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The not-so-secret code names used by the US Secret Service for the president-elect and his family have been published.

HONG KONG (AFP) - Hong Kong's last British colonial governor Chris Patten said in a radio interview Monday that he thought President George W. Bush was the worst American president he had seen.

Seattle-based Alaska Airlines said yesterday it has started seasonal service between Anchorage and Kahului. The flights, which operate three days a week, continue through April 25.

State Health Department employees continue to be barraged by requests from people demanding to see Barack Obama's birth certificate, including some who have called the department's registrar of vital statistics at home — in the middle of the night.

In the far corner of an Irish pub in the shadow of the Space Needle, a small group of young Republicans huddled earlier this week for an after-work session of mutual support and affirmation.

Seattle police say one male teenager was fatally shot and another was wounded in a drive-by shooting in the city's Central Area.

A day after refusing to talk about whether he wanted to be a candidate for the Washington coaching job, Jim Mora, a Seattle Seahawks assistant slated to replace Mike Holmgren as head coach in 2009, released a statement saying he wasn't interested ...

The news was both good and bad for Seattle Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck on Tuesday. Hasselbeck, who has missed three straight games with a bulging disk in his back, told Seattle radio station KIRO that he will not need surgery.

An 8-year-old Seattle boy did something last weekend that his father hasn't done in 37 years of playing golf. He made a hole-in-one.

He started out as a street musician, serenading tourists at Pike Place Market. Two years later, he's recording with Johnny Cash's son, touring with Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard, playing Washington festivals like Sasquatch and Bumbershoot, and opening...