Lake Wa Blvd by Seattlest Flickr Contributor Dylan Koutsky A charter bus carrying the Garfield High School softball team crashed into a low pedestrian overpass in the Arboretum last night, shearing the roof off the bus. Five students who were passengers were taken to Harborview Medical Center after complaining of back and neck pain. Though none of the injuries appeared to be serious, the girls were taken to the hospital by ambulance. The charter bus......

Gas Works Park may not recover its former place as our #1 greatest park ever after its little tar leak last week. We took a walk over there yesterday and wandered around what was basically an empty space on a gray and prematurely cold day, pressing our nose up against the chain link here and there and dwelling on what exactly this park sits on top of: benzene, mercury, lead, etc. It's gross. Current......

News from a day where we spent hours looking for a two-cent stamp. --Lily Allen was in town, having a self-image crisis. --Will Ken Griffey Jr. hand out jock straps to Mariner fans when he returns in June? --60 Minutes does Redfin. Redfin is thrilled. --Amazon.com snaps up Dpreview.com. --Are there bad neighborhoods where the doggy taxi won't go? Like the Magnuson dog park maybe? --Courtesy of the increasingly kick-ass West Seattle Blog, we present:......

Woodinville's fastpitch softball team, which finished 3rd in state last year, was beating Franklin 64-0 on Wednesday when the game was stopped because of the "mercy rule." Some mercy. It's an ugly thing, humiliating a team like that, but Woodinville's coach claims he felt did everything he could to avoid running up the score, in a long explanation posted on the team's website today.No one has been more disturbed about the final score of our......

Turns out it's not so easy to outfox young and dedicated junk food consumers, such as students at Cleveland High School: Chips and cookies were replaced in vending machines with granola bars and trail mix; sugary drinks are no longer sold in schools. Cleveland fell into line with other schools, offering healthier foods in its cafeteria and vending machines. Teens such as Tikisha fell into line, too -- out the door to find their junk......

Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does to have a music scene. Don't even front like they don't. They also have Dorito bananas and white guys shopping for wives. What they don't have is any more tolerance for jaywalkers. Bostonist sees Boston and Somerville each whip out their art and face off. A plagiarized novel is the......

There's a whole lot of latino going on in the park right outside our house in the Central District. Normally our neighborhood is exceptionally quiet all day, save for the sound of baking donuts from Gai's, until the little league softball or pee-wee football teams start showing up around 2:30. So we were mighty surprised to hear quite the ruckus out in Judkins Park, and peeking out we saw at least a couple hundred......

-More ex-Mariners in the news, but this guy's still playing ball. Sort of. The Mets signed Brett Boone to a minor league contract today which could net him up to $1.5 million for next season. Oh, how the O-ver-Ra-ted have fallen. Boone earned almost $10 million while getting cut from the Mariners and Twins last year and batting .221. Seattlest earned -$300 to get cut from our summer softball league last year with the same......

With a win over Tennessee yesterday, the 31-1 University of Washington women's volleyball team advanced to the national championship game. They play #1 ranked Nebraska Saturday at 3pm. ESPN2 will televise the game live. This is the Dawgs' first trip to a national championship game. They made the Final Four last year, but Stanford beat them in the national semifinal. The last Husky team to play in a national championship game was the women's softball......

If your local sausage merchant, empanada slinger or Seattlest editor seems to have an extra bop in his bop sh'bop sh'bop today, it's because the Chicago White Sox won the World Series last night. This Series victory, the Chi-Sox first since 1917, brings joy not only to South Siders (of which Editor Dan is one) but also to Venezuelans. Sox manager Ozzie Guillen is a native of that country, and pinko commie President Hugo Chavez......

With all this talk of indictments, World Series action, and last night's Gilmore Girls, it is easy to forget that we are about to pick a mayor. Well, not so much forget as not realize. It turns out a guy named Greg Nickels has been our mayor for the past few years, and just like every other politician, he wants another four years for legacy building, mayoral library fundraising, and the pass that lets him......

Those down at King County Elections are feeling pretty good about themselves, or well, cautiously optimistic, following the recent primary election—which believe it or not was held a couple of weeks ago.There have been no major problems reported, and it appears that everything went off just as planned. After last fall's governor's election exposed the flaws with the voting system, King County made an extra effort to fix all them problems. They even took out......

The Mariner’s only have Felix's pitching to talk about, so in lieu of good baseball, we just got served a softball that Bea Arthur could hit out of the park blindfolded. Ladies and gentlemen (and perverts), Seattlest presents: Nudestock. The local membership-based “clothing optional” Fraternity Snoqualmie -- lurking nearby the otherwise squeaky-clean Issaquah environs -- is inviting you to their annual flesh fest. Apparently you need not be a member to join, but we......

The past holiday weekend offered a bevvy of Seattle activities, from the Folklife Festival to Sasquatch, to SIFF, and we’re sure there’s more. Well, we’re pretty sure, because some of us went to Canada instead. Just a quick jaunt to Vancouver on Sunday for some biking; perhaps we’d even try to catch the Bloc Party show that evening at the Commodore since somehow we’ve missed out on every other opportunity to see them in what......

This weekend, for the first time in a month, the Mariners played like a good baseball team, winning a series from NL-West leading San Diego. On Saturday, the stars led the way. On defense, Ichiro stole a home run from Ryan Klesko with a leaping grap at the rightfield wall. On offense, Adrian Beltre and Richie Sexson hit 440+ foot home runs on consecutive pitches in the sixth inning. On Sunday, Aaron Sele threw a......