Seattle Public Schools face a tough choice, the City of Kent comes down on medical marijuana, the Eastside loses contact and a fishy company has the SEC on its tail in today's news. more ›

No one on Seattlest has yet touched this story about a 14-year-old girl from Carnation, Wash., whose parents starved her and severely restricted her water intake for over three years. That's because it's one of those horrifying, haunting stories that allows no room for snark; even platitudes like "horrifying" and "haunting" seem emptier than usual, because they don't even begin to touch what it must have been like for this girl to be so abused. It must have been a living nightmare. more ›

The news of Paul Newman's death yesterday from cancer has hit Seattlest especially hard. While the 83-year-old actor/writer/director/race car driver/activist/healthy food mogul touched millions of lives with his far-flung work, we were especially appreciative of Newman's work in helping to purchase the Carnation Farm last year and convert it from corporate training center to Camp Korey, a free camp for seriously-ill children. In recent years, after former owner Nestle shut down the dairy operation at the farm, locals feared that the 810-acre complex would become condo hell, much like Redmond Ridge and other icky places. more ›