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  • Locker To Stay At Washington For Senior Year

    KIRO 7 Seattle-Tacoma – 1 hr 38 mins ago  

    SEATTLE -- Jake Locker says he will not make himself available for the NFL draft and will return to Washington for his senior season. Locker released a statement through the university on Monday. Locker says he gave the idea of leaving after his junior season careful thought. Full Story »

  • Toys For Tots Drive Falling Short

    KIRO 7 Seattle-Tacoma – 2 hrs 35 mins ago  

    The gifts have been pouring in, but the Marines say their annual Toys for Tots drive is falling short. Full Story »

  • Seattle Jury Deliberating In Jewish Shooting

    KIRO 7 Seattle-Tacoma – Mon Dec 14, 1:57 pm ET  

    SEATTLE -- A jury in Seattle continues deliberations Monday in the second trial of the man who shot up a Jewish Federation office three years ago and killed a woman and wounded five others. Full Story »

  • Helicopter Extends Search For 2 Missing Mt. Hood Climbers

    KIRO 7 Seattle-Tacoma – Mon Dec 14, 1:27 pm ET  

    A military helicopter searches upper elevations of Mount Hood, as rescuers hold onto hope that two experienced climbers will be found alive after a third member of their party was discovered dead over the weekend. Full Story »

  • Lynnwood Toddler Critical From Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

    KIRO 7 Seattle-Tacoma – Mon Dec 14, 1:27 pm ET  

    LYNNWOOD, Wash. -- A Lynnwood family that brought a barbecue grill into their apartment to keep warm poisoned themselves with carbon monoxide. Police say medics took family members to a hospital Sunday, and they were treated with oxygen in a hyperbaric chamber. Full Story »

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  • Public schools and why we leave

    Crosscut – Mon Dec 14, 5:04 am ET  

    Our broad, broken system of public education has always reminded me of the book Animal Farm . Not because I read Orwell’s work in school — though, of course, I did — but because every brilliant new plan that’s supposed to fix schools in America only succeeds in making them worse. Take desegregation. I’m a huge fan of desegregation on a community-wide level. But even as teary-eyed as I get ... Full Story »

  • Obama, Afghanistan, and the 'just war'

    Crosscut – Mon Dec 14, 5:04 am ET  

    Lingering somewhere in the shadows at Oslo’s Nobel Prize ceremony may well have been the spirit of Reinhold Niebuhr , the 20th-century American theologian whom President Obama has described as his favorite philosopher. As Obama navigated the choppy sea between hawks at home and doves in Norway, devotees of Niebuhr’s “Christian Realism” heard much that resonated. “There will be times when nations ... Full Story »

  • A 'Twelfth Night' that skips the dark currents

    Crosscut – Sun Dec 13, 9:04 pm ET  

    Crowd-pleasing gets under way even before the show officially starts in the Seattle Shakespeare Company's boisterously high-spirited production of Twelfth Night . While the audience gathers in the lobby of the Seattle Center House Theatre, in stream caroling actors, clad in Dickensian motley, to engage everyone in parlor games and singing. The merry-making carries on for a spell after everyone ... Full Story »

  • Humor: UW to eliminate all students on Jan. 1

    Crosscut – Sun Dec 13, 3:04 pm ET  

    Responding to reduced state assistance and other budgetary pressures, President Mark A. Emmert announced that the University of Washington will eliminate all students beginning January 1, 2010. Rejecting the alternative of across-the-board reductions, the Board of Regents chose to preserve the “heart and soul” of the University, the faculty and the administrative staff. Emmert called the ... Full Story »

  • Santa enters the picture

    Crosscut – Sat Dec 12, 9:04 am ET  

    Editor's note: This article originally appeared on Crosscut on Dec. 8, 2007. The holidays are a great time for two kinds of people: kids who believe in Santa Claus and adults who like to drink. I missed out on the first one due to a dad who believed in honesty to a fault. Most parents tell their kids the usual little white lies about Santa, the Tooth Fairy , the Easter Bunny , etc. Not in my ... Full Story »

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