There are plenty of reasons not to hire an escort you spot in a photo in the back pages of The Seattle Weekly or The Stranger. For one, prostitution (yeah, we know, it's for the "company") is still illegal. For two, STDs STDs STDs! And lastly, as an unlucky 80-something-year-old man learned, they might just steal your money without performing for you. Seattle 911 says a man in his early 80s showed up at the......

"Baklava" by Seattlest Flickr Photographer nikchik. A Central District woman got quite the hilarious scare yesterday morning when she spotted a silent smiling "intruder" while walking her puppy around the block. It turned out to be a life-size cut-out of GWB, stuck in neighborhood bush. But let's be honest, it would scare the bejeebus out of us too...especially in the dark!MyBallard covers the proposed car camp for homeless residents in Ballard.You've got just over two......

Governor Christine Gregoire was denied entrance to an Olympia bar last weekend, when she couldn't produce valid ID proving she was over 21. Sure, she is 61 years old and the Governor of Washington, but you got to give it to the brand new bouncer for being vigilant about not letting un-ID'd patrons in. After being denied entrance to the bar, the governor called it a night and headed back to her home--the Governor's mansion--which......

"...Our bad." Yes folks, the great Green Lake spike saga has been solved and it is all the Parks Department's fault. Police have closed the case into a possible local foot hater, after the Parks Department realized that they had placed the spikes in the lake--more than 20 years ago. The originally curved metal stakes were used to hold down plastic sheeting on the bottom of the lake. Over the last two decades, some......

Nearly two months ago, we reported the story of Theresa Heckl, who accidently donated a fake soup can safe full of jewelry, including her wedding ring, to charity. We, like Heckl and everyone else who read the story, assumed that the jewelry was gone for good--that her misfortune was someone else's lucky day. However, Heckl must have some awfully good karma, because a food bank volunteer discovered the jewel-filled can this weekend. In the......

People searching for information on Blue Mountain Community College got an eyeful Monday, when the school's URL was hacked and redirected to a porn site. The community college, located in Pendelton, Ore., was changing its URL and undergoing website redesign when the XXX mistake occurred. The "error" only happened when someone searched for the community college through Google's search engine. The user would click on the now defunct Blue Mountain Community College link and......