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Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready headlined an all-star show at the Showbox Thursday night, all on hand to celebrate an honor bestowed on him by the Recording Academy’s MusiCares for his work in aiding those in the industry with addiction problems. Photographed at the Showbox Thursday, May 10, 2018. 206248 160613 — The Showbox, first opened in 1939, has hosted music groups from the jazz age to the grunge era to today’s pop stars. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times)

Music

Seattle’s Showbox music venue granted landmark status

Showbox supporters got some good news Wednesday as Seattle’s Landmarks Preservation Board voted unanimously to grant the embattled music venue landmark status.

SDOT data shows nearly 100 serious-injury or fatal collisions on Seattle streets in first half of 2019 New 6:00 am
What could happen if Seattle eliminates library overdue fines? Snohomish County did it decades ago New 6:00 am
Bonneville, the Northwest’s biggest clean-power supplier, faces promise and perils in changing energy markets New 6:00 am
Celebrating community in Snohomish at Kla Ha Ya days VIEW
‘Out of office for good,’ AG Bob Ferguson says of Wapato administrator who resigned under pressure
Kayakers paddle through the Ballard locks
Child falls from second-story window in northeast Seattle
Man drowns in Elliott Bay near Centennial Park

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Brendan Kolding is running for Seattle City Council District 1 in the 2019 election. He was hired by the Seattle Police Department in 2008. (Kolding for District 1)

Local News

Ex-Seattle police lieutenant running for City Council harassed fellow officer then lied about it, investigators found

File – In this Aug. 7, 2018, file photo, voter Yordanos Bayru places her ballot into a drop box in Seattle. If control of the U.S. House comes down to any of the competitive congressional races in Washington state and California, the American public might have to wait a while to learn the outcome because of the way those states handle mail-in votes. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Local Politics

Five candidates challenging incumbent Kshama Sawant in District 3 VIEW

Science

How do mosquitoes track you? UW researchers used a tiny flight simulator, cut into their brains to find out

Rep. Rick Larsen, Congressman from Washington’s 2nd District, speaks before commercial airline services begins at Paine Field in Everett on Monday March 4th, 2019. 209511

Local Politics

Rep. Rick Larsen wants to impeach Trump

Project Homeless is a new Seattle Times initiative that explores and explains the region’s complex, troubling problem of homelessness. With strong watchdog reporting and vivid storytelling, Project Homeless seeks to spotlight what is working, and what is not working, in responding to homelessness. We will also feature solutions-oriented reporting from elsewhere in the country.

Transportation

A pedestrian crosses the street at the intersection of S. Findlay St. and Rainier Avenue South in Seattle Wednesday, July 17, 2019. There is only one lane for northbound and one for southbound traffic in this area, with a middle lane for left turns only.

The city has made some improvements to Rainier Ave. S. and is planning to make more, but there are still issues and advocates have grown frustrated at what they view as sluggish progress.

A pedestrian was seriously injured at South Findlay Street.

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SDOT data shows nearly 100 serious-injury or fatal collisions on Seattle streets in first half of 2019

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Barbara Jamison, founder and director of Puget Sound Goat Rescue (PSGR) in Maple Valley, WA., snuggles with some of her goat friends Tuesday, May 7, 2019. 116 goats are currently housed at the rescue. PSGR has been rescuing, rehabilitating and rehoming goats since 2001. Over 200 goats are adopted every year. For more information, go to: http://www.pugetsoundgoatrescue.com. 210484

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For Maple Valley woman, rescuing goats is a labor of love WATCH

This mural, at Ravenna Avenue Northeast and Northeast 92nd Street in the Lake City Neighborhood of Seattle, was completed last weekend by artists, Elizabeth Desire, Tia Gibson and Debbie Palmer.

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Local artists bring color and life to a Lake City corner

LO Pike Place Market Pride

Waving rainbow flags and celebrating the LGBTQ community, members of GSBA (an LGBTQ and allied chamber of commerce), Visit Seattle, the Pike Place Market Preservation & Development Authority, and others gather for a group photo on the roof of the market above Rachel the Pig. Six large pride flags and another atop a pole across the street were placed Wednesday.

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Waving the flags of pride VIEW

Representing Gold Star families, Curtis Yamane hands off a wreath to Stan Shikuma to be placed at the Nisei War Memorial in Lake View Cemetery on Capitol Hill during the 74th annual Memorial Day Service by the Nisei Veterans Committee and NVC Foundation. The wreath was presented in memory of Mark Yamane, killed in action on October 25, 1983 during the U.S. invasion of Grenada. He was with the 1st Ranger BATL, 75 Infantry.
Additional Yamane family members joined in the presentation.

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Seattle Memorial Day ceremony honors Nisei veterans who gave their lives for their country VIEW

Education

A student writes notes in the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics class at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. The College Board says in a new report that the number of U.S. public students taking Advanced Placement classes doubled over the last decade. The class of 2013 of took 3.2 million AP exams. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Bethel schools will cover Advanced Placement exam fees for all — not just low-income — students

Education Lab

Seattle camp brings together Muslim, Jewish and Christian children to forge bonds across communities

After years of tweaks, there are still winners and losers in Washington’s new school-funding plan, analysis finds

About Education Lab

Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to some of the most persistent challenges in public education.

Health

Administration pauses enforcement of abortion restriction

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is giving taxpayer-funded family planning clinics more time to comply with its new rule that says they no longer can refer women for abortions. A notice sent Saturday night to representatives of the clinics by the Department of Health and Human Services said the government "does not intend to...

Loaded with Lead

The Times investigates lead poisoning at gun ranges

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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.

Times Watchdog

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).

Crime

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.

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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

Data

For first time this decade, a dip in King County’s white population, census data shows | FYI Guy

King County is ahead of a national trend. The Census Bureau projects that the U.S. as a whole will become "minority white" in 2045.

Crime

Child falls from second-story window in northeast Seattle

Officials warned parents about the potential dangers of open windows in the warm, summer months.

Shielded by the Law

Nearly impossible to charge police for wrongful killings in Washington

Seattle Sketcher

For these Seattle dads, fatherhood brought unimaginable loss and unconditional love

The viaduct is coming down fast, catch a glimpse of history while you can

Farmers market season is here! Downtown, check out these Pike Place Market pop-ups

The final chunk of I-5 that was completed in Washington state celebrates its 50th birthday

Eastside

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Notice a bunny boom? Here are some reasons for the Seattle area’s recent rise in rabbits VIEW

Environment

34, photographed from the shore at Lime Kiln Park State Park, San Juan Island, just months before his death from blunt force trauma. Ship strikes kill whales and possibly killed this one, the Canadian government found in a final report on the whale’s death in 2016.

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Science

Moon back in NASA’s court 50 years after 1st lunar landing

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Fifty years after humanity's first lunar footsteps, the moon is back in NASA's court. The White House wants U.S. astronauts on the moon pronto — by 2024, a scant five years from now. The moon will serve as a critical proving ground, the thinking goes, for the real prize of... VIEW