• The cocoa butter bandit didn't slip away from the Everett police--officers have arrested a 24-year-old Lake Stevens man who is suspected to be responsible for the recent string of tanning salon robberies.
• The Southlake reports that Denny Triangle's Days Inn and Eighth Avenue Inn have been leased to Cornish College, who is in the process of turning the once skanky hotels into residence halls for 280 first-year art students. (Pointing) Ha, ha freshmen.
• The chaotic Seafair boating traffic on Lake Washington, is finally over. In total, authorities handed out 110 BUIs (Boating Under the Influence). Seattle 911 reports that's a 23 percent increase. Don't say we didn't warn you. Tsk, tsk.

Tanning salons have more to worry about than just being burgled. We've been wondering all week how the Wallingford Desert Sun will respond to the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer's recent decision to put tanning beds and ultraviolet radiation in the top category for cancer risk. more ›

The feds shut down three more brothels masquerading as tanning salons, this time in Greenwood, Tukwila and Renton. They're still using that cover story? Come on, people. Now that three more "salons" have bit the dust, we're sure Seattle will move further along the journey towards restoring the shining image of tanning salons as our community's beacons of health and moral rectitude. Also, our condolences go out to the undercover investigators who risked infectious skin diseases in the name of gathering evidence for this case. more ›