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Indiana stays No. 1 in AP Top 25, Gonzaga No. 2
Gonzaga has been in 14 NCAA tournaments, five of which ended with an appearance in the Round of 16. But no Gonzaga team has ever before been ranked No
Legal pot in Colo., Wash. poses growing dilemma
It may be called weed, but marijuana is legendarily hard to grow. Now that the drug has been made legal in Washington and Colorado, growers face a ...
Prime suspect named in Las Vegas shooting, crash
A 26-year-old man was being sought Sunday as the prime suspect in a pre-dawn shooting on the Las Vegas Strip last week which led to a fiery crash that ...
26-year-old man named as suspect in Vegas shooting
The black SUV used as a getaway car in a pre-dawn shooting and crash that killed an aspiring rapper in a Maserati and two people in a taxi on the Las ...
6 leaking tanks are Hanford nuke site's latest woe
Federal and state officials say six underground tanks holding a brew of radioactive and toxic waste are leaking at the country's most contaminated ...
Anti-communist oaths persist despite court rulings
It has been just shy of 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Washington state law barring members of the Communist Party from voting or ...
6 tanks at Hanford nuclear site in Wash. leaking
Six underground tanks that hold a brew of radioactive and toxic waste at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, federal and state ...
Microsoft lapse cause outages in Azure service
Microsoft unwittingly let an online security certificate expire Friday, triggering a worldwide outage in an online service that stores data for a wide ...
Microsoft joins list of companies recently hacked
Microsoft has joined the list of prominent technology companies confirming they have been hit by a recent computer hacking attack. In a blog posting ...
House to take up own version of anti-violence act
The House and Senate appeared headed for another partisan battle as the House prepared to take up its version of the once-noncontroversial Violence ...
Nordstrom 4th-quarter net income rises
Nordstrom posted a 20 percent increase in fourth-quarter net income as high-end shoppers kept spending on clothing and makeup, and customers responded ...
On a hunch, fishermen find crash site, 2 sisters
As their mother lay dead in the middle of the night, a 4-year-old Oregon girl dragged her seriously injured younger sister from a crashed car and the ...
Biden honors police, firefighters with medals
The incident started with a search for a colleague who went missing in Florida's Osceola County Jail. It ended when Reeshemah Taylor lunged at an ...
Oregon couple defends sales of cure-all bleach
An Oregon couple accused of selling a diluted version of industrial bleach as a cure for cancer, earaches and other maladies claims the federal ...
Boeing technical workers planning next move
The union for Boeing's technical workers is planning its next move after they rejected a contract offer, splitting with engineers represented by the ...
Boeing engineers OK contract; tech workers say no
The union representing Boeing Co.'s engineers and technical workers delivered a split decision on a new contract Tuesday, with the engineers accepting ...
Study: Better TV might improve kids' behavior
Teaching parents to switch channels from violent shows to educational TV can improve preschoolers' behavior, even without getting them to watch less, ...
Kings dominate Stern's last All-Star briefing
No new details on Sacramento against Seattle, though the next All-Star decision might be New York versus New York. NBA Commissioner David Stern ...
Hanford nuclear tank in Wash. is leaking liquids
The long-delayed cleanup of the nation's most contaminated nuclear site became the subject of more bad news Friday, when Washington Gov. Jay Inslee ...
Consequences of failure laid out in budget fight
A new plan by Senate Democrats to head off severe spending cuts in two weeks met an icy reception from Republicans on Thursday as administration ...
Obama, business groups differ on minimum wage plan
President Barack Obama says raising the minimum wage to $9 an hour and tying future increases to inflation will boost the incomes of millions living ...
Felix Hernandez signs 7-year deal with Mariners
His hands trembled, his breath quickened and his eyes began to fill with tears. Felix Hernandez looked down at the piece of paper containing details ...