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Winning $338 million Powerball jackpot ticket sold in New Jersey

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Winning $338 million Powerball jackpot ticket sold in New Jersey

Peninsula Daily News and The Associated Press A single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six numbers…

Logger Eric Davis runs down a road as a truck loaded with logs is readied in a forest area near Banks

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Group to keep pressing EPA on logging roads

By Jeff Barnard The Associated Press GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A conservation group says it will keep pushing…

Logger Eric Davis runs down a road as a truck loaded with logs is readied in a forest area near Banks

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Group to keep pressing EPA on logging roads

By Jeff Barnard The Associated Press GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A conservation group says it will keep pushing…

Powerball jackpot rises to $320 million

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Powerball jackpot rises to $320 million

NOBODY PLAYING POWERBALL lotto in Washington state and 44 other lottery jurisdictions hit all six numbers Wednesday night,…

Volunteer Aaron Velasquez disperses some of the 1

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Elwha revegetation crews sow seeds this month in former lakes Mills, Aldwell

IT’S SPRING, AND the Elwha revegetation crew is busy this month, sowing about 1,400 pounds of native plant…

Jay J. Dodaro Clallam County Sheriff's Office

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Fugitive captured in Sequim area

SEQUIM — A wanted fugitive who the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office feared that he might want to “shoot…

10,000 dead predicted in chilling forecast on NW quake/tsunami

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10,000 dead predicted in chilling forecast on NW quake/tsunami

By Lauren Gambino The Associated Press SALEM, Ore. — More than 10,000 people could die when — not…

Booth Gardner

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UPDATED — Former Gov. Booth Gardner dies at 76

By Rachel La Corte The Associated Press OLYMPIA — Booth Gardner was a two-term governor whose biggest political…

South Korean Marines on Yeonpyeong Island recently. The North bombarded the island in 2010

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U.S. to bolster missile defense to deter any attack by North Korea

By New York Times News Service, via Peninsula Daily News staff THE UNITED STATES will deploy additional ballistic-missile…

Mitch Seavey holds one of his lead dogs

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Is mushing limited by age? Only if you have 4 legsI

By MARK THIESSEN and RACHEL D’ORO The Associated Press NOME, Alaska — Last year, the youngest musher ever…

Pope Francis

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First-ever pope from Americas: Argentine takes name Francis I

The Associated Press VATICAN CITY — Argentine Jorge Bergoglio has been elected pope, the first ever from the…

Anquan Boldin

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Seahawks to give up key draft picks for playmaker Harvin; Boldin heading to 49ers

By Dave Campbell and Jon Krawczynski The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Percy Harvin is headed to Seattle, and…

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Man arrested after rolling car on Highway 20

PORT TOWNSEND — A suspected drunken driver failed to negotiate a curve and overturned the car he was…

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Port Angeles High School orchestra achieves honors at regional fest

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles High School Chamber Orchestra won first place in its division, and the…

Site of the crash of the Whidbey Island-based Navy EA-6B Prowler. Courtesy of Stan Damme

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2nd UPDATE – Navy plane from NAS Whidbey crashes in Eastern Washington. Crew of 3 dead.

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS The Associated Press SPOKANE — An aircraft from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island crashed…

Percy Harvin following Minnesota's defeat of the Seattle Seahawks at then Qwest Field in 2009. The Associated Press

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Seahawks reportedly getting playmaker Harvin from Vikings

Peninsula Daily News news sources According to a report by Jay Glazer of Fox Sports, the Seattle Seahawks…

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TRAFFIC ALERT: Crash at Highway 20 intersection in East Jefferson County

We have reports of alternating one-way traffic on state Highway 20 at Eaglemount Road — between U.S. 101…

Smoke from a crashed military plane from NAS Whidbey Island rises from a farm field  in Eastern Washington this morning. KOMO

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Military plane from Whidbey Island station crashes in Eastern Washington [**Updated**]

By KOMO News HARRINGTON — A military plane flying from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island has crashed in…

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PENINSULA POLL BACKGROUNDER: South Dakota becomes latest state to arm schoolteachers

The Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has signed into law a measure allowing…

An undated photograph of Dianna Hanson The Associated Press

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UPDATED — Family says death of Snohomish County woman in lion cage was an accident

By GOSIA WOZNIACKA and TRACIE CONE The Associated Press EDITOR’S NOTE — To follow this story and other…