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Pike Place Market, the Space Needle, Mount Rainier, Columbia Valley wine, Pacific salmon, drippy rain forests and whitewater rivers are but a few images conjured up by thoughts of Washington, Oregon's neighbor to the north and co-owner of the Pacific Northwest brand.

Why would Greece accept more pain when unemployment is at 21 percent, the economy is enduring its fifth year of recession and rioters are hurling gasoline bombs in the streets of Athens? Protesters carry a banner which reads in Greek '' uprising '' during a protest in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Saturday, Feb.

Newt Gingrich has taken credit for balancing the budget in 1998 through 2000, when he was Speaker of the House.

The Salem Police responded to the following calls and made the following arrests on Thursday and Friday.

The Legislature is moving forward on a bill to allow pharmacies to redistribute donations of unused prescription drugs starting next year.

The thoughts below were written three years and one month ago. No one cared about my ideas.

Turkey's foreign minister said Friday he will propose new ways to pressure Syria when he meets with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday.

Mount Vernon, seen from the Potomac River. Even while president, George Washington expressed a longing to return to his Virginia estate.

Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, Friday, Feb.

Theresa Vanderhoff lights a candle next to photographs of Susan Cox Powell and her sons Braden and Charles, during a candlelight vigil at McKinley Park in Tacoma on Monday.

President Barack Obama declared Friday he's found a solution to a birth-control uproar that will protect religious liberty but also ensure that women have access to free contraception, as he rushed to defuse an election-year issue that threatened to overtake his administration.

At least 28 people were killed in two bomb attacks in Syria's second city Aleppo on Friday while in besieged Homs, opposition neighborhoods endured another day of bombardment by President Bashar al-Assad's troops.

Washingtonians have a thing about any sort of invasion by "Californiacators" - a rallying cry of Emmett Watson's Lesser Seattle brigades.

An initiative seeking to legalize and regulate the recreational use of marijuana will be decided by voters, Washington lawmakers said Thursday.

The B reactor complex, operating in the 1940s, was the earliest facility to turn out large amounts of waste at Hanford.

Basketball players will have a chance to show off their skills this weekend during the 2011-12 Washington Recreation & Parks Association HotSpot basketball competition at noon on Saturday at the Pierce College Health and Fitness Center in Lakewood.

The Washington state Legislature approved gay marriage Wednesday. When Gov. Chris Gregoire signs the bill into law, her state will become the second Washington to recognize gay marriage since Washington, D.C., did so in 2009 .

Dean Malissa portrays America's first president, Gen. George Washington, at Mount Vernon, Washington's estate in Mt.

Doug Honig, ACLU of Washington, 326-5272 Robyn Shepherd, ACLU national, 519-7829 or 549-2666; media@aclu.org OLYMPIA, Wash.

Halide Lobdell Patterson proudly displays her Washington Pioneer Certificate that honors her Washington pioneer Myron Young who settled in Washington prior to 11 Nov 1889.