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"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" roared to $73 million on its opening weekend, one of the summer's best debuts, according to studio estimates Sunday.

A gunman who killed a rookie officer responding to a report of an armed robbery at a drugstore early Sunday never tried to rob the store and instead lay in wait for police, telling a witness to watch the news because he was "going to be famous," authorities said.

A leading music school in Washington State, The Academy of Music Northwest provides different levels of rigorous college-prep music classes and extensive performance opportunities for talented young musicians between the ages of 4 -18.

Two people ran from the scene, but ended up checking into separate hospitals with gunshot wounds.

While thousands finished the legendary Seattle to Portland bicycle ride today, dozens of West Seattle riders showed solidarity with their own version.

Health officials in northern Idaho and eastern Washington say the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is at outbreak levels.

Seattle City Light officials said the outage started before noon and the boundaries were Northeast 77th Street , Lake Washington , on the South Northeast 38th Street and Eighth Avenue Northeast .

That's Fysah and The Soul Acoustic , performing a bit earlier this afternoon onstage at West Seattle Summer Fest 2014 .

This is a town where people are so rich that a $2 million home can be a handyman's special.

Those with an eye toward healthy living have probably noticed the words "aronia berry" in everything from juices and powdered supplements to baby food.

You've probably heard that tonight's moon is not only the full moon, but is also the "supermoon," brighter because the moon is closer to the earth.

"There's nothing like hearing an 80-piece orchestra play a rich, Romantic-era piece," the 26-year-old mobile-apps project manager tells me.

At midday today, West Seattle's Fire Station 36 in North Delridge welcomed visitors to an open house with tours of its upgrades and renovations: The station recently reopened after about nine months of work - read more about it here - during which time Station 36's crews were temporarily stationed at a spot off Harbor Avenue SW.

History is sometimes thought of as a sequence grand events, but really it's a vast collection of small things.

A Frontier Airlines official says one of its planes was diverted to Salt Lake City after it was hit by lightning.

Ferry passengers have a lot of questions tonight about how a convicted sex offender was allowed to work as a deckhand around children.

The Lake Washington Ship Canal Bridge is one of the more impressive transportation structures in Seattle.

Her pot shop in the quaint Whidbey Island community of Langley is scarcely bigger than a shoe, and Maureen Cooke fits right in.

Family members of a Russian man charged with hacking Seattle businesses insist he is innocent and fear he will die in custody if he doesn't have his medication.

An angry and frustrated car theft victim says Seattle police completely botched the search for his missing car and investigation into who took it.