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Shorewood students create umbrella mosaic, go for world record

On Friday at 4:30 p.m., high school students, with the help of their community, will attempt to break a world record.
15 years ago

Big Mountain Dew spill after train vs. truck collision

Thousands of Mountain Dew cans were scattered across MLK Way Jr. Way in Seattle after a Sound Transit train collided with a truck.
15 years ago

520 bridge closed for construction this weekend

The 520 bridge will be shut down again this weekend and express lanes on I-90 will be open different times to accommodate the extra traffic.
15 years ago

Private retailers now selling booze in Washington

Private retailers in Washington are now able to sell liquor.
15 years ago

Flame of Hope lights up Special Olympics Washington Summer Games

How do you push your body and your brain when you've been running a 382-mile non-stop relay for two days? You think of the emotional pay off at the finish line.
15 years ago

King County declares June 1 ‘Tom Douglas Day’

King County is honoring Seattle Kitchen Show host Tom Douglas with his own day.
15 years ago

Father of shooting suspect: He wasn’t a monster out to kill people

After his son was killed at his own hand after a grisly shooting rampage in Seattle that claimed six lives, the father of the suspected shooter is speaking out.
15 years ago

OKC Thunder explain ticket sale restrictions that leave Sonics fans out

Despite Sonics fans recent kerfuffle with Thunder fans over a t-shirt, a Seattle fan wanted to go to the Western Conference Finals and wear his green and gold proudly.
15 years ago

Listen: Police release 911 calls from Seattle massacre manhunt

Witnesses called 911 during the tragic shootings that occurred, Wednesday, May 30, when Ian Stawicki opened fire at Cafe Racer, and then shot a woman in Seattle's First Hill neighborhood.
15 years ago

Police credit hero in Seattle cafe shootings

Police say a person inside a Seattle cafe where a gunman went on a deadly rampage threw stools at the assailant and saved people's lives.
15 years ago

Seattle shooter desperate for car after cafe shootings

Two shootings in Seattle Wednesday that left five dead just 30 minutes apart and across town have people wondering how the gunman got to where he was going.
15 years ago

When you can buy booze at your grocery store

Your favorite store can start selling liquor at 12:01 a.m. as the state gets out of the business, but don't expect to get your hands on booze until some time Friday.
15 years ago

Seattle City Council hears details of arena deal

The Seattle City Council was briefed on the details of a proposed $490 million sports arena for the SoDo neighborhood Thursday morning.
15 years ago

Fellow band member talks about friends slain in shooting

A man that played in a band with two of the victims of the shooting rampage Wednesday in Seattle said the men lost were "fantastic people."
15 years ago

Washington Supreme Court upholds liquor initiative

The Washington Supreme Court has upheld a voter-approved initiative privatizing liquor sales, one day before the initiative takes effect.
15 years ago

Memorial outside cafe remembers victims slain in Seattle shooting rampage

A memorial is slowly growing outside Cafe Racer in the Roosevelt neighborhood of Seattle after a shooting rampage on Wednesday left six people dead.
15 years ago

Washington confirmed whooping cough cases at levels not seen since 1940s

The confirmed number of whooping cough cases in Washington state is at levels not seen in over 60 years.
15 years ago

U.N. calls for immediate release of Jason Puracal

The United Nations is coming to the defense of a former University of Washington student imprisoned in Nicaragua.
15 years ago

Liquor Control Board denies Seattle’s request to extend alcohol sale hours

The Washington State Liquor Control Board has denied the City of Seattle's request to consider changes to liquor sale hours.
15 years ago

Gunman kills five people in two shootings before killing himself

Following a violent weekend in Seattle, a man open fired on a Seattle, killing four people and injuring two more. He killed another woman before taking her car and eventually shooting and killing himself.
15 years ago

Gang authority says Folklife shooting typical; gangs don’t care where bullets go

The suspect being investigated for wounding a bystander at Seattle's Folklife Festival told police after the incident that he was a member of street gang, Little Valley Lakote, based out of Yakima.
15 years ago

SPD embarrassed after officer caught in handicapped spot

The Seattle Police Department is apologizing to a West Seattle Veteran after a police vehicle was spotted in a handicapped spot.
15 years ago

Couple acquitted in ‘caged children’ case

Jurors took just four hours Tuesday to acquit a couple who had been charged with unlawful imprisonment for keeping two young autistic boys in a dark room with a cage-like door.
15 years ago

Drug debt a likely motive in Shelton double-homicide

Police in Shelton believe that a woman was killed because she couldn't pay her drug debt, and the man with her at the time was shot and killed to keep it quiet.
15 years ago