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Stephanie Klein

Police arrest man suspected of stabbing to death sister at SeaTac apartment

Detectives have arrested a 21-year-old who they believe stabbed to death his 24-year-old sister at a SeaTac apartment on Monday.
13 years ago
After 520 games called, veteran WSU play-by-play announcer Bob Robertson has handed over the play-b...
Jamie Skorheim

Veteran broadcaster Bob Robertson no longer doing WSU Cougar football play-by-play

This Saturday's Cougar football game will sound a bit different to long-time Washington State fans.
13 years ago
Brandi Kruse

City attorney refuses to attend Seattle PD announcement alongside mayor

The Seattle Police Department was scheduled to announce Tuesday a new effort to apprehend habitual drunk drivers, but canceled a press conference at the last minute after City Attorney Peter Holmes refused to show up.
13 years ago
Backers of a City of SeaTac ballot measure to create the highest minimum wage in the country are no...
Tim Haeck

Backers appeal dismissal of $15 minimum wage ballot measure

Backers of a City of SeaTac ballot measure to create the highest minimum wage in the country are not giving up.
13 years ago
Do you think bike riders in Western Washington are getting out of control because we give them too ...

Are bicyclists in Western Washington out of control?

What we have seen over the years, over the decades, over the centuries, over millennia of human existence is when somebody is given everything, and coddled, and told that they're special, and that they're above everybody else, that group becomes entitled, and with entitlement, generally comes bad behavior.
13 years ago
Teachers have rejected a contract proposal from the Seattle School District with the first day of s...
Tim Haeck

Seattle teachers reject district contract offer

Teachers have rejected a contract proposal from the Seattle School District with the first day of school just more than a week away.
13 years ago
Alea Price was killed early Monday as she sat in her disabled car in the middle of I-405. She had h...
Chris Sullivan

Stay or go? There is no rule if your car breaks down

Drivers are always told to buckle-up and stay in their car, if they are broken down in the middle of the road or are in an accident, but a 24 year old Seattle woman died yesterday on I-405 after following that advice.
13 years ago
If the 61 original signatures were allowed to stay on the petition for a $15 minimum wage, it would...
Chris Sullivan

$15 SeaTac minimum wage petition tossed by judge

A King County judge has thrown out the petition to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour in the City of SeaTac.
13 years ago
Stephanie Klein

Police: Woman sprays baby with soy sauce at Seattle restaurant

A woman sprayed a baby with soy sauce and doused people in a restaurant with chocolate milk on Saturday, according to Seattle police.
13 years ago
Researchers in Seattle say drinking a lot of coffee might limit the chances that your prostate canc...
Tim Haeck

Coffee drinking could help prostate cancer patients

Drinking a lot of coffee might limit the chances that your prostate cancer will return, according to researchers in Seattle.
13 years ago
State officials say construction delays and redesign costs could use up the Highway 520 bridge&#821...

520 bridge project may go another $128 million over budget

State officials say construction delays and redesign costs could use up the Highway 520 bridge's $100 million in reserves and eventually send the project another $128 million into the red.
13 years ago
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Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn looks like fool in Fox News interview

It was bizarre to see Seattle's Mayor Mike McGinn on Fox News channel Friday night with Greta Van Susteren talking about this movement to put stickers in the windows of businesses declaring it a gun free zone.
13 years ago
Gianfranco Bettiol receives wine from a bottle bearing the image of former Nazi dictator of Germany...
Alyssa Kleven

Winery says Hitler-themed bottles aren’t propaganda, ‘it’s history’

Lunardelli, an Italian winery, has been using Hitler and other fascist dictators to sell their wine for nearly 20 years.
13 years ago
A woman is dead and her brother critically injured after what may have been a home invasion robbery...
Brandi Kruse

1 dead, 1 critically injured after apparent home invasion in SeaTac

A woman is dead and her brother critically injured after what may have been a home invasion robbery in SeaTac.
13 years ago
Ken Schram says if your city doesn’t allow goats, and you want one, you should move to a farm...
Jamie Skorheim

Ken Schram: If you want goats, move to a farm

After hearing of a Federal Way eighth grader petitioning the city of Federal Way to reclassify goats as house pets instead of livestock, KIRO Radio guest host Ken Schram had some advice: move to a farm.
13 years ago
Tim Haeck

Missing Arizona teen found dead in southern Oregon

The body of an Arizona teenager, last seen visiting a friend in Lynnwood, Wash. was discovered Monday evening in southern Oregon near where his vehicle was found abandoned last week in a wooded area, according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office.
13 years ago
Realizing you’ve forgotten to pack your book or download it to your tablet after you’re...
Chris Sullivan

Sea-Tac Airport library doing booming business

Realizing you've forgotten to pack your book or download it to your tablet after you're at the airport usually means a trip to the news stand to pay for a new one, but that's not the case at Sea-Tac Airport. It has two libraries set-up in the concourses, and passengers couldn't be happier.
13 years ago
Actor Patrick Dempsey announced Friday he was leaving the partnership that bought Seattle’s T...
Josh Kerns

Patrick Dempsey ditches Tully’s after dispute with business partner

Actor Patrick Dempsey has given up his stake in the partnership that bought Seattle's Tully's Coffee after suing his business partner for $2 million earlier this week.
13 years ago
An earthquake measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale has shaken parts of southwestern Washington. (MyNW...

3.7 quake shakes southwest Washington near Morton

An earthquake measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale has shaken parts of southwestern Washington.
13 years ago
In this courtroom sketch Staff Sgt. Robert Bales speaks in a courtroom at Joint Base Lewis-McChord,...
KIRO Radio Staff

No parole for JBLM soldier in Afghan massacre

A JBLM soldier will spend the rest of his life in prison for the for the massacre of 16 Afghan villagers.
13 years ago
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that when considering his retirement, the company needed a CEO who...
Alyssa Kleven

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announces retirement within 12 months

Microsoft's CEO is ready to retire. Steve Ballmer, the company's Chief Executive Officer for the past 13 years, is retiring.
13 years ago
There is a time concern. The ILWU’s action could force tunneling to stop. There is only so mu...
Chris Sullivan

Unions file complaints against Longshoremen over tunnel project

It's union versus union on the Seattle Waterfront. The building trade unions are being blocked from the tunnel project site by picketing Longshoremen and have filed a complaint against them with the National Labor Relations Board.
13 years ago
Printer troubles, loud cubicle mates, co-workers who take credit for your work: a new study reports...
Jamie Skorheim

‘Desk rage’ taking over the office space

A new study says a good number of workers can't make it to noon on Monday without hitting their threshold and experiencing desk rage.
13 years ago
In Leavenworth, residents and tourists can shop for Swiss-style chocolates, nutcrackers, candies an...
MyNorthwest.com

Leavenworth one of America’s prettiest towns, says Forbes

Leavenworth, Washington was recently named one of America's prettiest towns by Forbes. This city in Chelan County, Washington is a slice of Bavaria represented in the Pacific Northwest.
13 years ago