SPD mistakenly punishes the wrong officer, and the School Board unveils a new ethics policy. Meanwhile, Boeing Machinists approve a new contract, Hertz gets sued by former employees who had been working out of Seatac Airport, and the Duwamish River gains... a semi truck. more ›

Greg Halman, the young prospect who prowled the outfield for the Mariners last season, died early this morning in his native Netherlands. more ›

While the protests at Westlake seem to have finally gotten the attention of the rest of the media (arrests have that effect), that's not all that's going on. Here's what you may have missed while you were Occupying Seattle: more ›

The State's government is in crisis--but so are its people. Read up on today's headlines to see what fresh sorrow and bleakness you may have missed. more ›

In addition to Candidate Survivor, a lot of things happened last night. Among them: Charges in the shooting spree at Muckleshoot Casino and in last weekend's road rage killing, railroads, art theft, gang violence, aggressive bikini-wearing and more money to charity:water in the heartbreaking memory of a 9-year-old girl. more ›

People shot in South Seattle last night, potentially longer bar hours, more Kemperwatch, a series of alleged Fred Meyer gropings, an admitted child molester being allowed to watch his own video evidence, libraries, A LOT OF TOLLS and more in this morning's headlines. more ›

22-year-old Kerry May-Hardy disappeared from Capitol Hill in June of 1972. Today, authorities confirmed that remains discovered near Roslyn, Washington matched a DNA sample provided by Ms. May-Hardy's family, bringing some measure of closure after nearly 40 years. more ›

More details on the School District ethics as that crisis winds down, an Alaskan wildfire and upgrades to the Aurora Bridge -- but mostly just a whole lot of old-fashioned violence. more ›

In this morning's headlines: gearing up for the gubernatorial race, liquor privatization, South Seattle murders, an update on the school district and another medical marijuana raid. more ›

Marshmallow melodrama, murder mysteries, a pat on the back for Seattle Schools and, yes, the Ms got beat. more ›

Spc. Jeremy Morlock, the first of five soldiers to be court-martialed in connection with the murder of three Afghan civilians, has plead guilty. more ›

Around 6:30 a.m. this morning a jogger discovered a male in his mid-20s lying lifeless on the sidewalk outside the Extended StayAmerica hotel in the 13300 block of Stone Avenue North. Police responded to the scene shortly thereafter, only to discover the young man had been shot and killed. Homicide detectives are still investigating. more ›

Yesterday, a Seattle police SWAT team arrested a 17-year-old male in a Ballard home on the 900 block of NW 60th Street, who they are "pretty confident" is the gunman in Sunday's Pit Stop Express (15th Ave. NW and NW 58th St.) robbery and murder. The juvenile--whose name will not be released--was booked into the Youth Service Center while being investigated for the murder of 28-year-old convenience store clerk Manish Melwani of Lynnwood. more ›

Adding to this week's lamentable streak of violence, we woke up to find a report from Seattle 911 that a man had been killed in a hit-and-run accident last night near Cherry and Sixth in Downtown. The body was found just past midnight. According to the SPD Blotter, there are no witnesses at this point, but "officers observed a security camera on the east side of the Seattle Metropolitan Tower that might cover the intersection." more ›

• Delicious pix of the last time Seattle had rail over at Vintage Seattle.
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If you see this man, call the police. At right is the official police sketch of the suspect wanted in connection with the brutal Sunday assault of two women in South Park. more ›

• The biggest story in town this weekend? Light rail, hands down, and we have plenty on it. Then again, we're just a drop in the bucket of 92,000.
• Well-known and well-respected Seattle sound engineer Tom Pfaeffle got shot by a nut-job. Comforting. At least it was all the way out in Twisp.

King County Superior Court's Judge Palmer Robinson sentenced James A. Williams to a 35-year sentence for the slaying of 31-year-old Shannon Harps on Capitol Hill, on New Year's Eve 2007. "Williams pleaded guilty to first-degree murder last week rather than proceed to trial and, conceivably, mount an insanity defense," reports the P-I, which earlier took an in-depth look at how a known paranoid schizophrenic with a long history of violence and assault was walking around Capitol Hill. In 2006, the cost of prison incarceration in Washington was $26,736. At 35 years, that's $935,760. Mental health care in Washington was cut nine percent in the proposed 2009-11 budget. more ›

In one of the more horrifying local news items of last year, a garden-loving 60-year-old man was beaten to death at a traffic circle in Rainier Beach. The assaulter, Brian Keith Brown, just pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder charge brought against him and will now face sentencing in May. He's probably looking at between eight and eleven years in prison. Last summer he pled not guilty, so the case against him must have been looking particularly strong. We're not shedding any tears for this guy, though. more ›

It's probably too late at night to be writing this sort of piece, but sitting around a lonely house, sipping a glass of Scotch and trying to forget about our more quotidian problems, we found ourselves reading today's (or yesterday's, we suppose) article about the ongoing Amanda Knox trial. In the piece, AP reporter Alessandra Rizzo goes on at length about how Knox didn't seem to show any remorse in the police station following her roommate Meredith Kercher's murder. She quotes three prosecution witnesses (all friends of the victim, apparently), who testified that, "Everybody was upset and she didn't seem to show any emotions," or that she "'made faces,' such as crossing her eyes and sticking her tongue out. She was 'giggling' and kissing [then-boyfriend and co-defendant Raffaele] Sollecito," and finally that, "She didn't show any sadness. She wasn't crying. She seemed quite angry and a bit frustrated and sometimes happy." more ›

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OPENINGS: Athol Fugard's at Stone Soup (Fri. & Sat. 7:30 p.m., tix $15/$10) is a rock n' roll adaptation of a classic. more ›

According to a brief post we caught over at "The Blotter," the 's comically named crime blog, friends of Amanda Knox, the UW student accused of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007, have taken to the web. more ›

According to the electronic edition of the we get in our inboxes each morning, Seattle's most famous exchange student has finally gotten to trial in Perugia, Italy. Amanda Knox, the UW student accused of taking part in the sado-sexual murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007, has been an obsession of the British and Italian (and Seattle, to a lesser degree) media, as the article attests to: more ›

Carlos Bernadez has been charged with murder in the first degree for his direct involvement with the Chop Suey shooting last weekend. Bernadez was the man police allege opened fire from the side door of the venue, killing one and injuring two others. Roger Allen LaBranche, the first man to be arrested in conjunction with the night's events, has been charged with assault and drug-dealing. As the investigation unfolds, LaBranche may be charged with something more serious; for now, this charge allows the county to keep him as a suspect for accomplice in the murder of 29-E while they continue to clarify what exactly happened to lead up to Saturday night's violence. more ›

Darold Ray Stenson, convicted of murdering his wife and his business partner back in 1994, was finally given his execution date--December 3rd--after over a decade of a stayed sentence. That's a week from tomorrow, but now the Roman Catholic Church has stepped in to ask governor Gregoire if she will give Stenson life without parole instead of allowing the state to go through with the execution. We do not envy Gregoire this decision in the least; though Stenson has been found guilty by the courts, the death penalty is one of those punishments that simply cannot be undone. more ›

When we heard about the murder of the Tuba Man, Ed McMichael, we were really shaken by it. We've been heartened, though, by the outpouring of emotion from people everywhere; the Seattle Times says that "about 150 people gathered Saturday morning at Seattle Center for an informal musical memorial to the Tuba Man," and another public memorial has been set for this Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at Qwest Field (800 Occidental Ave S.) Local radio's Robin & Maynard and Art Thiel and Ken Schram are attending, and "the wearing of funny hats in tribute to Ed McMichael is encouraged." In addition, there's a memorial fund to help pay for McMichael's plot, grave marker and funeral expenses. Donations can be made to the Edward "Tuba Man" McMichael Memorial Fund, in person at a Bank of America branch, or by sending a check to the fund at P.O. Box 4985, Federal Way, WA 98063. (H/t to Seattle Metblogs) more ›

In the midst of the Election Day 2008 hullabaloo, we want to take a second to remember Seattle's Tuba Man, Edward McMichael. Robert Jamieson, who did this terrific interview with McMichael last year, brought the horrible news of Tuba Man's death:

On Oct. 25, police say, McMichael, 53, was near a bus stop in the 500 block of Mercer Street when thugs attacked, beating and robbing him after midnight. He was taken to the hospital for head wounds and was home recovering. But he died sometime Sunday or early Monday.