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WEEK IN REVIEW
Saturday


Fireworks blamed in Marysville house fire
Sailors for a day: Naval Station Everett opens ...
Edmonds backs off red-light cameras
Friday
Armed man shot by deputies in Arlington
Police ID make of vehicle in fatal hit-and-run
Boeing's 6-month tally: 1 net order
Thursday


One fire rips through $2 million home, another ...
Swine flu claims 2nd victim in Snohomish County
Jetty Island firefight continues; hot weather ...
Wednesday


Fire District 1 negotiates to take over service...
Snohomish County population rising fast since 2...
Honey's owners indicted by feds
Tuesday


Mobile home tenants along Snohomish River told ...
Lincoln to leave Everett in 2013
Put on your sailor's cap and explore Naval Stat...
Monday


Disabled people will be left without a ride
You'll soon have 4,500 reasons to trade in that...
Pay hike deserved, Monroe chief says
Sunday


1,670 local students in county are without homes
Monroe's business gets done in secret
$9 million to be sought for U.S. 2 in federal t...
 

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Readers turn to romance novels in stressful times

With an out-of-work husband and two children to support, Christine Mead needs a cheap -- and uplifting -- break from life. [More]


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Matchbox 20's Thomas in solo return

Rob Thomas, the Matchbox 20 frontman, returned on Tuesday with his second solo album, "Cradlesong." TRIVIA: Carlos Santana's album "Supernatural" went platinum 15 times, in large part because of the hit song Thomas wrote, "Smooth." [More]





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Film fare: For for its Family Movie Night, The Everett Public Library will show "City of Ember" at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. It's the year 2416 and the underground city of Ember is in danger of losing its power. Tim Robbins and Harry Treadaway set about... [More]






View from inside the new Harry Potter film

HOLLYWOOD -- Screenwriter Steve Kloves, who, with the exception of "The Order of the Phoenix," has adapted all the "Harry Potter" books for film, talks about the upcoming "Half-Blood Prince," the confrontation between Alan Rickman's Snape and... [More]






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Father was writer's harshest critic

JACKSON, Miss. -- Fresh out of college with an English degree in hand, Peter Leonard wrote a six-page short story he liked very much and asked a famous author for a few notes. [More]





Memoir charts writer's uncomfortable travels

Lynne Sharon Schwartz begins "Not Now, Voyager" with a telling recollection: She is in Orkos, on the Greek island of Naxos, when she awakens "to a darkness so thick I could breathe it in." [More]






Plum wears thin in latest outing

The barbecue sauce hits the ceiling in "Finger Lickin' Fifteen" ($27.95), Janet Evanovich's new Stephanie Plum novel. [More]






A-list stars ignored at box office

HOLLYWOOD -- The stars are not twinkling bright this summer. [More]





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