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Problem Solvers Reardon: 'I just want to get it past us and move on' (Video)

By Michelle Esteban & KOMO Staff Published: May 21, 2012 at 5:54 PM PDT Last Updated: May 21, 2012 at 6:23 PM PDT

For the first time in seven months, embattled Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon is answers questions about allegations that surfaced last year that he misused county funds.

Local & Regional (New) Man sought in South Seattle killing

By KOMO Staff Published: May 22, 2012 at 9:39 AM PDT Last Updated: May 22, 2012 at 9:59 AM PDT

Police are looking for a 26-year-old man suspected of shooting another man to death in a restaurant parking lot in South Seattle last week.

Local & Regional Critics asking SPD to back off jaywalking tickets (Video)

By Jon Humbert Published: May 21, 2012 at 11:30 PM PDT Last Updated: May 22, 2012 at 8:34 AM PDT

Some high-level critics say jaywalking tickets have led to fights and alleged abuses from Seattle police officers, and now they're asking the department to back off enforcing the law.

National & World Private supply ship rockets toward space station (Photo Gallery) (Video)

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer Published: May 22, 2012 at 7:01 AM PDT Last Updated: May 22, 2012 at 9:37 AM PDT

A first-of-its-kind commercial supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station following a successful liftoff early Tuesday, opening a new era of dollar-driven spaceflight.

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Problem Solvers Reardon: 'I just want to get it past us and move on' (Video)
For the first time in seven months, embattled Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon is answers questions about allegations that surfaced last year that he misused county funds.
Local & Regional (New) Man sought in South Seattle killing
Police are looking for a 26-year-old man suspected of shooting another man to death in a restaurant parking lot in South Seattle last week.
Local & Regional Critics asking SPD to back off jaywalking tickets (Video)
Some high-level critics say jaywalking tickets have led to fights and alleged abuses from Seattle police officers, and now they're asking the department to back off enforcing the law.
National & World Private supply ship rockets toward space station (Photo Gallery) (Video)
A first-of-its-kind commercial supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station following a successful liftoff early Tuesday, opening a new era of dollar-driven spaceflight.
Local & Regional Seattle firefighter caught with meth still being paid, faces new charge
A Seattle firefighter recently convicted on a drug charge is now accused of violating a protection order secured by a former girlfriend - and remains on the fire department payroll.
Local & Regional (Updated) Video shows dramatic waterfall rescue of Burien teen
The video, shot by a volunteer rescuer, shows the 13-year-old Burien boy huddled on a narrow, sloping rock shelf with his back to the water just above Wallace Falls, a popular hiking attraction northeast of Seattle.
Local & Regional Port Orchard home overrun with fungus (Video)
A local family is scrambling after their dream house turned into a house of horrors.
Health Born to run barefoot? Some end up getting injured (Video)
As more avid runners and casual athletes experiment with barefoot running, doctors say they are treating injuries ranging from pulled calf muscles to Achilles tendinitis to metatarsal stress fractures, mainly in people who ramped up too fast. In serious cases, they are laid up for several months.
Local & Regional Police: Mother left child alone in motel so she could gamble
The mother of a 3-year-old was arrested Monday for leaving the child alone in a hotel room while she gambled at Emerald Queen Casino.
Local & Regional Auburn family wants city to pay for damages caused by SWAT team (Video)
An Auburn family is fighting to make the city pay for tens of thousands of dollars in damage a SWAT team did to their rental home.

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Entertainment (New) Photos: Star sightings (Photo Gallery)

By KOMO Staff Published: May 22, 2012 at 8:13 AM PDT Last Updated: May 22, 2012 at 8:49 AM PDT

Entertainment (New) Man jailed over 'Justin Bieber sucks' Facebook hack

By RAPHAEL SATTER Associated Press Published: May 22, 2012 at 8:19 AM PDT

The hacker posted the words "Justin Bieber sucks" to her Facebook page, prompting a torrent of abuse from the singer's fans.

Entertainment (New) 'MiB' agents Smith and Jones talk alien attraction (Photo Gallery)

By DAVID GERMAIN AP Movie Writer Published: May 22, 2012 at 8:35 AM PDT

Fifteen years into their relationship, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are like an old married couple, intimately familiar with each other's habits and quirks.

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Offbeat

Offbeat (New) Auction claims to be selling vial of Reagan blood

By GREGORY KATZ Associated Press Published: May 22, 2012 at 8:49 AM PDT Last Updated: May 22, 2012 at 9:45 AM PDT

Ronald Reagan's foundation on Tuesday denounced the sale by a Channel Islands online auction house of a vial that allegedly contains blood residue from the late U.S. president.

Offbeat Photos: Portland pugs gone wild! (Photo Gallery)

By Shannon L. Cheesman, KATU.com Producer/Reporter Published: May 21, 2012 at 10:24 AM PDT Last Updated: May 21, 2012 at 1:33 PM PDT

It was pug mania outside a local tavern on Sunday as folks and their lovable little pooches got together to have a little fun and help out the Oregon Humane Society.

Offbeat Mystery sea weed: Tons of pot found floating off Southern Calif.

By Associated Press Published: May 21, 2012 at 12:44 PM PDT Last Updated: May 22, 2012 at 8:54 AM PDT

Authorities say three and a half tons of marijuana have been found floating in the ocean off Southern California.

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Local & Regional

Local & Regional 2 Lewis-McChord soldiers killed in Afghanistan

By Associated Press Published: May 21, 2012 at 5:13 PM PDT

Two soldiers killed Friday in Afghanistan were from Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

Local & Regional Track coach, 41, fired for taking student to prom
The daughter-in-law of Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman has been dismissed as a volunteer track coach at a small Eastern Oregon high school because she escorted a 17-year-old boy to last month's prom.
Local & Regional Search on for man who choked woman in Capitol Hill alley
The woman, who was on foot, was trying to locate an area club using the GPS app on her phone when the man approached her and offered to escort her to the club.
Local & Regional Body found off Blake Islands believed to be missing diver
Recovery crews believe they've found the body of a 59-year-old Kitsap County man who went missing Sunday while diving off Blake Islands.
Local & Regional Trial opens for WA couple accused of caging kids
A prosecutor has told jurors that a Vancouver, Wash., couple kept two young autistic boys in a dark room with a cage-like door for convenience while the defense countered the child-proofing was intended to keep the children from harming themselves.

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National & World Romney's Bain playbook unclear as attacks grow

By STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press Published: May 22, 2012 at 7:29 AM PDT Last Updated: May 22, 2012 at 8:01 AM PDT

The core of his presidential candidacy under attack, Mitt Romney has yet to shape a playbook to defend a quarter-century in the business world that created great riches for himself and great hardship, at times, for some American workers.

National & World Organizers: Don't mess with the Olympic brand
Olympic organizers say the increasing sophistication of guerrilla marketers and the rise of social media are putting the five rings under assault in ways barely envisioned a decade ago.
National & World (New) Eugene Polley, inventor of TV remote, dies at 96
John Taylor says the former Zenith engineer died of natural causes Sunday at a suburban Chicago hospital. He was 96.
National & World Russian lawmakers slap big sanctions on protesters
President Vladimir Putin targeted those who dare oppose him Tuesday, introducing draconian new fines for protesters and handing out Kremlin jobs to widely detested lieutenants despite the public anger they have generated.
National & World Surgical scars some see as racist provoke SD march
Hundreds of people marched Monday in support of a man who says the letters KKK were carved into his stomach by a surgeon at a South Dakota hospital.

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Sports

Sports Mariners get best of Darvish, beat Texas 6-1

By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer Published: May 21, 2012 at 10:22 PM PDT Last Updated: May 22, 2012 at 8:07 AM PDT

Ichiro Suzuki and the Seattle Mariners chased Texas' Yu Darvish after just four innings in his shortest start of the season, and the Mariners rolled to their fourth straight win in a 6-1 victory over the Rangers on Monday night.

Sports Another milestone for Moyer: 50 ballparks
Moyer started for the Rockies in Miami on Monday night, making his debut at the newly opened Marlins Park.
Sports Seahawks trade for Buccaneers TE Winslow
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers traded tight end Kellen Winslow to the Seattle Seahawks for a draft pick on Monday night and signed former Colts star Dallas Clark to replace him.
Sports 4 arrested after man's beating at Dodger Stadium
A minor fender bender in a Dodger Stadium parking lot over the weekend led to the beating of a driver and the arrest of four people more than a year after a San Francisco Giants fan was left with brain damage after an attack on opening day, police said Monday.
Sports McNamee names 3 other players he says took HGH
The key witness in the Roger Clemens perjury trial testified Monday about three other baseball players who he said took human growth hormone.

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Technology (New) Google completes Motorola Mobility acquisition

By Associated Press Published: May 22, 2012 at 10:08 AM PDT

Google Inc. on Tuesday completed its $12.5 billion acquisition of phone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. and said it has appointed a Google executive as the new CEO of the business.

Consumer Online ratings and reviews: Which ones to believe? (Video)

By Herb Weisbaum Published: May 21, 2012 at 3:22 PM PDT Last Updated: May 22, 2012 at 8:07 AM PDT

A lot of people these days won't make a major purchase or hire a company before they go online and check the ratings and reviews. And that's good. But with so much information out there, it can be difficult to know what you can trust. And that's important.

Life & Style King Tut returns to Seattle this Thursday (Photo Gallery)

By Jill Russell Published: May 21, 2012 at 12:12 PM PDT

It’s been more than 30 years since Seattlites had the chance to see the riches of one of Egypt’s most famous royals.

Technology (New) Microsoft sets sights on South Korean digital education

By Associated Press Published: May 22, 2012 at 10:06 AM PDT

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer met Seoul education officials Tuesday to discuss using digital technology in classrooms as South Korea prepares to replace paper textbooks with digital ones.

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Weather Annular eclipse makes for some super spooky shadows

By Scott Sistek Published: May 21, 2012 at 11:50 PM PDT Last Updated: May 22, 2012 at 9:32 AM PDT

Many of us saw the amazing photos of the annular eclipse on Sunday, but while those "ring of fire" images sure look unusual, I think this might qualify as eerily spooky.

Weather Beware the 'June Gloom'?

By Scott Sistek Published: May 21, 2012 at 2:21 PM PDT

Late last week, the long range forecasters at NOAA's Climate Prediction Center released their new 30- and 90-day forecasts for the upcoming summer. And for the Pacific Northwest, it would appear that our sunny and summery mid-May was more of a tease than a sign of things to come -- at least in the short term. The 30-day forecasts for June are showing an above average chance of cooler than normal temperatures across the Pacific Northwest (specifically, a 50 percent chance of cooler than normal June, a 33 percent chance of a normal June, and just a 17 percent chance of a warmer than normal June.)

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Entertainment

Entertainment Polanski returns to Cannes, presents short
Roman Polanski returned to the Cannes Film Festival, where he presented a short film sponsored by Prada.
Entertainment Comedian Andy Dick to undergo pretrial diversion
Comedian Andy Dick has agreed to enter a pretrial diversion program that, if completed successfully, would absolve him of sex abuse charges arising from a 2010 nightclub incident, authorities said.
Entertainment Photos: Stars arrive at the Billboard Music Awards (Photo Gallery)
Entertainment 'GMA' to add an afternoon weekday hour this summer
"Good Morning America" is reaching into the afternoon this summer.
Entertainment Bogart's son to help Ohio farm where parents wed
The oldest child of actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall is helping to raise money to renovate part of the Ohio farm where the pair married in 1945.

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Technology

Technology (New) ICANN resumes bids for new Internet suffixes
The organization overseeing a major expansion of Internet addresses has reopened its system for letting companies and organizations submit proposals.
Technology Court won't reduce student's $675,000 music download fine
A former Boston University student who was ordered to pay $675,000 for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs on the Internet says he will continue fighting the penalty, despite the Supreme Court's refusal Monday to hear his appeal.
Technology Yahoo to sell half of its Alibaba stake for $7.1B
Struggling Internet company Yahoo Inc. has secured a lifeline after agreeing to sell half of its prized stake in Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba for about $7.1 billion, with most of the cash going to shareholders.
Technology EU gives Google 'weeks' to ease antitrust concerns
The European Union said on Monday that Google Inc. must in `'a matter of weeks" outline steps it is willing to take to ease concerns about alleged abuses of its dominant position in the online search market.
Technology America expands once again - digitally, this time
We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual land where progress and profits are forever around the next bend.

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Business

Business Chinese company to buy US movie theater chain AMC
A Chinese conglomerate announced Monday it will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion in China's biggest takeover of an American company to date.
Business Where are Facebook's friends? Stock down after IPO
Facebook's stock is tumbling well below its $38 IPO price in the social network's second day of trading as a public company on Monday.
Business For NY farmers, fracking means salvation - or ruin
When Dan Fitzsimmons looks across the Susquehanna River and sees the flares of Pennsylvania gas wells, he thinks bitterly of the riches beneath his own land locked up by the heated debate that has kept hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, out of New York.
Business Economists more upbeat about job growth, housing
A new survey shows economists are growing slightly more optimistic about recovery in the job and housing markets but expect other pillars of the economy to remain weak.
Business Ditch euro? Many Greeks already are
People in this central Greek city are rejecting the euro before it rejects them.

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Offbeat

Offbeat Wallenda to be tethered to Niagara Falls tightrope (Photo Gallery)
Daredevil Nik Wallenda says he's not happy about it but he'll probably be tethered to the tightrope that he plans to walk over Niagara Falls next month.
Offbeat Monde-what? Kraft's new name elicits jokes
Kraft Foods revealed that it planned to name its new global snack business "Mondelez," an interpretation of a mash-up of the Latin words for "world" and "delicious."
Offbeat Babe Ruth jersey sells for record $4.4 million
A baseball jersey worn by Babe Ruth has sold for more than $4.4 million, a record for any item of sports memorabilia, according to the buyer and seller.
Offbeat Ouch! Dog bites politician, but she gets a vote
A woman running for the Michigan Legislature was bitten by a dog while going door to door. But the dog's distressed owner has made amends: Ann Doyle can put a campaign sign on his property.
Offbeat Texas boy suspended over NBA shave scores tickets
A 12-year-old Texas boy who was suspended from school after shaving his head to resemble the face of Spurs forward Matt Bonner scored tickets to a playoff game and props from his favorite NBA player.

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Photo Galleries

Entertainment (New) 'MiB' agents Smith and Jones talk alien attraction (Photo Gallery)

By DAVID GERMAIN AP Movie Writer Published: May 22, 2012 at 8:35 AM PDT

Fifteen years into their relationship, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are like an old married couple, intimately familiar with each other's habits and quirks.

Entertainment (New) Photos: Star sightings (Photo Gallery)

By KOMO Staff Published: May 22, 2012 at 8:13 AM PDT Last Updated: May 22, 2012 at 8:49 AM PDT

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