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Early Sunday evening, KING5-TV reports, two women had taken four dogs out for a walk near the train tracks (not to be confused with light rail track) just outside of Seattle, when one dog ran off and onto the train tracks just as a Chicago-bound Amtrak train was approaching. Moments later, the eastbound train struck and killed the dog and injured one of the women who raced after it. The injured woman was brought onboard the train and taken to the Edmonds Station, where paramedics whisked her away to Harborview.

Link Light Rail hasn't been open a full two weeks, and sadly we're already passing along news of the first light rail fatality--though it may have been a suicide. The accident took place late last night in the SoDo area, as the rail car was heading southbound, past South Holgate Street and 5th Avenue South. The SPD Blotter reports a man jumped over a barricade and into the path of the train, where he was struck and killed. With no crosswalks in the vicinity, police are still investigating the accident and what the man was doing in a non-pedestrian area. No light rail passengers were witness to the accident, and they were later bused away.

• The train tracks near Carkeek Park on were shut down for nearly four hour Saturday evening, after a California-bound train struck and killed a 25-year-old Seattle man.
• It will be tough to finding your favorite Scandinavian treats of pickled herring, lutefisk and svinneribbe. After 49 years of business, Ballard's Olsen’s Scandinavian Foods announced over the weekend that they will have to close their door. Sales have already begun.
• Fremont was certainly the "Center of the Universe" for everyone painted head-to-toe in body paint this weekend. Once again, the annual Fremont Fair and the Solstice--naked people--Parade did not disappoint.