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The family of slain rap musician and performer Max Gasoi has set up a fund to benefit his 5-month-old daughter, Kiyomi Braxton-Gasoi. Full Story »

Skagit County Jail staffers say a man charged with murdering a well-known Northwest dog trainer was released on bond Tuesday evening. Full Story »

The rocketry team at Seattle's Ingraham High School has been invited to participate in a NASA program in which team members will build a rocket that can fly a mile high and design a scientific payload for it to carry. Full Story »

Thousands of officers from across North America came to Washington state to honor four Lakewood Police officers who were gunned down in a coffee shop. Full Story »

There was biting cold and hours of waiting. There were mourners pouring in by the bus load, from Bozeman and Boston, Las Vegas and Lake Stevens. There was pain and sadness and anger. Yet at the memorial service for the four fallen Lakewood police officers held Tuesday at the Tacoma Dome, it was strikingly quiet. Full Story »

For the first time in years, numbers at some homeless shelters have dropped. Full Story »

Port of Seattle officials canceled a Tuesday holiday party for union members who work at the Port and Port customers because a restaurant-workers union planned to picket the nonunion caterer hired for the event. Full Story »

Top federal officials in charge of drafting a comprehensive national strategy for combating HIV/AIDS will be in Seattle Wednesday for a community town hall. Full Story »

A University of Washington freshman digging up rocks from a campus garden found a stone spear tip that archaeologists believe was fashioned some 4,000 to 7,000 years ago. Full Story »

The city of Seattle last year produced 7 percent less greenhouse gas than it did in 1990 — a target the city had hoped to meet by 2012. But it's still not clear how or if the city will be able to maintain that success or achieve its long-term ambitions to drive down more substantially the emissions that contribute to global climate change. Full Story »

Vancouver, Wash., police have recovered an illegal credit-card skimming device from a convenience-store gas pump and are warning customers to be aware their credit- or debit-card information may have been stolen. The device was recovered Monday from a gas pump at the 7-Eleven at 5600 E. Fourth Plain Blvd. Full Story »

Traffic delays on major approaches to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport may be likely for about an hour this morning while family members of fallen Lakewood Police Sgt. Mark Renninger are escorted to the airport for a departure. Full Story »

These Washington lotteries were drawn on Tuesday: Full Story »

A fierce winter storm hammered more than a dozen states Tuesday with dangerous ice, heavy snow and vicious winds that threatened to create 15-foot drifts in parts of the Upper Midwest. Full Story »

For about an hour Wednesday morning, family members of fallen Lakewood Police Sgt. Mark Renninger will be escorted to the airport for a departure. Authorities warn that traffic delays are likely on the airport's approaches to baggage claim and arrivals between 9 and 10 a.m. Full Story »

Gov. Chris Gregoire's proposed budget, scheduled to be released Wednesday morning, could mean deep cuts in areas including health care, welfare and education. Here are some possible targeted state programs, with cost estimates from the state Senate Ways and Means Committee: Full Story »

Gov. Chris Gregoire plans to propose heavy spending cuts in her latest plan for patching the state's budget deficit, with everything from college grants to health care for the poor in line for major reductions. Full Story »

Chone Figgins is moving to the Seattle Mariners - and perhaps a new position. Full Story »

Two Snohomish County teens were injured, one critically, in an vehicle accident near Arlington Tuesday morning. Full Story »

About 20,000 mourners, mostly members of law enforcement from Washington state and across the country, honored four slain officers who were remembered Tuesday as heroes and loving family members. Full Story »

Bills to open more of the backcountry in national forests to fire-prevention thinning projects and to promote woodburning heating systems in public buildings have been introduced in the U.S. House. Full Story »

The outpouring of support for friends and family of the four slain Lakewood police officers has continued to grow. Full Story »

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The Obama administration on Tuesday proposed spending more than $3 billion to settle claims dating back more than a century that American Indian tribes were swindled out of royalties for oil, gas, grazing and other leases. Full Story »

Gov. Chris Gregoire is expected to call for deep spending cuts as officials start grappling with a $2.6 billion hole in the state budget. Full Story »