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  • Men charged with stealing $16000 of liquor since privatization

    SEATTLE -- According to the King County Prosecutor's Office, four young men wasted no time taking advantage of privatized liquor sales, stealing nearly $16,000 worth of hard alcohol starting the day after it became available in grocery stores. The Prosecutor's Office has charged 21-year-old Charles Askew of Tacoma, 21-year-old Devonte Jack of Kent, 20-year-old Darren Dean of Renton ...

  • Gray whale spotted in backwater of south Puget Sound

    PURDY, Wash. - A gray whale was spotted Wednesday morning in Burley Lagoon, a backwater of Puget Sound that is about as far from the ocean as a whale can get.John Calambokidis, a whale expert with Cascadia Research, said the marine mammal is believed to be the same one that has been in the south Sound for the past four or five days.It was spotted Tuesday in Budd Inlet near Olympia. On Wednesday ...

  • State jobless rate drops to 6.8 percent in May

    OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Washington state's unemployment rate dropped to 6.8 percent last month.Numbers released Wednesday by the state Employment Security Department also show that in addition to a decrease from April's 7 percent rate, the state added an estimated 4,100 jobs in May. Economists say that the state's jobless rate has fallen by 0.7 percentage points since the start of ...

  • Diverted United 787 passengers resume Tokyo trip

    SEATTLE - Passengers from a United Airlines Denver-to-Tokyo flight that diverted to Seattle when the Boeing 787 had an oil filter issue resumed their trip Wednesday, a spokeswoman said.The airline put about 200 passengers in hotels Tuesday night and they took off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Wednesday morning on another 787, spokeswoman Mary Ryan said in an email.There's no ...

  • Seattle jobless rate drops below 5

    Joblessness in the Seattle metro area, which includes Bellevue and Everett, dropped to 4.7 percent in May, down from 5.1 percent a month earlier, the Washington State Employment Security Department ...


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Taxi Driver [Blu-Ray]

Taxi Driver [Blu-Ray]

There have been few films that have created and sustained the sense of constant, underlying dread that pervades every frame of Martin Scorseses scorching urban masterpiece Taxi Driver. It is a film that slowly and almost unbearably builds in tension until it literally explode ... ...

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  • Search suspended for missing fisherman from Chehalis

    KINY-radio reports 25-year-old Alan Young of Chehalis fell Monday night from the Swift into Icy Strait 30 miles west of Juneau during the chum salmon fishery. The skipper, 47-year-old Tim Lane of Sitka, launched a dinghy and attempted a rescue but also fell into the water. Alaska State Troopers say Lane spent several hours floating with a personal flotation device. A Coast Guard helicopter ...

  • Jury tells WSU Tri-Cities to pay $100000

    A Benton County Superior Court jury has awarded $100,000 in damages to a former employee of Washington State University Tri-Cities who said she endured a hostile work environment created by a ...

  • Traffic moving on I-5 Skagit River bridge

    MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Traffic is moving again across the Interstate 5 Skagit River bridge at Mount Vernon. The Transportation Department announced it opened to southbound traffic just before 5 a.m. Wednesday and would open to northbound traffic by 6 a.m. State and contract workers rushed work on a temporary span after the bridge collapsed May 23 when it was hit by a truck carrying an ...

  • Morning kickoff --- Seahawks seek fan input and more

    The Seahawks have announced the formation of a ';President’s Fan Advisory Council'; to assist team executives in the evaluation and enhancement of the overall Seahawks fan experience. You can read the full release on ...

  • Coast Guard suspends search for missing fisherman

    Alaska State Troopers say Lane spent several hours floating with a personal flotation device. A Coast Guard helicopter hoisted Lane to safety from a beach east of Excursion ...

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