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  • College coaches are best-paid state employees in Wash.

    OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - College coaches are the top-paid state employees in Washington, according to a list recently released by the state Office of Financial Management.University of Washington football coach Steve Sarkisian earned $2.7 million last year, followed by Washington State University football coach Mike Leach at $2.3 million. Third on the list is UW basketball coach Lorenzo Romar at ...

  • Seattle area reaches full employment milestone

    Nearly four years after the end of the recession, King County unemployment hit 4.4 percent in April. That’s a level economists would traditionally consider full employment. That’s down from an average of 8.6 percent in 2009. It doesn’t mean there’s no suffering here due to job losses, but it’s an important milestone nonetheless, especially when nationally 11 million ...

  • Freak snow in Bickleton cancels school

    BICKLETON, Wash. — A freak snow has given students a snow day in May in the Klickitat County town of Bickleton. School Superintendent Ric Palmer says 10-to-12 inches fell in places overnight and heavy snow brought some tree branches down on lines, knocking out power and phones. Palmer said he had to cancel classes for the first time this school year. About 170 students attend ...

  • Car explodes in Vancouver British Columbia

    VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A leaking acetylene tank is blamed for a blast early Wednesday that tore apart a car parked on a street in Vancouver, British Columbia. Fire and Rescue Services Capt. Gabe Roder says the explosion was triggered when the car owner used a remote key fob to unlock the car door. The owner is a plumber who had stored the tank in his vehicle, The resulting ...

  • Coaches highest paid state employees

    OLYMPIA (AP) -- College coaches are the top-paid state employees in Washington, according to a list recently released by the state Office of Financial Management. University of Washington football coach Steve Sarkisian earned $2.7 million last year, followed by Washington State University football coach Mike Leach at $2.3 million. Third on the list is UW basketball coach Lorenzo Romar at $1.35 ...


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Metallica: Some Kind of Monster [DVD]

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster [DVD]

Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky have a way of making something extraordinary out of virtually nothing in their documentary films, and one has to wonder if the metal band Metallica had an inkling of this when they asked Berlinger and Sinofsky to film them cutting a new album in e ... ...

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  • Washington man convicted in Juneau womans death

    Jacob Andrew Mommer, 20, returns to court May 31 for the hearing on the January 2012 slaying of Ashton Ericka-Marie Reyes, the Juneau Empire reported ...

  • Proctor’s bike-rack bureaucracy tests patience of local Boy Scout

    Zach Ouellette of Tacoma was 16 years old two summers ago, working at the Proctor District Farmers Market with his mother, a market regular known as Cheryl the Pig Lady.“My mother suggested a second bike rack, because the one we had was always full,” Zach said.That was how it began.Zach, a Boy Scout, raised nearly $1,000 and helped design and build a pair of bike racks with the help of a ...

  • Man in handcuffs goes to Centralia police

    CENTRALIA, Wash. — A man was arrested at the Centralia Police Station after showing up in handcuffs. The 21-year-old walked to the station Saturday and asked for help taking them off. He said a friend bought them at a second-hand store, put the cuffs on him as a joke and threw the key on the lawn. The Chronicle reports (http://bit.ly/13In84J) police checked the records and found an ...

  • Terminal planned for Snohomish County airport

    The Snohomish County Council is expected to vote Wednesday on a $650,000 contract with an engineering firm to design an airline terminal at Paine ...

  • Fairchild still candidate for new planes

    Officials in Washington are expressing disappointment that Fairchild Air Force base was not chosen as the first home of the Air Force's new aerial refueling ...

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