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• Firefighters were successful in putting out a house fire that engulfed a vacant Greenwood home early Wednesday morning at Sixth Avenue Northwest and Northwest 85th Street.
• Bellevue introduced their newest downtown police squad, a group to help prevent a rise in crime and likely to become neighborhood heroes, saving the day for downtown Bellevue residents and businesses.

Even with ties to people in high places, the Seattle Police Department was deee-nied, while 30 other Washington agencies were awarded a combined total of $18,543,197 to cover the cost of hiring/rehiring 71 officers over the next three years--benefits included.

Last week, an undercover sting up in Everett had arrested, cited, and in the end released ten men who were suspected of trying to hire a few ladies of the night. Meanwhile, in Seattle this past weekend the West Precinct Anti-Crime Team officers had a field day making several arrests, including at least three women and one 17-year-old girl who were "working" within the Denny Triangle area.

"A bear has been tranquilized in a wooded area near Interstate 5 in Everett," says KIRO TV. We assume they shot him, you know, rather than slipped something into his mojito. Here's the Chopper 7 video.

• Dog people, stop reading and just look at these cute puppies instead. Cat people, keep reading. PhinneyWood blog reports that Greenwood's cat-loving-adoption organization PAWS celebrates the adoption of it 10,000th kitty.
• Still wringing out their clothes, photos and soggy possessions, the residents of the recently flooded Wedgwood neighborhood want the city to foot the bill for all the damages the broken water main caused.
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We're irritated enough about people who were too cheap to fork over the cash for a hotel room or cab fare home after drinking that next year, we might resort to shooting drunk people's cars with paintballs, like this guy from Kennewick did. Kennewick Man did end up going to jail for his creative problem-solving, though, so paintballs might not be the best course of action after all. Please drive safely, city. Driving drunk isn't worth the risk.

mochi by the mysterious stranger

A 10-year-old boy from Everett is in critical condition at Children's Hospital after being buried head-first in a sandbox this weekend. Cody Porter was playing in the backyard of a family friends home with his brothers and a few other children when the accident occurred Saturday afternoon.

Seattlest went to our storage unit to get some snowboarding effects recently, noticed there was really nothing of value in the storage unit and solemnly vowed to dispose of all the contents...except for the TV from the '50s. That, we're keeping. The 15" TV that kinda works, though? The 25" TV that was dropped or something? Gone. That ancient CRT monitor? Garbage. The Mac Classic we were holding onto until a project inspired us enough to do something with it? Right.

North Seattle got snow, West Seattle didn't.

The Seattle Times breaks the story of just how diseased college sports fans have become. The newspaper got about 1,000 emails that Husky fans sent to University of Washington president Mark Emmert, athletic director Todd Turner, and coach Ty Willingham through a public records request.

The snow is falling, our dear Seattle friends, it simply isn't falling here. Whistler just announced it is open for business, bagging the ultimate ski resort coup of cutting powder before we cut the turkey. Of course you want to go, but in fondly recalling the days of 1998 when the US-CA exchange rate swung wildly the other way, you fear you can really only afford to stay home and play Ski Resort Extreme Halo 3. We've learned a thing or six going back and forth with our neighbors to the north for many a year now, and so we offer you our quick and dirty guide to saving at least a wee bit of money and time in your BC powder-chasing adventures.

In New York, a place where we once lived, recycling does not--despite being mandatory--actually happen.

Woo hoo! Friends of Seattlest Mean Recess are releasing a CD Saturday at Jules Mae, a release which Seattlest quite possibly personally caused to be delayed, by the way. Man Rockwell and Spanish for 100 are also playing and there's no YouTube for any of them, sadly. Also, Seattlest's own Kim Ruehl is at Cafe Bella downtown tonight at 9.

Last week, Seattlest posed the question, "Just what is WaMu Theater?" According to the comments that followed this question, WaMu Theater is an "insincere" "characterless" "uninviting" "concrete cave" with "crappy sound".

It just fell into place. I was playing in a summer league at the Redmond Athletic Club, and Jamal Crawford happened to have a team in that league. After playing a couple games against him, he liked how I played. So, his team invited me to play in the “Battle at the Lake,” which was at Green Lake. Nate happened to have a team in that tournament as well. We ended up losing to them for the championship. Jamal is an amazingly nice guy. I was extremely impressed by his character. When I introduced him to my wife, he acted like he was sincerely honored to meet her. I would think NBA players would get burnt out after meeting so many people all the time. Jamal is really a great guy.

tomorrow night. So excited, in fact, that we thought we'd go to the Google to find out what sorts of happenings are going to, well, happen tomorrow in celebration of the big release.

Al D'Amato isn't a U.S. senator anymore, but continues to act like one. D'Amato's fathered a child at the age of 70, which is four years shy of Strom Thurmond's record, but nothing to sniff at.

Yesterday Seattlest said the following:

Slate takes 1,700 words to say what we already know instinctively: wine's a drink for elitist snobs, beer's for real men. Wine is “aspirational,” beer is for real men. The current Henry Weinhard campaign puts it bluntly: beer tastes better than soy milk. Well, duh.

--Seattlest wants one of these doggie adult toys and we don't even have a dog. It's the Hotdoll.

Are you a hophead? If you are, get your butt up to Cooper's Alehouse on Lake City Way on the north side of the city. Their 5th Annual IPA Festival is currently in full swing. They have some very tasty beers on tap and more on the way.

The scoreboard at Everett Memorial Stadium will be incredibly accurate this season. Why? Because Dino Rossi is buying a minority share in the Aquasox, and he tends to get bitchy when people lose count.

Sadly, we didn’t live in Seattle when grunge was born and raucously reigned. British rock journalist Everett True, author of Nirvana: The Biography—on sale now, just in time for the anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death—did. And it sure is tempting to live vicariously through the 600+ pages of his book.

Spring practice is underway (the Huskies start April 9), so here's an early look at the Pac-10 in 2007

The Asubpeeschoseewagong (more easily pronounced as "Grassy Narrows First People") of Ontario, Canada are in town this week after a long twisty trip across the continent to meet with Weyerhaeuser officials and attend the Built Green Conference. The Seattle timber company buys wood that a company called Abitibi harvests from land that the Grassy Narrows First Peoples claim as their tribal lands in the Whiskey Jack forest of northern Ontario. The group has been conducting a public relations campaign against Weyerhaeuser for quite a while now, notably projecting images onto Seattle landmarks last April. Weyerhaeuser maintains that they are the wrong tree to bark up in this case.

The Everett Herald calls it "a tender right elbow," the Seattle Times calls it "tightness in right elbow," we call it "our summer might be ruined." J.J. Putz, the Mariners' closer, the anchor of the bullpen now that Guardado and Soriano are gone, is having a problem with his right elbow, which isn't really a big deal EXCEPT THAT HE THROWS WITH HIS RIGHT ARM.

--Nate Robinson planned the greatest dunk in history but the NBA nixed it.