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Police are searching for the cocoa butter bandit, believed to be responsible for up to 17 tanning salon robberies (Tanning salons, really?) throughout Snohomish and King County.

A man arrested for growing thousands of dollars worth of marijuana in five Snohomish County grow-houses every month has entered a guilty plea to the charges. That's big business--4,000 plants over the last five years--and he'll face up to nine years in prison for the charges.

The summer fire safety burn-ban will be lifted in King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Mason Counties at 8 a.m. this Friday. According to local fire marshalls, the ban is being lifted because area forests have enough moisture to "considerably reduce the risk of fire." That means if you've been partaking in President Bush's one-time favorite summer vacation activity--clearing brush down on the ranch in Crawford--you are now free to burn that brush bonfire style. But no tossing tires, dead animals, plastics or other waste into your fires. Happy and safe burning folks!

Oh those wacky Republicans in Snohomish County. Geri Modrell, the chairwoman of the Snohomish Republican Party, has issued an apology after some GOP volunteers at the Evergreen State Fair sold racist $3 bills (available at conservative websites everywhere!) "depicting Sen. Barack Obama in traditional Arab headgear with a camel."

Remember in the Mission: Impossible movies, when Tom Cruise is given messages that self-destruct into a puff of smoke after he memorizes them? Normal text messages should have that feature. This ill-fated Snohomish County couple is likely to agree with Seattlest: the P-I reports that during a homicide investigation, police investigators checked out the twosome's text message histories and found incriminating evidence that led to first-degree murder charges against them.

When even a convent in Olympia began to seem expensive (egads), Seattlest settled for a trip to the mysterious region called "unincorporated Snohomish County," also known as "our parents' house." We would take a vacation, damnit, even if that meant a weekend of sitting in our high school bedroom-turned-guest-room, noshing on Trader Joe's brie, and contemplating the tiny nature reserve just beyond the rows of strawberry plants in the back yard.

We wonder if saving on fuel and repairs also means busses run less frequently and commuters with abnormal hours wind up waiting in the rain longer than their 8-5 peers. On the other hand, the view from the top floor of the bus will be stunning during that long ride home.

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.

According to our current addiction, the Democratic Convention Watch blog, some less than stellar reporting created confusion over the status of Rep. Jay Inslee's endorsement of Clinton.

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 of Granite Falls, when the avalanche hit Friday afternoon, said spokeswoman Rebecca Hover with the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office.

Yippee!!!!

The magical winter of 2006-07 continues:

From the P-I:

EVERETT, Wash. -- A man sought for the dismemberment killing of his girlfriend has a history of mental illness, an expertise in martial arts and an affinity for edged weapons, Snohomish County sheriff's deputies said Thursday.

Do you like working outdoors? Do you like a little bit of excitement? Do you own your own rubber gloves?

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.

Brown Bear Car Wash is so happy that media and public attention has helped them retrieve 25 of more than 40 bear statues stolen from its Fife location that it's washing cars for free today at these 19 drive-thru locations:

Tuesday night, Seattlest decided to ratchet up the difficulty level on the quiz at the Old Pequilar. And we think that worked well. We heard bitching, but it was good, brain-smacking bitching, not lynch-the-quiz-host bitching.

-This is a Detroit newspaper complaining about the lack of Starbucks cafes in their city. We shit you not. It looks like the Detroit airport has more Starbucksi than the city.

No, not a spoonerism (complete with granola and strawberries), but an imperative! It is Seattlest's confirmed opinion that not enough of us Yurt.

It's happened to all of us...you're sitting quietly at a bar, when some meathead has the audacity to suggest that baseball's Earl Torgeson is the greatest sports figure in the history of King County's neighbor to the north, Snohomish County.

The Spirit of Washington Dinner Train that goes from Renton to, well, Renton by way of the Columbia Winery in Woodinville is perilously close to having the track yanked from under it. Seattlest doesn't think that The Spirit of Washington Dinner Bus has quite the same ring, but if Ron Sims' plan of purchasing the 47 miles of track from Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway comes through the train might be out of business.

The ISC is working with the Cowlitz Indian Tribe to get a 75,000 seat racetrack built in southwest Washington. The Cowlitz are currently a landless tribe but have applied to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for land in trust and are also making plans to build a casino and hotel complex that would employ up to 5000 people and be 1 1/2 times the size of the Tulalip Casino.

National news came out of the Seattle AP bureau this morning when they released the findings of the Snohomish County Public Utility District's internal Enron investigation.