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Death initiative is on its wayThe arguments for and against Initiative 1000, which would allow doctors to prescribe lethal medicines to patients with six months or less to live, remain essentially the same as they were when former Gov. Booth Gardner filed the initiative in January.
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Shooting trial now in hands of juryA jury began deliberations Wednesday in the trial of a man accused of shooting a work-release inmate as he returned to Thurston County Jail on May 14, 2007.
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Donations aid Boistfort Valley couple hit hard in past yearIt has been a tragic year for Dil and Sue Griffiths.
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RVs' time on streets is shortA ban on parking RVs on city streets will go into effect by the end of the month, the Olympia City Council decided Tuesday night. However, churches and religious organizations will be allowed to park the vehicles on their properties, City Attorney Tom Morrill said.
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Lacey tent city faces hearingThe battle over the city's controversial law regarding tent cities for the homeless has shifted from the courtroom to the hearing room.
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2 lawyers file to run for empty judgeshipOLYMPIA -- Two attorneys - defense attorney Sam Meyer and assistant Attorney General Greg Rosen have announced they will run for the Thurston County District Court judgeship that became vacant after C.L. Kip Stilz died last week.
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Ceremony honors brigadeAfter a 14-month deployment to Iraq, a Stryker combat brigade earned its first campaign streamer Tuesday during a welcome-home ceremony attended by its 4,000 soldiers and their families.
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Wildfires play part in local hazeSmoke from Northern California fires has combined with regionally generated air pollution and weather conditions to give South Sound a hazy look, air-quality officials said Tuesday.
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Customized Jeep has special meaning to soldierTears welled in Cpl. Michael Gallagher's eyes when the sport utility vehicle he won while deployed to Iraq pulled up Tuesday.
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Fort Lewis soldier earns Silver StarT he infantry is a young man's job, and Spc. Rodny Yefune knows there's nothing in the regs about respecting a guy just because he's older.
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Lacey Senior Center marks momentous dayFive years after the Lacey Senior Center moved to its Pacific Avenue location, it again is bursting at the seams, its leaders say.
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Honoring those lost from the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd InfantryOn Tuesday, the approximately 4,000 soldiers of the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, and their families will attend the units formal welcome-home ceremony after spending 14 months in Iraq. Thirty-seven soldiers assigned to the brigade didnt return from the deployment.
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Body found in Nisqually could be final boaterThe Thurston County Sheriff's Office dive team recovered a boy's body on the Nisqually River about 12:30 p.m. Monday, and a sheriff's lieutenant said it appears to be 9-year-old Cameron McCartney, one of three people who presumably died when a boat carrying five capsized on the river June 12.
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Lehman resigns from districtThe Olympia School Board will attempt to fill its third vacancy in six months after seven-year member Russ Lehman resigned Monday.
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Final 1.5 cents of gasoline tax passed in 2005 in effect todayThe state tax on a gallon of gasoline will rise a penny and a half today to 37.5 cents a gallon.
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Official wants to delay RV lawThough the City Council could pass a law tonight barring overnight parking of recreational vehicles on city streets, one council member said she'll ask her colleagues to delay implementing it so an interjurisdictional group can find places for otherwise homeless RV owners to park.
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Testimony in shooting points to carThe man charged with shooting Marcus Reed twice outside Thurston County Jail was pulled over driving a gray Mercury Grand Marquis with the same license plate as the vehicle seen speeding away shortly after the shooting, according to testimony Monday.
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