2 deaths put cancer-treatment trial by Seattle’s Juno on hold

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2 deaths put cancer-treatment trial by Seattle’s Juno on hold

Juno Therapeutics said that two patients died during its clinical trial for a cancer therapy and that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has placed the study on hold.

Typhoon drenches Taiwan, kills 2 people; floods hit Manila

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Power was partially restored in Taiwan on Friday after a powerful typhoon slammed into the island’s eastern coast with ferocious winds and torrential rains, killing two people and injuring 72. Typhoon Nepartak made landfall early morning in Taitung county, grounding planes and fishing boats. More than 15,000 people were evacuated. In […]

New gun restriction could be headed for Washington ballot

Under Initiative 1491, which appears headed for the November ballot, guns could be taken away from someone found by the court to pose a danger to themselves or others by having a firearm.

Photos: Seattle protesters demonstrate against police brutality

Demonstrators marched through downtown Seattle Thursday night, protesting against officer-involved shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota.

Conservation group: Bornean orangutan critically endangered

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A global conservation group says Borneo’s orangutans are now a critically endangered species due to hunting and destruction of forest habitat. The International Union for Conservation of Nature estimates the number of Bornean orangutans has dropped by nearly two-thirds since the early 1970s and will further decline to 47,000 animals by […]

Two new apprenticeship programs in Seattle area aim to launch tech careers

Two multimillion-dollar federal grants will expand coding classes and on-the-job training in the Seattle area to some students for free, but there’s no guarantee of employment at the end.

Group’s bid to prevent transgender bathroom access fails to make ballot

Initiative 1515, a campaign to restrict bathroom and locker-room access for transgender people, canceled an appointment to turn in signatures on Friday.

‘I could be the next victim’: Seattleites react to shootings in St. Paul, Baton Rouge

The recent shootings of two black men by police in Minnesota and Louisiana resonated in Seattle, where some say they deal with racism and fear every day.

‘Things need to change:’ Seattle reacts on social media, at vigil to recent police shootings

Hundreds of people say they will attend a gathering in downtown Seattle Thursday evening in the wake of the fatal shootings of Philando Castille in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana.

Keeping poetry, and typewriters, alive

Poet crafts poems with her typewriter outside of Seattle Center.

Mayor says shrink size of Seattle Preschool Program

The Seattle Preschool Program will have fewer spots than originally projected because the city will begin paying the program’s preschool providers more money per child.

State leads in early-care investment, lags in preschool-teacher pay

A new report says Washington has room to improve employment conditions for its early-child-care workforce.

Teen hit by semi after running to get skateboard in Kent

The 15-year-old was being taken to a hospital with critical head injuries.

Judge holds Washington state in contempt over mental-health care

Mentally ill people are still languishing in jails while awaiting competency services, a federal judge ruled Thursday in Seattle. The judge who last year ordered the state to fix the situation will now impose fines for every inmate who must wait longer than a week.

In wake of shootings, mayor says Seattle ‘must get police reform right’

Mayor Ed Murray says he believes both men in Louisiana and Minnesota would still be alive had they been white.

Researchers predict smaller harmful algae bloom on Lake Erie

PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio (AP) — Potentially toxic algae is expected to form again this summer in western Lake Erie but should be considerably less severe than the blooms that blanketed the lake and threatened drinking water supplies the previous two years, scientists said Thursday. After three wet springs, the region’s rainfall was more normal this year, […]

U.S. colleges court foreign entrepreneurs who need visas

Schools are creating “global entrepreneur in residence” programs that let some graduates get H-1B visas and work part-time on campus, often as mentors, while they develop their businesses.

Bae interns, Microsoft was cool before you were born

In the late 1980s, Microsoft’s reputation as a work-hard, play-hard tech company was novel. Now, it’s the hallmark of every success story in Silicon Valley.

Bail set for man accused of firing AK-47 to celebrate July Fourth

Seattle police say the man, whose prior convictions include burglary and theft of a firearm, was not legally permitted to possess a firearm.

Boeing pilots release video of 787 Dreamliner acrobatic moves not allowed at Farnborough

Ahead of the Farnborough Air Show in England next week, Boeing today released a video of its 787-9 Dreamliner jet practicing its moves for the daily flying display. The routine shown in the video, flown recently over Moses Lake, is above and beyond what will be possible to show at Farnborough. Test pilots Randy Neville, Van […]

Police investigate stabbing on Cedar River Trail in Renton

The extent of the victim’s injuries was not immediately known.

Motorcyclist killed in I-5 crash in Olympia

Officials said the motorcyclist collided with a semitruck and was thrown from his seat.

Downpour-triggered landslide kills 35 in northwest China

BEIJING (AP) — A landslide triggered by heavy rains has killed 35 people in a mountainous village in northwestern China, state media reported Thursday. The landslide engulfed the village in the region of Xinjiang’s Kashgar prefecture on Wednesday morning, to the official Xinhua News Agency said. Xinhua’s brief dispatch did not explain why reports of […]

Bicyclist hit by Kitsap Transit bus gets $2.75M settlement

Kitsap Transit has settled a lawsuit with a woman who was hit by a bus near Poulsbo.

Driver arrested after cross-border chase ends in Blaine

Authorities say the suspect drove through the Blaine crossing into Canada without stopping, then he tried to re-enter Washington. Officers rammed his car and flattened the tires on the U.S. side of the border.

‘Hot, wet and wild’ 2016 weather as US has warmest June

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s warm, wild and costly weather broke another record with the hottest June, federal meteorologists say. And if that’s not enough, they calculated that 2016 is flirting with the U.S. record for most billion-dollar weather disasters. The month’s average temperature in the Lower 48 states was 71.8 degrees, 3.3 degrees above normal, […]

Son of ex-Oregon governor admits having beer before crash

Authorities say they’re still working to determine whether Logan Kitzhaber will face charges.

Triple sunrises, sunsets at this strange new world

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A newly discovered mega planet has not one, not two, but three suns. What’s more, a year there lasts half a millennium from Earth’s perspective. Triple-star systems with detected planets are rare enough. But the giant gassy world in this one has the biggest known orbit in a multi-star system. […]

Seattle Cancer Care Alliance to pay $250,000 after nurse steals 96,000 painkillers

The unidentified former nurse allegedly falsified and altered 42 patient prescriptions to divert oxycodone, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

VA puts latest estimate of veteran suicides at 20 per day

WASHINGTON (AP) — On average, 20 veterans a day committed suicide in 2014, a slight decrease from the previous government estimate, but federal health officials are cautious about concluding the suicide problem is getting better. Rather, they say the Department of Veterans Affairs is relying on a more comprehensive database than ever before, making comparisons […]

Comedian Sarah Silverman ‘lucky to be alive’ after surgery

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Comedian Sarah Silverman says she’s “insanely lucky to be alive” after undergoing surgery and spending a week in the intensive care unit due to what she calls “a freak case of epiglottitis.” Epiglottitis is a swelling of the cartilage lid that covers the windpipe. The condition can block the flow of […]

Rose McGowan defends Renee Zellweger, slams film critic

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress Rose McGowan is calling out a film critic for writing that Renee Zellweger no longer looks like herself and insinuating that Zellweger underwent plastic surgery. In an op-ed piece for The Hollywood Reporter, McGowan calls Variety film critic Owen Gleiberman a bully and “an active endorser of what is tantamount […]

UW, Microsoft claim big breakthrough with data storage using DNA

A joint team from the Redmond company and the university said Thursday that it had successfully encoded about 200 megabytes of data onto synthetic DNA molecules — nine times the previous record.

A peek inside ‘Almost Live!’ and Seattle’s unofficial history

In his new book, “Almost Live! The Show that Wouldn’t Die,” Bryan Johnston profiles the sketch-comedy show that parodied Puget Sound life and propelled John Keister and other stars into show business.