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  • Woman shot in Renton gun battle dies homicide probe launched

    RENTON, Wash. - A young woman who was shot during a Wednesday night gun battle in Renton has died of her injuries, and the shooting is now classified as a homicide, police said.The 20-year-old woman, who suffered a single gunshot wound to the abdomen, was pronounced dead at about 9:50 a.m. Thursday at Harborview Medical Center, where she was taken after the shooting, said Robert Onishi of the ...

  • Navy vets uniforms medals stolen from storage locker

    SEATTLE -- A local Navy veteran's uniforms, medals and equipment were stolen out of his Ballard apartment's storage locker this month, according to the Seattle Police Department. According to the police report for the incident, the victim received a notice from management at the Lock Vista Apartments that there had been several thefts in the building recently. When he checked his ...

  • Boy Scouts vote on policy toward openly gay boys

    (AP Photo/LM Otero). Matthew Ray, 15, of North Richland Hills, Texas, holds signs near where the Boy Scouts of America are holding their annual meeting Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Grapevine, ...

  • Update Public outcry to help starving horses in Snohomish Washington

    Private citizens in Washington State have come forward regarding horses that they say are starving in Snohomish, Washington. On Thursday, May 23, the Snohomish County Licensing and Animal Control Services (SCAC) Manager, Vicki Lubrin, discussed this case. Jaime Taft, the recently retired president and founder of Save a Forgotten Equine ...

  • Highline Public Schools to offer free full-day kindergarten for all students

    Highline Public Schools announced today that it willfind a way to offera full day of class for all its kindergartnersnext fall, free of charge. The district grew tired of waiting for the state Legislature, which has committed tofully funding all-day kindergarten classes for all students byfall 2017, but is not offering anything near that level now.For this schoolyear, the statecovered the costs ...


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Le beau Serge [Blu-Ray]

Le beau Serge [Blu-Ray]

It is often forgotten that Claude Chabrols Le beau Serge is technically the first film of the French New Wave--or at least the first feature-length film to be produced by one of the young film critics whose writings in Cahiers du cinma in the 1950s helped to reshape the p ... ...

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  • Violent video games robots and Seattle campus Bezos addresses Amazon shareholders

    Jeff Bezos, chairman and chief executive officer of Amazon, took questions from shareholders during the company's annual shareholders meeting in Seattle on Thursday. It was a quiet morning in Seattle Center as Amazon held its 16th annual shareholders meeting at the Seattle Repertory Theater on Thursday. Unlike last year, there were no protests, no outbursts during the meeting, and only about ...

  • 31 still underwater on home loans in Seattle region says Zillow

    Fewer homeowners are underwater in their mortgages than at the end of last year in the greater Seattle area, according to real estate site Zillow.com. But the Seattle-based site says little or no homeowner equity continues to be a drag on the economy. A little more than 31 percent of homeowners in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties were underwater on their home loans in the first quarter of ...

  • City hiring park rangers to stem violence in Cal Anderson Park

    string of high-profile violent crimes in recent weeks. According to a press release from the Mayor's Office, the park rangers will be on hand to remind park users of the rules, moderate disputes, keep an eye on the park, and work with the Seattle Police Department to address any issues. "We heard from the community that this was an issue, that people weren’t feeling safe or ...

  • Freak snow cancels school in small Washington town

    BICKLETON, Wash. — A freak snowstorm in May gave students a surprise day off on Wednesday in the Cascades town of Bickleton. Ten to 12 inches fell overnight within a 5- or 6-mile radius in the Klickitat County community at an elevation of about 3,000 feet. "You go down the hill and get out of it," schools Superintendent Ric Palmer said of the snow. The heavy snow brought down ...

  • Most Democratic district groups arent backing McGinn

    One early measure of the Seattle mayoral race is the fight for endorsements from the city’s Democratic legislative-district organizations. The groups of liberal activists, crammed into community centers, schools and union halls,provide an early sounding board and organizing heat-checkfor candidates at a time when few voters are paying attention. So far, Mayor Mike McGinn has come up ...

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