DOJ team investigates 2006 Blackwater shooting in Green Zone
SEATTLE (AP) -- Nearly a year and a half after a contractor for Blackwater USA shot an Iraqi guard in Baghdad's Green Zone, a Justice Department team traveled to Iraq this month to investigate the killing. The team included two federal prosecutors and an FBI agent from S... |
Makah court defers prosecution for 5 who killed gray whale
NEAH BAY, Wash. (AP) -- A Makah tribal judge has deferred prosecution for five tribal members who killed a gray whale last September in an unsanctioned hunt off the Washington coast. Wednesday's decision came months after the Makah Tribal Council had publicly promised to... |
Seattle's Space Needle to get deep cleaning
SEATTLE (AP) -- Cleaners began blasting Seattle's Space Needle with hot water and high pressure hoses Thursday as they demonstrated how they'll give the structure what is billed as its first deep external cleaning since it opened in 1962 for the World's Fair. German-base... |
Lockheed beats Boeing to win $3.57B GPS contract
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lockheed Martin Corp. beat out Boeing Co. to win an Air Force contract worth as much as $3.57 billion to build as many as 12 next-generation global positioning satellites, the Pentagon said Thursday. The deal is the first of three awards to supply a to... |
Old friends recall Obama's years in LA, NY
NEW YORK (AP) -- The way Sohale Siddiqi remembers it, he and his old roommate were walking his pug Charlie on Broadway when a large, scary bum approached them, stomping on the ground near the dog's head. This was in the 1980s, a time when New York was a fearful place bes... |
Gas pump inspectors make sure they're accurate
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Six more inspectors have been added to the agency that checks Washington's 49,000 gas pumps to make sure people are getting all the gas for which they pay close to $4 a gallon. "We've seen a very marked increase in complaints from citizens about ga... |
Duncan pleas unlikely to be undone if he's ruled incompetent
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Even if confessed child killer Joseph Duncan is found mentally incompetent to represent himself at his federal sentencing hearing, his previous guilty pleas will likely stand, legal experts say. "The law is that if you are incompetent, the proceeding... |
Nordstrom 1Q profit sinks 24 pct on economy
SEATTLE (AP) -- Luxury retailer Nordstrom Inc. said Thursday its profit fell 24 percent in the first quarter, as recession rumblings in the U.S. crimped even wealthier consumers' shopping habits. But the company's earnings still topped Wall Street's expectations, sending... |
Lake Washington's clean up led to reverse evolution
SEATTLE (AP) -- Researchers say clean up of Lake Washington in the late 1960s forced a little fish into reverse evolution. A study led by Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center compared samples of the threespine stickleback from the 1950s with current samples,... |
UW to form College of the Environment
SEATTLE (AP) -- The University of Washington plans to merge six forestry, oceans and atmosphere disciplines into a new College of the Environment. It would start with 97 faculty members, more than 1,100 students and a $60 million budget. The UW Board of Regents planned t... |
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