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A Seattle police SWAT team Monday morning swarmed a home surrounded overnight but did not find suspected cop killer Maurice Clemmons inside.

If you travel between Seattle and Redmond, get ready for some detours. The Department of Transportation says crews working on three separate projects along the SR 520 corridor between Medina and Redmond are ramping up nighttime work and that means closures and delays for drivers during the busiest shopping season of the year.

Seattle Center Winterfest 2009 brings five weeks of free festivities for all to enjoy.

If you're with a group that can use student volunteers, here's a chance to find them: Chief Sealth High School will be hosting a Service Learning Fair for non-profit organizations that offer Service Learning opportunities to high school youth, 14-21 years of age, on Monday, December 7, 9:00 - 11:00 AM.

I APPRECIATE The Seattle Times editorial suggesting the Legislature clarify exactly who should pay for cost overruns to the deep-bore tunnel that will replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct ["Lawmakers should clear tunnel-overrun roadblock," editorial, Nov.

A Bellingham-based pedicab company is being sued by a Connecticut family that claims faulty brakes caused a crash that killed their father in Seattle last year.

A Seattle man who took a gun into a Seattle community center to challenge the city's ban on guns in city parks has filed a lawsuit against the city and Mayor Greg Nickels.

A man was shot and killed Friday night near Ninth Avenue and Columbia Street. Medics were called to the scene, near St.

FBI agents arrested a 35-year-old Seattle man early this afternoon in an investigation of envelopes sent to The Seattle Times that contained a suspicious white powder.

A group of local retailers are setting up a gently usedA shoe collection drive forA Soles4S ouls, a non-profit that provides footwear to people in need in moreA than 125 countries.A During the month of December, you can drop off those shoes youa re not wearing at selected businesses, knowing that a victim of a natural disaster, or a person living ...

On the eve of Dow Constantine 's swearing-in as King County Executive , we are reminded that he declared five months ago there'd be no new jail for municipal misdemeanor offenders if he got the job.

SEATTLE A car accident caused a chunk of concrete to fall of the Alaskan Way Viaduct Tuesday afternoon.

The verdict's in for DeShawn "Cash Money" Clark , the teenage pimp linked to a gang called the Westside Street Mobb : Guilty.

Nearly five dozen new closed-circuit traffic cameras designed to relay real-time information to the Seattle Transportation Department's traffic-management center and to a travelers-information Web site will be in use by next spring, nearly doubling the number of cameras now in use in Seattle, transportation officials said.

Happy Thanksgiving, Seattle Times readers! Two turkeys look out from their pen as customers wait to get into the retail store at Raymond's Turkey Farm in Methuen, Mass.

Weeks after firefighters doused blazes across Greenwood, the charred sites of almost a dozen arsons still pock the North Seattle neighborhood.

Carolyn Magoon had just let her Maltese dog named Cooper out in her fenced in backyard when he and then she became the latest victims of a raccoon attack on Seattle's Queen Anne Hill.

Community Transit is starting its new bus rapid-transit system on Sunday between Everett and Shoreline, just north of Seattle.

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ON 11/23/09, AT APPROXIMATELY 1:19 A.M., OFFICERS SAW 3 MALES AT 13TH AND E. JEFFERSON ST THAT WERE PREPARING TO FIGHT.

Patricia Lynn Crowl has a violent history with her boyfriend's ex's. Avoiding the more predatory creatures in your loved one's wake is a necessary survival tactic in the dangerous waters of co-habitating. And Patricia Lynn Crowl may just be the biggest shark of them all.

A popular Seattle neighborhood is rocked by a random act of violence after cops say a woman was brutally stabbed on a sidewalk.

It was one of this fall's most memorable Crime Watch stories - a Gatewood burglary victim followed a hunch to a supermarket Coinstar machine, where he found the 19-year-old who'd broken into his house , cashing in the change from BBD's son's coin jar.

A Seattle woman who killed a woman 12 years ago in a jealous rage over a man is now accused of stabbing her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend earlier this month.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle today announced the results of its recent Board of Directors elections for member directors in Alaska, Hawaii, and Utah and for two independent director positions.

Several public libraries are receiving budget adjustments that help or hurt. Below are updates on several library systems facing difficult decisions, some with improved outcomes.

Alki Point wildlife watcher/writer Guy Smith shares that photo with news of the first brant sighting - just two days after we published his story about the small geese who return to West Seattle waters Thanksgiving week every year .

To honor the legacy of the historic Olmsted boulevards that run through Seattle, the city is installing special street signs.

THESE 15 BRANCHES will be open five days a week, a total of 35 hours: Columbia, Delridge, Fremont, Green Lake, High Point, International District/Chinatown, Madrona-Sally Goldmark, Magnolia, Montlake, NewHolly, Northgate, Queen Anne, South Park, University, Wallingford.

Sean Wooten, 29, journeyed from West Seattle to the Samoan Islands last month to volunteer after they were hit with a tsunami.

Seattle mayor Greg Nickels announced today that Microsoft has become the 150th business to join the Seattle Climate Partnership, a voluntary program for the regiona s businesses working to reduce their carbon footprint and partner with others in the effort.

The windy weather is taking its toll on the Seattle metro area. Trees are down, knocking out power across the city.

An old episode of Frasier , the television comedy set in Seattle, focuses on an impending strike at the fictional radio station where Frasier works as an on-air psychiatrist.

As a new mayor takes office, key jobs at the Seattle City Council will stay put under a new alignment of committee chairs announced late Thursday by the council's president Richard Conlin.

An underwater billboard hoax helped a restaurant on the Puget Sound increase chowder sales by a factor of four.

The King County Ferry District board voted Monday to reduce the amount of money it collects from taxpayers, abandon proposed demonstration ferry routes and focus only on the Vashon-Seattle and West Seattle-Seattle foot ferries.

A man was assaulted and robbed early this morning by three men armed with a baseball bat, police said.

Just after 11 p.m., the Seattle School Board unanimously approved the new boundary maps assigning which schools Seattle children will attend for years to come.

Most city attractions for kids are clustered at Seattle Center, a 74-acre downtown venue with the Space Needle, Children's Museum, Children's Theatre, Pacific Science Center, Experience Music Project and an indoor-outdoor amusement park.

A genuine representation of the collective spirit, neighborhood Christmas light displays embody the true institution of the holidays.

Our sister paper Seattle Weekly reports that the 5-Spot , a Seattle restaurant that rotates its menu among regional cuisines, is currently offering a board of St.

Please join us tonight for some politics under the influence at the Seattle chapter of Drinking Liberally.

Ready or not, the holidays are coming. And with them, the downtown Seattle trimming, such as the tree that tops the trampled walkways of Pike Place Market and the star over the downtown Macy's -- both of which will be hoisted in place in the next week.

Just out of the WSB inbox, from Sean McGrath : For over a hundred years the Fraternal Order of Eagles have been offering Thanksgiving meals across the country.

Seattle City Council members held a press briefing today to talk about their almost-final 2010 budget decisions.

The Mormon church and Boy Scouts of America were named as defendants in lawsuits Monday claiming childhood sexual abuse by youth leaders decades ago.

Seattle police have arrested a transient suspected of setting a string of arsons.

The author will discuss his latest novel, "Mariposa," about an American corporation's plot to destroy federal government and constitutional law.

Gargoyles Statuary employee Jeff Hughes displays the custom-made fangs offered at the University District store.

From the last meeting of the Highland Park Action Committee , we reported that Seattle Parks had set a December 3rd meeting for discussion of the West Seattle Reservoir park design .

A false identity and a quick chase ended with a Seattle police officer taking a trip to Harborview after a 25-foot fall.

One million dollars, that's the bail set for the man accused of torching Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood.

KATU's sister station, KOMO, in Seattle reports: SEATTLE - A homeless felon suspected in a string of arsons that has terrorized Seattle's Greenwood community in recent months was ordered held on $1 million bail at a Saturday court hearing.

Bell Street as it is today. A new park along Bell Street took one of its first steps toward reality last night, as Seattle Parks and Recreation and the firms designing the project asked for community input.

A Seattle man said he plans to carry a gun into a Seattle community center Saturday to protest Mayor Greg Nickels' ban on carrying guns into city parks.

Seattle police say a 46-year-old Shoreline resident has been arrested in a string of arsons that have plagued the city's Greenwood neighborhood.

Police have taken a 'person of interest' in the arsons that have terrorized the city's Greenwood neighborhood into custody.

A three-alarm fire has burned a vacant furniture warehouse building at Shoreline, just north of Seattle.

Nov. 10, 11:46 a.m. [Click on sketch to see it larger] We can thank Dick Spady for all the burgers and milk shakes that we can enjoy at his drive-in restaurants in Wallingford, Capitol Hill, Ballard, Lake City and Queen Anne.

Perhaps congratulations is also a dish best eaten cold. Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels congratulated Mike McGinn on becoming Seattle's next mayor on Thursday.

It's a bathroom scare like no other. Your private moments in the bathroom shattered by a water-logged rodent: a rat in the toilet! It's such a concern in Seattle that the Health Department not only keeps a map of all the rat sightings, it hunts rats full time.

A power outage about 5 a.m. Thursday turned out the lights for about 6,000 Seattle City Light customers in the area around the Space Needle.

An arsonist that's plagued Seattle's Greenwood area may be responsible for fires outside that neighborhood, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.

WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, MINI USA celebrates the Grand Opening of its second dealership in Washington, as the brand continues to grow its U.S. presence and expand its dealer network by 20 percent compared to 2008.

The Seattle Office of Emergency Management will conduct a community meeting at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Capitol Hill branch library to help residents prepare for potential emergencies.

The M~Theory The M~Theory blog looks across the landscape of political and social issues and examines how they impact Bellevue, our region and beyond.

Seattle police are stepping up their patrols in the Greenwood neighborhood after a string of arsons damaged or destroyed businesses.

The man who is a suspect in the Halloween night slaying of a Seattle police officer is a 'domestic terrorist' who had explosive devices in his apartment, police officials said Saturday.

A Seattle woman says she's too traumatized to stay in her own home after a raccoon attack sent her and her dog to the ER.

Incoming Boeing Capital Corporation President Mike Cave will be the keynote speaker in the Seattle leg of an eight-city " Exports Live! " tour.

Three more fires overnight in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood are arsons. Fire Department spokeswoman Dana Vander Houwen says two fires were set about 11 p.m. Sunday between two buildings on N. 78th Street at Greenwood Avenue N. KING5 News reports the fires were set in two places in a breezeway between an apartment building and a business called ...

For a moment, as the giant concrete elephant tipped in the wind, everyone was on edge.

Today we're focusing the Northwest Headlines laser on one issue in one place: arson in Seattle.

Capitol Hill parents -- and parents to be -- might want to plan a drugstore road trip this week.

Thousands of people, including family, friends, law enforcement and government officials, gather at KeyArena at the Seattle Center for the memorial and funeral of slain Seattle Police Department Officer Timothy Brenton.

If you like live theater, your cup runneth over in West Seattle this weekend - and that's why we call it theatrically thrilling.

Think of it as Consumer Reports for the eco crowd. Aptly enough eco is where the name starts.

Environmentalist Mike McGinn has widened his lead over cell phone executive Joe Mallahan to 1,209 votes in the race for Seattle mayor.

The largest public school district in Seattle is releasing the latest revisions to the maps that will determine which students go to certain schools next fall.

The SECB's intrepid news intern hunted down elusive mayoral candidate Joe Mallahan at Green Lake this afternoon, where he was confronting joggers.

Today we're welcoming a new WSB sponsor, The Little Gym of West Seattle , about to open at California/Myrtle . It's WSB tradition for new sponsors to get the chance to share information about their business, so here's what The Little Gym wants you to know: When new parents come to us and ask "why should I sign up for a class at The Little Gym?", we ...

This is the kind of tone deaf opinionifying that's always defined this radio host, but he's dialed it up to 11 since KIRO's ratings went to hell last Spring.

Two more fires burned businesses early Thursday in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood , an area where officials are already investigating six recent arsons .

ORIGINAL 3:46 PM REPORT: The county has said that today's results will be out at/around 4:30 pm - but sometimes they're early - so here's the link in case you want to keep checking.

The group, led by singer/pianist Andrew McMahon, appears with Weezer for six dates in December, beginning with a Dec.

In the city's most sharply-contested City Council race, Mike O'Brien, environmentalist and former chief financial officer of a law firm, appeared poised to win with 57.91 percent of votes in the ballot counts Tuesday night.

The Seattle City Council has unanimously approved an ordinance that will allow owners of single family homes to construct additional cottage-like housing units on their property.

Joe Mallahan vs. Mike McGinn - results here. McGinn has a narrow edge in the early going.

Mike McGinn took an early lead in Tuesday's election results, 51 percent to 49 percent against opponent Joe Mallahan.

ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31ST SPD ROBBERY DETECTIVES ACTING ON A TIP RESPONDED TO A MOTEL LOCATED IN THE 16500 BLOCK OF AURORA AVENUE NORTH IN SHORELINE.

Firefighters said a fire that burned at a North Seattle Apartment complex overnight is arson.

The Fauntleroy Way/West Seattle Bridge approach walkover is a must-visit on Election Eve and Election Day morning - if you're looking for photo ops, anyway.

Flags in around Seattle are flying at half-staff in honor of a Seattle police officer who was shot to death Saturday night.

Seattle fire crews were called out early Monday morning to a fire in a two-story home in the Greenwood neighborhood.

More photos from Alki's Guy Smith , watching the purse seiner Quandary fishing off Alki Point Wednesday morning: First, the seal nicknamed " Squint " keeps an eye out from atop the Joy D. Smith Wildlife Raft - Guy says, "A fair amount of chum were caught as a sea lion patrolled just outside the net." Next, you have to look really closely, but two ...

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels has identified a Seattle police officer murdered late Saturday night while on duty.

Seattle police say an officer has been fatally shot, likely the first police officer killed in the line of duty in the city since 2006.

Learn what it will take to create a more sustainable environment at a book discussion with author Stewart Brand.

In Fun stuff to do , How to help , West Seattle news , movies on the wall Tonight, things start getting so wildly Halloweenish, it's scary.