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- House OKs historic health care overhaul, with one GOP vote
- As oceans fall ill, Washington bureaucrats squabble
- Competing programs hamper Kentucky's prescription drug abuse fight
- Commentary: Latin America isn't high on Obama's priority list
- Obama leaning toward 34,000 more troops for Afghanistan
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives on Saturday passed, by a 220-215 vote, health care overhaul legislation that would require virtually all Americans to obtain health insurance and create a government-run insurance plan to help them do so.
WASHINGTON – Off the coast of Washington state, mysterious algae mixed with sea foam have killed more than 8,000 seabirds, puzzling scientists. A thousand miles off California, researchers have discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirling vortex roughly twice the size of Texas filled with tiny bits of plastic and other debris.
A woman who isolated and starved her stepdaughter has been sentenced to more than three years in prison, far below what the victim asked the judge to impose.
A jury verdict has forced Sound Transit to pay an additional $2.5 million to the owner of a Tacoma business that will be displaced as the agency extends commuter rail service to Lakewood.
Luis Carraneo brought daughter Isabella, 2 1/2, to Clover Park High School at 2 a.m. Saturday.
Tacoma mayoral candidate Marilyn Strickland widened her lead after Saturday’s ballot count, but neither candidate declared victory or conceded.
It wasn’t much of a surprise when The Boeing Co. announced 10 days ago that it would build a second production line for the 787 Dreamliner in South Carolina. But it was a shock nonetheless to the Northwest’s collective psyche.
Seattle police on Saturday said they believe a man suspected of fatally shooting a police officer on Halloween night also firebombed police cruisers and other property nine days earlier.
REDMOND – Despite a sobering presentation about “sexting” and a Twitter promo from one of the world’s most popular tweeters, the main message of the day at the first Wired Moms summit on Friday was pretty low tech: Talk to your kids.
Sections of the North Cascades Highway and Highway 410 will be temporarily closed because of heavy snow.
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