Fire reported on ship carrying 150 passengers in Puget Sound
Source: Seattle Times
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-06-14 23:34:33 -0700 | travel-news
Rosenthal A fire was reported aboard a ship carrying 150 passengers in the Puget Sound on Friday evening, according to the Seattle Fire Department. No injuries were reported, said Seattle Fire Department spokesman Kyle Moore...The ship was en route to...
Rollover accident closes Battery Street Tunnel
Source: Seattle Times
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-06-13 15:47:08 -0700 | travel-news
There are no reported injuries and the driver of the involved vehicle has declined medical attention, police said. Northbound traffic is being diverted onto Seneca Street while the tunnel is cleared.
Pedestrian hit by car in northeast Seattle
Source: Seattle Times
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-06-12 16:02:25 -0700 | travel-news
39 a.m. near Northeast 75th Street and 35th Avenue Northeast, according to the Seattle Fire Department. The victim, a man in his 20s, was taken to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition. Witnesses say the victim had just gotten off...
The ?secrecy industrial complex?
Source: Arab News
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-06-12 15:49:50 -0700 | travel-news
David Rohde Thursday 13 June 2013 Last Update 13 June 2013 12:47 am An odd thing is happening in the world's self-declared pinnacle of democracy. No one, except a handful of elected officials and an army of contractors, is allowed...
House fire in Seattle's South Beacon Hill labeled arson
Source: Seattle Times
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-06-10 19:39:27 -0700 | travel-news
Firefighters responded to a 911 call reporting a fire in the 3900 block of South Cloverdale Street around 3:05 a.m. When they arrived, all four occupants of the house had evacuated, and flames were shooting from the second story...The fire...
Wash. state mulls using drones to combat wildfires
Source: Fox
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-06-09 01:00:36 -0700 | travel-news
As the dry weather sets in and the wildfire season beckons, Washington state won't have an aerial drone to help combat the expected blazes. Earlier this year, the state Department of Natural Resources considered obtaining an unmanned aircraft to test...
No-go for Wash. to use drone to combat wildfires
Source: Associated Press
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-06-08 10:24:47 -0700 | travel-news
As the dry weather sets in and the wildfire season beckons, Washington state won't have an aerial drone to help combat the expected blazes. Earlier this year, the state Department of Natural Resources considered obtaining an unmanned aircraft to test...
Car-pedestrian accident in North Seattle
Source: Seattle Times
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-06-07 10:36:56 -0700 | travel-news
The injured pedestrian is a 7-year-old girl who was crossing Greenwood in a crosswalk with her mother and sister and was on her way to school. Seattle Fire Department spokesman Kyle Moore offered this account, based on witnesses: The girl...
BOOK REVIEW: 'Through the Perilous Fight'
Source: The Washington Times
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-06-06 09:36:26 -0700 | travel-news
It is the story of the last six weeks of the war between Great Britain and the United States that began in 1812. The Americans went into this highly controversial conflict demanding freedom of the seas and an end to...
Rail industry targeted for coal pollution
Source: United Press International
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-06-06 07:11:00 -0700 | travel-news
The U.S. railroad industry isn't doing its part to keep pollution from the coal industry at bay, the Sierra Club and its allies said in Seattle. The Sierra Club and regional allies said in April it sent a 60-day notice...
Pilot car driver 'horrified' by bridge collapse
Source: The News Tribune
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-06-05 22:15:51 -0700 | travel-news
A pilot car driver who led a commercial truck across the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River as a section of that bridge collapsed May 23 says she has cooperated in the investigation and did her job properly. In...
Long After the Start of the "War on Terror," a Conflict of Interest about an Anthrax Scare Comes to ...
Source: Health Care Renewal
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-06-05 16:01:46 -0700 | travel-news
The Alarm Raiser The story opened thus, Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter...
Sierra Club sues BNSF over coal dust from trains
Source: Associated Press
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-06-05 11:37:50 -0700 | travel-news
The Sierra Club is suing Burlington Northern Santa Fe in federal court in Seattle over coal dust that blows off trains into Washington rivers and Puget Sound. The suit filed Wednesday says the railway sends an average of four trains...
*** AP WIRE TESTING *** NTSB: Bridge collapse in Wash. is wake-up call
Source: Star Tribune
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-31 08:40:20 -0700 | travel-news
a The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board said Saturday the bridge collapse in Washington state is a wake-up call for the nation. "This is a really significant event and we need to learn from it, not just in...
Barack Obama's Rules For Drones Could Shape The New Global Laws Of War
Source: BusinessInsider
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-30 14:59:50 -0700 | travel-news
America's government and Congress should be aware that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, says John Bellinger, for eight years a government lawyer charged with explaining George W...China and Russia are just two of the...
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