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Roger Ebert, longtime film critic, dies at 70, Chicago Sun-Times reports

New York Times News Service via Peninsula Daily News staff ROGER EBERT, THE popular film critic and television…

Firefighters attack a smoky blaze aboard La Rata Bastarda

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Boat fire in Port Angeles

We are at the scene of a fire aboard a 70-foot boat in the yard at Platypus Marine…

John Connelly inhales marijuana vapor just after midnight with the help of bar worker Jenae DeCampo in the upstairs lounge area of Stonegate

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Gov. Inslee wants state Liquor Board to stop spread of ‘pot bars’

The Associated Press SEATTLE — Gov. Jay Inslee wants the state Liquor Control Board to figure out how…

Port Angeles High School Roughrider Orchestra conductor Ron Jones acknowledges the applause following today's performance with 110 young musicians at Carnegie Hall. Diane Urbani de la Paz/Peninsula Daily News

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Pictures from New York: Port Angeles High orchestra’s triumphant concert at Carnegie Hall today [**GALLERY**]

We have just received these photos of the Port Angeles High School Roughrider Orchestra’s concert today, Easter Sunday,…

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Business group meetings this week, and other Clallam-Jefferson business briefs

THIS WEEK’S BUSINESS group meetings on the North Olympic Peninsula (all are open to the public): Port Angeles…

A fisher Washington state Fish and Wildlife Department

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Odd story of the day — Pot farmers using poison may be threat to fishers

By Jeff Barnard The Associated Press GRANTS PASS, Ore. — For the first time, federal biologists are assessing…

Workers on the Japanese dock that washed up south of LaPush. National Park Service

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Pilot cited for landing near tsunami dock on beach

LAPUSH — An ultralight pilot’s curiosity over the 185-ton concrete dock that had washed up from Japan on…

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Source in Washington, D.C.: Business, labor resolve dispute over worker program that threatened immigration bill

By ERICA WERNER the Associated Press WASHINGTON — Big business and labor have resolved a dispute over a…

The photo above shows a section of Whidbey Island in 2006

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Landslide on Whidbey Island followed years of shift

By KIRK JOHNSON c.2013 New York Times News Service COUPEVILLE, Whidbey Island — The violent energy of the…

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Judge orders state to fix culverts blocking salmon

By The Associated Press SEATTLE — A federal judge on Friday ordered the state of Washington to fix…

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Court documents: Thousands of undelivered letters, packages, found at home of fired Hood Canal mail carrier

By The Associated Press SEATTLE — A Hood Canal contract mail carrier who was fired in 2010 for…

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State Senate committee hears arguments for financial aid to illegal immigrants

By JONATHAN KAMINSKY The Associated Press OLYMPIA — A state Senate committee heard testimony Thursday on a bill…

Rear Adm. Charles M. Gaouette U.S. Navy

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Former USS Stennis group commander reprimanded

The Associated Press, San Diego Union and New York Times News Service BREMERTON — The former commander of…

Hoh River in the winter. National Park Service

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Trust protects the Hoh, ‘a last great American river’ (guest opinion article)

BY Roger Oakes WE ARE FORTUNATE on the North Olympic Peninsula to have spectacular rivers flowing through a…

The scene in Hoquiam early this morning. KOMO

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Hoquiam standoff ending with house in flames, suspect dead [**UPDATED**]

By KOMO NEWS [PDN news partner] HOQUIAM — A two-day standoff between Hoquiam police and a man who…

The scene

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Authorities keep watch on unstable Whidbey Island bluff near homes [**GALLERY**]

By Doug Esser The Associated Press COUPEVILLE — Residents of a hillside overlooking Admiralty Inlet heard the thunder…

In this aerial photo

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Whidbey bluff collapses on Admiralty Inlet, 22 homes evacuated; soil still reportedly unstable

By Doug Esser The Associated Press COUPEVILLE — Residents of a hillside overlooking Admiralty Inlet heard the thunder…

Outside the Supreme Court today. Doug Mills/The New York Times

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Breaking national news — Majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices skeptical of federal ban on benefits to same-sex spouses

New York Times News Service via Peninsula Daily News staff WASHINGTON — A majority of the justices today…

A North Korean man walks past propaganda posters in Pyongyang

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PENINSULA POLL BACKGROUNDER: North Korea on ‘highest alert,’ calls Hawaii, other U.S. locations targets

THe New York Times SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s military said it put all its missile and…

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Kilmer hopes to boost Olympic National Forest timber production

By Steven Friederich The Daily World [Distributed by McClatchy News Service] ABERDEEN — U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer said…