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  • Seattle wins 4-2 to end Dallas unbeaten streak

    SEATTLE - Seattle's Eddie Johnson scored twice as the Sounders ended Dallas' nine-game MLS unbeaten streak with a 4-2 victory on Saturday.Johnson's second goal of the game came in the 62nd minute, just one minute after Dallas completed a comeback from a 2-0 deficit when Michel drilled a corner from the right into the upper left roof of the Seattle net to equalize.The Sounders ...

  • Bonney Lake Tyee Seattle Christian in semifinals | Boys Soccer

    Bonney Lake (3A) and Tyee (2A) reached the final four for the first time in school history, while four-time champ Seattle Christian (1A) also ...

  • Bill-job conflict Its not unusual in Olympia

    Rep. Steve Kirby says he kept busy during the Legislature’s brief hiatus this month by training for his new job at a Tacoma-area credit union. It’s a field that intersects with his work at the Capitol. As the chairman of the House Business and Financial Services Committee, Kirby has the power to decide the fate of finance-industry bills - including those that affect his new employer, ...

  • McCarver a natural candidate for experimentation

    McCarver Elementary School was an obvious choice for the Tacoma Housing Authority’s experiment. Built in 1925 and located in the heart of the Hilltop, the school serves Tacoma’s poorest population. Its approximately 400 students draw heavily on the shelters and transitional housing scattered across the hill. This year, which is typical, 96 percent of McCarver’s students qualify ...

  • Reputation earns housing authority some latitude

    Housing authorities in most cities don’t have the flexibility to try experiments such as the McCarver Program. They’re bound by strict U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development protocols that determine who gets assistance and ...


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Kicking and Screaming [DVD]

Kicking and Screaming [DVD]

Kicking and Screaming, Noah Baumbachs directorial debut, is a clever, intelligent comedy about the pains of growing up. The main characters are four college friends who are as different in personality as they are alike in their collective fear about being grown-u ... ...

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  • Years of detective work reunites teens accused of 88 gang shooting

    The key was patience, with a dash of cunning. John Ringer, a longtime Tacoma police detective and gang expert, knew what went down the day 17-year-old Bernard Houston was killed. He knew six rival gang members in two cars boxed Houston in at a Hilltop intersection and gunned him down. He knew where they were seated in the vehicles, what they said before shots rang out and that the drive-by was ...

  • Thurston needs 3 candidates

    The Thurston County auditor has announced a three-day special filing period seeking candidates for three offices that did not draw candidates for the upcoming election. The deadline for initial filing ended May 17 with no declarations of candidacy for the three ...

  • The home and school connection

    ABOVE: Shawna and Mike Allen and their family study together at the dining room table. The Allens, along with 49 other families, are part of Tacoma Housing Authority’s McCarver Program, which offers families low-cost housing, counseling and parenting classes in exchange for a commitment to enroll their children at McCarver Elementary School through fifth grade and to play an active role in ...

  • Seattle Times honored at SPJ awards

    Seattle Times news, photography and online staffs won top awards in the annual Society of Professional Journalists competition. Twenty-six individual staff members also won ...

  • Youre not a slacktivist are you GiveBig and a social media debate

    GiveBig day in Seattle, when the Seattle Foundation stretches the day's donations to 1,300 participating nonprofits. Planned Parenthood came out on top -- raising $220,120 in 24 hours. The GiveBig campaign raised a record $11 million in total contributions Thursday, 50 percent more than last year. Now in its third year, it's become a true Seattle social-media event. If you didn't ...

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