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The arraignment is set for Tuesday for the homeless man accused of an arson spree in the north Seattle Greenwood neighborhood.

The Washington Department of Transportation is warning that State Route 520 between Lake Washington and Redmond will be closed 20 times in December for construction.

A SWAT team and police negotiators surrounded a Leschi home in Seattle where the man sought for questioning in the Lakewood police shooting may be hiding.

Police here have identified a person of interest in the shooting deaths of four Lakewood police officers on Sunday morning.

A man was fatally shot around 9 p.m. Friday near 9th Avenue and Columbia Street in Seattle, near St.

A 35-year-old Seattle man is under arrest for allegedly sending threatening letters to the Seattle Times.

A man died of gunshot wounds in an attack less than a mile from last Friday night's shooting on E. Union, SeattleCrime.com reports : One man was killed in a shooting near 9th and Columbia earlier tonight.

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.

Bob Warden, local attorney from Kent, Washington filed a lawsuit against the City of Seattle and Mayor Greg Nickels with the aim of overturning the gun ban issued by Nickels this morning in U.S. District Court in Seattle at 9:30 a.m.; and then served on defendants via personal service on Jake Nickels at Mayor Nickels' home in West Seattle at 10:00 ...

The search for the suspect in three Saturday stabbings in Seattle was hindered because one of the victims refused to be a "buster," and gang unit detectives were called to investigate, Seattle Police said Thursday.

When I moved to Greenwood at the beginning of 2008, the last sound I expected to hear was the clucking of chickens next door.

Seattle Police detectives are seeking the publica s assistance in locating Shane L. Carlson, 26, in connection with the recent pattern of dental/medical office burglaries in recent months.

A firefighter suffered a minor arm injury at a West Seattle house fire and was taken to a hospital as a precaution.

Not only did they win an Oscar in 2007 for "Falling Slowly"--the single from the movie soundtrack "Once"--they also starred in the film.

Einstein was known for saying "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". In spite of their repeated, dramatic failures throughout the country, the BDS folks are at it again, this time targeting Seattle Trader Joe's. Our favorite grocery store, Trader Joe's is being targeted by these groups for boycotts ...

A collision on the Alaskan Way Viaduct sent debris from the structure's guardrail to the street below this afternoon.

ON 11/23/09, AT APPROXIMATELY 12:00 A.M., THE VICTIM CALLED 911 FROM HIS HOME TO REPORT THAT EARLIER IN THE EVENING HE HAD BEEN WAITING AT THE BUS STOP IN THE 1300 BLOCK OF 1ST AV.

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 former girlfriend earlier this month.

A Connecticut family is suing a Washington pedicab company, saying faulty brakes were to blame for their father's death in a Seattle crash last year.

A Seattle woman who served prison time for second-degree murder is accused of trying to kill again in a jealous rage over a man.

Congrats to Kamala Saxton and Roz Edison. Seattle's Hawaiian-Korean taco truck Marination Mobile has been voted the winner of Good Morning America 's Best Food Cart Challenge .

Police are looking for a man who stabbed a woman as she walked in the 9000 block of Holman Road in North Seattle Sunday night.

From Samantha Bowes at the West Seattle Family YMCA , that photo and this update: Today the West Seattle & Fauntleroy YMCA recognized its volunteers with an appreciation luncheon.

Guy Smith of Alki Point has been watching brant geese come and go since he moved there in 1993.

Vote-by-mail advocates have long argued that the system increases voter participation, particularly in traditionally low-turnout off-year elections, and this recent general election certainly doesn't provide any evidence to the contrary.

4. Councilmember Tom Rasmussen, currently in charge of the Parks and Seattle Center Committee, will take over the Transportation Committee from departing councilmember Jan Drago.

A man walking near First and Pike streets early Thursday was attacked by three men who hit him with a baseball bat, Seattle police said.

A bargain vacation in Seattle is quite easy to plan out. Budget hotel, transportation, and eating options abound throughout this Washington state city.

The fate of a teen accused of membership in a West Seattle-based gang now rests with a jury, as attorneys on both sides summed up the pimping and human-trafficking case against him Friday.

A 43-year-old Kent man was sentenced Friday to 31 years in prison for the stabbing death of his Kent girlfriend last year on Interstate 5. Christel David Murphy was sentenced at the King County Courthouse in Seattle by Superior Court Judge Palmer Robinson, said Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the King County Prosecutora TMs Office.

The Seattle City Counci l just announced who'll be in charge of which committee once its two new members, Sally Bagshaw and Mike O'Brien , are sworn in after the holidays.

ON NOVEMBER 18TH AT APPROXIMATELY 1:36 P.M. OFFICERS RESPONDED TO A 911 CALL OF A HOME INVASION ROBBERY IN THE 5300 BLOCK OF SOUTH CRESTON STREET.

In Holidays , West Seattle businesses , West Seattle news , Westwood West Seattle Chamber of Commerce members and guests were at Westwood Village tonight as WSCC president/CEO Patti Mullen and WWV manager Stuart Crandall cut the ribbon for Santa's new digs in the original Wyatt's Jewelers [WSB sponsor] storefront across the breezeway from 24 Hour ...

ON 11/15/09, AT APPROXIMATELY 6:30 P.M., OFFICERS RESPONDED TO 143RD AND STONEWAY AV N TO A CALL OF A SUSPECT WHO WAS SUICIDAL, AND HAD ACCESS TO SEVERAL FIREARMS.

Seattle Public Schools will move to a neighborhood-based attendance plan, which will be phased in beginning with the start of the next school year.

It's been 3 1/2 years since the Vikings outfoxed the Seahawks with disputed "poison pill" provisions in a contract offer to Pro Bowl guard Steve Hutchinson that Seattle was unable to match.

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 man stands accused of attempting to hire a Mafia hit man to kill a business partner holidaying in Australia / AFP.

When I was growing up there circa 1960, Edmonds was a quintessential American small town.

ON 11/16/09, AT APPROXIMATELY 1:45 A.M., OFFICERS RESPONDED TO NUMEROUS CALLS OF SHOTS FIRED IN THE ROADWAY BEHIND THE 1900 BLK OF 1ST AVENUE SOUTH.

ON 11/15/09, AT APPROXIMATELY 1:45 A.M., THE VICTIM WAS WALKING AT 15TH AND JEFFERSON WHEN A SILVER 4 DOOR CAR PULLED UP TO HIM AND THE DRIVER ASKED FOR DIRECTIONS.THE CAR WAS OCCUPIED BY 4 BLACK MALES IN THEIR 20's. WHEN THE VICTIM APPROACHED THE DRIVER's DOOR TO GIVE DIRECTIONS TO THE DRIVER, THE DRIVER TOLD THE VICTIM TO GIVE HIM HIS WALLET.THE ...

We reported over the weekend about the preparations to open the second 'secret' Starbucks on Capitol Hill taking an odd step backward -- a worker painted over a recently completed Roy Street Coffee sign above the new shop.

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Some Northwest musicians are gathering to pay a uniqueA tribute to indie rock band Arcade Fire tonight at the Fremont Abbey .A The Seattle Rock Orchestra will play the band's critically acclaimed firstA album, "Funeral", in its entirety, along with a backup band,A a 60-piece full orchestra and several of the area's top vocalists including Matt ...

The Seattle Times is reporting the suspect arrested early this morningA isA Kevin Todd Swalwell, and a second person of interest wasA arrested about 11 a.m. today.A According to the King County Jail Register, Swalwell, age 46, was booked this morning on investigation of arson.

West Seattle Blog sat down yesterday with a classroom of students at the Southwest Youth and Family Services to talk about a stabbing incident that took place there three weeks ago.

When police and fire officials arrived at the scene of a warehouse fire in Shoreline this morning, they found Kevin Todd Swalwell, who was already a person of interest in the recent rash of Greenwood arsons, near the warehouse.

Hundreds of people attended a community meeting in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood to hear what police and fire officials are doing about an arson spree.

A Kent man says he'll be packing heat when he shows up at a Seattle Community Center tomorrow.

SHORELINE, Wash. - Police have detained a person of interest in the string of Greenwood arsons near the scene of a 3-alarm fire that destroyed a building early Friday in Shoreline.

Tonight's West Seattle Art Walk rocks at the Feedback Lounge with the Seattle premiere of " Double Down Live ," West Seattle filmmaker Jamie Chamberlin 's two-disc production of tour footage from the band - 1980 for one disc, 2008 for the other.

This seems to be a back-to-the-future moment of confluence, when the forces of history, music and government converge into a meatloaf sandwich time machine.

A Kent man carried out a promise to "exercise his right to bear arms" by carrying a holstered Glock pistol into the Southwest Community Center on Saturday at high noon.

Firefighters work to knock down a blaze in a vacant building on Aurora Avenue North.

A MAN WHO PREVIOUSLY REPORTED A PROWLER IN HIS YARD NOW HEARS NOISES INSIDE HIS HOUSE, AND THINKS SOMEONE HAS BROKEN IN.

Just under 30 years ago, Mike Gain started a small realty business with his high school friend Roger Cayce.

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.

Firefighters work to knock down a blaze in a vacant building on Aurora Avenue North.

Today the Seattle City Council voted to restore $860,000 to the 2010 library budget.

The second failure of an underground cable extended a power outage into Thursday afternoon at the Seattle Center.

King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg, seen through members of the media at a press conference, announces charges against Christopher John Monfort.

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

ON 11/8/09, AT APPROXIMATELY 11:00 P.M., A CANINE OFFICER WAS PATROLLING THE AREA OF 78 AND GREENWOOD AV N WHEN HE SAW AND SMELLED SMOKE IN THE AREA.

Seahawks offensive coordinator Greg Knapp called 51 throws last weekend for Matt Hasselbeck, even though the three-time Pro Bowl passer has broken ribs and a sore shoulder.

You may have heard the radio ads: Seattle Children's Hospital says it needs to grow from 250 beds to 600 in the next 20 years.

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

Firefighters and police had not one, but two meetings in Greenwood to discuss the latest in the string of arsons in the neighborhood.

Seattle Police are receiving some new clues as they search for the person who shot and killed Officer Tim Brenton.

Berkeley officials are expected to make a decision Tuesday on the hiring of a new police chief.

SEATTLE, Washington , November 3, 2009 - Conservation and energy groups have filed a petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asking the agency to object to an air pollution permit granted to TransAlta Corporation's coal-burning power plant in Centralia, Washington, one of the largest suppliers of base load power in the Pacific ...

Photo: The TransAlta power plant in Centralia, Washington (Photo by Robert Ashworth)

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.

DNA evidence collected from the scene of Officer Tim Brenton's Oct. 31 homicide and the arson of four police vehicles nine days earlier matched Christopher J. Monfort, the man shot Friday by homicide detectives at his Tukwila apartment, police said.

The assault trial of a former King County sheriff's deputy has been put on hold over concerns that the man suspected of killing a Seattle police officer on Halloween night may have been motivated by the deputy's actions.

Another fire has been set in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood, the fourth fire since Sunday night.

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.

Officer Tim Brenton, who was gunned down on October 31, was laid to rest Friday in Seattle, Washington.

On Nov. 24 a West Seattle hometown boy becomes King Countya s new Executive, with a cabinet of 22, plus 13,000 full time employees under him, and nearly two million King County residents to serve.

The couple in the plastic chairs at the Northgate public library was typical of about a fifth of Seattle voters, a recent poll said.

Former school advisor said man was 'natural leader' At one point he wanted to be a policeman.

A man was found beaten to death Wednesday morning in a homeless camp, and another homeless man with a history of assaults is being held on $500,000 bail.

Mike McGinn stretched his lead over Joe Mallahan to 1,209 votes Friday afternoon in Seattle's mayoral race, as elections officials released a new count of 20,000 ballots.

Law enforcement officers from throughout the region are gathering to honor slain Officer Timothy Brenton with a long procession and large funeral service at KeyArena.

Two more businesses were damaged by flames early Thursday in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood , and fire investigators said both were deliberately set - bringing to eight the total number of arsons there in recent weeks.

Severe congestion is expected Friday during a memorial procession for Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton that will begin at 9 a.m. at the University of Washington and end around noon at KeyArena.

Seattle quarterback Matt Hasselbeck has fully participated in practice a day after sitting out to give his broken ribs a rest.

Two more fires burned businesses early Thursday in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood.

Results are all on this page . City Attorney - West Seattle incumbent Tom Carr vs.

A police car was draped in a white blanket Saturday night on the corner of 29th Avenue and East Yesler Way.

The reward has grown to $105,000 for information leading to the arrest and charges of the suspect who killed a Seattle Police officer Halloween night.

Law enforcement officials in Seattle, Washington, vowed Sunday to catch whoever is responsible for fatally shooting a police officer and injuring a student officer as they sat in a parked patrol car.

Susan Hutchison fields questions from the media at her party at the Bellevue Hyatt Regency after announcing she was trailing in returns.

Photo courtesy of Seattle Steam [enlarge] The $75 million project will require a complete renovation of the 100-year-old plant, as well as new equipment and generators.

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

Ballot drop boxes will close at 8 p.m. today. Also, the Reporter will begin posting election results online, beginning at 8:15 p.m. tonight.

Meanwhile, on the mean streets of North Seattle's Phinney-Greenwood, Seattle Fire Department investigators have concluded that the early morning blaze that took down three neighborhood restaurants and a coffeehouse was intentionally set.

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

SEATTLE, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- WHAT: Are you stressed? Do you have a family history of breast cancer? Health SMART is a study is being conducted by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to see how stress-reduction workshops can help women with a family history of breast cancer manage their everyday stresses and cancer-risk ...

Taproot Theatre held a press conference this morning, to let media folks inside to get a first-hand look at the damage from the devastating arson A on Oct.

Michael Wells, owner of indie Capitol Hill bookstore Bailey Coy Books and a prominent member of the Hill business community, tonight announced that he is closing doors on the shop at the end of November.

This afternoon marked not only Joe Mallahan 's first campaign visit to The Junction since he started running for Seattle Mayor , it also marked what was undoubtedly the first campaign stop at the " Hole Foods " site on the Junction/Triangle border: More photos from Mallahan's tour - covered for WSB by contributing photojournalist Christopher ...

Seattle Police Chief John Diaz details shooting death of veteran officer in cop-hate crime.

Law enforcement officials in Seattle, Washington, vowed Sunday to catch whoever is responsible for fatally shooting a police officer and wounding a student officer as they sat in a parked patrol car.

Officers from multiple law enforcement agencies have swarmed the city's Central District neighborhood after a Seattle police officer was shot to death late Saturday night.

A police car was draped in a white blanket Saturday night on the corner of 29th Avenue and East Yesler Way.