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Released Friday by the Seahawks, Richard Sherman will leave having made maybe the biggest play in the city’s sports history and coined one of its most memorable phrases.

LA MARQUE, Texas (AP) — A server at a Houston-area diner has received an unexpected $16,000 college scholarship after details of her act of kindness — cutting an ailing customer’s food — spread online. Texas Southern University in Houston on Thursday awarded the scholarship to 18-year-old Evoni (EV’-uh-nee) “Nini” Williams. She works at a Waffle […]

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say an 11-year-old boy is believed to have been accidently shot by his older brother with a rifle. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the boy was treated Thursday evening at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after being taken there in a personal vehicle. Deputies with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office determined the boy […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — An Associated Press analysis shows the National Rifle Association gave nearly $120,000 to Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps at seven Nevada high schools in recent years. The AP analysis of the NRA Foundation’s public tax records finds that those grants were part of a total of $798,500 in cash and materials […]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Cyberbullying minors would become a crime in West Virginia, with penalties up to a $500 fine, a year in jail or both, under legislation passed unanimously on Friday by the state Senate. The House of Delegates approved its version 94-1 in February. The bill would outlaw using a computer or network […]

As a teen Aron survived seven Nazi concentration camps by swapping sketches of his captors and their families for scraps of food. He lived to become a prominent American portraitist, commissioned by the likes of Ronald Reagan, André Previn and Henry Miller.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A registered sex offender filed a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Children’s Hospital because he’s barred from visiting his severely ill 9-year-old son. The lawsuit filed Friday in Milwaukee County says the hospital’s policy of forbidding sex offenders from visiting family is “repugnant.” Hospital security escorted 49-year-old Stuart Yates from the hospital Tuesday. […]

PHOENIX (AP) — Another court hearing has been scheduled for an Arizona man accused of providing armor-piercing ammunition to the gunman in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The hearing for Douglas Haig was set for next Thursday, but has since been moved to April 16 to give his lawyers more time to […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Gov. Phil Bryant is nominating four people to the board that oversees Mississippi’s eight public universities, making him the first governor to appoint all 12 trustees. The nominees include Hattiesburg radiologist Dr. Steven Cunningham; Ocean Springs businesswoman and Republican Party official Jeanne Luckey; Meridian insurance agent Bruce Martin and Jackson lawyer […]

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Gov. Steve Bullock says $200,000 in emergency energy assistance funding will be released to assist eligible families on three Montana Indian reservations hit hard this winter. State officials have received reports that some residents of the Blackfeet, Fort Belknap and Northern Cheyenne reservations have exhausted their ability to pay extra high […]

PHOENIX (AP) — Francisco Cantu said he joined the Border Patrol at age 23 to get an on-the-ground education in international relations. Now 32, he says he didn’t expect his new memoir examining some of the agency’s uglier aspects would spark protests by far-left groups denouncing him for the enforcement work and forcing him to […]

Re: “Affordable housing is not the enemy.” Along five blocks on my street there are seven apartment buildings providing affordable rentals. The apartment dwellers and the house dwellers have lived compatibly for decades. In recent years nine houses have been torn down. Twenty-five unaffordable town houses have been built. Affordable housing is not the enemy, […]

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy says New Jersey is sending a mobile hospital to help St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Murphy said in a statement Friday that the mobile hospital will serve at the Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center. The assistance comes after hurricanes Irma and Maria […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — State House members are moving forward with their version of a plan to divert future revenue and borrow money to spend on roads and bridges, but it wouldn’t give control of money to the governor or take any money from current state Transportation Department funds. The House voted 104-6 Thursday to […]

Refractive surgery works by cutting a tiny flap in the surface of the eye and then using a laser to reshape the cornea.

Michael Eliason’s My Take column misrepresented several parts of the Mandatory Housing Affordability policy and the objections to it. Neighborhoods like mine, Northwest Queen Anne/Interbay, are traditionally multifamily and affordable. Now older, affordable multifamily dwellings with parking and trees are being torn down and replaced by expensive town houses and row houses that fill entire […]

School districts applaud the Legislature’s decision to spend $776 million on teacher salaries, but they remain wary of other K-12 budget decisions that lawmakers revealed the last day of this year’s session.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says a court in Istanbul has ordered two journalists for the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper released from prison pending the conclusion of their trial on terror charges. Anadolu Agency reported that the court ruled Friday that Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu and prominent investigative journalist Ahmet Sik are to […]

DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s Supreme Court has denied a Detroit-area man’s request for a new trial in the 2013 fatal shooting of an unarmed woman on his porch. The court said Friday that it would not review Theodore Wafer’s argument that jurors should have been given instruction that said he shot Renisha McBride […]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — An Associated Press analysis shows the National Rifle Association gave nearly $47,000 in materials to Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps at four Utah high schools and $178,000 to three Utah councils of the Boy Scouts of America in recent years. The AP analysis of the NRA Foundation’s public tax records […]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The West Virginia Legislature has voted to reorganize the state electoral map into 100 separate legislative districts for the House of Delegates. The Senate’s 30-3 approval Friday follows January passage in the House, where its 100 members together represent 67 districts. More densely populated areas have two, three, four or five […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kristen Wiig will play a villain in the next “Wonder Woman” film. Director Patty Jenkins announced on Twitter Friday that Wiig will star as Wonder Woman rival Cheetah in the superhero sequel. Jenkins said in her post that she “can’t wait to finally work with one of my favorites” and is […]

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian official: Trump will attend Summit of the Americas regional meeting of Western Hemisphere leaders in Peru.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A tennis umpire arrested before a U.S. Open match and accused of beating her husband to death with a coffee mug before seeing the charges dropped says he may have died after tripping over their cat. Lois Goodman says in an interview Friday with NBC News that she believes her husband, […]

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Washoe County School District has banned guns from auctions at school fundraisers. The Reno Gazette Journal reported on its web site Friday that the move comes after a gift basket including a semi-automatic rifle was almost auctioned off at an event for the Galena High School baseball team. The auction […]