan killings case
The U.S. soldier accused of murdering 16 Afghan villagers during a pre-dawn rampage last year appeared in a military courtroom Tuesday for a hearing ...
Obama salutes national teacher of the year
President Barack Obama honored finalists Tuesday for the 2013 National Teacher of the Year award and saluted the winner, a Washington state teacher ...
Iraq vet pleads guilty to killing fellow soldiers
As family members of his victims looked on, Army Sgt. John Russell described on Monday how in 2009 he rampaged at a mental health clinic in Baghdad ...
Police: Domestic violence homicide claims 5 lives
What began as a domestic violence homicide claimed three more lives before officers fatally shot the gunman, the police chief of this south Seattle ...
Police: Man killed girlfriend, 3 others in Wash.
A man fatally shot his live-in girlfriend at an apartment south of Seattle then killed three men, including a neighbor who told others to call 911 and ...
Wash. bar owner allowing pot use faces crackdown
Jeff Call knew he was pushing the envelope when he started letting people use marijuana at his rum-and-pizza joint in Tacoma. But he didn't quite know ...
Letter: Maloofs favor Seattle's deal for Kings
The Maloof family is asking NBA owners to approve the sale of the Kings to a Seattle group, saying there is "significant distance between us and the ...
Amanda Knox: 'Paralyzed' with anxiety sometimes
Amanda Knox says in a new interview that she's sometimes "paralyzed" with anxiety stemming from the death of her roommate in Italy and the legal ...
Holder: Marijuana's effect on children a factor
How it affects children will be one factor the Justice Department weighs as it determines how to respond to the legalization of marijuana in ...
Ahead of the Bell: Focus on PCs in Microsoft's 3Q
Microsoft will release its latest quarterly financial results Thursday amid a drastic decline in sales of personal computers, most of which run the ...
For Wash. government bean-counter, a pot education
Mike Steenhout knows spreadsheets, statistics and bean-counting. He has worked as a budget assistant to the governor, managed local operations for the ...
Tigers hold on at plate, edge Mariners 2-1 in 14
Brayan Pena knew the collision was coming. All that mattered was keeping grasp of the ball. "It doesn't matter where your body is going to go, just ...
Plea talks for sergeant charged in Iraq shooting
A lawyer for an Army sergeant charged with killing four other soldiers and a Navy officer at a mental health clinic in Iraq said Wednesday he's ...
Defiance, tenderness, wariness in wake of Boston
A Virginia woman makes a point to get out and go jogging. A Texas mom stays in and snuggles her toddler a little closer. A nurse from Massachusetts ...
IMF urges Fed, central banks to monitor stimulus
The International Monetary Fund is urging the Federal Reserve and other central banks to closely monitor their extraordinary efforts to jump-start ...
Online nonprofit InsideClimate News wins Pulitzer
In a sign of a rapidly changing media world, a relatively unknown New York-based online nonprofit news site joined some of the country's most ...
Wash. searchers wait to seek avalanche victim
Dangerous conditions Monday prevented rescuers from searching for a hiker who was caught in an avalanche over the weekend in the Cascade Mountains ...
Denver Post wins Pulitzer for coverage of massacre
The Denver Post won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for its coverage of the movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colo., while The New York Times captured four ...