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Inmate found hanging in Mason County Jail
An inmate in the Mason County Jail at Shelton was found hanging about 1 a.m. Tuesday during an hourly bed check.
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UN climate chief predicts 2015 talks won't fail
The U.N.'s climate chief says talks in 2015 to secure a global warming pact will not fail as they did at the 2009 Copenhagen summit where world leaders, including President Barrack Obama, could not reach an agreement.
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Illinois teen appears in court on terror charges
An Illinois teenager charged with trying to join an al-Qaida-affiliated group in Syria via a sham FBI website has appeared at a detention hearing in Chicago.
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Democratic Sen. Baucus rules out 7th term
Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, the powerful Senate Finance chairman who steered President Barack Obama's health care overhaul into law but broke with his party on gun control, said Tuesday he will not run for re-election.
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Puget Sound Bike Share to roll out with 500 bicycles
Puget Sound Bike Share expects to have 50 streetside stops by next year in North and Central Seattle.
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Charges filed in Bulgarian wiretap scandal
Bulgarian prosecutors on Tuesday pressed charges against four former police officials accused of involvement in wiretapping political opponents of the former government.
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EU probes planned merger of Greek airlines
The European Commission has opened an in-depth antitrust investigation of the proposed takeover of Greece's Olympic Air by its domestic rival Aegean Airlines.
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WA ferry Hyak to be converted to hybrid power
The Washington state ferry Hyak will likely be converted to hybrid power, to run on batteries some of the time.
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New Iran nuclear talks set for May 15 in Vienna
The U.N. nuclear agency says its experts will meet Iranian counterparts on May 15 in Vienna for talks focused on restarting a probe into suspicions that Tehran secretly worked on atomic arms.
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Port Angeles students disdain dance rules
Many Port Angeles High School students are declining to attend school dances because of rules known as "Face to Face, Leave Some Space."
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Correction: TV-Twitter Comedy Festival story
In a story April 21 about a comedy festival on Twitter hosted by Comedy Central, The Associated Press misidentified one of the participants. It is Carl Reiner, not his son Rob.
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Camas to log watershed for timber revenue
The city of Camas owns1,700 acres of timber near two watersheds that provide the city with some of its drinking water.
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Poland to step up regulations on ritual slaughter
Poland's prime minister said Tuesday his government has drafted new regulations that would reduce the suffering of animals during slaughter, including for the needs of religious groups like Jews and Muslims.
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DuPont says first-quarter net income soars
The DuPont Co. said Tuesday that its net income more than doubled in the first quarter on a gain from the sale of its performance coatings unit and strong continuing results in its agricultural unit.
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Ugandan leader donates sack of cash, drawing ire
It's become an infamous photo in Uganda. The country's leader looks on in bemusement as a young man bends low to carry a sack filled with a donation from the president - almost $100,000 in cash.
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3 Murder Charges Against Abortion Doctor Tossed
Three of eight murder charges were thrown out Tuesday against a Philadelphia abortion provider whose clinic was called a "house of horrors," apparently because the judge had not heard sufficient evidence from prosecutors that the three babies were viable, born alive and then killed.
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Boston bomb suspect's wife assisting probe: lawyer
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Scott Malone PROVIDENCE, R.I./BOSTON (Reuters) - The wife of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect is assisting authorities and she is in absolute shock that her husband and brother-in-law were accused of the deadly blasts, her lawyer said on Tuesday. The 19-year-old brother-in-law Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who survived shootouts with police and has been criminally charged, was upgraded to "fair" from "serious" condition on Tuesday at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston said. ...
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Restaurant Review: Randazzo’s Clam Bar in Sheepshead Bay
Randazzo’s Clam Bar serves a great many things to like, but its Sauce, whether spicy or medium, is what stirs diners’ emotions.
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Student jailed over tutor bribe bid
A failing University of Bath student who tried to bribe his professor while carrying a loaded air pistol is jailed for 12 months.
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DealBook: MF Global Trustee Sues Corzine Over Firm’s Collapse
A bankruptcy trustee has sued Jon S. Corzine and other former MF Global executives, claiming they were “grossly negligent” in the lead-up to the brokerage firm’s collapse.
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