WASHINGTON
SAY WA??? Errant bicyclist crossed all five lanes of traffic on busy I-5, causing traffic jam, sparking impromptu emergency response by motorists....
Threatening letter containing antacid closes Spokane post office...
KING COUNTY NANNY STATE AT WORK: "Mommy and daddy say 'no Dick's fries... and no bottled water'..."
MORE TROUBLES FOR TRICKY DICK MCIVER: Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission files charges against Councilman for awarding city contract to company where longtime friend was employed...
ORBUSMAX: HEY NORTHWEST BLUE-WAVE BLOGGERS, YOU'RE ALWAYS WHINING ABOUT BUSH-CHENEY CRONYISM AND FAVORITISM - WHY DON'T YOU GET OFF YOUR LAZY, HYPOCRITICAL FAT ASSES AND FOR ONCE GO AFTER A POLITICIAN IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD, OTHER THAN PRIVATE CITIZEN EYMAN, PRIVATE CITIZEN SIZEMORE AND OUT-OF-POWER CONSERVATIVES? GOLDY? DEVORE? BLUE OREGON? ANDREW/NORTHWEST PROGRESSIVE INSTITUTE/ KIDS RUNNING A WEBSITE IN MOMMY'S BASEMENT? ANYONE? THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING...
MORE DSHS TROUBLE: State of WA sued for placing foster child with sex offender...
Investigators: Girl hangs herself at children's group home; Employees left the girl alone for 11 hours, lied about it...
New Seattle School Super set to unveil plan to overall district - "We could probably list 150 things to work on, but the reality is we can't do 150 things well... we have a foundation to build..."
Another teachers union joins growing list of educators denouncing leadership of WA state schools superintendent...
Seattle Mayor Nickels now pushing residents to ditch bottled water - "That 60 billion pints required one million tons of plastic. All that plastic added up to about 2.5 million tons of greenhouses gases that went directly into our atmosphere..."
Same 'ole, same 'ole at Port of Seattle - "So, the cost has risen from $6 million to about $16.4 million. It this whole rental car idea still a good investment?..."
WA: Man, talking on cell phone, killed by Amtrak train...
IDAHO
Baseball Player, 13, Has Heart Attack Rounding Bases...
Teacher takes Mexican flag away from student and put it in the garbage - because he feared "white kids" would harm student with the flag...
Mother of 9-year-old girl wants help from school officials, says fellow third-grader threatened to shoot daughter after passing Cinco de Mayo leaflet...
10-year-old gives birth to baby girl...
OTHER NORTHWEST
Judge in Mont. rejects bid to delay wolf lawsuit...
Searchers refuse to give up hope for missing Yakima tribal fishermen...
Bush signs Wild Sky into law...
VIA CROSSCUT: Plea bargain douses scandal of the Thirtymile Fire...
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OREGON
Oregon teen faces abuse charges in puppy stomping...
OREGON TAX $ AT WORK:
Tense council approves Portland rainy day fund - but disagree on how to pay for it ...
$23,000 SHRUBS IN EUGENE?...
OREGON 'BLUE WAVE' EATING ITS OWN: How Novick "insulted" Gore...
Student vets in Southern Oregon protest Iraq body count exhibit...
Eastern Oregon: the 51st state?...
Three elderly women dead in North Vancouver, B.C. apartment fire...
More plaintiffs join Lake Oswego School District sex abuse lawsuit...
PORTLAND TAX $ AT WORK: Despite cost overruns and a 10-month delay, leaders congratulate city managers for how they're handling effort to install new computer system for government business functions...
CATALYST: "The City of Portland could hire ADP to perform all payroll and HR functions for all city employees for the next 31 years before they would exceed the $50,000,000 they are going to spend for a system that may actually never work and that is already behind schedule and over-budget. If the city took the 50 million and invested it very conservatively (say just 3%), sufficient funds would be generated to cover all HR and payroll costs forever!..."
Bomb squad blows up live warhead found along the Columbia River...
WEIRD - ODD - MISC
Hackers' posts on epilepsy forum cause migraines, seizures...
NASA: Earth May Once Have Had Three Moons...
OBIT: Country Superstar Eddy Arnold, 89...
Study: Stay-at-Home Mom Worth Nearly $117,000 a Year...
La. Frat Suspended After Pledges Allegedly Burned in Hazing...
GLOBAL WARMING ROUNDUP:
NORTHWEST: Washington cherry harvest down with the temperatures...
Survey: More Americans feeling 'green guilt'...
WA: Jury's $40 million award stands in cooked-heart case...
Cancel circus shows, PETA urges Puyallup Fair center...
WEST COAST SICK: Animal control officer resigns, faces charges in drowning of nearly 50 kittens...
Web Site Flap Prompts Alaska Democrat to Give up House Race...
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NATIONAL/WORLD
Report: Leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq captured?...
Report: US lacks plan to counter terrorist messages...
Judge orders CIA to turn over "torture" memo: ACLU...
Senator: Ban torture but give CIA interrogation leeway...
NY Times Reporter Twice Charged With Plagiarism Disparages Salmon Industry with Another Questionable Story...
ROAD TO THE PRESIDENCY LATEST:
*** SOUND POLITICS MUST-READ: WHY IS OBAMA TRYING TO HIDE MOTHER'S MERCER ISLAND ROOTS? ***
California superdelegate wants $20 million for his support...
Obama open to Clinton as possible running mate...
MORE OPERATION CHAOS POTENTIAL? Obama says Clinton lead in W.V., Kentucky 'insurmountable'...
All In: Matthews, Wolfson Play White, Puerto Rican Cards...
Obama accuses McCain of 'losing his bearings' with comment that Hamas preferred Obama for president...
POLITICO: Obama plans to declare victory May 20
NOW WHAT?...
THE HILLARY DROP-OUT WATCH UNDERWAY?...
THE OREGON TRAIL, OBAMA, AND CLINTON...
Clinton: “West Virginia is a Test”...
Clinton's Death Star strategy...
MALKIN: Superdelegate for sale; Hillary plays the white card...
LSU: Why won’t Hillary quit? Racism... of course...
BLATHERWATCH CONCEDES TO LIMABAUGH: "Operation chaos is a big success..."
Michigan Dems Settle on Delegate-Seating Plan...
Carter to Michigan/Florida: Drop Dead...
Paper Gets a Look at Prosecutors’ Evidence Against H. Clinton in Whitewater...
CAPTAIN ED: Even Europe gets nervous over Obama, Hillary...
Huckabee: Diabetes bigger threat than terrorism?...
Cindy McCain says she'll never release her tax returns...
First reports of death by starvation in rural N. Korea...
Priorities: Nukes first, food for its people last ...
Russia Joins U.N. Economic Sanctions on Iran...
US, Russia trade diplomatic expulsions...
Hezbollah Says U.S.-backed Lebanon Has Declared War...
'60 MINUTES': Political Office In Alec Baldwin's Future?...
Michigan ruling halts benefits for gay unions...
D.C. to arm police with assault rifles...
Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, provides clearest signal to date that the U.S. military is preparing to strike Iran to cut off covert supplies of weapons to Iraqi insurgents....
... But politics may muddy decision...
New Iranian Surface-To-Surface Missile Found In Basra...
Iran's influence in Latin America worries U.S....
DEBKA: Lebanon slides towards new civil conflict ...
UNHINGED 2-FER:
DAILY KOS: Bush a 'Classic Psychopath,' Republicans in General Even Worse...
Lib Talker Stephanie Miller Ridicules Samoans, Calls Laura Ingraham Racist...
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