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1 Hundreds welcome the Olympic Torch at only U.S. stop Local News
It took Olympic gold-medal skier Phil Mahre of Yakima not much more than two minutes to loop around one leg of the Peace Arch monument with the torch early Tuesday, and head back through to awaiting dignitaries and camera crews. A crowd of several hundred cheered.
2/9/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
2 Early risers gather for glimpse of Olympic Torch Local News
BLAINE — Making its only crossing into the United States, the 2010 Olympic torch this morning was carried briefly across the border in ceremonies at Peace Arch Park in Blaine.
2/9/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
3 Word from VANOC: Arrive at Olympic events early, carry little Sports
In its "Know before you go" guide, VANOC says spectators who carry no bag, or with a small bag (up to 6" x 6" x 12") will move through an express line, while those with larger bags will go through the standard line. Arrive early, VANOC advises.
2/8/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
4 Vancouver Games is 50 years in the making Sports
As early as the 1960s, there was talk of Vancouver offering itself as a Winter Olympics venue, paired with the ski slopes of Whistler — then called Garibaldi. By 1970, the idea had gained steam, and Canada formally offered Vancouver as its candidate to host the 1976 Winter Olympics.
2/7/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
5 Border stop at Blaine for keepers of the flame Local News
The Olympic flame, in the final stages of its 28,000-mile relay back and forth across Canada, will dip down to the Washington border about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday for a brief ceremony at Peace Arch Park, which straddles the U.S.-Canadian border at Blaine.
2/5/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
6 Plan to use cruise ship as Olympics hotel hits rough water Sports
Despite sharply cutting prices, a Canadian tour company has been unable to entice customers to a cruise ship it planned to used as a floating hotel during the Winter Olympics, and is scrambling to keep the idea afloat.
2/1/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
7 Local Olympic volunteers have long been 'training' for these Games Local News
No way would Thompson, 68, want to be the person lying feet-first on one of those narrow sleds. She just wants to be close enough to see it — maybe feel a whoosh of air as the sled passes. And it looks like she'll get that chance.
1/31/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
8 Police say Rainier Valley shooting was accidental Local News
A 16-year-old teen who was shot in the leg along Rainier Avenue South Wednesday evening told police the shot was fired accidentally by an acquaintance showing off a handgun.
1/21/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
9 Body of Port Orchard woman found in Haiti Local News
The family of 22-year-old Molly MacKenzie Hightower, of Port Orchard, got the devastating news from Haiti Friday that searchers had found her body in the wreckage of a building where she worked. Her father, Mike Hightower, said that later Friday he stopped at a grocery to pick up some items.
1/15/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
10 Missing Port Orchard woman found dead in Haiti Local News
The family of 22-year-old Molly Hightower, of Port Orchard, was dealing today with the devastating news from Haiti that searchers found the young woman's body in the wreckage of a building where she worked as a volunteer.
1/15/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
11 King inspired future congressman to work for change between races Sports
As a boy in rural Alabama, John Lewis — now a Georgia congressman — was often puzzled why laws, customs and boldly lettered signs enforced nearly a total separation between "white" and "colored." But each time he asked his parents or grandparents about it, the answer was the same:
1/14/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
12 Civil-rights veteran speaks in Seattle, describes a poignant apology Local News
As a boy in rural Alabama, John Lewis — now a Georgia congressman — was often puzzled why laws, customs and boldly lettered signs enforced nearly a total separation between "white" and "colored." But each time he asked his parents or grandparents about it, the answer was the same:
1/14/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
13 Board to consider ban on smoking, spitting at Seattle parks Local News
Smoking, spitting and using flammable liquids would be among activities banned in Seattle's parks under a proposed code of conduct to be presented to Park Board members tonight.
1/14/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
14 In a final Olympics frenzy, Canada counts down Sports
Seventy-eight months have passed since Jacques Rogge, head of the International Olympic Committee, stepped to a microphone in Prague to announce the result of a second-ballot, 56-53 vote:
1/9/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
15 Coyote prompts howls, yawns in Magnolia Local News
He's becoming something of a neighborhood regular, hanging out by a gas station, dropping by a school-bus lot, turning up on one street at dawn and another at dusk. Never mind that this is the city, and he — or she — is wildlife.
1/2/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
16 Manhunt in slaying of mother, child on Beacon Hill Local News
The man police are seeking in connection with the shootings of a woman and her 13-week-old baby girl — found dead Tuesday in their Beacon Hill home — worried the mother of the slain woman enough that she asked a neighbor to "keep an eye on him."
12/23/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
17 Manhunt in slaying of mother, child on Beacon Hill Local News
The man police are seeking in connection with the shootings of a woman and her 13-week-old baby girl — found dead Tuesday in their Beacon Hill home — worried the mother of the slain woman enough that she asked a neighbor to "keep an eye on him."
12/22/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
18 Infant and mother found shot in Beacon Hill Local News
A woman and her infant daughter were found shot to death in their Beacon Hill home this morning, and police this afternoon are looking for a 29-year-old man in connection with the killings. The bodies were found by the woman's mother, the grandmother of the infant, who called police about 10:15 a.
12/22/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
19 Home rentals at Olympics make charity a winner Sports
Imagine sitting in a luxury, three-bedroom home in Whistler, B.C., looking out of your living room as the world's top ski racers zoom across the finish line in the men's downhill or giant slalom at the 2010 Winter Olympics in February.
12/21/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results
20 Get yourself prepared for cold weather this weekend Local News
Wrap the pipes. Fill your gas tank. And bundle up. The first bitter cold of the season is upon us, with low temperatures that could dip into the 20s the next several nights. "There's cold air trapped over B.C.
12/5/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results