Minor injury as fire damages Custer-area mobile home
Washington State Based News
A Custer resident suffered minor injuries as she tried to fight a fire that damaged her double-wide mobile home about 2:15 p.m. Sunday, May 12. North Whatcom Fire & and Rescue firefighters contained the flames to a bedroom of the home on Dean Road, south of Birch Bay-Lynden Road, said Division Chief Henry Hollander. He said the officer of the first-arriving engine company reported smoke ...
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Thousands run in Seattle to fight juvenile diabetes
Washington State Based News
SEATTLE -- It was a race against time Sunday morning to end juvenile diabetes - and to beat the bridge.About 11,000 runners turned out in Montlake for the 31st annual Nordstrom Beat the Bridge eight-kilometer athletic race and fundraiser. Runners only had 20 minutes after starting at Husky Stadium to race across the University Bridge before it started going up - or risk being stranded on the ...
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Investigator Tossed cigarette started Bellingham condo fire
Washington State Based News
BELLINGHAM - A smoldering cigarette sparked a condominium fire Sunday morning, May 26, displacing four Sehome neighborhood residents, according to the Bellingham Fire Department. Fire engines lined the street outside 715 N. Garden St. when Dick McCollum, a retired U.S. Army colonel, came home from a morning service at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. By the time firefighters allowed him to tour ...
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Fellow officers citizens turn out to honor fallen trooper
Washington State Based News
EVERETT -- Sean O'Connell was an extremely popular and dedicated trooper, who loved his motorcycle duties, his fellow troopers, his family and friends, and his community.People everywhere honored him Sunday, with many honking and waving on freeway overpasses--to watch the motorcade make its way down I-5--from Mount Vernon to the funeral home in Everett."We're grieving, and we need ...
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Kids Fishing Camp happenign nexth month in Seattle
Washington State Based News
The Seattle Parks and Recreation at Magnuson Community Center in Seattle is hosting the Nick Barr Fishing Camp for youth ages 8 to 17 from July 16-18. Barr who is owner of the Washington Bass Adventures Guide Service, president of Eastern Washington University Sportsman’s Club and on the Board of Directors for Inland N.W. Wildlife Council will teach basic instruction for beginning anglers. ...
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Police Officer shoots pit bull twice after it charged police
Washington State Based News
SEATTLE -- A Seattle police officer shot an unleashed pit bull twice while responding to a disturbance in Lake City. About 8:30 a.m. several officers responded to a home behind a church in the 12000 block of 33rd Ave. N.E. to deal with an uncooperative man who was apparently drunk and disorderly, police said.An unleashed pit bull charged two of the officers, police said.One officer shot the dog ...
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Nuclear waste tank leaking in Washington State
Washington State Based News
A project to clear up nuclear waste at a facility in the United States has come to a halt. Workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in the US state of Washington, the United States' most contaminated nuclear site, had to stop work on Friday when they found increased radioactivity levels under a tank during a routine inspection. The higher levels mean radioactive waste from a storage tank ...
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Finally Gov. Inslee signs $33.6 billion state budget
Washington State Based News
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Gov. Jay Inslee has signed into law a new two-year budget, averting a government shutdown that state officials had been planning for in case the new spending plan wasn't in place by the end of the weekend.The $33.6 billion operating budget was the key item among more than a dozen bills signed by Inslee late Sunday afternoon, just a day after the Legislature adjourned ...
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