Seattle news

• Woman shot multiple times in Lakewood parking lot

  16-02-2019 21:47
  A woman was shot multiple times in a Lakewood hotel parking Friday night by a man police believe is her husband, though investigators are not sure if the two are still married or estranged, said Lakewood Police Lt. Chris Lawler. Police were called to the Best Value Inn, in the 4200 block of of Sharondale […]
  
  Read more

• Potential privacy lapse found in Americans’ 2010 census data

  16-02-2019 21:05
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An internal team at the Census Bureau found that basic personal information collected from more than 100 million Americans during the 2010 head count could be reconstructed from encrypted data, but with lots of mistakes, a top agency official disclosed Saturday. The age, gender, location, race and ethnicity for 138 million people […]
  
  Read more

• Guest avoids injury when car smashes into Oregon motel room

  16-02-2019 21:01
  EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Authorities in west-central Oregon say a woman is facing charges after crashing into a motel room where a guest was sleeping. The Eugene Police Department says 21-year-old Jordan Leann Belvelry lost control of her vehicle at about 7:30 a.m. Saturday and crashed into the America’s Best Value Inn. Police say the […]
  
  Read more

• Man shot in his Shoreline home

  16-02-2019 20:10
  Detectives are investigating an early Saturday morning shooting in Shoreline that sent a 36-year-old man to the hospital in serious condition. The suspect, who left the scene on foot, remained at large. It’s not clear if he knew the victim, said King County Sheriff’s Sgt. Ryan Abbott. The shooting happened at 1:25 a.m. in the 15500 […]
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Since final Destination voyage two years ago ‘everything has changed’

  16-02-2019 19:10
  Video
  
  Read more

• No Return: How much is a life worth?

  16-02-2019 19:10
  Video
  
  Read more

• A former Destination crewman recalls life on board and all he’s lost

  16-02-2019 19:10
  Video
  
  Read more

• Idaho submits Medicaid expansion plan for federal review

  16-02-2019 18:52
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials have sent a plan to expand Medicaid to the federal government for approval. The Post Register reports in a story on Friday that the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare sent the proposal to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Department of Health and Welfare spokeswoman Lisa Hettinger […]
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Ketchikan power customers urged to cut back on electricity

  16-02-2019 18:28
  KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — Ketchikan’s power utility is asking customers to throttle back their electrical usage. Freezing temperatures and low water levels in lakes, the source of hydropower for Ketchikan Public Utilities’ electric division, has maxed out power production, the Ketchikan Daily News reported . A 30-megawatt demand is putting stress on the system during […]
  
  Read more

• Man sentenced for theft, damage at marijuana business

  16-02-2019 18:26
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 40-year-old man who stole or damaged $144,000 in marijuana at an Anchorage cultivation facility has been sentenced to two years in prison. A jury in October convicted Nicholas Philemonoff of theft, burglary, criminal mischief and violating conditions of release on Jan. 13, 2018. State prosecutors say Philemonoff and others burglarized […]
  
  Read more

• Southwest Idaho men charged with raping

  16-02-2019 18:18
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Three southwestern Idaho men have been charged with raping a woman, and a 16-year-old juvenile has also been taken into custody. Nineteen-year-old Elias Lupango, 18-year-old Rashidi Mulanga and 18-year-old Swedi Iyombelo, all of Boise, were charged Friday in 4th District Court. Bail was set at $250,000. The 16-year-old was arrested Friday […]
  
  Read more

• Music teacher convicted of sex abuse gets 30 days in jail

  16-02-2019 17:15
  EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A 37-year-old music teacher has been sentenced to 30 days in jail after pleading guilty to four misdemeanor counts of third-degree sexual abuse with an underage student. The Register-Guard reports that Gabriel Donovan Dickinson also received three years of probation at his sentencing Thursday in Lane County Circuit Court. Assistant Lane […]
  
  Read more

• Kachemak Bay Research Reserve unveils winning beer label

  16-02-2019 17:05
  HOMER, Alaska (AP) — Who says science and suds don’t mix? In celebrating its upcoming 20th anniversary, the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve decided to put a little hop(s) in its step with a beer label contest to drum up awareness and excitement. Environmental Education Specialist Dana Nelson said she took inspiration from a […]
  
  Read more

• Anniversary of Stonewall uprising celebrated in Juneau

  16-02-2019 16:35
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Stonewall Inn is a National Monument, but Lin Davis said what happened there almost 50 years ago isn’t necessarily widely known outside of the LGBTQ community. That’s part of the reason Davis, an out and proud lesbian, read her poem “Stonewall 50 When We Come To It,” at a celebration […]
  
  Read more

• Firm fined $35K for housing farmworkers in filthy conditions

  16-02-2019 15:55
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A company in Silverton and its housing provider must pay $35,000 in penalties after an inspection found migrant farmworkers housed in filthy, rodent-infested quarters. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday that its inspectors found families in “dilapidated, trash strewn housing” at the facility. The Labor department says […]
  
  Read more

• Woman found dead in Salem home, suspect detained

  16-02-2019 15:10
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Police say they found a 55-year-old woman dead inside a home and that they have detained a male suspect. KATU-TV reports police were called to the Salem home at about 11 a.m. Friday on a report of a stabbing. They have not yet released the woman’s name or the suspect’s name. […]
  
  Read more

• Longtime Squaxin Island Tribal Chairman David E. Lopeman remembered for ‘leadership and will’

  16-02-2019 15:00
  Mr. Lopeman served on the Squaxin Island Tribal Council for 30 years — 24 as chairman — and was instrumental in establishing the Northwest Indian Treatment Center, the Squaxin Island Tribal Center and Little Creek Casino Resort.
  
  Read more

• Here’s how one Boise woman makes use of Idaho roadkill

  16-02-2019 09:05
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — When Jessica Mundall sees an animal on the side of the road, there’s a decent chance it will end up inside her freezer. The 26-year-old is one of hundreds of Idahoans who take advantage of the state’s roadkill salvage laws, which allow individuals to harvest whole carcasses or parts of animals. […]
  
  Read more

• Agencies team up to roll out ID machines in Idaho prisons

  16-02-2019 09:05
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho is now on the cutting edge of helping inmates succeed when they’re released back into the community. Talks started a few years ago about putting some form of ID machines in the state’s prisons. After recognizing the issue, multiple agencies and community members came together to make it happen, Boise […]
  
  Read more

• Amazon puts the smile in federal income taxes — by not paying any

  16-02-2019 04:00
  How do you book record profits and still pay no federal taxes? The tax wonk who discovered that Amazon has done this two years in a row worries that "the great disruptor" may be starting to destabilize democracy itself.
  
  Read more

• Slog PM: Trump "Didn't Need to" Declare National Emergency, Tim Eyman Possibly Busted for Chair Theft, Death Penalty Nearly Abolished in WA

  16-02-2019 03:36 via thestranger.com
  
  by Rich SmithTrump is triggering a massive constitutional crisis for about this much of a racist wall.Chip Somodevilla / GETTY IMAGESWe'll get to the bad President in a second but UH WOW TIM EYMAN "ALLEGEDLY" STOLE AN OFFICE CHAIR:When Eyman is not busy bankrupting transit funds with his $30 car tab initiative, he's apparently jacking a $70 office chair from an Office Depot in Lacey, WA. According to the Times, footage from the store shows Eyman wearing one of his signature "Let The Voters Decid
  
  Read more

• Cod boat sinks in the Bering Sea, crew of 5 rescued

  16-02-2019 03:34
  Alaska state records indicate the owner of the boat is Pacific 1 LLC of Seattle.
  
  Read more

• Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct begins to come down

  16-02-2019 03:03
  Demolition of the viaduct began with punching through the Columbia Street onramp.
  
  Read more

• Mike O’Brien Is Out, Democracy Vouchers Are In, New Info on the Spy, and More City Council Election News

  16-02-2019 03:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Mike O'Brien won't run for reelection and a spy talks to the Seattle Times.by Lester BlackMike is OUT. City of Seattle
  This month's record-breaking snow couldn't stop the City Council election from continuing to heat up. Here's the latest news in the race for the 2019 City Council.
  O'Brien Bails: Mike O’Brien told reporters on Wednesday that he will not seek reelection to his Ballard City Council seat. O’Brien has sat on the council for ten years and had become one of the most libera
  
  Read more

• Lawsuit alleges Arlington police ‘radically escalated’ encounter with distraught 17-year-old girl before shooting her

  16-02-2019 02:07
  The lawsuit alleges that the two officers failed to implement the department's Crisis Intervention Training policy when they encountered the distraught teen two years ago. It also claims neither officer had received such training.
  
  Read more

• Alaska troopers announce cold-case murder arrest

  16-02-2019 01:59
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska State Troopers say a suspect has been arrested in the sexual assault and murder of a 20-year-old woman whose body was found in a dorm bathtub at the University of Alaska Fairbanks nearly 26 years ago. Troopers say 44-year-old Steven Downs of Auburn, Maine, was arrested in Auburn on Friday […]
  
  Read more

• Kremwerk Celebrates Five Years of Body-Shaking Beats and Bass

  16-02-2019 01:58 via thestranger.com
  
  The scene is a far cry from the club’s inaugural year.by Greg Scruggs Kelly O
  Nicole Stone, the owner of the Seattle nightclub Kremwerk, has learned a thing or two in the half-decade has run the Denny Triangle nightlife emporium.
  “What I do know about Seattle and all the house and techno heads that are here—they like to feel their bass music,” she says. “If your body’s not shaking, there’s something wrong.”
  Kremwerk celebrates its five-year anniver
  
  Read more

• Get Your Dip on at Neumos Tonight

  16-02-2019 01:43 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani PolkThe Dip Courtesy of Shorefire Media
  The soul revival has been in full effect for a good decade now and lots of good artists are coming out of it still, among them, Seattle septet The Dip, led by Beat Connection regulars Tom Eddy (vocals, guitar) and Jarred Katz (drums). They’ve earned some ink from Rolling Stone (which likened the Dip to acts on the Daptone Records roster, not a small compliment), and their just-released sophomore, The Dip Delivers, adds percussion, back-up
  
  Read more

• Thoughts on God, Personality Disorders, and Gym Shorts

  16-02-2019 01:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Day: Reader Advice Round-upby Dan Savage
  Recent Savage Love Letters of the Day: A married man's married neighbor is a shameless (and intermittent) flirt, there is no God, and three questions about crushes and their discontents. And, as always, last week's column and Lovecast.On God:Look, I know CAEM was arrogant and insulting ("so-called expert"?Wow.) And I know that "tough love" is one method to break through someone's problematic thinking. The only way I know this is
  
  Read more

• Venue Owner Says There Are "No Plans" to Demolish El Corazon

  16-02-2019 01:22 via thestranger.com
  
  El Corazon's owners say their venue is not being threatened by demolition.by Lester BlackThe owner's of this stage say it is not threatened (for now). Courtesy El Corazon.
  There's a rumor floating around town right now that El Corazon, an old nightclub next to I-5 on the edge of South Lake Union, is slated to be demolished and replaced with a tower. The Seattle PI just reported this about the venue:
  An demolition permit application was filed in January to raze the two-story building currently ho
  
  Read more

• Seattle Is Now the Capital of Neoliberalism

  16-02-2019 00:58 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede New York City used to be the capital of neoliberalism. Not anymore.Charles Mudede
  After the crash of 2008, Wall Street lost not its political power but its ideological force (markets are inherently good). In the context of this implosion, there was even serious talk about neoliberalism (free trade, weak financial regulation, privatization of government services) being a zombie economics. The banks and markets in the US and Europe were actually dead. They did not survive the cra
  
  Read more

Follow @Seattle_news_ on Twitter!