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As a redshirt freshman, Jaxson Kirkland was the surprise choice as UW's starting right guard — and now he's excelling in the same position (and same number) his father once occupied for the Huskies.

NEW YORK (AP) — A February 2020 trial date was set Thursday for a U.S. congressman indicted on federal insider trading charges. U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick scheduled jury selection to begin Feb. 3, 2020, for U.S. Rep. Chris Collins after prosecutors relaxed their insistence that the trial must occur next year. The 68-year-old […]

ATLANTA (AP) — By all accounts, Sarah Radney was safe inside her grandparents’ home when Hurricane Michael roared into southwest Georgia. If the family feared anything, it was probably falling trees — not a carport next to the house. In what could only be described as a freak accident, authorities say Michael’s powerful winds lifted […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The urgency of hurricane coverage with its colorful satellite maps and reporters standing in the wind is a television staple. But devastation in Hurricane Michael’s wake was so severe that it made images of some of the hardest-hit areas in Florida trickle out as slowly as if from a distant, third-world […]

Re: “No logic in allowing drugs at homeless camps again”: Columnist Danny Westneat calls Licton Springs Village “a bust” for reasons ill-defined beyond Village residents staying there for too long. Did Westneat know that most of the Village’s residents feel they’ve experienced greater personal stability and better physical and mental health since moving to the […]

Columnist Hugh Hewitt praised the Trump administration’s “massive tax cut of unprecedented depth and structural change.” Somehow, this massive tax cut bypassed me. I am a 79-year-old retiree. I recently took money out of my pension account. I was charged 20 percent federal taxes. The 2018 federal corporate-tax rate is 21 percent. Maybe paying a […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge in St. Louis has ordered companies from Missouri and California to pay a combined $7 million for shipping ingredients containing poultry feathers and other misbranded items to pet food manufacturers. Wilbur-Ellis Feed LLC of San Francisco pleaded guilty in April. Diversified Ingredients Inc. of Ballwin, Missouri, pleaded guilty […]

HOUSTON (AP) — Two men have been banned from a Houston gun range for life after one pointed an unloaded gun at the other while taking a picture. Top Gun Range manager Kyle Harrison tells television station KTRK he was alarmed when he saw the one man point the handgun at himself then at his […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A woman who says she was violently shoved toward a Portland City Hall exit by police after the shutdown of a comment period at a City Council meeting has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the city. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the suit was filed by Julia Crosse’s lawyer this week in […]

PHOENIX (AP) — Republican activists on Thursday released a video of Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, a centrist Democrat now running for an open Arizona U.S. Senate seat, advising liberal activists how to “stop your state from becoming like Arizona.” The surreptitious recording dates from 2011, after Arizona Republicans had passed SB1070, a controversial immigration law that […]

All it takes to avoid a leaking shower stall is a bit of re-caulking when cracks begin to appear in the seams.

The Seahawks' offense — quarterback Russell Wilson included — hasn't committed a turnover since its loss to the Chicago Bears on Sept. 17. A Legion of Boomer tags along to London, and two former Seahawks are up for induction into the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Stanford coach Jerod Haase believes that in due time college basketball will get past its recruiting corruption scandal and regain its credibility. Programs everywhere are paying close attention to the federal trial on college basketball corruption in Manhattan. “Certainly the echo when they talk about the Rice Commission and all the […]

When speaking to the public, I still deliver bad news in the measured manner of a scientist, but I always, always follow with the good news: the future is not here yet, we can change it, and here’s how.

Facing tough competition from Delta and Southwest, Alaska has also been challenged by the integration of Virgin America airplanes and employees following the acquisition of the California-based airline almost two years ago.