| February 14, 2007 | - The Navy announced that specially trained dolphins and sea lions may patrol a military base in Washington State that is vulnerable to attack by swimmers and scuba divers; the sea lions are trained to clamp cuffs around swimmers' legs so that the swimmers can be reeled in.
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AP
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| February 6, 2007 | - In Washington state, proponents of same-sex
marriage pursued legislation that would annul all connubial unions still barren after three years.
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Washington News
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| January 3, 2007 | -
Seattle parents defended their decision to stunt the growth of their brain-impaired 9-year-old daughter.
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LA Times
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| December 10, 2006 | -
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport removed fourteen Christmas trees after a local rabbi threatened a lawsuit if officials did not add an eight-foot menorah to the arrangement.
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Seattle Times
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| August 1, 2006 | - Naveed Afzal Haq, the man accused of an anti-Semitic shooting attack in Seattle, was described as a “hothead” with a “chip on his shoulder,” by his former boss, Thomas de Winter: “He didn't take instruction well.”
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UPI via Google News
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| July 14, 2006 | - Police in Seattle were looking for a gang of angry machete-wielding clowns.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| May 30, 2006 | - A senior citizens' community in Washington was overrun by marmots.
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Yakima Herald-Republic
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| March 1, 2006 | -
Scientists, some funded by the U.S. military, continued their research into controlling the brains of monkeys and sharks. "We believe," said a researcher at the University of Washington, Seattle, "we are the first to record neural activity from a monkey doing a somersault."
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New Scientist
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| February 3, 2006 | - In Detroit the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl. The Department of Homeland Security monitored the event using holograms.
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CNET News.com
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| October 20, 2005 | - A 14-year-old Washington boy was charged with sexual harassment after hanging around outside a school homecoming dance dressed as a penis.
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The News Tribune
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| October 19, 2005 | - A burglar in Spokane, Washington, broke into a house and stole golf clubs, but left a pile of feces arranged in the shape of male genitalia.
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MSNBC
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| October 7, 2005 | - In Kent, Washington, a man named Neelesh Phadnis, accused of shooting his mother and father, defended himself by claiming that the murder was carried out by a gang of obese Samoans and their girlfriends.
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The Seattle Times
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| September 14, 2005 | - In Spokane, Washington, a man was in trouble for breaking into another man's house and smearing the man's naked, sleeping body with chocolate frosting, then opening a dog pen in the hope that a dog would eat the frosting.
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KXLY.com
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| August 19, 2005 | -
Washington authorities took an orphaned duck named Gooey away from the woman who had raised it from a duckling and dressed it in duck diapers. "If you don't give me the duck," said a wildlife agent, "I'm going to arrest you." The woman refused to hand over the duck, which was eventually pulled from her arms.
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AP
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| July 14, 2005 | - In Enumclaw, Washington, after a man died of internal bleeding from having sex with a horse, police were investigating a reputed bestiality farm. “We've got more investigating to do,” said a sergeant.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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| July 6, 2005 | -
Seattle's new energy-efficient city hall building was found to be using 15 to 50 percent more electricity than its larger predecessor.
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The Seattle Post Intelligencer
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| May 21, 2005 | - Near Seattle, Mary K. Letourneau, forty-three, married Vili Fualaau, twenty-two, whom she first raped when he was twelve.
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BBC News
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| May 7, 2005 | - The Mayor of Spokane, Washington, an opponent of gay rights, was accused of being a pedophile; he insisted that he cruised the Internet only for men of legal age.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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| May 6, 2005 | - A Washington woman found a snake with legs.
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Tri-City Herald
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| March 14, 2005 | - The Washington state legislature was trying to decide whether to classify goat-napping as a misdemeanor or a felony.
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The Seattle Times
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| March 11, 2005 | - The state of Washington declared a drought,
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Reuters
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| March 9, 2005 | - A plume of smoke thousands of feet tall spewed from Mount St. Helens.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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| February 16, 2005 | - An Episcopal priest who fought in Vietnam, distraught over the war in Iraq, killed himself in Wenatchee, Washington.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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| November 17, 2004 | -
Soldiers at Fort Lewis, Washington, were throwing chocolate pudding and lemon-lime Gatorade at each other in order to prepare for duty at Army detention centers like Guantánamo Bay. “I feel good about this mission,” said one soldier. “I get to be part of the solution.”
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The Olympian
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| January 4, 2004 | - One government expert pointed out that Americans are much more likely to die of E. coli, listeria, or salmonella than from mad cow disease; in fact, since the mad Holstein was discovered in Washington, more than 1 million Americans were poisoned by their food, 6,000 were hospitalized, and 100 died.
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Seattle Times
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| November 21, 2003 | - Krist Novoselic, the former bassist for Nirvana, was thinking about running for lieutenant governor of Washington.
| Source:
New York Times
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