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Josh Kerns

Shot fired, Rainier Valley schools lock doors as police search for bank robber

The search is on in south Seattle for a robber who fired a shot during a bank robbery in the Rainier Valley.
14 years ago
Beginning in July, it’ll cost you more to drive across the 520 bridge. (WSDOT)...
KIRO Radio Staff

Tolls to go up on 520 bridge this summer

Beginning in July, it'll cost you more to drive across the 520 bridge.
14 years ago
Tim Haeck

Penguin latest to settle e-book price-fixing claim

Another out-of-court settlement is reached with a major publisher in a class-action lawsuit over the price of e-books.
14 years ago
Tolls are increasing on the 520 bridge effective July 1. The plan is to increase toll rates by 2.5 ...
Tim Haeck

Tolls to increase on 520 bridge July 1

Tolls are increasing on the 520 bridge, effective July 1 by 2.5 percent.
14 years ago
Microsoft wants the Xbox One to be central to your living room and packed the new Xbox with such fe...
Jamie Skorheim

First glimpse: Will Microsoft’s Xbox One be the one for everyone?

After four years of development, Microsoft unveiled the Xbox One entertainment console and touted it as an all-in-one solution for playing games, watching TV and doing everything in between. Microsoft wants the Xbox One to be central to your living room and packed the new Xbox with such features as the ability to change TV channels through voice commands.
14 years ago
Last year, the vast majority of $3.4 billion of the Gates Foundation giving was was spent on global...
Alyssa Kleven

Forbes: Melinda Gates ranks third among world’s most powerful women

Coming in third only to the top-ranked German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Forbes says Melinda Gates is the third most powerful woman in the world, according to Forbes.
14 years ago
The defunct Tubs building is one of the most notorious landmarks for graffiti in this region. Becau...
Ursula Reutin

Graffiti a million dollar problem for Seattle, but only a misdemeanor for taggers

Graffiti costs the city of Seattle and property owners millions of dollars to clean up.
14 years ago
Despite what an Issaquah psychic allegedly told her client, her crystal ball didn’t say the w...
Kim Shepard

Issaquah psychic didn’t see arrest coming

An Issaquah psychic is charged with theft, after allegedly scamming a woman out of more than $25,000.
14 years ago
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KIRO Radio Staff

Seattle woman thinks she’s shot in the leg, actually stabbed herself

"Sometimes crimes solve themselves," Seattle Police noted on their crime blotter Wednesday evening.
14 years ago
The 1,200-pound bronze statue of Christopher Columbus was removed from Seattle’s Waterfront t...
Brandi Kruse

Full restoration for Columbus statue after years of vandalism

A statue of Christopher Columbus that sat on Seattle's waterfront for decades has a new home: a city-owned warehouse on West Marginal Way.
14 years ago
The cameras would not be monitored all the time, and the police would only use them to try and iden...
Chris Sullivan

Woodinville says ‘yes’ to surveillance cameras to combat crime

Seattle said "no" to police surveillance cameras, but Woodinville is saying "yes." Police cameras will go up there to help combat crime.
14 years ago
Boeing CEO Jim McNerney said Boeing is five years ahead of Airbus on composite technology, especial...
Chris Sullivan

Boeing CEO swipes Airbus, hints at more competition to keep Everett jobs

Boeing CEO Jim McNerney spoke to investors Wednesday morning in South Carolina at the company's annual conference.
14 years ago
Seattle Rep actress Anne Allgood got stuck in the Mercer Mess Saturday along with dozens of other a...
Josh Kerns

The show can’t go on as Mercer Mess keeps Seattle Rep actress from taking stage on time

Dozens of theater goers trying to get to the Seattle Rep for Saturday's performance of Boeing, Boeing were among those caught in the endless backups caused by construction on SR 99 last Saturday. Little did they know the show wasn't going without them, because one of the stars was stuck with them.
14 years ago
A new report card by the American Society of Civil Engineers report card gives low grades to Washin...
Stephanie Klein

Mediocre grade for Washington’s major infrastructure

According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, we got a C for "lack of planned funding and inadequate maintenance" on its report card.
14 years ago
Pierce County Superior Court Judge Kathryn Nelson this week upheld maintained that the practice of ...
Tim Haeck

Judge orders hospitals to stop ‘boarding’ mentally ill patients

A judge in Tacoma wants to stop the practice of "parking" mentally ill patients in hospital emergency rooms, sometimes for days at a time, without psychiatric treatment.
14 years ago
Jenni Hogan went to a proven source for next big thing generation with this week’s guest on h...
Jamie Skorheim

Seattle online hitmaker Jonathan Sposato shares his next big thing

Jenni Hogan went to a proven source for next big thing generation with this week's guest on her Next Big Thing podcast. Seattle entrepreneur Jonathan Sposato is the first person in history to sell two companies to online giant Google, and he also took part in creation of Microsoft's Xbox.
14 years ago
New restaurants Westward and Little Gull Grocery will share this view of Lake Union in Seattle. (Im...
Jamie Skorheim

Seattle’s Skillet continues growing way beyond the Airstream

While it may have started as a mobile food purveyor, Skillet and its creator are growing way beyond the Airstream.
14 years ago
The world’s largest-diameter tunneling machine is coming together just west of Safeco Field a...
Josh Kerns

Big Bertha coming together for Seattle summer tunnel drilling

The world's largest-diameter tunneling machine is coming together just west of Safeco Field and Century Link Field.
14 years ago
While the goal for some is to start their own company, Nager emphasizes that creating a company in ...
Alyssa Kleven

Startup Weekends create communities of like-minded entrepreneurs

"We've all had ideas, or at least we have friends that have had ideas, for that 'next million-dollar company,'" says Marc Nager. The question of where do you go when you have one these ideas turns out to be pretty elusive.
14 years ago
Searchers were photographed in Sept. 2011 combing a desert in Utah near where Susan Cox Powell was ...
KIRO Radio Staff

Attorney claims feds investigating Susan Cox Powell disappearance

An attorney for Susan Cox Powell's family said Tuesday that there is an active federal investigation into her disappearance.
14 years ago
Amazon.com’s radical overhaul of the South Lake Union and Belltown areas is taking another un...
Josh Kerns

Amazon proposes ‘biospheres’ for Seattle campus

Amazon.com's radical overhaul of the South Lake Union and Belltown areas is taking another unique twist, as the company has unveiled plans for huge new biospheres on its new Seattle campus.
14 years ago
A new study indicates 51 percent of those surveyed in a relationship would “Netflix cheat&#82...
Jamie Skorheim

Survey indicates 28 million U.S. adults would confess to Netflix cheating

Does the next episode of that addictive TV program sometimes prove too tempting to wait for your partner? A new survey indicates 51 percent of those in a relationship would "Netflix cheat" on their spouse by watching an episode ahead in a series they'd agreed to watch together.
14 years ago
Donnie Bessinger looks through the rubble of his tornado-ravaged home Tuesday in Moore, Okla. (AP P...
Tim Haeck

Federal Way’s World Vision sending relief to Oklahoma

Relief workers with Federal Way's World Vision were ready for the aftermath of the Oklahoma tornado, already loading a large truck with relief supplies stored in a warehouse in north Texas.
14 years ago
MyNorthwest.com

Police search for Beacon Hill mugging suspects

A husband and wife walking home on Beacon Avenue South Monday night were mugged at gunpoint by two men.
14 years ago