Snohomish County gets nod for NASCAR track
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An 850-acre tract of farmland in Snohomish County near Marysville is the preferred site for a new $140 million, 75,000-seat NASCAR track, county and city officials said Monday.
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LOUDON, N.H. -- The sun came out -- finally -- 100 laps into yesterday's Sylvania 200 Craftsman Truck Series at New Hampshire International Speedway. Trouble is, it was a bit after 6 p.m. and the sun also happened to be setting behind the main grandstand.
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MARTINSVILLE, Va. Ryan Newman has grabbed the pole for this weekend&#39;s NASCAR race at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia. Newman is ninth among ten drivers and 271 points behind series leader Kurt Busch halfway through NASCAR&#39;s ten-race playoff.
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MARTINSVILLE - Halfway into the Chase for the NASCAR Nextel Cup, the competition comes to a half-mile track where intensity â-nd history â - inherent.
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By Katie N. Johannes, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb. 21--BELLINGHAM -- A complex of three ball fields, trails and fish habitat will replace 42 acres of dirt mounds, concrete slabs and dilapidated buildings along Squalicum Parkway -- eventually.
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By Charles Rabin and Curtis MorganMiami-Dade County leaders see a pot of gold at the end of a runway. It's a not-so-long, largely ignored airport runway in the far northwest corner of the county now used for drag racing instead of takeoffs.
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By John Dodge, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep. 11--Thurston County officials ruled Friday that an application by South Sound commercial geoduck growers for a countywide shoreline development permit for future geoduck farms is incomplete.
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Snohomish County still plans an electronic recount Monday of the votes cast in the contentious governor&#39;s race, dismissing Democrats&#39; request for a hand recount because of possible voting
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It&#39;s been a dozen years since the final race of the NASCAR season could promise this kind of suspense. When the checkered flag drops Sunday with the Nextel Cup Chase championship on the line, three of the
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NASCAR team reports as the Nextel Cup&#39;s championship chase enters its third race at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway: By Bill Elliott, AP.
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HAMPTON, Ga. - With an eye toward a tight championship battle and hopes for added interest as the racing season wound down, NASCAR introduced a new points format to decide its Nextel Cup title this year.
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By Keri Brenner, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  May 26--Two months after Thurston County issued a favorable environmental ruling on a grading permit for a proposed 25-foot-wide private road off Steamboat Island Road, county officials took it back for a do-over.
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Rusty Wallace is the leader among active drivers at Martinsville Speedway with seven career victories, and even he's unsure how the track's new surface will respond to racing on Sunday. The surface has been commended by drivers this week for being smooth and fast, but questions remain about whether it will feature two grooves for racing when the Subway 500 in the Nextel Cup Series is run.
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FONTANA, Calif. -- Southern California Welcomes Return of NASCAR: Labor Day weekend holds many traditions, one of which is racing.
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The weather could play a factor today in the Chase for the Nextel Cup. Cooler temperatures, something drivers arenât accustomed to at Darlington Raceway for the Southern 500, has changed the way drivers attack the track.
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Mother Nature washed out the NASCAR Nextel Cup qualifying yesterday at New Hampshire International Speedway and the 10 drivers competing in the 10-race Chase for the Cup were not complaining.
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Itâs been a dozen years since the final race of the NASCAR season could promise this kind of suspense. When the checkered flag drops Sunday with the Nextel Cup Chase championship on the line, three of the