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| Celebrating all things cannabis -- Hempfest draws throngs to Myrtle Edwards Park Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:13 GMT The annual Hempfest celebration drew thousands of marijuana devotees to Myrtle Edwards Park Saturday as this year's celebration focused on the benefits of industrial hemp. The event continues Sunday. |
| Hundreds gather in South Seattle to mourn slain teen Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:04 GMT More than 400 people gathered inside the Southside Church of Christ in Seattle Saturday to pay their respects to Pierre K. LaPoint, the 16-year-old who was fatally shot on Aug. 5. Adults urged youths to stay focused and avoid gang life. |
| I-405 tunnel roof breached Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:41 GMT State road crews are making progress removing a tunnel on Interstate 405 as part of a road-widening project. |
| Pot farm found in park Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:51 GMT A park service pilot on a routine flight over the North Cascades National Park service area helped discover a large marijuana farm worth nearly $48 million -- the first such grow operation found in a national park site in the state. |
| 'Unified change' needed to subdue gang violence Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:38 GMT The gunfire that has maimed and killed a steady stream of young men since January prompted vows of aggressive action from at least one city official but mounting anger from residents. |
| Park's legacy dwarfs graffiti Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:55 GMT After Steve Cox, a King County sheriff's deputy, was gunned down, a White Center park was named in his honor. The late officer wouldn't appreciate the graffiti goons who are making a mess of things. |
| Arson destroys beloved Monstero! of Georgetown Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:46 GMT A senseless act destroyed Monstero!, taking away a little piece of Seattle character in Georgetown. |
| City Light avoids 90-degree outage Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:50 GMT Friday's temperature in Seattle hit 90 degrees, as City Light crews repaired power transformers downtown and the Puget Sound region violated the federal air standard for ozone. Saturday could see a high of 94. |
| Bicyclist sues State Patrol over open records access Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:00 GMT A Seattle bicyclist paralyzed in an accident last year on the Montlake Bridge is suing the State Patrol over access to accident reports involving other bicyclists on the bridge. |
| Jury awards $48,000 to family over early cremation Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:02 GMT PORTLAND -- A Multnomah County jury has awarded $48,000 to a family who could not say a final farewell to their 53-year-old mother because she was mistakenly cremated before they had the chance. |
| Jury awards fired prosecutor $3 million Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:03 GMT A former deputy prosecutor won a $3 million jury award Friday in a wrongful termination suit against the Pierce County Prosecutor's Office. |
| Indigenous Central Americans increasingly fill ranks of farmworkers Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:03 GMT A new farmworker survey suggests that nearly a quarter of such laborers in Western Washington are indigenous Mexicans or other Central Americans. |
| Ressam's sentence is again voided Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:03 GMT SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court on Friday threw out for a second time the 22-year prison sentence for an Algerian man convicted of plotting to blow up Los Angeles International Airport at the height of the millennium celebrations. |
| In video, killer taunts his young captives Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:04 GMT BOISE -- Convicted child killer Joseph Edward Duncan III taunted two kidnapped children, joking that he would take them home. It was depicted in a video clip shown Friday to jurors in his death penalty sentencing hearing. |
| Jury dismisses claim Tukwila man was needlessly Tasered Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:04 GMT A federal court jury on Friday dismissed a Tukwila man's legal claims that Seattle police officers needlessly jolted him with a stun gun and used excessive force during Mardi Gras festivities in 2005. |
| King County deaths Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:08 GMT |
| Too-careful Chinese manage to produce joyless games The Olympics in Beijing are well-run, no question. But something is missing, Art Thiel writes. |
| Pups moving up in Huskies pack The Washington football team's freshmen are a confident bunch. Very confident. |
| Hawthorne fits Seahawks' mold for linebackers Rookie middle linebacker David Hawthorne has been a hit for the Seahawks the past two weekends. But in Saturday night's home opener against the Chicago Bears, he can't afford to fall into the hit-and-miss trap. |
| P-I Endorsements: Primary choices for Tuesday P-I Endorsements: It will be new for everyone when Washington voters make their choices in Tuesday's primary election. Here are our endorsements. |
| Mariners Notebook: Talks could intensify with first-round draft pick Fields MINNEAPOLIS -- The Mariners are continuing their dialog with 2008 first-round draft pick Josh Fields. But unlike most of the rest of the players taken in the first round, Fields, a closer who helped pitch Georgia into the College World Series, is a senior. And the rule that mandates draftees must sign by Aug. 15 or wait and enter the next year's draft applies only to underclassmen. |
| Ready to retire? You may want to wait a bit If you have just retired or are about to retire, your timing could not be worse. |
| Brockman sees big rebound in UW hoops In the middle of summer, Jon Brockman was the only guy in the gym one day, with other UW players heading home, injured or abroad. But Brockman expects his team to be good again next winter, with everyone showing and getting things done. |
| Forecasters: Florida should prepare for hurricane Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:58 GMT KEY WEST, Fla. -- Residents and tourists in the Florida Keys braced for Tropical Storm Fay, which forecasters said could strengthen to a hurricane by Sunday night and begin battering the island chain as soon as Monday. |
| Reports: DeGeneres and de Rossi wed in Calif. Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:54 GMT BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- There are reports that Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi have wed in what is perhaps the highest-profile gay marriage since California legalized the unions. |
| Road proposal riles activists in Roosevelt country Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:46 GMT BISMARCK, N.D. -- Plans to turn a secluded Badlands trail into a major road and river crossing might not have created such a stir if not for where it is: near the ranch where Theodore Roosevelt helped conceive the American conservation movement. |
| AP IMPACT: Truth emerges too late for Kim Soo-im Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:18 GMT SEOUL, South Korea -- Back in the days of "Commies" and "pinkos," of Red scares, black lists, suspicion and smear, Kim Soo-im stood out as a one-woman axis of evil, a villainess without peer. |
| Brett Favre tosses TD pass in Jets debut Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:03 GMT EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Brett Favre proved he's a quick study. The New York Jets' new quarterback also showed he has plenty of zip remaining in that rocket right arm. |
| Mom, daughter lead Kenyan village in AIDS recovery Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:01 GMT RABUOR, Kenya -- Loyce Mbewa-Ong'udi was late. Family and friends milled around her parents' house in the green hills overlooking Lake Victoria, waiting for the daughter from America to return home. |
| Georgians force to clean South Ossetia streets Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:14 GMT TSKHINVALI, Georgia -- Russian troops and their armed allies forced Georgian men to clean the streets of South Ossetia's bombed-out capital Saturday, avenging Georgia's attack on the breakaway province a week ago. |
| East Europe tries to protect itself from Russia Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:15 GMT WARSAW, Poland -- Poland strikes a deal on a U.S. missile defense base. Ukraine tries to limit the Russian navy's movement in its waters. The Czech Republic's leader warns his nation is in danger of being sucked back into Moscow's orbit. |
| Windmills split town and families Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:58 GMT LOWVILLE, N.Y. -- "Listen," John Yancey says, leaning against his truck in a field outside his home. |
| 9/11 aid groups close or adapt as money wanes Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:42 GMT NEW YORK -- Terry Grace Sears knows she has still has work to do helping the families of Sept. 11 victims, seeing the proof last week on the faces of kids just beginning to open up about their parents' deaths in the terror attack. |
| Bear attacks inside Anchorage have people on edge Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:38 GMT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Even in a city whose logo is "Big Wild Life," the summer of 2008 is testing residents' tolerance for large carnivores. |
| Hawaiian palace occupied anew; 22 arrested Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:12 GMT HONOLULU -- A group of Native Hawaiians claiming to be the state's legitimate rulers occupied the grounds of a historic palace for two hours before being arrested by state officers in the second recent takeover of its kind. |
| Texas authorities say body might be missing clerk Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:16 GMT DALLAS -- A man suspected in the videotaped abduction of a Texas grocery store clerk led investigators Saturday to a body about 50 miles from the small town where the woman went missing, authorities said. |
| Mystery surrounds death of NYC Renaissance man Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:17 GMT NEW YORK -- Mark Chamberlain did everything to become a hip, high-tech New Yorker. |
| 5 children among 7 killed in Memphis house fire Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:31 GMT MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- An early Saturday morning fire killed five children and two adults, but three youths were able to escape and were being treated for burns. |
| Family: Cult 'brainwashed' mom charged with murder Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:19 GMT BALTIMORE -- After denying Javon Thompson food and water for two days because he wouldn't say "Amen" after meals, the 1-year-old's caretakers waited for a divine sign that their message had been heard: a resurrection. |
| Israel's welcome for Ethiopian Jews wears thin Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:57 GMT GONDAR, Ethiopia -- Sitting in a leaky, flyblown hut, a few dozen Ethiopian villagers are anxiously waiting to be transported to another world. |
| Russian forces still entrenched in Georgia Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:32 GMT IGOETI, Georgia -- Russian forces built ramparts around tanks and posted sentries on a hill in central Georgia on Saturday, digging in despite Western pressure for Moscow to withdraw its forces under a cease-fire deal signed by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. |
| Georgia says Abkhazia separatists seize villages Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:11 GMT TBILISI, Georgia -- Georgia's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that Russian-backed separatists from the province of Abkhazia had taken over 13 villages in Georgia and a power plant. |
| Worsening security affecting Afghan aid groups Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:25 GMT KABUL, Afghanistan -- Deteriorating security in Afghanistan is making it more difficult for aid organizations to carry out their work, the director of a group that lost four workers in a Taliban attack said Saturday. |
| 5 Myanmar activists sentenced for marking uprising Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:18 GMT YANGON, Myanmar -- Five activists have been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for marching on the 20th anniversary of pro-democracy protests that were crushed by the Myanmar's military rulers, an opposition party official said Saturday. |
| Southeast Asia flooding hits cyclone-weary Myanmar Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:48 GMT BANGKOK, Thailand -- Severe flooding triggered by torrential rains has struck areas of Myanmar still recovering from a cyclone that killed more than 84,000 people, a state-run newspaper said Saturday. |
| Indonesian train hits freight locomotive, kills 9 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:44 GMT JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Police and railway officials say at least nine people have died and dozens were injured when a slow-moving passenger train hit a parked freight locomotive on Indonesia's Sumatra island. |
| Olympics leaves positive legacies for some groups Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:09 GMT BEIJING -- Wang Yanan walked across southern China this summer, staying in rundown hotels and speaking out in village squares about her passion - saving the environment. |
| Obama, McCain differ on abortion rights Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:35 GMT LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- Presidential contenders Barack Obama and John McCain differed sharply on abortion Saturday, with McCain saying a baby's human rights begin "at conception," while Obama restated his support for legalized abortion. |
| Old legal feuds divided, linked McCain and ex-wife Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:39 GMT ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- An old lawsuit on record at the city courthouse reveals a moment of friction between John McCain's mother and his ex-wife. Years later, McCain and his former wife presented a united front in a lawsuit of their own. |
| On abortion, candidates subtly seek centrist votes Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:51 GMT NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- When Republican John McCain suggested his running mate could support abortion rights and Democrat Barack Obama gave an anti-abortion senator a prime convention role, both were sending a subtle message to centrist voters. |
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