| Mayors races in Tacoma, Vancouver, Bremerton
Mayors for Tacoma, Bremerton and Vancouver were on the Tuesday ballot.
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 | Wash. voters get final say on gay partnerships
Voters in Washington state are deciding whether or not to approve the state's new "everything but marriage" law.
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 | Woman, 41, dies from flu at Grants Pass hospital
Josephine County has had its first death from the swine flu.
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 | Senator Murray: extend unemployment benefits
Washington senator Patty Murray is seeking an extension which would include up to 20 additional weeks of unemployment for more than 18,000 Washingtonians who have exhausted or will exhaust their payments.
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 | Pierce deputies kill man, say he drove at them
A man has been shot to death by Pierce County sheriff's deputies after he reportedly tried to run them down.
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 | Gay partnership foes, supporters await ruling
Supporters and foes of gay domestic partnerships await a federal ruling from a three-judge panel on whether petitions for Washington's Referendum 71 should be made public.
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 | Snohomish County passes mobile home zoning
The Snohomish County Council has passed a zoning measure aimed at protecting mobile home parks from redevelopment.
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 | Cold weather speeds wine grape harvest
Two nights of freezing weather have wine grape growers in central Washington hustling to get their grapes harvested.
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 | Wash. unemployment rate up slightly at 9.3 percent
Washington's unemployment rate inched up slightly to 9.3 percent in September, compared with the August rate of 9 percent.
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 | Man ordered held on $5M bail in River Rat case
The man police allege is the "River Rat Bandit" has pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree robbery and one count of first-degree attempted robbery.
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 | Washington taxable sales plummets
The entire state saw a decline of 14 percent in taxable retail sales, while Clark County's dropped 18.4 percent. More than half of that in decline is attributed to fall off of construction sales.
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