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  • Seattle Investment Firm Blazes New Trails in India Healthcare Market
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    Posted on: Wednesday, 27 15:01 CDT Columbia Pacific, a Seattle-based investment and money manager, announces the close of a $135M second round of financing for its Asian hospital...

  • Oregon karaoke critics wind up behind bars
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Everybody's a critic, but some use beer bottles rather than keyboards, which is why the cops were called to Mollie's Lounge just north of Klamath Falls. Police say a karaoke...

  • IDRI gets $6.3M grant to study new tuberculosis vaccine
    Puget Sound Business Journal
    Infectious Disease Research Institute said it’s been awarded a $6.3 million federal grant to study a new tuberculosis vaccine. The four-year grant is from the National Institute of...

  • Carrier Kitty Hawk heading for Bremerton
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    The Navy says the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk is leaving San Diego and will arrive Tuesday at Bremerton where it will be decommissioned in January. The...

  • Duncan gets death penalty for murder of Idaho boy
    The Seattle Times
    ... kidnapping, torture and murder of a northern Idaho boy. A federal jury deliberated just three hours before...

  • Morrow fine after rough Minors start
    Seattle Mariners
    Tickets available for series vs. Yanks - Tuesday's outing wasn't a pretty one for Brandon Morrow with Triple-A Tacoma, as he continues to be stretched out from a reliever into a starter.

  • Man who beat disabled roommate pleads guilty to murder
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    A West Seattle man who was accused of beating, choking and stomping his developmentally disabled roommate to death pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder as part of an agreement with state...

  • Mostly offbeat, and many off the beaten path
    The Seattle Times
    An audience member participates in Hand2Mouth's "Project X: You Are Here" in Portland this summer. "Project X" will be at Bumbershoot this weekend.

  • KIRO 7 Connects Fire Victim With Country Star
    KIRO 7
    ... victim John Miklosh told KIRO 7...



  • Gates Foundation invests $2 M in WA early learning
    The Seattle Times
    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $2 million over two years to five Washington school districts to help them work with preschools to better prepare kids for kindergarten.

  • Twin bear cubs arrive at PAWS after mom dies on I-90
    The Seattle Times
    Twin bear cubs, who were orphaned after their mother was killed on Interstate 90 this weekend, are now at an animal-welfare center in Lynnwood where they will stay for 10 months before being released...

  • Plum Creek Timber makes $783 million timber land deal
    Puget Sound Business Journal
    Llc that will see the Seattle timber company receive $783 million after a joint venture between the two companies is formed Plum Creek (NYSE: PCL) and Portland-based Campbell Group will create a...

  • Oklahoma City NBA team to get name next week
    The Seattle Times
    Oklahoma City's new NBA franchise has finally set a date to announce its name and team colors. The team said Wednesday that it would unveil the name and colors simultaneously on its Web site and at a...

  • 2 accused in killings of S. Ore. puppies
    The Seattle Times
    Merlin, Ore. β€” Sheriff's deputies say they have accused two young people in the killings of four dogs stolen from the Josephine County animal shelter.

  • ConocoPhillips selling 600 gas stations to PetroSun
    Puget Sound Business Journal
    Pacific Convenience & Fuel LLC for a reported $800 million. Pacific Convenience is a company newly formed by PetroSun West, a petroleum and convenience store operator based in Seattle. ...

  • Broken pipe causes water outage in Seattle
    The Seattle Times
    The Seattle Public Utilities department is asking 460 water customers in the Beacon Hill neighborhood to boil tapwater as a precaution because of a broken pipe.

  • Oregon man tried for killing wife
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    A 54-year-old Roseburg man is standing trial on manslaughter and drunken driving charges in the death of his wife. The prosecution says Elbert Amos was drunk when he and his wife...

  • Oregon scientists find oldest gecko
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Scientists from Oregon State University and the Natural History Museum in London have announced the finding of the oldest known fossil parts of a gecko, a lizard, preserved in...

  • See Olympic Rain Shadow in action
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    Updated this story to add in the rain totals from Tuesday night and where we stand for August rain.)Northwesterners are known for not really needing an umbrella despite the 160-some-odd days of rain...

  • Fishing boats run aground near Port Ludlow
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating two fishing vessels aground at Port Ludlow. No injuries have been reported and no signs of damage or marine pollution are evident at this time, officials said. ...

  • Jury reaches sentencing verdict in Duncan slayings
    The Seattle Times
    A federal jury has reached a verdict on whether convicted child killer Joseph Edward Duncan III should be put to death for the 2005 kidnapping, torture and murder of a northern Idaho boy.

  • Warriors G Ellis out 3 months with ankle sprain
    The Seattle Times
    Oakland, Calif. β€” Golden State Warriors guard Monta Ellis will be out at least three months after severely spraining his ankle during an offseason workout. Ellis, who got a six-year contract...

  • Orphan bear cubs at Lynnwood animal shelter
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Two orphan bear cubs caught at a campground are being raised by a Lynnwood animal shelter. State wildlife agents easily captured the cubs Monday night by leaving out doughnuts, which...

  • More than 500 sockeye return to central Idaho
    The Seattle Times
    Stanley, Idaho β€” More than 500 endangered sockeye salmon have arrived at a central Idaho fish hatchery, the most in more than two decades. The arrival of the sockeye, listed as endangered...

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