Racing to stanch a flow of criticism, the president of San Francisco's annual gay pride celebration said Friday that the U.S. Army private charged in a massive leak of U.S. secrets to the WikiLeaks website will not be an honorary grand marshal after all.

5:08: Seahawks get pick No. 62, no. 165 (fifth round) and no. 199 (sixth round) from the Ravens. Seattle gave up pick No. 56. Third straight year Seahawks have traded down in the second round. 5:05: Seahawks trade their 56th pick to Baltimore. Sixth time GM John Schneider has made a trade during the

After an impressive start to the season, Paul Maholm finally had a game to forget.

Geno Smith's surprising slide through the NFL draft stopped in the second round.

The attorney who represented Michael Skakel during his Connecticut murder trial in 2002 took the stand Friday and defended the work he did for the Kennedy cousin, while also saying he still believes Skakel is innocent.

A Washington man who pleaded guilty to grabbing the Whatcom County assessor by his necktie hard enough to pull his feet off the ground has been sentenced to 10 days in jail and 20 days of house arrest.

In May, contractors will begin work on an elevated extension of Link light rail from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport south to a new Angle Lake Station.

The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the "Mega Millions" game were:

These Washington lotteries were drawn Friday:

If the Seahawks weren't so successfully weird, you would overreact now. They took a backup running back, a possible third-stringer, in the second round of the NFL draft Friday.

Matt Duchene scored in a shootout and had three assists, helping the Colorado Avalanche beat Phoenix 5-4 Friday night in what may be the Coyotes' final home game in the desert.

Andrew Cashner pitched six effective innings and contributed a big hit at the plate, helping the San Diego Padres beat Tim Lincecum and the San Francisco Giants 2-1 on Friday night.

The Seattle Architecture Foundation’s 2013 tour season begins April 27. There are three new tours this year: one on Queen Anne, another at the University of Washington, and a third focused on hidden public spaces in downtown Seattle.

Eric Agol is a UW astronomer credited with discovering an earthlike planet that’s 1,200 light years away. He’s also a man of faith — faith in science and faith in Christianity as he deals with questions such as how the universe was created.

Manufacturers shipped 216 million smartphones worldwide in the first three months of this year, compared with 189 million regular cellphones, a research firm says.

In a ruling that could have far-reaching impacts in the industry, some key technologies used in Xbox and Windows will cost Microsoft about $1.8 million a year instead of the $4 billion originally asked by Google.

Anthony Rizzo had two home runs and four RBIs to power the Cubs to a 4-2 victory over the Miami Marlins on Friday night, giving Chicago back-to-back wins for the first time this season.

A jury should be allowed to decide a New Jersey woman's claim that she was fired from a financial services company because she objected to being sexually harassed by a top executive, although evidence suggests she did poor work, a federal appeals court in New York ruled Friday.

Manti Te'o and Geno Smith provided the sizzle previously missing from the NFL draft.

All-Star point guard Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder will have surgery to repair cartilage in his right knee and be out indefinitely