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Last Updated at 3:04 p.m. EST Having exhausted all court appeals and after being denied clemency by Virginia's governor, the man convicted in the 2002 sniper attacks that left 10 people dead and terrorized the nation's capital region for weeks, met with his immediate family members on the last day of his life.

Gov. Chris Gregoire has named Ted Sturdevant as director of the Washington state Department of Ecology.

A documentary drawing on the memories of Marion Barry, Ben Bradlee and other Washingtonians about the city in the 1960s is premiering on public television.

The final tally is not yet in, but--as reported in the Olympian via McClatchy , gay and lesbian families in Washington state are expected to hold onto legal privileges that give them all the same state-level rights and protections of marriage--though not under that name.

In this photo taken from video, the final vote the health care bill 3962 is shown as members of the house attend the vote on Saturday in Washington.

Off the coast of Washington state, mysterious algae mixed with sea foam have killed more than 8,000 seabirds, puzzling scientists.

Referendum 71 was the item on the ballot asking people to either affirm or deny the bill passed earlier this year here in Washington giving domestic partners basically all the rights of married couples without the word marriage being used.

The state Ecology and Agriculture Departments have a request for grain ships off the Washington coast: Hey, stop throwing those pesticide canisters overboard.

Washington voters have approved the state's new "everything but marriage" law, expanding rights for domestic partners and marking the first time any state's voters have approved a gay equality measure at the ballot box.

Washington state voters have approved the state's new "everything but marriage" law, marking a significant expansion of rights for gay couples who are registered as domestic partners.

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The Approve Ref 71 campaign says final results won't be in until some time tomorrow, but things are looking good in Washington as voters have decided to keep intact the state's latest expansion of domestic-partnership rights.

He also planned to meet with Massachusetts National Guard and Army members at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center

"This bill would expand the rights, responsibilities, and obligations accorded state-registered same-sex and senior domestic partners to be equivalent to those of married spouses, except that a domestic partnership is not a marriage.

The Washington Department of Licensing has modified plans for the new seven-character license plate.

Washington's R-71 is a referendum on hate. A vote in favor of R-71 is a vote to extend legal protection to domestic partners in Washington State.

Federal prosecutors say statements from a Washington man accused of threatening a Colorado abortion doctor's family should be admitted in court.

Opponents of stronger legal partnerships for gay couples must abide by Washington state's campaign finance laws while a lawsuit challenging those laws' constitutional footing moves ahead, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

HANGZHOU, China: The United States and China huddled on Thursday for key talks on trade disputes, clean energy and climate change less than three weeks before a visit by US President Barack Obama.

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