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Where to go for the Zombie Apocalypse? Try Stehekin
Remote town on Lake Chelan has pretty much all you’d need to enjoy the end of the world. And that’s kind of where it’s located.
Categories: Seattle Times Headlines
Weekend highlight: Fremont Fair, Solstice Parade
The big Fremont Fair runs Friday through Sunday, highlighted by the fair’s grand and goofy Solstice Parade, which begins at 3 p.m. on Saturday.
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Weekend highlight: Fremont Fair, Solstice Parade
The big Fremont Fair runs Friday through Sunday, highlighted by the fair’s grand and goofy Solstice Parade, which begins at 3 p.m. on Saturday.
Categories: Seattle Times Headlines
New MERS virus spreads easily, deadlier than SARS
The experts reported that MERS infection occurred by way of person-to-person contact and poses an especially serious risk because it is easily transmitted in hospital settings.
Categories: Seattle Times Headlines
China factory activity slows further
China's manufacturing activity weakens further in June, falling to a nine-month low as demand falls, according to a preliminary survey by HSBC.
Categories: BBC World News
Syrian exiles get taste of home: beloved ice cream
The arrival of a branch of a Damascus ice-cream landmark in Jordan is a bittersweet sign of the civil war’s dispersal of Syria’s population and culture.
Categories: Seattle Times Headlines
‘Wonderful theatrical experience’ key, says new Seattle Opera leader
Aidan Lang, director of New Zealand Opera, will become general director of the Seattle Opera in September 2014, after the retirement of longtime general director Speight Jenkins.
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Airbus U.S. chief McArtor has some startling ideas
Airbus lost the long and contentious bidding to build an aerial refueling tanker for the U.S Air Force, but Airbus Americas chairman Allan McArtor asserts there are signs that Boeing will stumble and give its rival a renewed opportunity. “I think we’ll get another shot at it,” said
Categories: Seattle Times Headlines
Bernanke’s briefing on Fed bond-buying plans backfires
Stocks fell sharply after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke used a news conference to clarify the circumstances under which he’d begin easing off the pace of purchases of government and mortgage bonds.
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Smoak forced to sit in crowded lineup
Justin Smoak was the odd man out as right-handed bats Michael Morse and Kendrys Morales played against Angels left-hander C.J. Wilson.
Categories: Sports Center
Body found near Patriot's home was homicide victim
A man found dead in an industrial park about a mile from New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's home had been killed, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Categories: Sports Center
New Colo. wildfire prompts evacuations of homes
EVERGREEN, Colo. (AP) — A new wildfire in the foothills southwest of Denver forced the evacuation of dozens of homes Wednesday as hot and windy conditions in the West made it easy for fires to start and spread.
Categories: Yahoo! National News
Tropical Storm Barry forms off Mexican coast
VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) — Tropical Storm Barry formed off Mexico's Gulf Coast on Wednesday, prompting Mexican authorities to ready hundreds of shelters.
Categories: Yahoo! National News
VIDEO: WWII pilots survived crash on glacier
The WWII crash pilots who survived an Arctic winter
Categories: BBC World News
Former TWA Flight 800 investigators want new probe
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet.
Categories: Yahoo! National News
Jury Selection Reaches Final Stages in Trayvon Martin Murder Case
After eight days in which 40 potential jurors have been culled from a sea of hundreds, a jury of six people is close to being seated in the trial of George Zimmerman.
Categories: New York Times Headlines
Snoqualmie Pass - 6/19/2013 7:59:07 PM
Snoqualmie Pass I-90
6/19/2013 7:59:07 PM
Temperature: Not Available
Restrictions Eastbound:
Pass Closed
Restrictions Westbound:
Pass Closed
Conditions:
Closure for rock blasting operation is in progress east of Snoqualmie Pass summit. Eastbound traffic is stopped at milepost 56, Gold Creek. Westbound traffic is stopped at milepost 61, near Price Creek, and milepost 71, near Easton.
Weather:
6/19/2013 7:59:07 PM
Temperature: Not Available
Restrictions Eastbound:
Pass Closed
Restrictions Westbound:
Pass Closed
Conditions:
Closure for rock blasting operation is in progress east of Snoqualmie Pass summit. Eastbound traffic is stopped at milepost 56, Gold Creek. Westbound traffic is stopped at milepost 61, near Price Creek, and milepost 71, near Easton.
Weather:
Categories: Mountain Pass Reports
Actor James Gandolfini, who created Tony Soprano, dies in Italy at 51
Actor James Gandolfini died in Rome, where he was on vacation and was scheduled to attend the Taormina Film Fest.
Categories: Seattle Times Headlines
Stocks slide as Fed says bond purchases could slow
Financial markets shuddered Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it could start scaling back its huge economic stimulus program later this year and end it by the middle of next.
Categories: Seattle Times Headlines
Tree-spraying blamed in deaths of some 25,000 bumblebees
WILSONVILLE, Ore. — Thousands of dead and dying bees have been found in the parking lot of a shopping center in Wilsonville, southwest of Portland. Oregon officials investigating the kill say it appears blooming trees in the lot were recently sprayed with a type of insecticide known to b
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