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The man who admitted building and leaving the bomb in a backpack, Kevin Harpham, pleaded guilty to attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and a hate crime. Police urged a large turnout at this year's parade as an opportunity for citizens to speak out against hate.

(AP) — A bill introduced Monday by a group of Senate Democrats would prohibit the state's attorney general from unilaterally taking legal action against the wishes of the governor or other agency heads. Under the bill sponsored by Democratic Sen. Adam Kline, of Seattle, the attorney general...

(AP) — Congressman Norm Dicks wants the administration to stop imports and interstate transport of Burmese pythons and eight other types of big snakes. The senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee sent a letter to the president urging tighter restrictions on the constrictors.

AUBURN, Wash. (AP) — A SWAT team arrested two men early Monday for investigation of murder in the shooting death of a man whose body was found outside a vacant home in Auburn. Police say the 57-year-old victim was shot in the head while riding in a car with the two men in the Des Moines area....

(AP) — State government stores money at Bank of America, buys goods with U.S. Bank cards, and distributes welfare aid through JP Morgan Chase ATMs. Republican lawmakers and the Democratic state treasurer, Jim McIntire, say government programs already exist to serve those functions. The Public...

(AP) — Online shoe seller Zappos.com says a hacker may have accessed the personal information of up to 24 million customers. Customers' credit card and payment information was not stolen, but names, phone numbers, email addresses, billing and shipping addresses, the last four digits from...

(AP) — The Whatcom County sheriff says a fatal stabbing appears to be self-defense during a fight involving gang members at Maple Falls, about 20 miles northeast of Bellingham. Sheriff Bill Elfo told The Bellingham Herald (http://is.gd/Fsmeir ) the fight late Saturday night involved members of...

(AP) — A Spokane school that teaches medical marijuana users how to grow their own calls itself the University of Spokamsterdam. Lesson One for nearly two dozen people at Saturday's class was conducted by defense lawyer David Miller who reminded users that while medical marijuana is legal...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Crews have laid a hose along a half mile stretch of Bering Sea ice and were hoping Monday to soon begin transferring 1.3 million gallons of fuel from a Russian fuel tanker to the iced-in western Alaska city of Nome. The offloading could begin before sundown Monday,...

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington guard C.J. Wilcox has a stress fracture in his right femur near his hip and is doubtful to play next weekend against California and Stanford. A second MRI revealed the injury and Washington coach Lorenzo Romar said doctors believe Wilcox can heal with rest.

Ross overcame an awful first half of shooting to score 26 of his career-high 30 points in the second half, Darnell Gant added 10 of his 13 during Washington's decisive second-half run, and the Huskies rallied from 10 points down in the second half to beat rival Washington State 75-65 on Sunday...

Central Valley (13-0) beat University 64-48, beat Mead 70-60, beat Lewis and Clark 56-36.2. Rainier (15-0) beat Kent-Meridian 74-37, beat Tahoma 71-31.3. Lake Stevens (14-0) beat Cascade (Everett) 68-20, beat Mariner 70-24.4. Stanwood (13-1) beat Mariner 66-16, beat Edmonds-Woodway 65-54.6....

Washington Boys Basketball How Fared Bellarmine Prep (12-1) beat Shelton 72-16, beat Central Kitsap 47-35.2. Snohomish (13-2) beat Mariner 63-52, beat Cascade (Everett) 66-50, beat Kamiak 53-50.9. Lincoln (11-2) lost to Foss 49-46, beat Timberline 71-64.3. Seattle Prep (12-2) beat West...

The program is voluntary and is for confirming employment authorization, not a test for citizenship. City Attorney Lisa Beaton says the system could save money on doing background checks for new hires.

SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) — Bonner County commissioners in northern Idaho plan to meet with U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service officials later this month with the goal of altering the federal agency's plan to protect habitat for woodland caribou. Commissioners are concerned the plan to designate as...

[...] a senior at a small liberal arts college in rural Washington state, Lerner aims to ensure some students learn more about a key moment in America's history. [...] the inland Pacific Northwest has long garnered attention for white supremacist activity — just last year, police rerouted a...

(AP) — An Olympic National Park scientist says the park's glaciers have shrunk by an average of 15 percent since the 1980s, with one completely disappearing. The Peninsula Daily News reports that (http://bit.ly/yjwvKn ) the research found that Ferry Glacier, one of the 60 largest at the park...

(AP) — A massive cache of musical treasures that's grown to include a fragile harp-piano, the pioneering Moog synthesizer and the theremin used for "The Green Hornet" radio show has been shuffled over the years from a theater to an unheated barn and now languish, rarely seen or heard, in a...

(AP) — A Washington state lawmaker wants to exempt shooting ranges from noise-related civil and criminal legal action. The Kitsap Sun reports that (http://bit.ly/wJuXXc ) Democratic Rep. Dean Takko of Longview has introduced a measure that would require shooting ranges to conform to noise laws...