A future firefighter, of course. Or rather, someone who had hoped to become a firefighter, because this guy can pretty much kiss his firefighting and law enforcement career goodbye. An 18-year-old trainee with the Bucoda Fire Department stole and totaled the small town's only ambulance early Saturday morning. A volunteer firefighter spotted the joy-riding teen in the stolen ambulance on a rural road in the small Thurston County community. According to thief's would-be future firefighting......

Photo Taken by beloved Flickr Contributor, Slightly North Ever wonder how many tree-hugging hippie college students it takes to flip over a police car? Students at Evergreen State College in Olympia learned today, as a riotous mob broke out shortly after a Dead Prez concert on campus. Apparently there was a bit of a scuffle during the Dead Prez set, and campus officers stepped in to arrest a student for misdemeanor assault. After some......

C'mon, Seattle Times. You get a press release related to the McMenamins affair in Kenmore from some mysterious source claiming that the whole deal is off and you turn around and announce it to the world without so much as a phone call to McMenamins? When Seattlest gets a release in the mail detailing the city's plan to dye the sky green we immediately start ranting about how blue skies were good enough for us......

Listening to Paul Tosch, the KOMO copter guy, who reports that I-5 between Marysville and Thurston County is mostly dry, and the bridges are free of ice. But the side streets and overpasses and underpasses are still icy, so be careful there. Ice that was in today's sun melted. But once the temperature drops it will form back into ice, so if you live on an icy street, you might could want to get home......

Perhaps it was a need to assuage disappointment over Matt Hasselbeck's injury, or the thrill of being at an NFL game...but something spurred a Thurston County prosecutor attending Sunday's Hawks game to allegedly follow his paralegal into a Qwest Field women's bathroom stall and make sweet love to her. We'd imagine the conversation went something like this: Thurston County prosecutor guy: Hey, me and the paralegal are going to go do it the bathroom stall......

While "Kablowie" Zarqawi enjoys the sexual ministrations of 72 virgins, a Fort Lewis soldier is sitting in Thurston County Jail for allegedly wanting to sleep with just one. A sheriff who evidently gets her kicks posing as a 13-year-old encountered the soldier in a chatroom. The soldier made a date with her, and if he hoped handcuffs were going to be involved, he got his wish monkey's paw-style. Now he's facing some ugly-sounding charges, including......

A barn containing 17,000 chickens went up in smoke in Yelm Saturday, which, from a chicken's perspective, is only slightly more tragic than a poultry farm barn containing 17,000 chickens in the first place. From the Seattle Times: The blaze started at about 4 p.m. Saturday in a barn at Draper Valley Farms, said Chief Rita Hutcheson of the Southeast Thurston County fire district. The barn was about the size of a football field, and......