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  • Tacoma to sell prime property downtown

    Another sign that Tacoma is finally awakening from a five-year development swoon emerged Tuesday as the city of Tacoma formally asked developers and investors for proposals for downtown’s largest building ...

  • Visiting Energy Secretary pledges improvements in Hanford cleanup

    In this May 6, 2004 file photo, workers use heavy machinery to remove waste in an area near two dormant nuclear reactors on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, ...

  • Happy 100th birthday to Seattles greatest female athlete

    birthday of the late Helene Madison. She was one of the greatest female swimmers of all time and went to Lincoln High School in Seattle. Unfortunately, I don't think she is too well remembered, although there are two swimming pools (Washington Athletic Club and one in North Seattle) named after ...

  • The Stranger seems to be sticking with the mayor in re-election campaign

    a story the weekly paper posted today . In it, The Stranger’s political writers praise Mayor Mike McGinn for his ';frankness'; — the absolute nicest way to say it — and heap criticism on State Sen. Ed Murray. Murray, of course, was the undisputed champion of the state’s gay-marriage campaign last year and lives in The Stranger’s neighborhood on Capitol ...

  • Renton man admits selling fake Chihuly artwork faces up to 20 years

    through the Internet, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Michael Little admitted he committed wire fraud by buyinggeneric glasswork and artwork over the Internet and falsely claiming to buyers that it was authenticChihuly work, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Little made at least $40,000 selling the fakes Chihulys. He ...


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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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  • Why the Mariners are taking so long with Dustin Ackley

    Dustin Ackley is honing his outfield skills at Class AAA Tacoma and will be key to the next phase of the Mariners attempting to salvage their 2013 season. Photo Credit: ...

  • 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 ...

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