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Man carrying rifle was shot in Edmonds: A man walking down an Edmonds street this morning carrying a rifle was shot and wounded by police, Edmonds police say. The man was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. We’ll be updating our story as details become available.

It’s fair time: You can do it at a trot, you can do it at a gallop, but fair organizers would prefer you don’t call it “the Puyallup” anymore. In any case, the newly renamed, 17-day Washington State Fair opened yesterday in, yes, Puyallup. The weather has been less than ideal for fairgoers, but who needs sunshine when you have a cadre of employees with squeegees sponging off the giant slide? (We have photos of that and other fair scenes in our gallery.) And the weather’s getting better anyway. If you need ideas on what to see, we have a list of highlights.

Traffic detours, with sports games to boot: The Sounders and the Mariners play tonight, and likely adding to game-day congestion will be several construction projects in Bellevue, Sodo and West Seattle, Monroe and across Highway 520. Be in the know about the best times to go and when things might get hairy. Details here.

Pink pipsqueaks: If Woodland Park Zoo’s baby giraffe didn’t max out your cuteness tolerance, here’s another chance: The parents of six new flamingo chicks are keeping a close eye on their little ones, who recently hatched at the zoo. Five more eggs may or may not hatch in the next several days. The babies might not be as pink as their parents yet … but they’re still pretty adorable.

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A man in his 20s was found shot dead in a Central District parking lot near 22nd Avenue South and South Main Street, according to police, who responded to the scene after 911 calls about gunshots in the area. Seattle Police said the man was most likely shot in the torso.

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The man shot by police last night: Seattle police shot a man on Holman Road south of Carkeek Park in North Seattle around 7:30 p.m. We’ll have more on his condition, and what went down, as the morning progresses. Among the questions that need answers: Just how many shots were fired, and was the shooting victim armed.

Tiger cub is sick: A six-month-old Malayan tiger cub at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma is in poor but stable condition today after undergoing emergency surgery last night. Veterinarians think the cub may have an intestinal infection. Malayan tigers are an endangered species. The News Tribune has the story.

Plastic has been found in bread sold at Fred Meyer stores and QFCs in Washington. Fred Meyer, which owns QFC stores, has recalled five types of wheat bread after finding pieces of plastic in loaves sent to stores in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. The bread loaves, all featuring a March 8 sell-by date, have been pulled from shelves, according to The Oregonian.

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A Lake Stevens woman could face assault charges for allegedly shooting her neighbor in the leg because she believed he and his friends were targeting her place with some of the fireworks they were shooting off.

The 54-year-old woman had confronted the 24-year-old victim and his friends more that once last night about the fireworks they were discharging, including her concern that some might be aimed at her property, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff’s office.

Sheriff’s deputies were called out on a report of gunfire to a residence in the  6400 block of 120^th Drive Northeast in Lake Stevens around midnight Tuesday and found the young man with a bullet wound to his thigh. He was taken to a nearby hospital. His injuries don’t appear to be life-threatening.

Seattle police investigate the scene where a man was shot and killed early Thursday morning in the 5400 block of South Grattan Place in South Seattle. (Photo by Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times)

A 27-year-old man was found shot to death in a car in South Seattle early this morning.

People living in the area around 54th Avenue South and South Grattan Place South heard several gunshots about 4 a..m.  One of them looked out a window and and saw a person sitting in a car, according to Seattle police.

Officers responding to the scene found the man sitting in the driver seat of a blue Buick Le Sabre. He had been shot several times in the upper body.  Seattle Fire Department medics tried to resuscitate him but without success.

Police don’t know what led up to the shooting, although one of the callers to 911 heard a vehicle start up and leave the area just after the shooting.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Seattle Police Department Homicide tip line at 206-233-5000. Anonymous tips are welcome.

The homicide is the 24th in the city this year, four more than in all of 2011. For a list of the victims before this morning’s slaying, click here.

The most recent homicide was that of Yancy Noll, 43, a wine steward at a QFC supermarket on Capitol Hill, who was fatally shot Aug. 31 while seated in his car. A Seattle man, Dinh Bowman, 29, was arrested about three weeks later and charged with first-degree murder in Noll’s death.

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A man was shot in the arm around 10:18 p.m. Monday at 43rd Avenue South and South Thistle Street, according to Seattle Police Department spokesman Jeff Kappel.

The victim in his early 20′s has been sent to Harborview Medical Center for treatment of a non-life-threatening injury, according to the Seattle Fire Department’s Twitter account.

Police have not been able to determine who shot the man or why yet, Kappel said.

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A man was shot early Thursday while driving through a South Seattle neighborhood.  According to Seattle Police, he refused a street-racing challenge and was then followed by people in two cars.  Someone in one of the cars, a silver BMW, fired multiple rounds at the victim’s vehicle, police say, striking him in the upper thigh. He was treated at the scene by medics and taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The incident occurred shortly after 2 a.m. as the victim was driving southbound on Martin Luther King Jr. Way. At South Orcas Street, he encountered a group of people attempting to flag him down. Police say he tried to ignore the group attempting to engage him. When he refused to stop, he was followed and shots were fired. The shooting is described as random.

Tukwila police are searching for a gunman and others inside a vehicle involved in a shooting this morning.

Police said that a 24-year-old Kent man was in the front passenger seat of a car in the 14600 block of Tukwila International Boulevard just after 1:30 a.m. when a burgundy-colored Chrysler, occupied by four men and a woman, pulled up. The victim was shot by someone in the vehicle which then took off.

The wounded man was taken to Harborview Medical Center to be treated for serious injuries, according to police.

The victim told police that he had been in an argument earlier with one of the men in the Chrysler. After the shooting, the victim managed to get to a nearby gas station where an employee called for help, said Tuwila police spokesman Mike Murphy.