Auburn News

Three men are now charged in what's been dubbed the "My Gun's Bigger" robbery attempt at Highland Park's Morning Star Market .

Antonio F. Castro pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Monday to shooting and seriously wounding two men on Nov. 16 in the parking lot of the Muckleshoot Casino in Auburn.

Page 1 of 2 OCZ, a pioneering SSD maker that has fallen on hard times over the past couple of years, has signed a deal to be acquired by Toshiba.

Proceeds benefitted the Auburn Food Bank. "We had almost 60 people attend and raised $1,260 and two barrels of food," said Ruth Stover, owner and operator of Corestar Pilates.

Mayor Pete Lewis and Mayor-elect Nancy Backus have worked together to combine the Planning and Public Works departments to create "greater efficiencies in the community development and engineering infrastructure."

Celebrate the holidays with a free Auburn tradition, The Red, White and Blue Holiday Concert, set for 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8 at the Auburn Performing Arts Center.

Benjamin Gran of Auburn pleaded guilty in September to receiving and possessing child pornography based an investigation that began four years ago in the Netherlands.

Funny money: 2:58 p.m., 1201 Auburn Way N. An employee of a local electronics store complained that a customer had just paid for some goods with a fake $100 bill, a discovery the employee made only after the customer left the store.

With the help of a grant from The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's education department, the Auburn Actors' Guild brings Shakespeare to Auburn High School for a special appearance.

But it was enough to declare Backus the official mayor-elect of Auburn and the first woman ever to win that position.

Auburn Mayor Pete Lewis was honored as Member Emeritus during the November Sound Cities Association Annual Meeting and Dinner.

Hundreds of independent bookstores throughout the country hosting local authors on Small Business Saturday this weekend, thanks to a movement called Indies First.

Auburn's red light photo-enforcement program has worked so well at slicing the number of traffic violations in the seven years that have elapsed since it began that today it is running at a deficit.

The Valley Regional Fire Authority responded to 170 calls for service between Nov. 11 and 17, among them the following: Aid call: 12:06 p.m., .

Ready to serve: Nina Contoravdis, Bill Contoravdis, Effie Contoravdis, Father John Contoravdis, Randy Simon of Barbers Against Hunger and Tom Contorvadis.

Appointments to the various boards and commissions that serve the City of Auburn often glide by unnoticed, unheralded, a routine part of business.

Strong-arm street robbery: 1 a.m., 3700 Auburn Way N. Somebody robbed a male at an Auburn bus stop.

Members of the business community and interested citizens are invited to a 3No Networking business mixer at 5:30 p.m. today at the Station Bistro, 110 Second St. SW, Suite 125.

A man who confessed to possessing child pornography is still on the payroll of a Washington state community college because it is a "legal issue," a school official said Wednesday.

And when all 15 remaining validated votes in King County were counted Tuesday, Nancy Backus had picked up one more, extending her lead over John Partridge to 135 votes.