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| Burien woman sentenced in ID theft spree A 30-year-old Burien woman was sentenced today to three years in prison for bank fraud and identity theft. U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton in Tacoma also ordered Amy Tuita to pay $72,000 in restitution. |
| Kitsap County teacher charged with sexual misconduct Kitsap County prosecutors have filed first-degree sexual misconduct charges against a female teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student at South Kitsap High School. |
| 8 million gallons of sewage foul Ravenna Creek A mistake by King County employee crews diverted 8 million gallons of wastewater into Ravenna Creek, officials said. The spill was so large that it swelled the creek's flow to unusually high stormwater levels for 10 days, fouling a mile-long stretch of the creek. |
| Local man calls security at Sea-Tac insufficient A local man is calling for tougher security at Sea-Tac Airport following an incident during which he was able to drive his van onto a runway at a terminal reserved for corporate jets without having his vehicle searched or his identity checked. |
| Pot brownies land state UPS worker in jail Detectives said Virgil Feezell took the brownies to the UPS distribution center in Spokane Valley where he works on Thursday as a prank. One of Feezell's co-workers ate one of the brownies and became so ill that he had to go to the hospital. |
| Rising gas prices leave local seniors in a bind The high cost of gas my end up hurting the county's most vulnerable people. The non-profit group Senior Services says some volunteers are quitting because they can't afford to help, leaving senior services in a bind. |
| Wireless company helps family track down runaway teen A teen who disappeared earlier this week, and whose parents discovered she had been leading a double life on MySpace, is home thanks to the help of Cricket Wireless, whose CEO jumped into action after seeing a KATU report. |
| Woman killed in fatal accident on Hwy 16 Troopers said a woman driving westbound on Highway 16 near Gig Harbor in a white van lost control and crossed into the median, causing the van to flip in the air and land upside down in the eastbound lanes. |
| Babysitter arrested after death of Kenmore toddler King County sheriff's deputies investigating the death of a 2-year-old boy have arrested a 23-year-old woman who was babysitting him the day before. |
| Jury heads home in case of Seattle Jewish center shooting A jury has gone home for the weekend after the first day of deliberations in the case of Naveed Haq, who shot six women - one fatally - at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle two years ago. |
| China warns quake death toll could reach 80,000 China warned Saturday that the death toll from a massive earthquake two weeks ago could take a major leap and pass 80,000, suggesting the government may be giving up hope of finding more survivors. |
| 3 dead, 3 injured in S. Calif. tourist chopper crash A tour helicopter crashed in rainy weather on an island off the Southern California coast Saturday morning, killing three people and injuring three others, a county sheriff's deputy said. |
| Crews struggle to contain California wildfire Firefighters continued to fight a persistent wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains that has chewed through acres of centuries-old redwoods, destroyed at least 17 homes and displaced hundreds of people. |
| Clinton regrets RFK assassination remark Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton quickly apologized Friday after citing the June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in defending her decision to keep running for the Democratic presidential nomination despite increasingly long odds. |
| Airlines ponder how far they can push customers In the view of airline executives and analysts, the industry is facing its toughest challenge yet, with little prospect that carriers can return to profits anytime soon. |
| Senate deals Bush a defeat on Iraq war spending In a stunning vote that illustrated President Bush's diminished standing, the Senate on Thursday ignored his veto threat and added tens of billions of dollars for veterans and the unemployed to his Iraq war spending bill. |
| Humpback whale population on the rise Once hunted to the brink of extinction, humpback whales have made a dramatic comeback in the North Pacific Ocean over the past four decades, a new study says. |
| Workers start to raze hard-hit town in China The town of Beichuan now sits abandoned, except for a handful of villagers returning to scrounge through the rubble for their belongings, and workers in white protective suits, masks and black rubber boots spraying disinfectant. |
| Pet owners, makers of tainted food reach deal Companies that were sued over contaminated pet food linked to the deaths of perhaps thousands of dogs and cats have agreed to pay $24 million to pet owners in the United States and Canada. |
| McCain rejects pastor's endorsement Republican John McCain on Thursday rejected endorsements from two influential but controversial televangelists, saying there is no place for their incendiary criticisms of other faiths. |
| City of Vallejo files for bankruptcy The city of Vallejo filed for bankruptcy protection Friday to deal with a ballooning budget deficit caused by soaring employee costs and declining tax revenue. |
| GM: Strikes will cost it $2 billion in 2nd quarter General Motors Corp.'s stock dropped almost 5 percent Friday after the company reported that strikes at some of its own plants and parts supplier American Axle will cost the automaker about $2 billion before taxes in the second quarter. |
| Societe Generale cites lax management in $7 billion loss Investigators at Societe Generale SA say they suspect former futures trader Jerome Kerviel was helped by an assistant to cover up massive trading positions that led to a multibillion dollar loss. |
| Boeing delays plan for replacing the 737 The Boeing Co. has pushed back the date for a possible replacement to its popular 737 jet by several years, saying it needs more time to advance the underlying technology. |
| Retailers promote 'staycation' sales With gas prices still climbing in a belt-tightening economy, many Americans are expecting to be in their backyards a lot this summer for stay-at-home vacations, or "staycations." And stores are promoting low-cost activities even more than usual. |
| Yahoo postpones annual meeting, battle with Icahn Yahoo Inc. on Thursday postponed a looming showdown for control of its board, giving itself more time to prepare a defense - or negotiate a sale to Microsoft Corp. that would cause activist investor Carl Icahn to call off the mutiny. |
| Sales of existing homes fall 1 percent in April Sales of existing homes fell for the eighth time in the past nine months, with the backlog of unsold single-family homes rising to the highest level in more than two decades. |
| Boeing sets greenhouse gas emission goals for 2012 The Boeing Co. says it plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions and energy use in the next five years, even as it manufactures more aircraft. |
| American Axle local approves contract, ends strike Workers from the largest union local at American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. have approved a new contract, ending a nearly three-month-old strike. |
| 'Crouching Tiger' star Ziyi outraged by quake ignorance "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" star Zhang Ziyi says she's outraged by what she says is ignorance about the recent earthquake in China. |
| Russians: Indiana Jones filmmakers want new Cold War Members of Russia's Communist Party are calling for a nationwide boycott of the new Indiana Jones movie, saying it aims to undermine communist ideology and distort history. |
| N.Y. governor pardons hip-hop pioneer `Slick Rick' Walters Pioneering rapper Ricky "Slick Rick" Walters, who spent more than five years in prison on a 1991 attempted murder conviction and faced threats of deportation years after rehabilitating his life, was granted a full and unconditional pardon Friday by New York Gov. David Paterson. |
| Soderbergh challenges Cannes with epic Che tale With his epic film biography of Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, Steven Soderbergh defiantly has made the story he wanted to see, one that will prove a very tough sell to some audiences. |
| Ex-Phish frontman gets reduced sentence for drug charges Trey Anastasio received a reduced sentence of three years' probation for a drug conviction after he successfully completed a counseling and treatment program. |
| 'Cougars 4 Cook' sign was our first clue Somewhere down the line, the Midwest-raised former bartender became a sex symbol for scores of women who are practically old enough to be his mom. And clearly, they voted. |
| Madonna: Criticism of boy's adoption 'painful' Madonna says criticism of her adoption of a Malawian boy hurt so much, she compared it to giving birth. "It was painful, and it was a big struggle, and I didn't understand it," the 49-year-old singer told reporters at the Cannes Film Festival. |
| 400 jurors could be screened for O.J. trial Court officials preparing for O.J. Simpson's armed robbery trial say lengthy questionnaires will be given to a jury pool that could number 400 or more. |
| Review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull For those who've thrilled to previous installments of the Indiana Jones saga, the anticipation of watching Harrison Ford take up the brown fedora again after two decades is very much like an ambivalent homecoming. |
| Daughter of Christian music star killed by car The 5-year-old daughter of Grammy-winning Christian music star Steven Curtis Chapman was struck and killed Wednesday by a sport utility vehicle driven by her brother, authorities said. |
| Monitors urged for all with high blood pressure Everyone with high blood pressure - some 72 million Americans - should own a home monitor and do regular pressure checks, the American Heart Association and other groups urged Thursday in an unprecedented endorsement of a medical device for consumers. |
| FAA bans Pfizer's Chantix following report Pfizer Inc.'s once promising anti-smoking drug Chantix received another blow Wednesday after a nonprofit group's report about serious physical side effects prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to ban the drug's use by pilots and air traffic controllers. |
| McDonald's cooking fries in trans-fat-free oil McDonald's french fries are now trans-fat-free in all its restaurants in the United States and Canada, the fast-food restaurant chain said Thursday. |
| Friends quit smoking? You probably will too A team of researchers who showed that obesity can spread person-to-person has found a similar pattern with smoking cessation: A smoker is more likely to kick the habit if a spouse, friend, co-worker or sibling did. |
| EU adds document formats to its Microsoft concerns European Union regulators said Thursday they will consider Microsoft Corp.'s promise to make its Office productivity programs work more seamlessly with competing software. |
| Sunless tanning lotions that produce a natural-looking glow Sunless tanning lotions are a quick and safe way to get a tan, but not all of them produce a natural-looking tan. So the Good Housekeeping Research Institute put some of the newest products to the test to see which ones produce a natural-looking grow. |
| Don't get burned by a shady travel club Travel clubs promise to save you big bucks -- for a price. In some cases as much as $8,000! |
| Common bike helmet mistakes that put riders at risk You wear a helmet when you ride a bike because you expect it to protect your head if you fall or crash. But safety experts warn as many as half of all bike riders have helmets that may not do the job. |
| Are you hanging on to old, bacteria-infested makeup? Some women just can't say goodbye to their makeup, no matter how old it is. |
| Yankees rout Mariners 13-2 behind Pettitte after McLaren gets ejected Andy Pettitte struck out nine to win for the first time in over a month, Shelley Duncan hit a go-ahead, three-run homer and the New York Yankees beat up Erik Bedard and the woeful Mariners during an eight-run fifth inning in a 13-2 laugher Friday night. |
| Baseball to formulate instant replay proposal Jimmie Lee Solomon, the sport's executive vice president for baseball operations, wouldn't put a timetable on a replay plan, which was recommended by general managers in November. |
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