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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.

Q: I remember Paul Keller terrorized Seattle in the 1990s with a series of arsons.

ON THE AFTERNOON OF NOVEMBER 6TH , 2009, SEATTLE POLICE HOMICIDE DETECTIVES RECEIVED A TIP ABOUT A DATSUN 210 MATCHING THE DESCRIPTION OF A POSSIBLE SUSPECT VEHICLE USED IN THE SLAYING OF OFFICER TIM BRENTON.

As the Seattle Times reported this morning, there was an early morning fire on 11th Avenue between Republican and Mercer.

Dave Wallace, a former major league pitcher coach, is the Atlanta Braves' new minor league pitching coordinator.

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.

UW alumnus Christopher John Monfort is suspected in the shooting of Seattle Police Department officer Tim Brenton and was in critical condition Saturday from a gunshot wound to the head after a confrontation with police, according to The Seattle Times.

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.

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.

Moments after the first returns were posted in the Seattle mayor's race, Mike McGinn's volunteer field director took the stage at the Capitol Hill party.

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.

SEATTLE ? ON NOVEMBER 6TH AT APPROXIMATELY 2:50 P.M. SEATTLE POLICE HOMICIDE DETECTIVES WERE INVOLVED IN A SHOOTING IN THE 13700 BLOCK OF 56TH AVENUE SOUTH IN TUKWILA.

Environmentalist Mike McGinn has widened his lead over cell phone executive Joe Mallahan to 2,384 votes in the race for Seattle mayor.

Slain Seattle police Officer Timothy Brenton was remembered as a father, brother, husband, friend, teacher and hero at a public memorial service at KeyArena.

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 ...

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

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.

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.