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MORNING BRIEFING: Sexy time at jail, NBA player comes out, light sabers are scary

Posted By Leah Sottile on Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:41 AM

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Local smokers: we suggest you light up no closer than 25 feet from business doors — or else you might find yourself slapped with a $50 ticket. (SR)

One Spokane neighborhood has gone from safe to super-sketchy since 2013 began. (KREM)

An Airway Heights Corrections Center counselor is in hot water after engaging in sexual activity with an inmate. (KXLY)

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Jason Collins, an NBA player, comes out of the closet. He is the first active player in major US sports to do so. (SR)

Investigators find female DNA on Boston bombs. (LA Times)

Pot activists in Idaho see their kids taken away to foster care?! (SR)

A homemade lightsaber scares the crap out of Seattle cops. (KHQ)

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