The Seattle Police Department has another Tweet-a-Thon, Gregoire is advising everyone to batten down the budgetary hatches, and a whole lot of drunk people got cited over the weekend. more ›

• The cocoa butter bandit didn't slip away from the Everett police--officers have arrested a 24-year-old Lake Stevens man who is suspected to be responsible for the recent string of tanning salon robberies.
• The Southlake reports that Denny Triangle's Days Inn and Eighth Avenue Inn have been leased to Cornish College, who is in the process of turning the once skanky hotels into residence halls for 280 first-year art students. (Pointing) Ha, ha freshmen.
• The chaotic Seafair boating traffic on Lake Washington, is finally over. In total, authorities handed out 110 BUIs (Boating Under the Influence). Seattle 911 reports that's a 23 percent increase. Don't say we didn't warn you. Tsk, tsk.

• West Seattle Blog is hot on the story of illegal clam diggers along Beach Drive who were caught earlier today with over 100 clams.
• UW President Emmert put his foot down, denying the request of the Students for Civic Engagement on Homelessness to bring Tent City 3 on to the University of Washington campus.