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Straight from the KIRO Newsradio newsdesk. Contributors include reporters Sam Campbell, Luke Duecy, Aaron Granillo, Heather Bosch, Matt Markovich, James Lynch, Katrina Guischard, Charlie Harger and more.

Over 8,000 fake signatures found on two Washington initiatives

The state is investigating a case of initiative fraud. The Secretary of State's Office is calling it the worst case of initiative fraud in recent memory.
14 years ago

Seattle police caution women to be alert after four recent attacks

Police in Seattle are investigating four separate reports of women who say they've been attacked since Friday.
14 years ago

Seattle teacher accused of hitting two students with belt

An employee at a private school in Seattle is on paid leave after allegedly hitting two students with his belt.
14 years ago

NTSB denies report on level of damage after 787 battery fire

A fire aboard a 787 Boeing Dreamliner last month apparently caused "significant structural" damage to the aircraft.
14 years ago

Woman reports abduction attempt in Greenwood

A woman told Seattle police she escaped an abduction attempt Sunday evening in Greenwood.
14 years ago

Marysville Police arrest woman in the stabbing death of convicted rapist

Police have arrested a 28-year-old woman in the stabbing death of an 82-year-old man in the travel trailer where he lived in Marysville.
14 years ago

Update: 15-year-old shot fleeing Bothell FDA facility

A 15-year-old boy is being questioned by police after he was shot in the foot after driving his car into a security guard at a Food and Drug Administration lab in Bothell Friday morning. The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office says a guard spotted a suspicious person in the parking lot at about 7 a.m. He […]
14 years ago

Lawsuit continues for cops not getting overtime for checking email on their phones

A lot of us do work from home but do scanning emails and answering calls from bosses on your smartphone after hours constitute work that should be compensated? A lawsuit winding its way through federal court in Chicago says it does.
14 years ago

Seattle lane closures on I-5 Friday, Saturday

Getting into Seattle from the north late Friday may be tougher than usual.
14 years ago

Man reports stabbing, then tells police he fell on his own knife

A man who called to report he'd been stabbed ended up changing his story after being questioned by officers.
14 years ago

Bill would keep social media passwords out of employers’ hands

Now that some employers are demanding passwords for social networking sites from their workers, a group of senators from Washington state is trying to keep those private.
14 years ago

Driver in shooting hits school bus, flees

Pierce County detectives are searching for a suspected gunman who crashed into a school bus and fled after a shooting blocks away.
14 years ago

Elderly man, 86, arrested after assisted living center employee shot

An 86-year-old Stanwood man is behind bars after allegedly shooting an employee at his assisted living center.
14 years ago

Kyron Horman’s father delaying divorce from wife

The father of missing Portland boy Kyron Horman wants to delay divorce proceedings against the child's stepmother, Terri Horman.
14 years ago

Flood of interest in gender-neutral bill after Dori Monson rant

A KIRO Radio hosts' comments about a gender neutral bill in Olympia are apparently ruffling feathers.
14 years ago

Boeing asks FAA to allow 787’s back in air

Japan Airlines says the grounding of its fleet of Boeing 787s has cost it $7.5 million. Meanwhile, some Dreamliners have still taken to the air.
14 years ago

520 Bridge closure this weekend

The 520 Bridge will be closed this weekend so workers can move some fiber optic cables and put up some new signs.
14 years ago

Pasco man faces 25-year sentence for embezzling from Franklin County

A Pasco man is heading to prison for spending millions of dollars in taxpayer money on gambling and cocaine.
14 years ago

Bill Gates appears on The Colbert Report

Bill Gates was under fire Wednesday night during a hard-hitting interview about his charity work overseas on the Colbert Report.
14 years ago

UW study says men that help cooking, cleaning get less sex

A study from the University of Washington suggests men who do housework like cooking and cleaning, get less sex that those who mow the lawn and fix the car.
14 years ago

Deadly pets: Hedgehogs linked to death, illness in Washington

Add those cute little hedgehogs to the list of pets that can make you sick. An elderly Spokane man is the first fatality from a flurry of recent salmonella cases nationwide linked to pet hedgehogs.
14 years ago

Woman arrested after trying to dance, sing her way out of bar tab

A Seattle woman decided instead of paying her bar tab, she would dance and sing her way out of it and instead danced her way into jail.
14 years ago

Tacoma man arrested for choking kids who refused to go to sleep

Police have arrested a Tacoma man for choking two of his young children who refused to go to sleep.
14 years ago

Should schools be graded just like their students?

Your kids get graded, so why not their schools? On Tuesday, lawmakers in Olympia will discuss a bill that would assign each of the state's public schools a letter grade based on performance.
14 years ago