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On Tuesday, October 10, 2017, the conservative “Uncle Sam” billboard is displayed along Interstate 5 near exit 72 near Chehalis, Wa.

I-5’s Uncle Sam: 50 years and still ticked off near Chehalis

It’s been 50 years since that Uncle Sam billboard went up along I-5 near Chehalis with its often right-wing messages. The turkey farmer who put it up died in 2004, but his legacy continues.

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Mike McCready plays the National Anthem, and raises his guitar with a 72 on the back, Michael Bennett’s number, in support of his protest, before the Seattle Seahawks take on the San Francisco 49ers for their home opener at CenturyLink Field in Seattle Sunday September 17, 2017.
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Seahawks cancel gameday shuttle from Eastside to CenturyLink Field

Fly the SR 99 tunnel – from the Space Needle to the stadiums. Now that the tunneling machine Bertha’s work is complete, it’s possible to fly a drone with a video camera from end-to-end inside Seattle’s SR 99 tunnel. In two minutes, you’ll see two miles of ongoing construction work. The upper roadway of the tunnel’s double-deck highway is more than 85% complete. Up next? Installation of the lower roadway, and all the systems it takes to operate a modern tunnel.
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Check out this new drone footage of the Bertha-dug Highway 99 tunnel  WATCH

Amazon’s new buildings lining Sixth Avenue downtown Seattle.
Amazon

Delay in firing Roy Price over harassment allegations sets off furor at Amazon

Peter Steinbrueck, left, Preeti Shridhar, right. ORIGINAL CAPTION: Peter Steinbrueck, candidate, Seattle Port Commission, former Seattle City Council Member and Seattle Mayoral candidate. Preeti Shridhar for Port Commissioner Position 4, in the 2017 election (Courtesy of Preeti Shridhar)
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Port of Seattle election preview: Peter Steinbrueck vs. Preeti Shridhar for open Position 4

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Politics

The Space Needle, at the Seattle Center, sits just north of downtown Seattle. Photographed from downtown Seattle on October 17, 2017. South Lake Union Seattle Skyline Cranes Construction

The American dream suffers … even in booming, glittering Seattle | Jerry Large

Transportation

A deckhand throws a rope from a tugboat to a worker on the Suquamish, a new Olympic class 144-car ferry, so it can be tied to the tugboat as it is being pulled out of dry dock Friday, October 20, 2017 at Vigor’s Harbor Island Shipyard in Seattle. The vessel was towed to a pier nearby where it will be outfitted with things such as the propulsion systems, the passenger cabin and plumbing. Construction of the vessel began in January 2016, and is 70% complete. The ferry costs $122 million. It will enter service as a maintenance relief vehicle in the fall of 2018 and will be on the Mukilteo to Clinton route starting in the summer of 2019.

New state ferry Suquamish ready for outfitting

Education

In this Oct. 5, 2017, photo, Zarna Patel poses for a portrait at the Loyola University Medical School in Maywood, Ill, Patel, a third year student who was brought to the U.S. from India as a 3-year old without any legal documents joins others in taking an active role in the debate over the future of an Obama-era program that shields hundreds of thousands of people from deportation. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) ILCA501 ILCA501

Medical students in limbo as young immigrant program ends  VIEW

Health

Rose Crumb, 91, founder of Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County, during an interview in her home in Port Angeles, Wash. on Tuesday, September 26, 2017. (Photo by Dan DeLong)

Amid a for-profit surge, a Port Angeles hospice has offered free care for 40 years

Loaded with Lead

Loaded with Lead

The Times investigates lead poisoning at gun ranges

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Garrison Donovan helps Alejandra Villasenor (tilda over the “n” in Villasenor) with the assembly of her Sousaphone as the Kennewick High marching band gets ready to compete in the Puget Sound Festival of Bands in Everett on Saturday. Sixteen bands from across the state and Oregon participated at Everett Memorial Stadium. (Awards at 9pm with winners names to come) Ref to more photos online. Saturday Oct. 21, 2017 LO Linesonly
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Puget Sound music festival strikes up the bands  VIEW

Billie Jo McDonald of the Seattle Indian Center puts burning sage near the headstone that reads “Gone but not forgotten, these people of King County,” for 182 people honored at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Renton on Wednesday. McDonald was one of the faith leaders invited to read the names and a blessing at the ceremony, organized by the King County Medical Examiner’s Office for indidgent residents who lacked family or funds for burial. (Bettina Hansen/The Seattle Times)
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In ceremony, King County buries remains of those with no family or money  VIEW

Leaning in, Dorothy Anderson Wasserman CQ gets a closer look of one Andrew Wyeth’s most famous works, “Braids,” at the SAM members preview. “Andrew Wyeth, in Retrospect” opens Thursday and continues through Jan 15 with more than 100 works CQ in the show. LO Linesonly ref to more photos online More than 100 works
A retrospective

Walls of Wyeths at Seattle Art Museum  VIEW

A skater practices tricks at Marginal Way Skatepark on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017. The park is located under the WA-99 and was built and funded by skaters in 2004.
A bowl of fun under 99

Catching air at Marginal Way Skatepark in Seattle’s Industrial District  VIEW

Data

No, Seattle doesn’t have the nation’s highest rate of property crime

Word is out that Seattle has the highest property crime rate in the nation, but not by the reckoning of our FYI Guy. Here's his take.

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A photograph of stepfather Sean Rowe and mother Carmen Rowe is taken in downtown Seattle Monday, Dec. 12, 2016. Their son Andrew Westling, 19, died while in the Nisqually Jail earlier this year. They described Westling as friendly and that he loved music, horses and fishing.
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Fatal confines? A teen’s troubling death in Nisqually tribal jail

Monday, October 31, 2016. Hundreds of untested Rape Kits fill a freezer isle in the Seattle Police Departments evidence room (kits kept at 5 degrees).
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Rape-kit backlog grows at state crime lab — despite new money  WATCH

Tom Wales, assistant U.S. Attorney and president of the gun-control group Washington CeaseFire, was the apparent victim of an execution-style slaying Thursday night in his Queen Anne home. The gunman shot Wales through a basement window, hitting the prosecutor in the neck and side. Thomas Wales
Crime

Unsolved slaying of Seattle prosecutor 16 years ago today has ‘hallmarks of a hit’

Special Report

‘My God, that’s Kimberly!’: Scientist solves perplexing mystery of identity thief Lori Ruff

Crime

Company to require helmets for ski workers at The Summit

New rules come after an employee of Boyne Resorts was killed at a ski resort in Maine, resulting in an OSHA fine.

Shielded by the Law

Nearly impossible to charge police for wrongful killings in Washington

Eastside

45th District State Senate candidate Jinyoung Lee Englund answers questions about what she would do in office during the AAPI Eastside Candidates Forum at North Bellevue Community Center on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017.

GOP state Senate candidate targets Seattle ‘extremism’ in her 45th District race

Seattle Sketcher

This Eastlake renter is paying a lot more money for a lot less space

5 quirky things Amazon’s new headquarters city can expect

“Mighty House” is a do-it-yourself design to shelter the homeless

Hazy shade of summer: Sunset view from Columbia Center observatory

Environment

Raisina hill, government seat of power is seen engulfed in morning smog a day after Diwali festival, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Environmental pollution – from filthy air to contaminated water – is killing more people every year than all war and violence in the world. One out of every six premature deaths in the world in 2015 – about 9 million – could be attributed to disease from toxic exposure, according to a major study released Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017 in The Lancet medical journal. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) XMS108 XMS108

Countries with the highest pollution deaths, mortality rates

Weather

A paddleboarder makes her way across a sparkling Green Lake as the sun begins to set behind the lake.

See the latest weather news and forecasts

Northwest Wanderings

Parishioner and bell ringer John Cox show Kinder Beauvoir and Mariella Guerra what to do, and “have fun” during the cathedral’s annual recent bazaar. Northwest Wanderings on the bronze bells John Cox, with the church. bell-ringers: Kinzer Beauvoir, 9 Mariella Guerra, 8

Seattle cathedral’s bells strike spiritual tones  VIEW

Spectators on the hillside are reflected in the race course waters as Team 049 with driver Ranae Faircloth CQ and Meighan Condon open up their speed. Sprint boat racing at Webb’s Slough in St. John, Washington, Whitman County on Saturday August 26, 2017 northwest wanderings

Sprint-boat racing in Washington’s Palouse  VIEW

Terry Palmer cranks open the belly of a tractor-trailer letting 1,080 bushels of wheat descend at the McCoy grain elevator in Rosalia, Washington in Whitman County. ref to more photos online Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. Northwest Wanderings column part of PNW, Pacific Northwest Farmers Cooperative

Harvesting wheat in Rosalia, where ‘nature is the watering can’  VIEW

On a grid, Chinese chess players move discs representing guards, warriors, horses and soldiers with the goal of capturing the opponent’s general, the king-equivalent. ref to more online Northwest Wanderings

A gentleman’s game: Chinese chess on South King Street  VIEW

Marijuana

Grant County traffic stop leads police to $1.5 million worth of meth, pot

The Grant County sheriff says it was the largest drug seizure in the history of the Interagency Narcotics Enforcement Team.

Science

Astronomers measure Milky Way with radio waves

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A collection of radio telescopes that spans thousands of miles and is remotely operated from central New Mexico has measured a span of 66,000 light-years (one light-year is equal to 6 trillion miles) from Earth across the Milky Way's center to a star-forming area near the edge of the other side...

Earthquakes

Get ready to rumble: A guide to quake preparedness