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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington Department of Licensing says more schools and training programs will take over driver testing next year.

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HERMISTON, Ore. (AP) — Another 178 jobs will be cut as operations shut down at the Umatilla Chemical Depot.

The Washington Demilitarization Co. told Oregon officials that engineering, maintenance and administrative jobs will be cut in February

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CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN, Wash. (AP) — A ski patrol official says a young woman has survived an avalanche on Washington's Crystal Mountain resort. Ski patrol director Paul Baugher says the woman was buried for 10 to 15 minutes yesterday afternoon before searchers probing the snow with metal poles found and freed her

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NEW YORK (AP) — Private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management is planning to sell its stake in Freedom Group, maker of the Bushmaster rifle, following the Newtown, Conn., school shootings.

On Friday, 26 people were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in one of the worst mass shootings in U

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A sporting goods chain says it's suspending sales of modern rifles nationwide because of the school shooting in Connecticut.

Dick's Sporting Goods also says it's removing all guns from display at its store closest to Newtown, where the massacre took place

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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Department of Natural Resources has concluded that an August wildfire that caused $11 million damage was caused by sparks from welding or cutting work on a bridge southeast of Cle Elum

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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Chris Gregoire is set to unveil her final budget proposal before leaving office next month.

Gregoire will release the proposed budget Tuesday morning at her office at the Capitol

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SEATAC, Wash. (AP) — A King County sheriff's spokeswoman says thousands of Nintendo Wii gaming consoles were stolen from a SeaTac, Wash., distribution warehouse over the weekend.

Sgt. Cindi West says the thieves are believed to have driven two tractor cabs to the warehouse

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ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) — An 18-year-old man was killed and four other young adults were injured in a crash Sunday on I-90 in Kittitas County, 17 miles east of Ellensburg.

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A suburban Portland mall remains closed while crime scene experts detail the shooting Tuesday that left three people dead and one wounded and sent Santa and thousands of shoppers running. Clackamas County sheriff's Sgt

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