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A car passes by Pike Place Market’s new northern development on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 in Seattle.

See 360-degree views of Pike Place Market's new $74M addition

At 110 years old, the Pike Place Market has survived and thrived. It still pulls on the emotions of Seattleites of all stripes. Now, a new project is mingling with the old magic on the Market's northern side.  VIEW

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Valedictorian Tonya Wilson is hugged at her graduation ceremony. She told her fellow students the degrees could transform their lives. (Erika Schultz/The Seattle Times)
Inmate education

‘You go, girl!’: Joy, tears as 19 Washington prison inmates earn college degrees  VIEW

While upset in an internment camp, Mary Matsuda Gruenewald’s CQ mother sent her to collect shells around Tule Lake, Calif. In an old dill pickle jar, she collected more than 100,000 tiny shells that she keeps today in her Seattle home. The U.S. government forced her family from their Vashon Island berry farm to internment camps around the West Coast. Assignment Number: 118131 POWELL 02052012
92-year-old graduate

‘Looking Like the Enemy’ author, 92, receives diploma 74 years after being forced to leave Vashon Island

On June 21, 2017, author Bryan Brewer has written a book about solar eclipses, including the one that will cross the United States August 21, 2017.
Solar eclipse

‘A big dose of awe’: Last solar eclipse here, in 1979, changed Seattle author’s life

Motorcyclists cruise down 4th Avenue during the Seattle Pride Parade on Sunday, June 25, 2017 in downtown.
Seattle Pride Parade

Through the heat, thousands march in Seattle's Pride parade  VIEW

Times Watchdog

Name change for prostitution charge in Seattle brings errors in background checks

Two years ago the city of Seattle changed the name of the misdemeanor crime of patronizing a prostitute to sexual exploitation. The change has gotten at least one man fired from a job after a faulty background check. For an immigrant, says his lawyer, it could mean deportation.

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Forrest Sargent, 26, walks home from his job with Sam Melton, co-manager of the adult rehabilitation program, at the Fircrest School in Shoreline where he is a resident. He is profoundly autistic, and was really struggling before coming to Fircrest, which his parents say, has helped him to dramatically improve. Many of the residents in the Intermediate Care Facility where Sargent lives, come to Fircrest for stabilization while in crisis. Photographed at Fircrest Tuesday, May 30, 2017.

‘I’m terrified’: Fight over Fircrest School divides families of people with developmental disabilities  VIEW

Transportation

King County agrees to sell downtown Seattle bus station for convention center expansion

Education

Members of a cyberdefense team at the UW gather to prepare for their latest competition in San Antonio, Texas the following day — shot Tuesday, April 10, 2017 in Sieg Hall on the UW campus. Story is about how cyberdefense is taught at Washington colleges and universities, and using this UW team, which is competing in a cyberdefense competition, as a kind of vehicle to see how 20-somethings think about cybersecurity and what it has wrought in this era. These students are leaving the UW for the national competition Wednesday morning. Instructor and team coordinator is Melody Kadenko.

Cybersecurity is hot, and these Washington colleges teach it

Health

This type of firework disfigures people more than any other, UW study shows

Loaded with Lead

Loaded with Lead

The Times investigates lead poisoning at gun ranges

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Stephen Arnold with the crew of a WWII B-24 Liberator bomber rides atop the fuselage guiding the pilot taxing to the Museum of Flight. He’s watches the wheels and the wingtips communicating with the pilot who cannot see them. This plane, a B-17 Flying Fortress, a B-25 Mitchell, and a dual-control TP-51D Mustang fighter aircraft are on the national “Wings of Freedom Tour” sponsored by the non-profit Collings Foundation. Flights are available for a cost through Sunday. ref to more photos online Friday June 23, 2017
“Wings of Freedom Tour”

World War II-era aircraft at Boeing Field this weekend  VIEW

Julian Perez and Andrea LaVare Malagon practice with Bailadores de Bronce CQ, a Mexican folkloric dancing troupe, on a recent evening at the Seattle Center armory building. A group of University of Washington students started the group in 1972 to share pride in their Mexican heritage through highly choreographed dance and music. The group is celebrating it’s 45th anniversary this year with a special performance with more than 30 dances at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 24, 2017 at UW’s Meany Hall.  Sarah Ramirez, 17, of Sammamish, joined the group a few years ago. She learned the intricate footwork, skirtwork and facial expressions share deep stories with rich history. “Every state in Mexico has its own style of dance,” says Ramirez. “It has its own dresses, its own music, it’s own certain steps….When people see us dance they see a part of Mexico. For example, my grandma, or my aunts or my mom when they see me they always end up crying because it’s something they left behind… They remember their childhood and they remember all of the happy times.” Her high school classmate Anthony Hernandez, 17, said he didn’t grow up with a lot of Hispanic influences and dancing helped him find a deeper understanding of himself. “It’s definitely made me realize that this is part of who I am,” Hernandez says, “It’s really helped me connect back to my Hispanic roots and it’s really important for me to keep doing it and make sure I can share it with as many people as I can.” For Gino Garcia, 29, who moved to Seattle four years ago, joining the the troupe helped build community and make Washington feel more like home. He said Bailadores de Bronce builds community connections, keeps storytelling alive and preserves and promotes culture. “It’s so important right now because there are a lot of people who are feeling scared, they are feeling like maybe their lives or their rights are at stake,” says Garcia.  “Doing these dances and being a part of thi
Dance

Bailadores de Bronce: A Seattle celebration of Mexican dance  WATCH

“I’m proud of being an American, and I’m proud of being a Muslim,” said Petty Officer third class Ali Ansari, 21, who is stationed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, and currently observing the holy month of Ramadan. Photographed at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island Thursday June 15, 2017.
A Navy sailor at Ramadan

On Whidbey base, a Navy sailor observes Ramadan: ‘I’m proud of being an American, and I’m proud of being a Muslim’  VIEW

Dozer the male walrus at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium is distinguished by his size and 17-inch tusks. Kulu CQ, left, approaches him in their 120,000-gallon pool. Friday June 16, 2017
Northwest Wanderings

The wooing walrus at Point Defiance Zoo is not just another pretty face  WATCH

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Colleen Williams rides a light rail train from the Link Light Rail Othello Station to downtown Seattle, where she will catch a bus to her job in Bellevue three days a week. Shot Thursday, June 15, 2017. Williams moved to Seattle from New York City last year. She commutes via Link Light Rail and bus to her job in Bellevue, which takes 90 minutes in the morning, and often longer coming home.

Seattle’s mega-commuters: We spend more time than ever traveling to work | FYI Guy

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A photograph of stepfather Sean Rowe and mother Carmen Rowe is taken in downtown Seattle Monday, Dec. 12, 2016. Their son Andrew Westling, 19, died while in the Nisqually Jail earlier this year. They described Westling as friendly and that he loved music, horses and fishing.
Times Watchdog

Fatal confines? A teen’s troubling death in Nisqually tribal jail

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

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

Special Report

‘My God, that’s Kimberly!’: Scientist solves perplexing mystery of identity thief Lori Ruff

Crime

Men steal a balky Honda, lead police on wild chase, authorities say

The owner of a stolen Honda told a sheriff’s deputy his car would often die and need to be restarted. So authorities had little trouble keeping up — until one suspect bailed and stole a Ford F-150, according to the Kitsap County Sheriff’s office.

Shielded by the Law

Nearly impossible to charge police for wrongful killings in Washington

Eastside

Time for Seattle-area drivers to pay up? Tolling doesn’t get much love, but it eases gridlock

Seattle Sketcher

It’s summer in Seattle: Swim rafts return to Lake Washington beaches

Priced out of urban ‘dream’: This millennial is moving from South Lake Union to Wedgwood

Carnation Farms, namesake of a town and a worldwide milk brand, welcomes visitors again

Little brick building in South Lake Union getting a makeover as a Mexican restaurant

Environment

Fire creeps and backs through grass on the Spartan Fire on June 26, 2017.

Spartan Fire near Wenatchee threatens 80 homes, structures, burns 4,500 acres of grassland

Weather

A paddleboarder makes her way across a sparkling Green Lake as the sun begins to set behind the lake.

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Northwest Wanderings

Dozer the male walrus at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium is distinguished by his size and 17-inch tusks. Kulu CQ, left, approaches him in their 120,000-gallon pool. Friday June 16, 2017

The wooing walrus at Point Defiance Zoo is not just another pretty face  WATCH

Det. Denise “Cookie” Bouldin fist-bumps fifth-grader Jordan Hurd during her annual Urban Youth Chess Club’s tournament between Van Asselt and South Shore Elementary schools. More than 200 fourth and fifth grade students squared-off to win the annual trophy. Hurd attends South Shore. The winning team will be announced at award ceremonies in two-weeks. ref to more photos online Det. Denise Cookie Bouldin Tuesday June 6, 2017

Fun brain workout? Check. Meet Detective Cookie’s chess club.  VIEW

Tumwater Valley Power Dragons coach Alan Rose congratulates Mathew Berschauer after a successful lift in the squat. (ref to more photos online) Special Olympics hosted by the Washington Athletic Club (WAC), the annual Washington Regional Powerlifting Invitational on Saturday, May 13, 2017. The competition consists of the dead lift, bench press and squat. The International Powerlifting Federation teamed up with the Special Olympics in 2013 to grow the sport worldwide for people with intellectual disabilities.

Special Olympians power their way to June’s state competition  VIEW

As David Sohappy, Jr., sings a feather song honoring his late father, Wilbur Slockish, left, and Tom Keefe, Jr., join him in at the Toppenish Creek Cemetery. It’s both the anniversary of the Salmonscam trial in Yakama Tribal Court and David Sr.’s 92nd birthday. (the trial lasted 13-days so there’s an extended anniversary on the tribal court trial) Ref to more photos online Northwest Wanderings

30 years after ‘Salmonscam’: Remembering a leader in the fishing-rights struggle  VIEW

Marijuana

Study links Washington state's legalized pot with rise in car-crash claims

DENVER (AP) — A recent insurance study links increased car crash claims to legalized recreational marijuana. The Highway Loss Data Institute, a leading insurance research group, said in study results released Thursday that collision claims in Colorado, Washington, and Oregon went up 2.7 percent in the years since legal recreational marijuana sales began when compared...

Science

Multibillion-dollar contract for Los Alamos lab up for bid

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The competition for a multibillion-dollar contract to manage the U.S. laboratory that created the atomic bomb is beginning as criticism intensifies over the troubled safety record of Los Alamos National Laboratory. The National Nuclear Security Administration on Tuesday posted online its intent to conduct a competition for the management and operation...

Earthquakes

Get ready to rumble: A guide to quake preparedness