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From left: Georgianna Stewart, 48, and her partner Jason Moran, 42, at an I-5 off-ramp, Wednesday, Ot. 18, 2017, in Arlington. The two have been homeless for three years.

Give to panhandlers or don’t? Some towns try cracking down

Arlington, Marysville and Spokane are all trying to eliminate panhandling, urging residents to send people to services instead. It raises the question: What’s the best, or right, thing to do when someone asks you for money?

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Candidate for Mayor of Seattle, Jenny Durkan, speaks to the editorial board at The Seattle Times, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017.
Reader Q&A

Candidate Jenny Durkan answers your questions  WATCH

Sculptor Jim Stafford works on a six-foot tall sculpture of Centralia’s founder, George Washington, in his shop in Adna, WA. Shot Wednesday, September 27, 2017. Centralia is raising money to build a statue to honor its founder, a black son of a slave named George Washington. This is the 200th year of his birth, and the city wants to find a new way to honor him. There is a park with a mural of George Washington, and his gravesite is in town. It is not lost on at least some of the people in town that in the era of Charlottesville, at a time of some racial divide and when cities are tearing down Confederate statues, Centralia is doing the opposite.
Northwest history and race

As Confederate statues fall, this Washington town is creating a monument to its black founder  VIEW

On Tuesday October 10, 2017, Hank, a pit bull-terrier mix awaits his fate at the Lewis County Animal Shelter in Chehalis, Wa.
Pets

After 2 stints in lockup and death order, Hank the dog comes home  WATCH

Images of Seattle for stock use of downtown Seattle, skyline, towers, Elliott Bay, space needle.
FYI Guy

Quiz: How well do you know Seattle’s newcomers?

Times Watchdog

From the editor: Readers like you make quality local journalism possible

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Politics

Candidates running for Snohomish County Council in the 2017 election. Top row, left to right, Terry Ryan, Nate Nehring, Kristin Kelly; bottom row, left to right: Marcus Barton, Ray Miller, and Sam Low.

Growth, traffic, opioid epidemic dominate campaigns for Snohomish County Council  VIEW

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

Judge tosses $417M award against Johnson & Johnson

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Friday tossed out a $417 million jury award to a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer by using Johnson & Johnson talc-based baby powder for feminine hygiene. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Maren Nelson granted the company's request for a new trial, saying there were errors...

Loaded with Lead

Loaded with Lead

The Times investigates lead poisoning at gun ranges

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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

Volunteer Russell Minas CQ is “Ticker” at the annual Puget Sound Heart walk in Seattle where almost 10,000 participated Saturday at Seattle Center. With another 3,500 in Tacoma, a total of $1.9 million was raised for the day with the 5K. Ref to more photos inside LO Linesonly Participant numbers and money raised from the American Heart Association here in Seattle.
Fundraiser

Thousands take part in Puget Sound Heart Walk in Seattle, Tacoma  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.
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. 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

2 arrested after man killed in Everett robbery

Darren D. Larson, 55, of Everett was killed Tuesday during a robbery inside an apartment.

Shielded by the Law

Nearly impossible to charge police for wrongful killings in Washington

Eastside

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.

Seahawks cancel gameday shuttle from Eastside to CenturyLink Field

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.

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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

Scientists find no new foreign species in Alaska harbor

WHITTIER, Alaska (AP) — The hunt for new species that are not indigenous to the waters near Valdez, Alaska, turned up empty, which scientists said "was great news." Scientists with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center reported their findings to the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens' Advisory Council last month after scouring the waters for foreign...

Earthquakes

Get ready to rumble: A guide to quake preparedness