MANUEL VALDES

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Facebook, Washington state target online spam

Facebook is partnering with Washington state to combat a type of spam called "clickjacking" that is plaguing the social networking site, company and state officials announced Thursday.

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NW storm cuts power, thousands try to stay warm

Tens of thousands of Pacific Northwest residents faced the prospect of a chilly weekend after a powerful storm brought snow and ice and left a tangle of fallen trees and damaged power lines. Several Oregon counties saw their worst flooding in more than a decade.

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Police: Fugitive chaperoned daughter's field trip

Seattle police say a man on the run for a litany of crimes was spotted chaperoning his daughter's elementary school field trip.

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Occupy protests move to foreclosed homes

The Occupy Wall Street protests are moving into the neighborhood. Finding it increasingly difficult to camp in public spaces, Occupy protesters across the country are reclaiming foreclosed homes and boarded-up properties, signaling a tactical shift for the movement against wealth inequality.

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Even in tax-happy Seattle, $60 car fee rejected

Perhaps it was the struggling economy. Perhaps it was the thought of paying triple figures for vehicle registration. But Seattle voters did something on Tuesday they don't often do: They said no to a tax increase.

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College professors host classes in Occupy Seattle

In the dead of night, as drunken Halloween revelers streamed into the street from nearby bars, Karen Strickland tried to teach Occupy Seattle protesters how to get their message across to politicians.

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Native American group slams Kardashian mom comment

A Native American group is denouncing a comment Kim Kardashian's mother made on national television as being "wrong and hurtful."

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Seattle 'superhero' dons mask to enter courtroom

A self-proclaimed superhero wore a charcoal-colored mask Thursday as he entered a Seattle courtroom where prosecutors said they hadn't yet decide whether to file charges against him in an alleged pepper spray attack.

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Knox dad: She's strong, 'but it's been tough time'

The emotional strain built steadily for years as Amanda Knox sat locked away thousands of miles from her loved ones, all the while maintaining her innocence, wondering whether anyone who mattered would ever believe her.

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Knox supporters cheer appeals court's decision

Once it was clear that Amanda Knox's Italian murder conviction was overturned, her supporters in Seattle burst into cheers, threw their hands in the air and began to cry in joy.

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Captured drug kingpin pets strain Mexico's zoos

For years, three tiny squirrel monkeys led a life of luxury on a 16-acre ranch surrounded by extravagant gardens and barns built for purebred horses.

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Mexico City's once crazy, crowded markets languish

For 30 years, Estela Moran has sold almost every edible part of a cow at her meat stand in a neighborhood market. The sale of tripe, feet, tongue and prime beef has put three of her sons through college.

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Space Needle contest aims to send person to space

Organizers want to go beyond Earth to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Seattle's iconic Space Needle.

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Retired Army Gen. John Shalikashvili dies

Retired Army Gen. John Shalikashvili, an immigrant who rose to the top job in the Pentagon where he advised President Bill Clinton over military involvement around the world, has died at age 75, the Army said in a statement.

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As US sizzles in summer heat, Seattle shivers

As the rest of the country bakes in summer heat, Seattle residents have been bundled up, dealing with temperatures that can't seem to break out of the 60s.

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'Twilight' town death sparks Border Patrol debate

Benjamin Roldan Salinas, a forest worker in the country illegally, leapt into the frigid Sol Duc River to escape a pursuing U. S. Border Patrol Agent, disappearing into the fast-moving waters.

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Group of Democrats unveils workers' comp plan

A group of eight moderate House Democrats unveiled a proposal Tuesday to reform the state's workers' compensation system, keeping the thorny issue of settlements but making several changes to a broader Senate measure.

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Budget demonstrators spend night at Wash. Capitol

About 50 people protesting budget cuts under consideration by Washington state lawmakers spent the night in sleeping bags on a hard marble floor of the state Capitol in Olympia.

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Wash. state jobless rate drops; 11,000 jobs added

Washington state added 11,000 jobs in January as the state's unemployment rate dropped to 9.1 percent from 9.3 percent in December, officials said Tuesday.

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Anti-nuclear weapon protesters convicted in Tacoma

A federal jury on Monday convicted five anti-war activists, including octogenarians and Jesuit priests, who cut fences at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in 2009 to protest submarine nuclear weapons.

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Warnings abound in enforcing immigration job rules

They cost clothing chain Abercrombie & Fitch $1 million in fines, tripped up Meg Whitman's campaign for California governor, prompted mass layoffs across the country and have been at the center of countless other workplace immigration disputes.

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In Wash., illegal immigrants canvassing for votes

When Maria Gianni is knocking on voters' doors, she's not bashful about telling people she is in the country illegally. She knows it's a risk to advertise to strangers that she's here illegally — but one worth taking in what she sees as a crucial election.

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APNewsBreak: No indictment in 2006 Iraqi killing

A former security contractor for Blackwater USA will not be indicted in the killing of an Iraqi guard in 2006, federal prosecutors said Monday.

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'Green' burials require no coffins or chemicals

Steve Sall moved forward on uneven, rocky terrain in his motorized wheelchair and came to a stop at the edge of a sweeping vista of ponderosa pines and bright pockets of yellow wildflowers.

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Scientists use hovering zeppelin to film whales

Pilot Katharine Board often sees pods of blue, gray and killer whales as she flies along the California coast. Compared to other pilots, however, she has a unique vantage point — low and slow — from the only operational zeppelin in the United States.

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