We Have Good News, We Have Bad News

"GREEN CEILING" BY WIL TAYLOR from the Seattlest Flickr pool.

• Groups in the Pacific Northwest are mobilizing to assist in Haitian relief efforts. More on how you can help online here.
• If you'd prefer to give in a way that gives back to you, Liberty on 15th is donating 100% of the profits from its drink special to Haiti relief.
• Mayor McGinn will be making a "major announcement" this morning. This could just as easily be bad, but we're optimistic types.
• Ballots for the February special election are on their way.
• A UK fugitive was arrested after crashing his car into a WA state trooper's cruiser.
• It's going to be another rainy day.
• Sentencing options for mentally ill offenders are being modified.
• A Spokane couple who are funding their upcoming wedding totally with recycled cans is 65% on the way to their goal.
• Naveed Haq will be sentenced to life without possibility of parole today for killing one and injuring five at a Seattle Jewish Federation office.

Not good:

• Seattle residents with ties to Haiti await contact from their loved ones.


• A Clallam County employee stole more than half a million dollars in public funds.
• Boeing is set to demolish a historic facility near Boeing Field.
• Local bumblebees are dying.
• An Olympia anti-war group is suing the Army and the City of Olympia over illegal infiltration of their group.
• A Japanese man was caught poaching bears for their gallbladders.
• Two different men were sentenced yesterday for killing a sentenced grizzly bear in 2007.
• Teddy Pendergrass is dead at 59. RIP: