Ahh, Aurora: what a beautiful name for Seattle's often-ugly, often-sketchy throughway! Why does it not surprise us to hear that an Aurora "tanning salon," located in the Oak Tree cluster, got busted this weekend for fronting a prostitution service? So, so tacky. Call us middle-class, call us square (both of which we admittedly are), but we're really creeped out by the idea of anyone--let alone a group of vulnerable, societally near-invisible immigrant women--offering sex......

While Seattle may have made marijuana possession its lowest legal priority, the latest figures from a statewide conference of sheriffs and police chiefs indicate the prosecution of marijuana in Washington State is anything but decreasing. In 2007, the state of Washington more than doubled its seizures of marijuana plants. 296,111 marijuana plants were seized in Washington alone last year. Legal or not, marijuana is one of Washington State's largest cash crops. The Evergreen State......

Timothy Garon in Hospice Care with his girlfriend, Leisa Bueno - AP Photo/ElaineThompson Timothy Garon is 56 years old and dying of liver failure. Without a liver transplant, he will die in a matter of days, but the University of Washington Medical Center has decided he is not a fit candidate for a possibly life-saving transplant. The reason? Garon used physician-prescribed medical marijuana to treat the symptoms of hepatitis C, the disease that is killing......

Never a good idea to shoot a nation's mascot/symbol, folks. Don't go to, say, Australia and kill a koala bear or kangaroo. As logic would then follow, no harm should come to bald eagles within the United States. That means someone on Bainbridge Island is in big trouble after critically injuring a female bald eagle. Local police and State Fish and Wildlife officials are searching for the shooter, who could face jail time and a......