Happy end-of-the-special-legislative-session day! Here's what else is going on: charges for the man accused of running down some pedestrians in Fremont, high schoolers make their voices heard, taller buildings for Roosevelt and some alleged terrible child-rearing. more ›

Republicans want to start taking a piece from nontribal casinos to patch the budget, thousands of dollars worth of tools were stolen, and a local baby is tweeting to 12 people. more ›

Some stabbing, some stealing, and a sob story from Target are all in the news today. And don't forget about Occupy Seattle. Who could possibly forget about them? more ›

A lot of buildings in West Seattle have been catching fire lately. Cars and bikes are having disagreements. Local sewer systems may be getting an upgrade. West Seattle, if that's not exciting enough for you, this weekend also ushers in a new "strategy board game group." Start time: 1 p.m. End time: UNSPECIFIED (much like Settlers of Catan that way). more ›

Information is sought in the theft of a local artist's inventory; the jewelry was taken from her car on Friday while it was parked at a local Goodwill. more ›

News of the economy's impending destruction reached Marysville this weekend, spurring some jerks to go loot their food bank's shed. Way to be, thieves. more ›

The Seattle Times spoke with someone close to Ourada, who spoke of his outstanding character and love of auto theft: more ›

During a recent state audit of the public school system, a riding lawn mower, laptop computers, overhead projectors, and a costly spool of copper wire were just a few of the items suspiciously missing from the inventory of the Seattle School District. The cost of the small electronics missing alone totaled up to $118,911 in taxpayer money gone and unaccounted for. Well, the unaccounted part was only recently uncovered, when the audit revealed--despite four previous reminders--that the Seattle School District once again failed to report the suspected or known losses and vandalism. more ›

The City of Bellevue and local residents have had it with the excessive amount of retailers' shopping carts strewn across city bus stops, streets, vacant parking lots, and don't even get them started about the dizz-asterous collection found at Crossroads Shopping Center. While some retailers do attempt to corral the runaways, other shrug their shoulders without the means or capabilities to collect the transient shopping carts. more ›

This morning's story about Wallingford car prowls going unpoliced isn't the first time we've heard the Seattle blogosphere making noise about lack of SPD follow-up for smaller crimes. West Seattle has car prowlers, so does the U District and Central District. In contrast, SPD says car prowls on Capitol Hill are down 50 percent. more ›

Circus Contraption's resident stuntman and drummer, Bunny LaMonte, had his costume stolen from the TK Artists Lofts' laundry room yesterday. It was designed and built from scratch for "The SHOW to End All SHOWS," which goes up at 8 p.m. tonight and runs through May. "Boy, do we need that costume. It will really be embarrassing if the Bunny is in his underwear in front of the 160 or so people who have already purchased tickets for tonight," says Erin. "I will offer two comps and two free drink tickets to any show for information leading to the return of the Bunny Suit. No questions asked." more ›

Over the weekend we--and seemingly every other news person in the city--got a note about a stolen Schnoodle (Schnauzer-Poodle mix) that made us question humanity itself: more ›

• A Redmond-based firm's high-tech biomaterial is being used to treat dogs with glaucoma, reports TechFlash.
• Rainier Valley Post has a story about a woman whose laptop was stolen right out of her lap as she was working in a Southend coffeeshop.
• CHS is celebrating the release of a new infographic (!!) showing the busiest pedestrian areas of downtown, and wishing we had the same kind of map for the Hill.

There's an eyeglasses fetishist loose on Capitol Hill! Seattle 911 alerts us that a witness to Saturday night's eyeglasses theft at Neighbours says the suspect has stolen nine pairs of cheaters before. Nine coke-bottles taken does not a fetish make, so we're not sure where that part of Seattle 911's article came from, but it's a funny picture: some white, 140 lb. man with bleached hair sitting on the floor at home, surrounded by nine pairs of trendy-framed spectacles, increasingly excited by the idea that nine people are now more blind than they were before he snatched their goggles. Some therapist is gonna love that one. more ›

Amanda Knox is teary-eyed after her first day of testimony, and here in Seattle, we're a little worse for wear as well. Richard Branson blasted Boeing and threatened to take his bidness elsewhere. MyBallard is readying for the memorial for Kevin Black, the cyclist killed in an accident Wednesday. PhinneyWood has the deets on the senior center shakedown in which thieves stole three Gs accrued through spaghetti feeds and karaoke bingo. more ›

Former Seattlester Courtney alerted us to a weekend burglary in Jackson Place, at 20th and Charles in the Central District, with a twist: the burglars are suspected to be young kids who will knock first to see if anyone's home. According to the Jackson Place Community Council email group, a couple "carefully dressed" young teens were knocking on doors in that area in the early afternoon on the day of the burglary and, if someone answered the door, asking for "Jim." Note to "Jim": can you get in touch with these kids so they can stop stealing laptops from unoccupied houses in the Central? more ›

• Ballard, beware! There's a bold thief making his rounds at local businesses, despite being caught red-handed and confronted by a number of his victims.
• It's time for year-end reviews from everyone, about everything! The Southlake has chronicled the big events of its first year of neighborhood blogging.
• Wah-ha-ha (evil blog laugh), "Snowmageddon" spread! Beacon Hill Blog has a fascinating (albeit slow-loading) set of hour-by-hour time-lapsed video from the great snow siege of 2008. As BHB said, it all started out so innocently...but we all know what came next.

The other day on a walk up 40th in Wallingford, we noticed that the crossing flags at 40th and Sunnyside were in search of an adopter. There was a little sign up next to the flag bucket that we took a picture of, but, you know, cameraphone at night...it's not that visible. It said something like, "Adopt this intersection--email CrossingFlags@gmail.com." We emailed to determine what, exactly, adopting crossing flags entailed--because the flags in Wallingford are starting to mature and we're not prepared for the teen years--and it turns out you just buy new flags ($1.62 a pop) every once in a while to replace the flags lost to attrition (or attempt to get the city to put flags there, although that way madness lies). more ›

Late last night, the Rainier Valley Post reported that Jose "Angel" Blanco finally returned from Mexico to give himself up to authorities. He had fled south after being charged with murder in the first degree of his ex-wife Noemi Lopez, discovered on November 30th by her children to be dead in her home from 60 stab wounds. Blanco confessed via text message to his daughter on the day of the murder, but immediately went on the run from the police; according to the Times, he is also suspected of theft to the tune of $5,000 from the airport pay phone company where he worked in order to finance his trip to Mexico. more ›

• If you haven't figured out by our continuous posting of Seattle Municipal Archive Photos and links to Vintage Seattle, we have an affinity for all things, well, vintage Seattle, as it were. So we were thrilled to see that the Central District News has started a feature called "CD Rewind," which takes a look into the CD's past. The first edition shows what 23rd and Madison looked like in 1957.
• We also really like alliteration...but Beacon Hill Blog may have taken it a little too far with this one.
• We had no idea there was such a job as seal sitter, but apparently there is and seal sitters are attentively watching West Seattle beaches.

The scale of this crime--six heisted parking meters!--is what impresses us. Also the location, beneath the Viaduct, is kinda noir. We can imagine a lot of deals going down in the shadows. Not usually involving parking meters, though. more ›

• Mid Beacon Hill Blog, as well as Beacon Hill Blog and this very blog you are reading--are all wondering if Seattle will follow Denver's example. In the Mile High city, proximity to light rail raised the value of a home. Will the same be true in the Emerald City? North Beacon Hill residents certainly hope so.
• PhinneyWood tackles an age-old Seattle question, where does Phinney end and Greenwood begin?
• Unhand Boogie, you West Seattle thieves!

At least one of the FBI's cleverly named local most-wanteds has been found, tried, and sentenced to ten years in prison for his role in ten bank robberies around the region. According to the Seattle Times, the 63-year-old Waddling Bandit also has to repay $88,000 to the banks he robbed. more ›

• The Magnolia Voice wonders if Nickelsville organizers will still face fines regarding the encampment, despite reaching an agreement with the city.
• MyBallard is still a reliable source for all things quirky and Scandinavian; so we trust them when they say that today is Leif Erickson Day and the appropriate way to celebrate is by donning some sort of Nordic sweater.
• Franklin High School's football team was robbed during a recent match at Rainier Beach High School. Not like robbed on the field of a win, but robbed like their personal property was stolen. The Rainier Valley Post has all the details.

Apologies for the lack of a Roundup yesterday. There was this little obscure music and arts festival going on in town this weekend. Plus, it was Labor Day--so we abstained from work to show solidarity with the proletariat. Now for your regularly scheduled neighborhood news. more ›

A Coinstar employee has been accused of stealing nearly half a million dollars from the company's coin-counting machines in three states. 39-year-old Michael R. Burns was arrested yesterday and is expected to be charged with first-degree theft. more ›

Just hours after Seattlest's post, a man suspected of a string of high-volume gas thefts was arrested in Lakewood, Wash. Officers noticed a truck having "driving related issues." When officers tried to pull the truck over, the driver gunned it, leading officers on a brief chase. The suspect was eventually stopped by police maneuvers and was arrested. The suspect, who's name has not been released, is accused of stealing nearly $3,000 worth of fuel from local Shell stations. more ›

Thieves suspected of stealing hundreds of gallons of premium fuel from stations in West Seattle and Sea-Tac have struck again. The latest incident in a rash of high volume gas thefts occurred last Thursday, when 208 gallons were stolen from a Gig Harbor Shell station. Police believe the same men were caught on tape last month, pilfering fuel from four Shell gas stations in King County. more ›