Kevin Durant might return to his home town as a most valuable player candidate on a team with the NBA’s best record, but he didn’t exactly begin his career in the best environment to succeed. Drafted second overall by a mediocre Seattle franchise that was rumored to be on the move, surrounded by players who weren’t focused on winning, Durant won just 20 games as a rookie. Read full article > >

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Kevin Durant, Thunder turned around a losing culture, a lesson the Wizards could learn from

Could be worst snowstorm for Seattle since 1985.

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The Yankees moved quickly to get two starting pitchers from the Seattle Mariners, Michael Pineda and Jose Campos, and agreed to a one-year deal with Hiroki Kuroda.

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Northeastern University, based in Boston, opened its first satellite campus, which combines virtual and in-person instruction, this year in Charlotte, N.C. Seattle is next.

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SEATTLE — For the first time since October 2, Washington Redskins Coach Mike Shanahan smiled during a postgame news conference. After watching his team overcome two interceptions, a blocked field goal, a blocked extra point and a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit, Shanahan saw the team’s six-game losing streak come to an end with a 23-17 victory over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. Read full article > >

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Redskins vs. Seahawks: Washington scores 16 points in fourth quarter to win 23-17

AMSTERDAM — Police say an argument about loud music could be the reason Seattle Mariners outfielder Greg Halman was stabbed to death. Police spokeswoman Patricia Wessels tells The Associated Press that loud music “appears to be the reason the victim walked downstairs,” but police are still trying to piece together what happened after that. Read full article > >

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Dutch police say loud music may have led to the slaying of Seattle Mariners outfielder Halman

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — Dutch police say Seattle Mariners outfielder Greg Halman has been stabbed to death and his brother has been arrested as a suspect. Rotterdam Police spokeswoman Patricia Wessels says police were called to a home in the Dutch port city early Monday morning and found Halman bleeding from a stab wound. Read full article > >

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Steve Jobs originally wanted Apple to be able to operate the iPhone without help from carriers. That’s what John Stanton, a venture capitalist and wireless industry veteran, told his audience at a Seattle speech Monday, IDG News reported . According to Stanton, when Jobs was first percolating ideas about the handset from 2005-2007, he discussed the plausibility of going around carriers and using the unlicensed spectrum that WiFi networks rely on for the phones. Read full article > >

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JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — A U.S. Army soldier accused of exhorting his bored underlings to slaughter three civilians for sport was convicted of murder, conspiracy and other charges Thursday in one of the most gruesome cases to emerge from the Afghan war. Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs, of Billings, Mont., was the highest ranking of five soldiers charged in the deaths of the unarmed men during patrols in Kandahar province early last year. At his seven-day court martial at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle, the 26-year-old acknowledged cutting fingers off corpses and yanking out a victim’s tooth to keep as war trophies, “like keeping the antlers off a deer you’d shoot.” Read full article > >

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Jury convicts US soldier of murder, conspiracy in thrill-killings of Afghan civilians

From Seattle to Miami, rather than root for a win, fans root for Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, fearing a few victories might cost them a shot at him in next year’s draft.

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SEATTLE — Amanda Knox returned to her hometown of Seattle on Tuesday and was as overcome with emotion as she was a day earlier in Italy, when she was acquitted on murder charges after four years in prison. “Thank you for being there for me,” she tearfully told her supporters in front of a crowd of reporters from two continents. Read full article > >

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Her 4-year ordeal in Italian prison over, Amanda Knox arrives home in Seattle a free woman

LONDON — After Italian prisoners gave her a boisterous goodbye, Amanda Knox made her way home to America on Tuesday, holing up with family on the upper deck of a jetliner to Seattle as she enjoyed her first full day of freedom since her murder conviction was reversed. Reporters on board the British Airways flight hoping to talk to Knox, now a tabloid staple on two continents, were blocked on the stairs by a flight attendant who politely informed them that the family would speak publicly only after the plane touched down at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. It was unclear whether Knox herself would speak then. Read full article > >

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PERUGIA, Italy — Meredith Kercher would have been 25. The British student would have finished her degree at Leeds University and perhaps been preparing for another Halloween, a day she loved. Instead, her family awaits an appeals verdict expected Monday against former roommate Amanda Knox, of Seattle, who was convicted along with her Italian ex-boyfriend of murdering Kercher in 2007. Read full article > >

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LAS VEGAS — When the NBA last locked out its players in 1998, Rashard Lewis was a teenager living in his mother’s house. He didn’t know what it meant to miss NBA checks because the Seattle SuperSonics had yet to pay him after selecting him in the second round. But Lewis has much more to lose during this lockout, with a salary that would make him the second-highest paid player in the league next season at $22 million. Read full article > >

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Wizards’ Rashard Lewis says he’s not to blame for huge contract but he’s ‘willing to sacrifice’