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Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire on Monday gave gay rights a boost in the state when signing into law a measure that legalizes same-sex marriage in the state. Washington is now the seventh state in the U.S to ...
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Police on Saturday began removing the last of Occupy Washington's tends from McPherson Square while arresting 11 people who refused to following police orders.
McPherson Square was one of the few Occupy movement locations still left in the ...
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An Occupy Seattle protestor married an abandoned warehouse on Saturday, but it's not really what you might be thinking.
Baylonia Aivaz didn't "marry" the vacant building due to some strange fetish, sexual hang-up or far-fetched daddy issues somehow ...
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President Obama wants millionaires to pay higher tax levels and despite potential tax loopholes the President wants those taxes to be at least 30% of a millionaires earned income.
If that number sounds familiar it may be because ...
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Washington could soon become the 7th state to legalize gay marriage. Senator Mary Margaret Haugen released a statement today saying that she would support the measure which gives the senate the 25 votes it needs to pass ...
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After an August earthquake left the Washington Monument with various cracks and other structural damage Congress agrees to pay $7.5 million to restore the project if the remaining $7.5 million could be raised by outside sources. Now ...
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10-year-old acrobat, juggler and street-performance prodigy Caleb "Flip" Kors was found strangled in his bedroom this week, leaving the entire circus community and its fans stunned. Caleb was found strewn among his various acrobatic equipment and investigators believe he ...
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A manhunt is currently underway inside Washington's Mount Rainier National Park where a man shot and killed a park ranger and then fled into the woods.
No video surveillance has circulated at this time and no description was ...
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It's that time of year again, as local clinics see a surge in the number of flu shots being given this year. However, it's not too late if you want to boost your immune system against the ...
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Russia, frustrated with anti-nuke talks with the United states has decided to put an end to the talks and move forward with its plans to upgrade its nuclear defensive and offensive systems, including the construction on a ...
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A word to the wise for tweeters, if you are going to use an online social network to bash your boss it's probably best that it isn't a public feed like Twitter. Washington state Rep. Rick Larsen ...
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In case you were wondering where all of the healthy vegetables were on your child's lunch menu at school, they're in the pizza they've been eating everyday. Congress recently declared that Pizza constitutes a vegetable requirement even ...
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Washington National Cathedral reopened its doors over the weekend, with Sunday seeing its first public service since an earthquake on August 23rd.
The 5.8 quake did an estimated $15 million of damage to the church, with the cathedral's ...
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Wilson Ramos, a catcher for the Washington Nationals baseball team was kidnapped this week in his hometown of Santa Ines, Venezuela.
According to witnesses the 24-year-old professional baseball player was taken away in an SUV after four armed ...
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The team at The Onion is known for using satire to get their message across and today they had a rare hiccup in their humor when they tweeted a bunch of messages about the capitol being under ...
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Are you an American? Do you feel alienated? Do you feel like your interests and concerns are not heard nor addressed by those people with power and influence?
You are not alone. A Harris Alienation Index said that ...
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Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, a proponent of the left and Ron Paul, a right leaning Congressman have one thing in common, they both believe that the debt ceiling deal offers nothing but false promises for the American ...
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The teenage bandit who was accused in a string of several ambitious crimes ranging from minor break-ins to plane theft is expected to plead guilty in a Seattle court today.
Colton Harris-Moore achieved folk hero status while he evaded ...
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Alleged Bigfoot sightings and accompanying "evidence" have been surfacing for many, many years now. Seemingly like clockwork, at least one video per year of a supposed Bigfoot sighting makes its way to the internet and television, usually ...
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Three people have died and four are hospitalized with serious burn injuries after a explosion and fire at the Tesoro Refinery in Anacortes, Washington.
The explosion occurred around 12:30am in the "part of the refinery that turns crude ...
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Up until today the faster broadband speed you could get in the US was courtesy of Cablevision in Long Island, N.Y. which clocked in at 100 Mbps and cost you $99.00 per month for the privilege.
Now however that figure and ...
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Colton Harris-Moore- also called "Colt"- is known as the "Barefoot Burglar" because he tends to go pillaging shoeless.
Colt's been breaking into vacation homes and watercraft for years, and recently moved up to plane theft. Harris-Moore is 18, ...
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