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Chuck Berry played for an Everett audience. The tavern crowd was jumping and down on the wooden floors, waving beer bottles, pounding the tables with empty pitchers of beer. It was a classic rock-‘n’-roll crowd: rowdy, drunk and ready to tear the place down. “We want Chuck! We want Chuck! We want Chuck!” screamed the young guys from the factories and plywood mills around Everett who had filled the tavern. The ventilation wasn’t very good, and a thick cloud of cigaret smoke hung 10 feet deep. Outside, it had snowed a, few hours earlier. Inside, the 1,700 people crowded into this roller-rink-turned-tavern had heated up the place just with their sweat. All this happen Friday night in Everett, at the Great American Side Show, a new tavern that had just booked its first major attraction: A man who was twice the age of most of those in attendance.
Chuck Berry

Local musicians who backed Chuck Berry have electrifying memories

Joe Benson, an electrical inspector with Washington State in the compliance office, Dept. of Labor and Industries, checks the wiring in new construction in a Kent subdivision. If something is amiss, there will be a return visit to see if the problem is fixed. story about possible big pay raises for certain types of state employee, including electrical inspectors, Joe Benson, on the job in Kent. Wed.Feb 22, 2017
State Legislature

1 in 5 state workers would get big raises under budget plan  VIEW

LO — FOG — LIGHT RAIL TRAIN — 10212013 — 133711 A Sound Transit light rail train navigates north of the Tukwila Station in thick fog Monday morning. MethodeID: 3.0.1851397046#News#Local#20131022#3.0.1851397064
Traffic Lab

Seattle area spends most per capita to build transit and here’s why

Our rainy Seattle

Rain, and more rain, is in our DNA: Your Seattle survival stories  WATCH

Times Watchdog

Peter Rogoff, right, is congratulated by county executive Dow Constantine following Rogoff’s selection as CEO of Sound Transit Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015.

Sound Transit CEO backtracks on hosting Dow Constantine fundraiser

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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray stands for a portrait outside his office at Seattle City Hall on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016.

Signature-gathering starts for $275M Seattle levy to help with homelessness

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Transportation

A parking headache: What’s the fix for crowded park-and-ride lots?

Education

Tuesday, October 18, 2016. Students walking between classes on the UW campus with Drumheller Fountain in the backround.

Student loans: How much will you owe again? Lawmakers aim to end confusion

Health

Already in peril, rural hospitals unsure on health care bill

CLAXTON, Ga. (AP) — Talmadge Yarbrough had just sat down at his desk and opened a box of pecans when he let out a gasp that could have been his last breath. He'd gone into cardiac arrest in his office, a co-worker called 911, and an ambulance drove him two miles to the small hospital...

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Loaded with Lead

The Times investigates lead poisoning at gun ranges

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At the annual Friends of the Seattle Public Library book sale people search high-and-low including Wendy Shen and her son Jerry Fang, looking for Lego and Scooby Doo DVD’s and classical music. The sale continues Sunday in the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. ref to more photos online Saturday March 18 2017 LO Linesonly
Book sale

Big book sale, big crowds benefit Seattle Public Library  VIEW

Having just opened the envelope, graduating University of Washington medical student Tom Steck, nuzzled by his wife Kat, finds out they’ve gotten their first choice for his residency, the University of Southern California medical center in Los Angeles. Friday, 178 UW med students in this room took part in the National Residency Matching Program and will spend the next three to seven years continuing their training. More than 43, 000 applicants registered and more than 31, 000 positions were offered, nationally. See more photos online Friday March 17, 2017 LO Linesonly
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Match Day: UW med students learn where they’re going for residencies  VIEW

Snoqualmie Falls was is roaring over the cliff Thursday afternoon. LO LO LO
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See Snoqualmie Falls at full blast  WATCH

Vials of various terpenes, aromatic oils, are handed out for the visitors to the Vela pot store to sniff the differences. Thursday March 17, 2017 Assisted living community brings seniors to Sodo pot store for Cannabis 101 tour.
Cannabis

Better than bingo? Seniors take field trip to Seattle pot store  VIEW

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Riders enjoy a trip around Lake Union during a “Ride the Ducks” tour Tuesday May 13, 2014. Image taken with a tilt-shift lens. Seattle Tourist Attractions for Travel Tuesday May 13, 2014. 138704

Seattle tourism: What’s not to like? Apparently a lot | FYI Guy

Crime

Oregon man who fired gun in bar during Super Bowl unfit to stand trial

Police said the 63-year-old was having a one-sided argument with a man at the bar of a Eugene restaurant when he pulled out a gun and fired. The bullet struck the bar.

Shielded by the Law

Nearly impossible to charge police for wrongful killings in Washington

Recent Special Reports

A couple takes in the sunset and the iconic bridge over Deception Pass from the north side of the strait connecting Skagit Bay with the Strait of Juan de Fuca. A feature story about Deception Pass State Park, photographed April 3, 2013. 128734
Seismic Neglect

Washington’s 30-year earthquake drill for the ‘Big One’: Order studies. Ignore them. Repeat.

Monday, October 31, 2016. Hundreds of untested Rape Kits fill a freezer isle in the Seattle Police Departments evidence room (kits kept at 5 degrees).
Crime

Rape-kit backlog grows at state crime lab — despite new money  WATCH

Times Watchdog

Special-ed student confined 617 times in 6 months despite state laws  VIEW

Tom Wales, assistant U.S. Attorney and president of the gun-control group Washington CeaseFire, was the apparent victim of an execution-style slaying Thursday night in his Queen Anne home. The gunman shot Wales through a basement window, hitting the prosecutor in the neck and side. Thomas Wales
Crime

Timeline: The unsolved slaying of Thomas Wales

Eastside

A parking headache: What’s the fix for crowded park-and-ride lots?

Environment

State Ecology officials move to contain mysterious Columbia oil sheen

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Northwest Wanderings

Visiting photographer Lee Jeffries CQ moves in tight on Colin Scott during a “photography therapy” session by the Union Gospel Mission. Anthony Pierce, also homeless as is Scott, gets a kick out seeing how close the camera is to the Scott’s face. See more photos online on Thursday Feb 2, 2017

Photography helps Seattle’s homeless ‘carve out a creative space’  VIEW

Greg Highsmith waits for a passenger coming the bank of seven manually-operated Otis elevators in Smith Tower built in 1914. (These are the original Otis cars) Smith Tower in Pioneer Square, completed in 1914. It’s 42-stories tall and the first skyscraper west of the Mississippi River. Thursday Feb 2, 2017

A peek inside Seattle’s Smith Tower, which retains its historic charms  WATCH

Amy Crawford works a piece of molten glass she’s introduced red into slowly forming the heart shape. To do this work she says “is the necessity of being present in the process.” Ref to more Online Avalon Glassworks in West Seattle on Thursday Jan. 26, 2017.

Hearts are on fire for Valentine’s Day at Avalon Glassworks  WATCH

Getting her kicks, Liping Ye (CQ) winds up for another between punches to a 150-pound bag during an strenuous one-hour session. Ref to More photos online Wed Jan. 11, 2017

Punch stuff, sweat, get fit — ‘It’s fun’  WATCH

Marijuana

Vials of various terpenes, aromatic oils, are handed out for the visitors to the Vela pot store to sniff the differences. Thursday March 17, 2017 Assisted living community brings seniors to Sodo pot store for Cannabis 101 tour.

Better than bingo? Seniors take field trip to Seattle pot store  VIEW

Science

Shaq latest in the NBA community to join flat-Earth belief

ATLANTA (AP) — Count Shaquille O'Neal among the roster of NBA personalities who believe the Earth is flat. The Hall of Famer and TNT analyst says he drives from Florida to California on a regular basis and that "it's flat to me." O'Neal joins Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving in his belief that the world is...

Earthquakes

Get ready to rumble: A guide to quake preparedness