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Nine arrested in crackdown on Central District drugs, guns

Nine people were arrested Wednesday by a law enforcement task force targeting firearms and drug crimes in Seattle’s Central District.

Alcohol suspected as arrest made in fatal Kitsap County collision

One person died in a four-vehicle collision on Highway 16 in Gorst, Kitsap County, and another was arrested. Troopers say alcohol was involved.

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Nine arrested in crackdown on Central District drugs, guns

Nine people were arrested Wednesday by a law enforcement task force targeting firearms and drug crimes in Seattle’s Central District.

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CHICAGO (AP) — Warning: Marijuana use during pregnancy and breast-feeding poses potential harms. That message would be written on medical and recreational marijuana products and posted wherever they're sold if the nation's most influential doctors group has its way. The American Medical Association agreed Monday to push for regulations requiring such warnings be written on...

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