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By VERNAL COLEMANSeattle Times staff reporter
For the first time, King County’sannual onenight count of homelessness found more than half of
homeless people were sleeping outside versus in shelter, with a stark increase in the number of vehicle campers.
With pressure to show progresson the homelessness crisis, the county on Thursday announced an overall 4 percent increase in the annual snapshot count of homeless people, to 12,112.
The count, conducted in January, found a worsening problem of
people living in tent camps, cars, RVs and the street compared to last year. More than 70 percent of the county’s unsheltered homeless people were in Seattle.
As Seattle and the county’s declared state of emergency on homelessness enters a third year, the onenight numbers are sure to roil an already heated debate about how to better respond.
Compared to larger rises in homeless counts over the past five years, a 4 percent increase represents progress, said Kyra Zylstra, interim director of All Home, the
See > COUNT, A3 By RONI CARYN RABINThe New York Times
A prominent cancer organization is, for the first time, recommending Americans initiate colorectalcancer screening at age 45 instead of waiting until age 50, a threshold long endorsed by many other medical groups. The new guidelines, from the American Cancer Society, would extend routine colorectalcancer screening to an additional 22 million American adults between the ages of 45 and 49 and send a clear message that colorectal cancer, which has been rising in young adults, is no longer just a disease of older people.
Dr. Thomas Weber, who is thecochairman of an earlyage onset coloncancer task group for the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable but who was not involved in writing the new recommendation, called lowering the age for first screening “a game changer” that could save thousands of lives.
“This is a very, very big deal,”said Weber, who is director of surgical oncology for the northwest region of Northwell Health. “Solid epidemiological data from our national cancer registries documents a dramatic increase in the incidence of colon and especially rectal cancer among individuals under the age of 50, and the vast majority of those cases are in the 40 to 49yearold age bracket.”
The guidelines, released Wednesday, were published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, a peerreviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.
For colorectal cancer, the American Cancer Society didn’t push one screening option over another but listed various options: Yearly highsensitivity stool tests, designed to detect blood in feces; a DNA stool test, sold under the brand name Cologuard, every three years; a colonoscopy, every 10 years; or a virtual colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy, every five years. Patients who test positive for signs of cancer on a noncolonoscopy screening method should follow up with a colonoscopy quickly, the group said.
The group estimates some 16,450 new cases of colon or rectal cancers will be diagnosed
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It was another horrific killingof a Russian journalist that reverberated around the world, a man pictured lying dead in a pool of blood.
Arkady Babchenko was shotdead at his home in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, after returning from buying bread, police said late Tuesday.
The world’s media reported
the killing all day Wednesday with details of previous assassinations and archive footage of the 41yearold reporter who had been critical of the Kremlin. The news sparked condem
nation from the international community and Russia protested being blamed.
Then, about 5:20 p.m., Babchenko reappeared in Kiev.
To the amazement and applause of the assembled journalists at the headquarters of the State Security Service, or SBU, Ukrainian authorities
See > JOURNALIST, A11
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By CHRISTINE CLARRIDGESeattle Times staff reporter
It’s easy to walk by the small set of stairs near theentrance to the 5th Avenue Theatre in downtownSeattle and never notice it’s an opening to a tinyundercover world, one with shops, restaurants,artwork, old photographs and a hidden passage to
nearby buildings.It’s not exactly a supersecret thoroughfare, but there are
still plenty of local folks who’ve never heard of it.Take Leslie Davidson: She was born and raised in the
Emerald City, where 155 days of rain a year and temperatures above 73 degrees send people scurrying for shelter or shade. Yet she knew nothing of Seattle’s subterranean walkways until a friend took her children on an expedition of the Pedestrian Underground Concourse that cuts under four city blocks.
“They still talk about it,” she said of the decadeold adventure. “They got to go all the way down underneath the city and they never got wet though it was pouring.”
Her friend Eric Makus was introduced as a child to theSee > TUNNELS, A4
More people are living in vehicles, count shows
ANNUAL ONENIGHT BLITZ
3,372 were living in cars or RVs, a 46 percent increase
from 2017
Call for colorectal cancer screening at age 45 USED TO START AT AGE 50
New guidelines an effort to diagnose cases earlier,
save more lives
In Seattle, there are shortcutsright at your feet
You can save time, skip the hills and stay dry in the city’s ‘hidden’ passageways and tunnels
T H E S E A T T L E T I M E S
Eric Makus walks underground from the King County Administration Building at Fourth Avenue and James Street to the Goat Hill Parking structure at Sixth Avenue and Jefferson Street. Makus has made it his mission to find every concealed corridor and sneaky shortcut in Seattle.
M I K E S I E G E L / T H E S E A T T L E T I M E S
There is a sign, but few people notice the stairs that lead you to a passageway beneath the 5th Avenue Theatre.
M I K E S I E G E L / T H E S E A T T L E T I M E S
A niche under the 5th Avenue Theatre is home to a terracotta figure from the nowdemolished WhiteHenryStuart Building.
Arkady Babchenko
After Russian journalist ‘slain’ in Kiev reappears, the repercussions begin