Presidential primaries in December now a possibility: The Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. — South Carolina Republicans today moved their 2008 presidential primary to Jan. 19, triggering a chain reaction among Iowa, New Hampshire and other early voting states that could push the first balloting into December 2007.......

Federal Way got all the press, but more than one school in Washington can ban An Inconvenient Truth. Yakima was in on it too. The Associated Press is reporting that a panel of teachers, parents, administrators and right-thinking people have decided that the film can be shown to a Yakima school's Environmental Club. Environmental Club? At least in Federal Way it was a science class. The Environmental Club? What kind of environmental club worth it's......

Our carpool buddy grabbed his wife's phone by mistake this morning. A vexing but victimless error. Not so of a Kitsap County sheriff's deputy's boo-boo yesterday. He grabbed his gun, instead of his Taser, and fired a bullet--not electricity--into a crazy person who'd climbed up a tree in Bremerton. This was not a mistake under pressure. They'd been trying to get the guy to descend from the tree for two hours. Then he started getting......

Seattlest is continually amazed at how many transplanted New Yorkers live here in the Northwest. Their numbers are matched only by the number of Northwesterners who dream of someday moving to the Big Apple. To sate the desires of both groups, and to point out some of the benefits of living in Seattle, we are launching this new feature: Awesome Things in New York That You Can Find in Seattle vs. Awesome Things Found......