Last night while having dinner at Friend A's house, the wife got a call from Friend B with whom she and A had gone snowshoeing on Friday. Friend B was calling because she had read the newspaper and discovered a story about an avalanche that happened on the trail they took.A group of youths aged 12 to 16 and an adult were hiking near Lake 22, a popular trail off the Mountain Loop Highway east......

Details are starting to leak out about the Carnation woman suspected of killing her parents, her brother and her wife, and their two kids Christmas Eve with the help of a boyfriend. The P-I got the scoop from Ben Anderson, the suspected killer's nephew and grandson of the victims.:The violence, Ben Anderson said, stemmed from a dispute over money, and a long-standing fight between Michele Anderson and her parents. He said his aunt had been......

No. But that doesn't make this factoid from a political campaign article in today's P-I any less disturbing: "If it's OK to notify a political campaign about this guy, what about the neighbors he lived near for months?" said Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, pointing out that [Mitt] Romney's aides were warned about [Daniel Thomas] Tavares's presence here during the candidate's recent campaign swing through Seattle, though Troyer's own office......

Police forces from the Snohomish County Sheriff's department and the Sultan Police department swarmed on the semi-annual Fantagraphics Shoot-out party on Saturday, shutting down the festivities after only a measly two hours of shooting, which wasn't nearly enough time to shoot all the tvs, computer monitors and lawn mowers hauled out to be shot (see our coverage of the 2005 party here). Apparently, according to these cops, it's somehow "illegal" to dump a lot......

On Greenlake Way between 50th St. and the putt-putt golf course, in that parking lot bordering the Lower Woodland Park fields, lives a King County Sheriff's car. The car sits there, day and night. There's never anyone in it. It's raison d'être, we believe, is to deter speeding. A drama repeats hundreds of times nightly: car speeds north toward lake, gets within sight of cop car, slows down. Then, presumably, driver sees that no one's......

Another in a string of online sex stings recently caught ex King County Prosecutor's Office employee Lawrence Corrigan trying to meet up with a 13-year-old for sex. You asshole, Lawrence. Undercover detectives targeted Lawrence after learning that he was communicating with young girls online. A detective contacted him and Lawrence emailed a bunch of porn and set up a meeting outside of a Capitol Hill video store and when he showed for that meeting he......

We're chuckling a little at the idea of Frank "The P-I Is Killing Me" Blethen, publisher of the Seattle Times, having to hand the P-I an award with his name on it for its series critical of disciplinary problems in the King County Sheriff's Office, "Conduct Unbecoming." The Pacific Northwest Newspaper Association award comes after the P-I's censure for the same series by the Washington News Council (scroll down to see their release) back......

Washington Husky running back Michael Houston is off the team and, presumably, not going to get a pickup from Orange Cab anytime soon after some Saturday night hijinks involving a taxi, a McDonalds, and--it goes without saying--a strip club. From the Times: According to a police report from the King County Sheriff's office, Houston, two other men and a woman were picked up by an Orange Cab at Déjà Vu, a strip club on Bothell......

While "Kablowie" Zarqawi enjoys the sexual ministrations of 72 virgins, a Fort Lewis soldier is sitting in Thurston County Jail for allegedly wanting to sleep with just one. A sheriff who evidently gets her kicks posing as a 13-year-old encountered the soldier in a chatroom. The soldier made a date with her, and if he hoped handcuffs were going to be involved, he got his wish monkey's paw-style. Now he's facing some ugly-sounding charges, including......

Sorry, but is this not the awesomest story? It's not just the names, either, it's everything. Granted it's stretching Seattlest's area of jurisdiction a little, but we can't help ourselves. Elbert Higginbotham and Becky Higginbotham got lost in the wilds of southern Oregon lately along with another couple of people in a RV. They drove off the road in the snow or something and no one could find them for a couple of days. They......

At Seattlest, we read the candidate endorsements so you don't have to flip that far into your paper. In our thorough research, certain themes emerged. At the P-I, they wrote endorsements as if they were late for a meeting. For Seattle City Council--return all the incumbents, they say. Statewide Initiatives? Say no to everything! Port Commission? It's time for change! The Stranger used the dorky gimmick of asserting that they were drunk as they wrote......

Watch your wallets, ladies. This gal is wanted by the King County Sheriff. Here's her M.O.: She approaches women who look like her. Chats them up. Picks their pockets. Goes to the victim's bank and uses the victim's ID to empty said victim's bank account. So if you have teeny bangs and a stranger with similar teeny bangs approaches you--back away. (And if you've seen her, call the tipline: 206-296-3311.)......

A terrorist photographer was accosted in the Metro bus tunnel yesterday by a King County Sheriff's Deputy while he was taking pictures of the underground wonderland. Despite offering to delete his pictures (always a good strategy as they can be recovered) the deputy confiscated his flash storage (try to recover that!). Despite the overzealous deputy's claims, however, it is not illegal to take pictures in the bus tunnel. The Sheriff's office is working to correct......