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Mapping the news
The Seattle Times maps the news each day to make it easy for you to see what's happening throughout the area -- and the world.
Using Google Maps, we plot several stories daily. You can use the index on the left to select a story and see it plotted on a map. Or you can browse the map, zooming in and out, and click on a push pin to read about the story that happened there.
Friday, September 5, 2008
- Elephant drug addict gets monkey off back
- Detroit's scandal-plagued mayor quits
- Crush chef behind Dry Soda's latest flavors
- Alger residents wonder if the pain will ever fade
- New kind of school offers special focus
- Myanmar opens to cyclone relief
- Woman on path to being Israel's prime minister
- Storm claims spot in WNBA playoffs
- Chile moves to clean up salmon-farming industry
- M's unlikely to sign stars for '09
- Salmonella outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts from Kent
- Bob Katz just moved in, you say? Uh, not quite
- Roadside bomb kills 2 U.S. soldiers
- Bhutto's widower to lead Pakistan
- Emerald Downs | Tonight's entries and Thursday's results
- Snohomish County Executive Reardon proposes cutting 70 county positions
- Violent trek moves turbine to dam
- Gustav evacuees returning to food, power shortages
- Sue Bird scores 19 to lead Storm past Sky 70-62
- BYU enters UW territory on quest for perfection
- Teen pleads not guilty in fatal shooting of hiker
- U.S. stepping up its role in Georgia
- Palin e-mails critical of troopers
- Emerald Downs | Tonight's entries
- Powerful trash mafia has southern Italy over barrel
- Hanna spills more misery on Haiti as Ike moves in
- 2 shot in Burien this evening
- M's Felix Hernandez gives up 1, loses 1-0
- Old 520 tollbooth now in second career
- U.S. military: Afghan civilian toll was 5 to 7
- Revolving house has 360 degree view
- Students boycott Chicago schools
- All hands on deck to help Norwegian vessel ready for fair centennial
- Shoreline motorist, 79, missing nearly 2 weeks
- Trains hit car, woman dies
- Louisiana mopping up after Gustav encounter
- Nazi "Angel of Death" found but not pursued, agent says
- Bellevue teachers, district far apart
- Protesters flout Thailand's emergency laws
- Suspects sought in home invasion, assault
- Deal to aid endangered sturgeon
- Deal is off for missing girl's mom
- India floods bring chaos, rioting as residents flee
- ZymoGenetics hands off work on arthritis drug to partner Merck Serono
- Russia: Georgian leader is "a political corpse"
- Group pushing to rename Freeway Park
- Idaho fire laid bare remnants of Oregon Trail ruts
- Rower reaches Hawaii in quest to cross Pacific
- Beltre hits for cycle as Mariners strike back
- Skagit County shooting spree leaves 6 dead, including sheriff's deputy, 2 injured
- Emerald Downs Derby | Gallon awarded win after inquiry
- Coalition talks reach deal on Goodwill site
- 2 sought in home-invasion robbery, assault in Seattle
- Seattle's Garfield High reopening after renovation
- Oregon man dies in Mexican jail after arrest
- Barbara Shinpoch Stakes | Lucky break late for Cherokee Echo
- Heavy rain bogs down evacuation after quake in China
- New search starts for missing pilot
- Pakistan strikes back at insurgents
- Medical advice in Zimbabwe: Just don't get sick
- Dust puts dent in fun at festival
- Russia's leader pledges military aid to provinces
- Rebuilt levees may not withstand Gustav
- In Vogue, but in good taste?
- Beltre hits for cycle in Seattle's 12-6 win over Rangers
- Hiker was still alive after fall
- Detroit mayor's plea deal asks resignation, no jail
- TV coverage of convention swept away by Gustav
- Problems multiply as schools forced to subtract from budgets
- "We're just hoping for the best" as storm comes
- Beltre's 2 homers help Mariners beat Cleveland
- Trip to Alaska with mom: priceless
- Emerald Downs | Gallant Son takes Emerald stakes
- Emerald Downs Racing | Friday's results and tonight's entries
- Cougars crushed 39-13 by Oklahoma St.
- M's snap Cleveland's 10-game win streak with 3-2 win
- U.S. Open | Sam Querrey's second upset earns match against Rafael Nadal
- Ducks keep Jake Locker in check for 44-10 win
- Ibanez, Mariners beat Indians 4-3 in 10 innings
- Aid agencies say they can work again in Zimbabwe
- Security industry booming in Mexico
- Emerald Downs Racing | Tonight's entries
- Seattle cop charged in Sturgis bar fight; so is Hells Angel
- Fun is No. 1 at Everett AquaSox games
- Afghans: Bad tip led to raid on village
- Key Iraqi official arrested on suspicion of militia ties
- Ex-Marine acquitted in prisoners' deaths
- Pakistan's Taliban offensive creates crush of refugees
- Bellevue strike threat illegal, unnecessary
- Back from Beijing Games, Sue Bird soars in Storm win
- FBI raids Global Fishing
- Critics resent Friedman Institute
- New Orleans levee update still not done
- Iraq, China ink major oil deal
- WSU Football | Four freshmen to debut on Seattle stage
- Authorities investigate body thrown from car
- M's edge Cleveland 3-2, end winning streak
- Fake book author wants profits
- Pair finish 2,600-mile trip on raft