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Jordan Morris scored his first professional goal as the Sounders beat the 10-man Philadelphia Union 2-1 on Saturday night at CenturyLink Field.

Washington’s baseball team scored three runs in the seventh inning to complete a rally from a 6-1 deficit and beat UCLA 8-7 Saturday at Husky Ballpark and tie the three-game series at a game apiece.

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s new president on Sunday pledged to continue efforts to release remaining political prisoners as part of the sweeping democratic changes his government envisions after a half-century of military control. President Htin Kyaw is leading the country’s first freely elected government after more than 50 years of direct or indirect military […]

The economic woes of Washington state’s second-largest trading partner undoubtedly will ripple across the border.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a 4-year-old girl has been fatally shot by a 5-year-old sibling in Philadelphia and police are searching for the mother’s boyfriend, who’s believed to have owned the gun used. Police say the girl was shot in the face in a home in the Upper Kensington neighborhood in north Philadelphia shortly […]

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma has been hospitalized with an undisclosed illness. The school released a statement saying the 62-year-old Auriemma had boarded a plane Saturday morning at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, but decided to deplane because he was not feeling well. The school says he was taken […]

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A fan hit by a foul ball at Tropicana Field was in stable condition Saturday at a hospital, one day after she was injured during a game between the Chicago White Sox and Tampa Bay Rays. The woman, sitting in the lower box seats next to Tampa Bay’s dugout on […]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Gene Cryer, the former editor of what is now the South Florida Sun Sentinel, has died following complications from a stroke, the newspaper reported Saturday on its website. Described as “a tough-as-nails editor who guided the South Florida Sun Sentinel from a sleepy Fort Lauderdale newspaper into a regional media […]

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Bill Gray, a pioneer in hurricane forecasting, died Saturday in Fort Collins, according to his longtime assistant. He was 86. Phil Klotzbach said Gray began researching hurricanes in 1984, long before national hurricane forecasters began publishing their forecasts. “His research on hurricanes was remarkable. He was one of the first […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada welcomed the first woman leader of the 57th Wing when Brig. Gen. Jeannie M. Leavitt took command in a ceremony, The Las Vegas Review-Journal (http://bit.ly/1NfmKI9 ) reported. The move came more than two decades after Leavitt became the Air Force’s first female fighter pilot in […]

Backtalk: Seattle Times sports letters to the editor for the week.

Overshadowed by Golden State’s historic run, the San Antonio Spurs put together their own season for the ages, too. Now that the postseason finally has arrived, they have no intention of easing up. “We didn’t play the way we did this season just to be on vacation after a few games,” Spurs guard Manu Ginobili […]

The tournament had one of the most dramatic finishes in history, and it had controversy, as players complained about the greens, some likening them to broccoli and cauliflower.