This was more than any other year on record, and it put SEA No. 14 in the nation in 2022 for number of guns found at security.

Nationally, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, and George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston took the top three spots for guns found at security, with 448, 385, and 298 firearms found, respectively.

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In order, the rest of the top 10 went to Nashville International Airport, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Orlando International Airport, Denver International Airport, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, and Tampa International Airport.

Statewide, more guns were found at Washington airports in 2022 than any year before, with 164 total. Spokane International Airport also had a record firearm year, with 34 guns found, as did Tri-Cities Airport in Pasco, with 11 guns.

While you are permitted to travel with a firearm in checked luggage, provided you follow certain rules, it is forbidden to bring a gun in your hand luggage onboard an aircraft. If you try to travel with a firearm in carry-on luggage, TSA agents will immediately spot it in the X-ray machine, pull you aside, and have airport police speak with you.

Attempting to take a firearm through security, even if done accidentally, carries stiff penalties — you can be fined up to nearly $15,000. Fines go up with each subsequent violation.

Additionally, any security privileges you might have, such as membership in TSA PreCheck or NEXUS, will be revoked. You may even be banned from certain airports if you try to get a gun through security more than once.

Don’t think you can talk your way out of those penalties, either, said TSA spokesperson Lorie Dankers. She said that TSA has heard every excuse in the book, and saying, “I forgot the gun was in my bag” is not going to fly.

“People do try that line all the time. I don’t consider that an acceptable excuse because, of course, a responsible gun owner knows where their firearm is at all times,” Dankers said. “If they’ve forgotten that they have a firearm with them, then they’re not being a responsible firearm owner.”

While there are rare instances where extenuating circumstances might let a person off the hook, Dankers said the vast majority of cases will have monetary consequences. You can even be criminally prosecuted if police deem it warranted.

“Don’t count on you not getting that civil penalty — count on you getting that civil penalty,” Dankers said. “And I can tell you, I don’t know a lot of people who have that kind of money lying around ready to pay the government for something that was completely avoidable. So heads up, a civil penalty is coming your way.”

This is a very serious violation, Dankers said, because a loaded gun in a bag could accidentally discharge and harm someone at the airport.

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“That is a concern for us, it’s a concern for our employees. Fortunately, there have not been incidents of that,” Dankers said. “But we know because the vast majority of these firearms are loaded, there is always that possibility.”

If you want to travel with your gun, you can do so, but you must put it in your checked luggage and sign a declaration form at check-in. The firearm must be secured in a hard-sided, locked container, and it must be unloaded.

Dankers says TSA agents find other dangerous and prohibited items every day, such as flashlight stun guns. Before you fly, review on the TSA’s website what items are allowed.

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For the longest time, there was NO frontrunner for Best Picture. Movies as varied as “The Imitation Game,” “Boyhood,” “Unbroken,” “Birdman,” “Selma,” and even “Interstellar” were all trumpeted as Oscar-worthy. Then about a month ago, after a string of high-profile awards, “Boyhood” emerged as the clear frontrunner – even trumpeted as such on the cover of Entertainment Weekly. But then “Birdman” swooped in to win top honors from both the Producers Guild and the Screen Actors Guild. It’s now too close to call between “Boyhood” and “Birdman.”

Same goes for Best Actor. Micheal Keaton’s turn as a one-time movie star who’s trying to stage a big comeback in “Birdman” had been leading the pack for weeks. But then Eddie Redmayne – who plays Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything” – surprised him with a win at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which is the industry’s most reliable Best Actor predictor. Again, another toss-up.

Finally, Best Director. This award usually goes hand in hand with the Best Picture winner but recently, the last two years in fact, it has not. (Ang Lee won for “Life of Pi” when “Argo” won Best Pic, and Alfonso Cuaron won for “Gravity” when “Twelve Years a Slave” took Best Picture honors.) That could happen again this year, since the frontrunners, Richard Linklater and Alejandro Inaurritu, directed the two Best Picture favorites, “Boyhood” and “Birdman,” respectively. Linklater has won more of the awards, but Inaurritu won the big one, the Director’s Guild.

Best Picture

Will win: “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”
Should win: “Boyhood” or “The Grand Budapest Hotel”

Also nominated:
“American Sniper”
“The Imitation Game”
“Selma”
“The Theory of Everything”
“Whiplash”

Actor in a Leading Role

Will win: Eddie Redmayne in “The Theory of Everything”
Should win: The not-even-nominated Ralph Fiennes in “The Grand Budapest Hotel”

Also nominated:
Steve Carell – “Foxcatcher”
Michael Keaton – “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”
Bradley Cooper – “American Sniper”
Benedict Cumberbatch – “The Imitation Game”

Actress in a Leading Role

Will win: Julianne Moore in “Still Alice”

Should win: Marion Cottillard in “Two Days, One Night”

Also nominated:
Felicity Jones – “The Theory of Everything”
Rosamund Pike – “Gone Girl”
Reese Witherspoon – “Wild”

Actor in a Supporting Role

Will win: J.K. Simmons in “Whiplash”
Should win: Edward Norton in “Bridman” – only because J.K. Simmons should have been nominated as lead actor, not supporting actor.

Also nominated:
Robert Duvall – “The Judge”
Ethan Hawke – “Boyhood”
Mark Ruffalo – “Foxcatcher”

Actress in a Supporting Role

Will win: Patricia Arquette in “Boyhood”
Should win: Patricia Arquette in “Boyhood”

Also nominated:
Laura Dern – “Wild”
Keira Knightley – “The Imitation Game”
Emma Stone – “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”
Meryl Streep – “Into the Woods”

Best Director

Will win: Richard Linklater for “Boyhood”
Should win: Richard Linklater for “Boyhood”

Also nominated:
Alejandro G. Iñárritu for “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”
Bennett Miller for “Foxcatcher”
Wed Anderson for “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Morten Tyldum for “The Imitation Game”

Writing, Original Screenplay

Will win: “The Grand Budapest Hotel” by Wes Anderson; story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness

Should win: “The Grand Budapest Hotel” by Wes Anderson; story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness

Also nominated:
“Birdman or (the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr. & Armando Bo
“Boyhood” by Richard Linklater
“Foxcatcher” by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman
“Nightcrawler” by Dan Gilroy

Writing, Adapted Screenplay

Will win: “The Imitation Game” by Graham Moore
Should win: “Inherent Vice” for screen by Paul Thomas Anderson

Also nominated:
“American Sniper” by Jason Hall
“The Theory of Everything” by Anthony McCarten
“Whiplash” by Damien Chazelle

Music, Original Song

Will win: “Glory” from “Selma”; Music and Lyric by John Stephens & Lonnie Lynn

Should win: “Everything Is Awesome” from “The Lego Movie”; Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson

Also nominated:
“Grateful” from “Boyond the Lights”; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You” from “Glen Campbelle … I’ll Be Me”; Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond
“Lost Stars” from “Begin Again”; Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois

Whether it’s the newest technology that turns waste into fuel, or an education at home, here are five projects from the Gates Foundation you may not have heard of – yet.

As we wait with bated breath to find out what Marshawn says during Super Bowl media day Tuesday, if he says anything at all, we wanted to relive 10 of his best interviews:

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Throw on your jersey and head to one of these events – we’ll be at Westlake Park with 710 ESPN Seattle at 11:30 a.m. on Friday. Know of a rally that’s not listed? Email feedback@mynorthwest.com to pass along info on your Blue Friday rally and we’ll keep adding to the list.

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Some of the locations have changed a lot since the original show, like the Double R Diner (now Twedes Cafe.) But other settings have, in many ways, stayed the same. These are the five places we think “Twin Peaks” creator David Lynch are most likely to revisit.

“American Sniper”

Clint Eastwood directs Bradley Cooper in a film based on the life of the best military marksman in U.S. history, Chris Kyle. Dramatically flat, this movie falls into some pretty familiar ruts. A man has to choose between his love of country and his love of family, and he keeps going back and forth.

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“Big Eyes”

Tim Burton directs Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz in a film based on the husband and wife team behind those phenomenally successful and cheesy paintings of kids with great big eyes. Reminiscent of his “Ed Wood,” Burton’s newest movie explores fraudulence not only in personal relations but in art as well. One of Burton’s all-time best.

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“The Gambler”

Mark Wahlberg stars in this remake of a 70’s minor cult film that originally starred James Caan. It’s competent enough but adds nothing to the original.

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“The Imitation Game”

Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the man who, for all intents and purposes, invented the computer while successfully cracking Hitler’s Enigma Code during World War Two. One of the Oscar frontrunners this year, “The Imitation Game” puts a very unconventional character into a surprisingly conventional movie. But Turing’s story is well worth telling.

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“Into The Woods”

Stephen Sondheim’s brilliant musical mash-up of fairytales gets the Hollywood treatment and survives mostly intact. The movie is dramatically clunky at times but the cast, for the most part, does Sondheim proud, especially Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep, and Anna Kendrick.

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“Unbroken”

Angelina Jolie directs the incredible life story of a one-time Olympic athlete who as a bombardier in World War Two survived being shot down, being lost at sea for weeks, and being brutalized in a Japanese POW camp. Like “The Imitation Game,” “Unbroken” is a little too conventional to be truly insightful, but what a tale to tell!

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But much more interesting is what people were actually trying to figure out on Google this year. The Top-10 “How To” questions for Seattle are a surprisingly diverse mix of practical and pop.

10. “Big Eyes”

In theaters December 25

Count on Tim Burton to make a movie about the husband and wife team behind those phenomenally successful (and cheesy) paintings of kids with great big eyes, sold in hardware stores and gas stations across America in the 1950’s. Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz star as the couple whose secrets get exposed during some rather messy divorce proceedings. Ed Wood Redux?

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9. “American Sniper”

In theaters December 25

Clint Eastwood directs this true story about the best marksman the American military has ever known. Bradley Cooper plays Navy S.E.A.L. Chris Kyle who is credited with more than 150 “kills” in the battlefield. If this movie is as good as the trailer, it could be another Oscar winner for Eastwood.

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8. “Mr. Turner”

In theaters December 19

The last time I interviewed director Mike Leigh, he was lamenting the fact that his dream project, a bio-pic of the British painter J.M.W.Turner, might never come to fruition because he couldn’t raise the necessary funds. So I’m thrilled to see he’s pulled it off, at long last. Actor Timothy Spall, who spent two years learning how to paint before rehearsals even began, has already won some major acting awards (Cannes, New York Film Critics Circle.)

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7. “Wild”

In select theaters

Reese Witherspoon is expected to be an Oscar contender for her portrayal of Cheryl Strayed, a woman who overcame personal crises by hiking solo the Pacific Crest Trail. Based on the best-selling memoir of the same name, “Wild” is directed by Jean Marc Vallee whose most recent film, “Dallas Buyers Club” won Oscars for Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto. FYI, Rachel Belle loves the book.

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6. “Foxcatcher”

In select theaters

Steve Carell as you’ve never seen him before, playing the socially off-kilter heir of the DuPont family. In the 1980’s, John DuPont bankrolled the U.S. Wrestling team with tragic consequences. Bennett Miller (Capote) directs this true story about one of the saddest chapters in American Olympic history. Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo also star as two champion wrestlers.

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5. “The Imitation Game”

In theaters December 25

One of the Oscar frontrunners for both Best Picture and Best Actor, “The Imitation Game” tells the true story of mathematical genius Alan Turing. During World War II, he cracked the Nazi’s Enigma code and in the process invented the first computer, (which were once called Turing machines.) Benedict Cumberbatch, one of the hottest stars of the moment, plays the tortured loner who was also prosecuted for his sexuality.

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4. “Selma”

In theaters January 9

A movie about the 1965 voting rights marches in the South. It should make for a fascinating companion piece to the Seattle Rep’s current productions of “All the Way” and “The Great Society.” Both the movie and the plays cover much the same ground, with the film concentrating on civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and the plays on President Lyndon Johnson.

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3. “Unbroken”

In theaters December 25

Angelina Jolie directs this remarkable true-life story about a one-time Olympic track star who gets shot down over the Pacific during World War Two. This film has been seen by so few insiders, that an air of tantalizing mystery envelops it. Sight unseen, it’s already an Oscar frontrunner. We’ll see if that changes once it is seen. But count me curious as hell.

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2. “Into the Woods”

In theaters December 25

Stephen Sondheim is a musical theatre genius, and “Into the Woods” is probably his most popular work, since it’s become a staple of high school and college productions throughout the land. Sondheim is musically and dramatically tricky though, so I hope the cast, which includes Meryl Streep, Johnny Depp and Anna Kendrick, is up to the task. I have high hopes for Rob Marshall, who directed the last movie musical to win the Best Picture Oscar, “Chicago.”

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1. “Inherent Vice”

In theaters January 9

I can’t wait to see what happens when my favorite American director, Paul Thomas Anderson (“There Will Be Blood,” “Punch-Drunk Love”) takes on the challenge of adapting – for the first-time ever – my favorite American writer, Thomas Pynchon (Gravity’s Rainbow) to the big screen. Even if it’s a mess, it should at least be a brilliant mess. Joaquin Phoenix stars as a private eye investigating the disappearance of the boyfriend of his ex-girlfriend in this comedy/drama set in 1960’s psychedelic LA.

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