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Brett Favre is doing things with the Minnesota Vikings that even one of the most decorated quarterbacks in league history has never done before. Favre completed a career-high 88 percent of his passes for 213 yards and four touchdown passes and the Vikings delivered their most complete performance of the season in a 35-9 victory over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.
Washington’s largest winery made the world’s greatest wine this year, according to Wine Spectator.
Shaun Allen Peterson was a felon, a defendant in more than 50 criminal cases in Washington alone. The charges against him ranged from petty offenses, such as driving without a license, to burglary, drugs, domestic assault and multiple thefts.
Catlin Ang doesn’t dread the knock on the door and the visit by two soldiers in dress uniforms. If the unthinkable happens in Afghanistan, she’ll likely find out over the phone.
Pierce County has won a $4.4 million federal grant to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Spanaway Park’s Fantasy Lights opens its gates for a walk-through preview tonight.
For Skeet Jensen, the celebration Saturday of the National Day of the American Indian at Puyallup’s Fred Oldfield Western Heritage & Art Center was “a labor of love.”
Brett Favre is doing things with the Minnesota Vikings that even one of the most decorated quarterbacks in league history has never done before. Favre completed a career-high 88 percent of his passes for 213 yards and four touchdown passes and the Vikings delivered their most complete performance of the season in a 35-9 victory over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.
WASHINGTON – Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united tonight to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.
Anybody trying to get a jump on a Thanksgiving trip over the Cascades can expect heavy snowfall Sunday.
In a show of unity, Senate Democrats sealed a 60-vote majority needed to advance health care legislation Saturday ahead of an evening showdown with Republicans eager to doom the bill and inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.
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