Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper says the
police could have had a better handle on this week's
May Day vandalism, if they had put more officers on
the street.
One day, you could be driving to work on the Boeing Bridge, or the Starbucks expressway. State Representative Jan Angel says she's looking into how much money the state could raise by selling naming rights for transportation projects.
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire challenged her potential successors Wednesday to pursue new revenue in support of education, saying that she wished the state had committed more money to schools in this year's budget.
The video of a Seattle Police officer apparently stomping on a robbery suspect and yelling a racial slur led to the Department of Justice investigation of the department, but the city now says the suspect wasn't kicked and the language wasn't racially-motivated.
At least 70 people died in Washington last year after requesting and taking a lethal prescription through Washington's Death with Dignity law, the Department of Health reported Wednesday.
Seattle Police officers say that since news of their Unmanned Aerial System hit the street, people have been making Orwellian references and have told them they're concerned drones will "spy" on them.
Italian prosecutors are under investigation for
spending
nearly $250,000 on an animated video depicting the
events
leading to Meredith Kercher's murder.
The county has fenced the road off about a half-mile
in each direction on both sides of the road to
encourage animals to use the designated crossing.
They're also trying to add features that will
encourage the animals to use the crossing.
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn praised the police
department for a job well done and for quickly
restoring order downtown Tuesday during a May Day
protest that turned violent.
When Shoreline Police Officer Dahlia Corona
got
called to
Shorewood High School because of gang
problems,
it struck
her that there had to be a better way to
help
kids stay
out of trouble than just lecturing or
arresting
them. And
rather than tell them what to do, she asked
them
what they
thought would help.
Niketown and American Apparel are not open on
Wednesday because
of the vandalism to their stores done during the May
Day
protests in downtown Seattle yesterday.
A Washington National Guard sergeant who says she was fired for deploying to Iraq has won a lawsuit against her former employer, Catholic Community Services.
Federal prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against three Somalis charged with murder in the fatal shooting of four Americans aboard a hijacked yacht last year, according to a court document unsealed Tuesday.
Homemade incendiary devices, bags of feces were confiscated - while sticks, smoke bombs, rocks, paint, hammers, and tire irons were used to damage cars and businesses in downtown Seattle.
