King County's Sheriff is coming under fire from
a gun control group for staging a fundraiser at
a local gun range while Seattle looks for new
ways to curb gun violence.
On the same day the state released jobs
numbers that show Washington unemployment
rate is flat at 8.3 percent, another report
shows we are missing out on millions of
dollars that could help train people for in
demand jobs in the technology sector.
When the London Olympics get underway later this month,
the world will be watching but most won't be wondering
"what if?" like Seattle businessman Bob Walsh. The
promoter who helped bring the Goodwill Games to town
in 1990 says Seattle could and should have been the one
hosting the Olympic games.
A viral video of the couple that got engaged
after 5 years of online dating has 97.3 KIRO
FM's John Curley questioning how you can fall
in love without ever actually meeting
Four friends crossing the border from Canada
to Washington spent over an hour in a
detention center and were nearly saddled
with a $15,000 fine after U.S. border agents
discovered illegal chocolate eggs in their
car.
The Department of Transportation loves its
stats. Whenever it's pitching a project, the
WSDOT will tell us how many people use the
road and at what time and for how long. It
has facts and figures on just about every
aspect of the road and how it's used.
A lot of those stats come from computer
models and camera data, but some stats still
require human eyes to compile.
With the deadline approaching for Congress to
act before mandatory military spending cuts
take force, there are plenty of warnings about
the impact locally and nationwide.
A former Puyallup city council member has come forward saying the mayor touched her inappropriately during her two years on the job. She is the second woman to make such claims.
Seattle and King County are making their pitch to the Port of Seattle over the proposed SoDo arena, offering millions of dollars of road improvements to ease the Port's concerns over traffic.
Nearly a year after a cyclist was killed in a hit and run accident on Dexter Avenue in Seattle, the man behind the wheel has plead guilty to the crime.
