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Some of the over 12,000 runners and walkers who participated in the 38th Seattle Marathon and Half Marathon on Sunday Nov. 30 run up the last hill before finishing the race at Memorial Stadium.


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On Tuesday, Dec. 9, at 7:30 p.m., audiences are invited to join Seattle Symphony Chorale in a Holiday Sing-Along in the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium in Benaroya Hall ... From "Angels We Have Heard on High" to "Joy to the World," audience members can celebrate the best of holiday music by singing along ...


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The dance number "Push Da Button" features Grasan Kingsberry and Sumayah McRae, part of the original Broadway cast tour of "The Color Purple," opening next week in Seattle. Jeannette Bayardelle plays Celie and LaToya London is Nettie. It plays from Dec. 16 to 28 at The Paramount Theatre. For ticket information call ...


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The Musical about Love

Oprah Winfrey Presents The Color Purple, The Musical About Love.
"Pure Heart! A Broadway Hit!" USA Today
"Soaring and Joyful" Time.
December 30 - January 4 • One Week Only!
For Tickets click on the picture ...


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LAS VEGAS In the harsh light of the morning after his sentencing, O.J. Simpson's future was clear Saturday. His new home will be a prison cell in the Nevada desert with his door to freedom hinging on an appeal of a trial that his lawyers say was filled with errors ... Galanter has cited six initial issues for appeal. The most significant concern could be the exclusion of Blacks from the jury selection. The defense also will protest the judge allowing comments about Simpson's 1994 Los Angeles murder case in which he was acquitted ...


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NEWVoters in Louisiana sent two Republicans to Congress on Saturday, ousting indicted Democratic U.S. Rep. William Jefferson in one race and narrowly keeping a seat vacated by a retiring incumbent in the other. In the 2nd Congressional District, which includes most of New Orleans, Republican attorney Anh ''Joseph'' Cao won 50 percent of the vote to Jefferson's 47 percent and will become the first Vietnamese-American in Congress ...


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A judge has ordered a White supremacist charged with threatening a Chicago juror to remain jailed after hearing how he used his computer to discuss killing Blacks and even aimed a veiled threat at President-elect Barack Obama. William White, 31, of Roanoke, Va. stood impassively Friday as U.S. District Judge William Hibbler said he was upholding a previous decision by a Virginia judge to jail him without bond to "ensure the safety of the community ...
An article was posted on White's blog that included a photograph of Obama, a swastika, and concluded with the words, "He should not be allowed to take office by any means necessary." ...


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Blackwater Worldwide security guards opened machine gun fire on innocent, surrendering Iraqis and launched a grenade into a girls' school during a gruesome Baghdad shooting last year, prosecutors said Monday in announcing manslaughter charges against five guards ...


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CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiring to get financial benefits through his authority to appoint a U.S. senator to fill the vacancy left by Barack Obama's election as president.
According to a federal criminal complaint, Blagojevich also was charged with illegally threatening to withhold state assistance to Tribune Co., the owner of the Chicago Tribune, in the sale of Wrigley Field. In return for state assistance, Blagojevich allegedly wanted members of the paper's editorial board who had been critical of him fired.
A 76-page FBI affidavit said the 51-year-old Democratic governor was intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps over the last month conspiring to sell or trade the vacant Senate seat for personal benefits for himself and his wife, Patti ...


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The head of Georgia's Senate Higher Education Committee is proposing a merger of two historically Black colleges with other schools to save money ... Savannah State University with Armstrong Atlantic University and Albany State with Darton College in Albany ...


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