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The Associated Press UPDATE, 9:05 a.m. | Officials have not yet officially identified the pilot lost when a small plane crashed Monday in Hood Canal. The Coast Guard says it has notified the pilot’s family, but it is not releasing his name. The Federal Aviation Administration says the only missing aircraft in the area is an RV7. That’s…

UPDATE, 12:35 p.m. | The wrong-way driver was a 38-year-old woman from Kirkland, according to Dominic Ledesma of the Washington State Patrol. Investigators don’t know why she was driving in the wrong lane and don’t believe she was impaired, Ledesma said. UPDATE, 9:25 a.m. | Highway 522 has reopened and all lanes are clear, according to the…

From 2012 to 2013, Seattle was America’s fastest-growing major city, a city walking the line between frenetic change and beloved authenticity. Columnist Jon Talton and Pacific NW writer Ron Judd were talking with readers about the tension between the old and the new in Seattle and surrounding areas on Tuesday. Read what they had to…

UPDATED with details,12:30 p.m. | The district-wide lockdown of Shoreline schools has been lifted, according to a tweet for DB Gates of the King County Sheriff’s Office.  Police will remain at schools until all children are released. A Meridian Park Elementary school employee alarmed by seeing a suspicious man with a firearm on school grounds…

If his taste for thrift shops is any indication, Macklemore will look right at home in dad jeans. The Seattle rapper, also known as Ben Haggerty, and his fiancee, Tricia Davis, announced they were expecting in a YouTube video that looks more like a movie trailer than a home video. Producer Ryan Lewis, ever Macklemore’s right-hand…

Classes at Issaquah’s Pacific Cascade Middle School will resume as scheduled Jan. 5 after a threatening letter prompted the school to close for three days before Christmas break. The typed letter was found Dec. 17 outside a teacher’s classroom and threatened violence against four school staff members two days later, according to the Issaquah School…

UPDATE: Friday, 6:40 a.m. | Two felony suspects, a man and a woman, were arrested after a seven-hour standoff in the Broadview neighborhood on Thursday night, according to the Seattle Police Department. Detectives saw the 29-year-old female and 32-year-old male, wanted in connection with auto thefts and a recent violent robbery, enter an abandoned home near North 132nd Street…

The occupant of a Lynnwood-area home opened fire on a man who was trying to break in Tuesday afternoon, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said. The would-be intruder, who had previously lived at the home in the 19300 block of Locust Way, showed up around 12:45 p.m. to collect his belongings, the sheriff’s office said. However, a resident…

A 14-year-old Snohomish County boy accidentally shot himself in the leg Tuesday morning while target shooting, the sheriff’s office said. The victim, a student at Voyager Middle School, apparently skipped school to go target shooting with friends, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. The shooting was reported by a friend of the victim…

One of two men accused of beating a Boeing manager to death in his Sammamish home in September before fleeing to Canada in the victim’s car has been returned to the U.S., according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Christopher J. Shade, 18, was extradited from Canada last week and booked into the King County Jail. He is scheduled…