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England managed to abolish slavery 30 years before the United States and avoid a bloody civil war in the process. Still, the journey was a thorny political road spanning decades and consuming the lives of those involved. The result was a…MORE

It was New Year's Eve, 1936. Just a few months earlier the New York Yankees won their ninth World Series, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won his second presidential election, and gas prices stood at 20 cents a gallon. And somewhere in the town of…MORE

High school students marched in n Seattle on April 18 to protest the war in Iraq. Here they are seen approaching the Seattle School District headquarters in the Sodo District. Over two hundred students left school for the demonstration that began…MORE

Construction workers at the NoMa Condominiums were lined up floor-to- floor last week. They were passing up pieces of lumber from the ground floor to each other.

Ballard resident Darrell Kirk has been helping Seattle Central Community College students receive an education through the Nelson Mandela-Graca Machel Scholarship program.

Kirk and his wife, Elizabeth Devereaux, a teacher at Wing Luke…MORE

Three remote villages in Ethiopia now have clean water to drink thanks to the efforts of Ballardites Judith Sanderman and her husband Dennis Wilkins.

The couple has collected donations to buy school supplies, as well as build wells as part…MORE

Sitting in front of her television, Chris Arace has always been good at solving the puzzles on the "Wheel of Fortune." When she finally appeared as a contestant on March 28, she won $49,000.

"I've always been good at it. I yell at the…MORE

The older sister minces her way over 5,000 meters of cross country terrain. The younger sister swallows meters at a time over 800 meters of track. With disparate stride and strength, each Johnson sister nevertheless lit up her respective West…MORE

I never made a plan for my life. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I wanted it to happen without work. After college I took a job in retail at Crate & Barrel (as Section Head of Christmas Ornaments, it was assumed to be temporary). On…MORE

Every soldier's story follows an arc from bright dreams of glory into shadows of chaos - to a place where illusion is stripped away, leaving only the rawest elements of character and instinct to scrape against each other.

Combat drama, at…MORE