ARTICLES BY DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP

Washington State President Elson Floyd dies at 59

Elson Floyd, the popular president of Washington State University whose influence in higher education and politics spread beyond the school in rural eastern Washington, died Saturday from complications of colon cancer. He was 59.

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Seahawks fans pull out their wallets for Super Bowl tickets

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Eight dead, more missing in landslide

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Meal programs expand summer nutrition for kids

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. - Four days a week this summer, lime green school buses loaded with games, books and computers rumbled through low-income neighborhoods south of Seattle. Their aim wasn't just to entertain kids - but to feed them.

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NTSB: Bridge collapse is wake-up call

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Classroom commerce

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Emerald City evolution

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Money, career woes plagued Afghan killings suspect

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Gates visitor center now open

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US fines WSU for campus safety

SEATTLE - Federal education officials have fined Washington State University $82,500 for violations in 2007 of a campus crime reporting law, including not properly reporting two sexual assaults, the university said Friday.

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5 perish in apartment fire

REDMOND, Wash. - A mother could only watch in agony as her four young children and a man were killed by an intense apartment fire that broke out a few hours into the new year, her neighbors in the apartment complex said Saturday.

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Could school bus ads save school budgets?

SEATTLE - School districts have imposed all sorts of drastic cuts to save money during the down economy, canceling field trips and making parents pay for everything from tissues to sports transportation.

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In Washington, 36 use lethal dose to end their life

SEATTLE - Sixty-three suicide prescriptions were dispensed during the first nine months of Washington's "death with dignity" act and at least 36 people used that lethal dose to end their lives, though there were three reported complications, state officials said Thursday.

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