Weekend News Round-Up
- Friday's zombie crawl scared the living daylights out of Capitol Hill residents. Calls came into the SPD, who later detained the zombies until they realized it was just a costume.
- A colorful health-care rally of 3,500 strong moved into downtown Seattle on Saturday. The staged rally titled, "Health Care for All in 2009" alerted lawmakers that they wanted a single-payer national health-insurance system.
- Leave it to the Boy Scouts to come to the rescue. Kirkland-based Troop 570 was on a camping trip to Blake Island this weekend, when a woman with Alzheimer's went missing. Assembled into search parties, the troop of 29 boys found the woman unharmed two hours later.
- We learned that Anthony Bourdain is man enough to drive a cream-colored Mini convertible. He was spotted in Ballard in front of La Carta de Oaxaca on Saturday, before his big event with chef buddy Mario.
- Six people were arrested when more gang violence broke out over the weekend in Rainier Beach. The targeted victim, a 17-year-old boy, was shot three times in the leg at the 9300 block of 51st Avenue South.
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