Adoptive mom wants young son to see birth parents before he goes blind
An American woman who adopted a Chinese boy is searching for his birth parents so that he can meet them before he goes blind. Bennett, 3, was born deaf and diagnosed with Usher syndrome, a rare...
View ArticleMiss Washington USA resigns title over DUI
SEATTLE — Pageant officials say Miss Washington USA Stormy Keffeler has resigned her title after she failed to disclose a DUI conviction. The Seattle Times reports police stopped Keffeler in April 2015...
View ArticleBest dad ever built a Disney-worthy tree in his daughter’s room
2016 isn’t even a month old, but Rob Adams definitely deserves a “dad of the year” award. The video game developer spent almost three years dreaming up, designing and handcrafting a life-like tree — a...
View ArticleShooting near Seattle homeless camp leaves 2 dead, 3 wounded
SEATTLE — Police say two people have been fatally shot and three others wounded by gunfire at a homeless encampment in Seattle. The Seattle Times reports the shooting happened Tuesday night near...
View ArticleVagrant teen brothers charged in homeless camp mass shooting
SEATTLE — It was their mom’s birthday, and the three vagrant teenage brothers were intent on collecting a $500 drug debt she was owed, an informant would later tell police. So, prosecutors say, they...
View ArticleCops arrest serial bank robbery suspect ‘Beardo’
Police and the FBI said Friday they finally caught a man suspected of robbing as many as seven banks in the Seattle area, always wearing a fake beard. His name: Christian N. Franzwa. Cops nicknamed him...
View ArticleHow the $15 wage is already killing Seattle jobs
Attention, Gov. Cuomo: It’s time to rethink your “fight for $15.” Spiking the minimum wage statewide may appeal to a Democrat eyeing a future run for national office. But it’s a bad idea for New York....
View ArticleHow ‘Bike Batman’ fights crime on the streets of Seattle
In the spring of last year, one of Seattle’s many bike thieves arrived at a meeting place, expecting a payout. A few days earlier, the thief had listed the bike for sale on Craigslist. A local man had...
View ArticleKurt Cobain’s suicide gun revealed for the first time
Police in Seattle have released photos of the shotgun Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain used to kill himself more than two decades ago.
View ArticleJackass climbs 80-foot tree in downtown Seattle and he won’t come down
SEATTLE — Despite hours of police coaxing, a man refused to leave his perch near the top of an 80-foot-tall sequoia tree in downtown Seattle on Wednesday morning. Authorities were alerted to the...
View ArticleBernie Sanders rents out Seattle stadium ahead of big caucuses
Bernie Sanders was thinking big on the eve of Saturday’s Democratic caucuses in Hawaii, Alaska and Washington state — where he rented out a baseball stadium in Seattle that seats 54,097. If there’s...
View ArticleMom of Seattle’s #ManInTree says he’s mentally ill
SEATTLE — The 25-hour saga of a man who refused to come down from a giant sequoia tree in downtown Seattle was “an incalculable waste of time and services,” authorities said. Cody Lee Miller was...
View ArticleRescued sea turtle gets experimental treatment for ‘buoyancy disorder’
Seattle veterinarians will test a rescued sea turtle on Friday to see whether treatment in a hyperbaric chamber, typically used for decompression sickness in human divers, has cured a buoyancy disorder...
View ArticleMan who tortured woman to death escapes psych hospital
SATTLE — A man who escaped from a beleaguered psychiatric facility in Washington state was caught Thursday, but a second fugitive, who was charged with murder but found mentally incompetent to stand...
View ArticleMurder suspect who escaped psych hospital found in woods
SPOKANE, Wash. — A man who escaped from a Washington state psychiatric hospital where he was held after being found too mentally ill to face charges that he tortured a woman to death was found hiding...
View ArticleGrisly discovery of body parts likely woman missing after online date
Three body parts — including a foot — found in a homeowner's recycling bin likely belong to a woman who was reported missing Saturday morning, Seattle police said.
View ArticleMom was dismembered in own home after online date
SEATTLE — A woman who authorities say was slain and dismembered in her suburban home and whose remains were then placed in a Seattle recycling bin was a beloved mother of three as well as a sister and...
View ArticleMore body parts found near site where mom’s remains dumped
SEATTLE — Human remains that sanitation workers found in a Seattle neighborhood on Friday likely belong to a woman whose boyfriend was charged with killing her, dismembering her and dumping some of her...
View ArticleBody parts found at recycling center likely from woman killed after online date
Police say human remains found at a Seattle recycling center are believed to be connected to a woman who was slain and dismembered. Seattle police say detectives are investigating after the remains...
View ArticleTime Inc. spurs talk of Seattle office closure with ouster of CTO
Time Inc. insiders are speculating that the Seattle office, which was set up in part to lure hires from the tech-rich city, could be cut back or phased out now that Chief Technology Officer Colin...
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