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NEW - 09:32 AM
Perjury charges dismissed against Seattle cop who shot Hells Angel
Perjury charges have been dismissed against a Seattle police detective who shot a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle club during last month's annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota.
NEW - 09:25 AM
Serial killer Yates getting date with death
TACOMA — A judge in Tacoma is scheduled to sign the death warrant today for Robert Lee Yates.
NEW - 09:24 AM
Home loan troubles break record again
A record 9 percent of U.S. homeowners with a mortgage were either behind on their payments or in foreclosure at the end of June. Washington state's troubled-loan rates remain low, although there are modest signs they are growing.
UPDATE - 09:23 AM
Jobless rate jumps to 5-year high of 6.1% in August
The nation's unemployment rate zoomed to a five-year high of 6. 1 percent in August as employers slashed 84,000 jobs, dramatic proof of...
UPDATE - 09:23 AM
Boeing, Machinists talk in last-ditch effort to avert strike
Union leaders and Boeing executives spent the first 15 hours of a 48-hour cooling-off period to avert a strike just getting to the negotiating...
UPDATE - 09:17 AM
King County budget shortfall rises to $90 million
King County's 2009 projected budget shortfall for next year — pegged until this week at $86.5 million — has now grown to $90 million, County Executive Ron Sims announced in an unusual place: his Twitter Web page.
NEW - 08:30 AM
DOT slowdowns on I-90 begin Monday
Beginning Monday through the first significant snowfall, drivers can expect up to 20-minute delays and rolling slowdowns on Interstate- 90 just east of Snoqualmie Pass near Keechelus Lake.
UPDATE - 08:18 AM
Continental adds fee for checking first-bag
Continental Airlines will charge to check first bag
NEW - 08:13 AM
Lucile Street Bridge to close Saturday for several hours
The Lucile Street Bridge in Seattle will be closed for several hours Saturday while Seattle Department of Transportation crews replace two concrete panels between 12th and 13th avenues south just east of the bridge.
NEW - 07:34 AM
Cindy McCain sets tone for GOP fashion
Not since Jacqueline Kennedy first donned her signature pillbox hats have fashionistas paid such close attention to what the women of politics...
Sue Bird scores 19 to lead Storm past Sky 70-62
Sue Bird scored 19 points to help the Seattle Storm clinch a playoff berth with a 70-62 victory over the Chicago Sky on Thursday night. Camille Little had 13 points...
U.S. Open | Novak Djokovic, angered by Andy Roddick, beats him in quarterfinal
Novak Djokovic heard what Andy Roddick said about him and didn't like it one bit. Still, as much motivation as Djokovic might have had...
Remarks of GOP presidential nominee John McCain
John McCain-Text,3750 Remarks of GOP presidential nominee John McCain The Associated Press Remarks by Republican presidential nominee John...
Two people were shot and critically injured about 8:30 p.m. today in the 12200 block of Ambaum Boulevard Southwest in Burien.
Danny Westneat
Can heroic past beat solid plan for future?
A few weeks back, John McCain predicted Barack Obama would give the better acceptance speech. But he said it wouldn't matter. "I think it's going...
Nicole Brodeur
Hockey mom, governor, juggler?
Let's all calm down. Yes, Sarah Palin delivered the speech of a lifetime. The Republican vice presidential candidate and former sportscaster...
3 more shooting victims identified
Detectives expect to clear out from the north Skagit County town of Alger today as they wind up their investigation into Tuesday's slayings.
New kind of school offers special focus
The six new portable classrooms outside Federal Way's Totem Middle School in Kent might not look like anything unusual. But inside there are...
Central District Forum founder and head to step down
Stephanie Ellis-Smith, the founder and executive director of the CD Forum, announced she will step down from her post in June 2009.
Letters will warn homeowners of foreclosure-rescue scams
In an effort to stay ahead of scammers who prey on distressed homeowners, the state's attorney general is mailing letters to 14,174 Washington...
Salmonella outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts from Kent
Thirteen people in Washington and Oregon have been sickened by alfalfa sprouts. Sprouters Northwest of Kent has recalled all its products containing alfalfa sprouts.
Snohomish County Executive Reardon proposes cutting 70 county positions
Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon Thursday proposed cutting 70 county positions to close a $9.3 million revenue shortfall in the 2009 budget.
Local Digest
Worker badly hurt by trench cave-in
A construction worker was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries Thursday after the wall of a trench he was working in collapsed on...
Dates and times are subject to change. Fairs/Festivals Harvest Fair Sat Organic farmers market, tomato tasting, dairy goats and chickens...
M's unlikely to sign stars for '09
The Mariners will build from within and will stay away from signing big-ticket free agents, team president Chuck Armstrong says.
Seahawks' rookie tight end put to the test early
Seattle Seahawks football coach Mike Holmgren is counting on his rookie tight end, John Carlson, to be a quick study. The Notre Dame product will start Sunday at the Buffalo Bills.
Storm claims spot in WNBA playoffs
There's clinching a playoff berth, and there's doing it with the gutty style of a 9-0 game-ending run.
UW to test second-week gains theory against BYU
A truth of college football, readily agreed upon by seemingly every coach, is that a team makes its greatest improvement from game one to...
WSU Football | A'i Ahmu to play in second half vs. Cal
Washington State defensive tackle A'i Ahmu will play in Saturday's game against California, but only in the second half, coach Paul Wulff...
College Football | Vanderbilt knocks off No. 24 S. Carolina
Vanderbilt heard all the talk from South Carolina after beating the then-No. 6 Gamecocks last October. It made the Commodores mad. And for the first...
U.S Open | Novak Djokovic gets fired up, tops Andy Roddick
Novak Djokovic heard what Andy Roddick said about him and didn't like it one bit. Still, as much motivation as Djokovic might have derived...
Bud Withers
Bud Withers | UTEP's Mike Price still upbeat about UT game
After a humiliating 42-17 loss at Buffalo last weekend, Texas-El Paso now faces No. 10 Texas for just the third time in school history.
Sideline Chatter
Giving new meaning to "fantasy" football
Hold that offensive line! Media members thinking they had dialed into the season's first teleconference with Central Florida football coach...
KingCo 4A | Eagles upset No. 2 Bothell
It took one half to get used to this stadium, to adjust to so many fans making so much noise. It took one half to get up to speed, to see...
Larry Stone
Yanks, M's share similar shortfall
The Yankees can do a little commiserating with the Mariners when they open a three-game series tonight at Safeco Field. Hold a chapter meeting...
Pac-10 picks Washington 30, BYU 27: If it doesn't happen here, it may never happen. Cal 31, WSU 17: Cougars must defend more speed than...
Prep notebook | Meadowdale RB Naji Moore-Taylor out for 3 weeks
Meadowdale junior running back Naji Moore-Taylor will miss the first three weeks of the season because of a violation of the athletic code last fall, said coach Mark Stewart.
SPSL 4A | Auburn decks No. 7 Federal Way
Jeff Gouveia goofed, then vowed to atone for it. Promise made, promise kept. Gouveia, who earlier missed an extra-point kick, scored on...
Notebook | BYU defense may help UW passing
The handcuffs come off this week. Because the 15th-ranked Brigham Young Cougars deploy zone pass coverage, Washington's offensive coordinator...
Notebook | Sue Bird faces ex-USA teammate
To somebody with her worldly basketball experience, Sue Bird didn't think going against an Olympic teammate was anything too new. Before the game against...
Seahawks Notebook | Buffalo safety now has chance to back playoff boast
Buffalo Bills safety Donte Whitner gets the chance to put his money where his mouth is. If Whitner's Bills defeat the Seattle Seahawks, it will make his July promise of a playoff berth perhaps a little easier to keep.
Ex-Mariner Todd Cruz dies at 52
Todd Cruz, an infielder with the 1983 world-champion Baltimore Orioles who also played for the Mariners, has died. He was 52. Mr. Cruz died Tuesday while...
The New York Giants won the Super Bowl with defense, and they kicked off defense of that title with more of the same. Playing without Pro Bowl...
Golf | BMW's 1st round delayed by rain
When the fans came out to watch Tiger Woods, there was no tournament. Arnold Palmer once played in a tournament, but fans couldn't get to...
NFL | Former Pro Bowl QB Daunte Culpepper retires
Daunte Culpepper summed up his thoughts Thursday in two words, ushering in a new era for the former Pro Bowl quarterback. "Farewell NFL," he wrote...
AL | Recent call-up Travis Snider goes 3 for 4 with homer
Travis Snider hit his first career home run and went 3 for 4 with two runs batted in to help Toronto beat Minnesota for the ninth straight...
NL | Carlos Zambrano's injury adds to woes for troubled Cubs
Ryan Dempster stepped out in front of the team's headquarters at the beginning of spring training nearly seven months ago and made a bold...
NW Briefs | Brian Schmetzer on the list for Sounders' coach search
Seattle Sounders FC has settled on a list of head-coaching candidates that includes Brian Schmetzer, and the Major League Soccer expansion...
UW Volleyball | Huskies' firepower too much for Zags
It was a business-as-usual home opener for the Washington volleyball team Thursday night, a program that has amassed an eye-popping . 863 winning percentage (139-22...
Briefs | Basketball: Naismith Hall of Fame inductions today
Basketball Vitale star of class: Pat Riley, Patrick Ewing and Hakeem Olajuwon are the biggest names being inducted into the Naismith Basketball...
Seinfeld-Gates ad debuts, and it's no showstopper
Microsoft's much-anticipated advertising campaign, expected to be a counter to withering Apple attacks on its most important product, debuted...
Hard Rock Café to open in Seattle
Hard Rock Café will open a Seattle restaurant next fall a half-block from the Pike Place Market.
Retail Report
Crush chef behind Dry Soda's latest flavors
Several months of sniffing and sampling later, Dry Soda arrived at its next two flavors — juniper berry and vanilla bean — which will debut this fall. Dry Soda is sold nationwide and this summer began distribution at grocery stores in Canada.
Comcast appeals FCC slap over blocking Web traffic
Comcast is appealing an FCC ruling that it is improperly blocking customers' Web traffic, triggering a legal battle that could determine...
Gas prices not falling as fast as oil's drop
Oil prices have fallen more than 26 percent from their July 11 record high of $147.27 a barrel, and all evidence points to further declines...
Higher oil produces leaner companies
Conventional wisdom had long held that some industries would collapse if oil topped $100 a barrel. As oil neared $150, sending costs higher...
Shares dive, hurdles mount for Yahoo
Yahoo's stock sank to its lowest level in nearly five years Thursday, magnifying the challenge facing the Internet company as its management...
Treasury prices rose moderately Thursday, as a plummeting stock market sent investors back into safer, fixed-income government securities...
Home-price decline may be slowing
Prices of single-family homes fell nationwide in the second quarter, but at a slower rate than in the previous three-month period, an economic-analysis...
The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 344 points Thursday on a confluence of poor news about the economy, although investors could...
Analysis
After peaking in early July, natural-gas prices have cooled off. Both crude-oil and natural-gas prices have dropped sharply in recent days...
Business Digest
Drugstore.com, Rite Aid realign
Pacific Northwest Bellevue-based Internet retailer drugstore.com said Thursday it has restructured its relationship with Rite Aid. Under the deal, drugstore.com...
McCain urges country: "Stand up and fight"
It may go down as one of the quietest acceptance speeches in presidential campaign history: quiet crowd, quiet candidate, quiet rebukes...
Abramoff given 4 years in prison for corruption
Jack Abramoff, the once-powerful Republican superlobbyist who amassed a fortune by showering gifts on public officials while bilking Indian...
Bhutto's widower to lead Pakistan
His supporters say he is the one man who can bring Pakistan together and fight the growing influence of militants along the border with...
Bob Katz just moved in, you say? Uh, not quite
Taking advantage of a slump in real estate, a family of bobcats has moved into a foreclosed Lake Elsinore home, lolling about on fences...
Chile moves to clean up salmon-farming industry
With a deadly virus threatening its fish farms, Chile has introduced measures to improve the sanitary conditions of its salmon industry...
London Taxis are as British as bowler hats and Big Ben. But the latest models coming off this new assembly line are unlikely to ever touch...
Crash probe prompts new directive for 777s
U.S. regulators will tell airlines to quickly make changes aimed at preventing ice from building up in fuel lines of Boeing 777s, which...
Detroit's scandal-plagued mayor quits
Mired in a sex scandal that crippled the governance of Detroit all year, the city's troubled mayor chose Thursday to walk out of office...
Elephant drug addict gets monkey off back
An Asian elephant that became addicted to heroin at the hands of illegal traders will return home after a three-year rehab program, Chinese...
Myanmar opens to cyclone relief
Away from public view, Myanmar has opened up to global-relief efforts to an unprecedented degree after initially thwarting foreign attempts...
Close-up
Organizers bristle at Republican remarks
Angry community organizers defended their work — and that of former organizer Barack Obama — as they fought back Thursday against...
Palin challenges conservative vs. liberal beliefs about working moms
As a Republican and mother of five, Gov. Sarah Palin's quest for the vice presidency challenges conservative vs. liberal beliefs about working moms.
Palin choice invigorates television's VP coverage
A couple of weeks ago, "Fox News Sunday" executive producer Marty Ryan called political analyst William Kristol aside. Why, Ryan wondered, did...
Close-up
Palin switched colleges as many as 6 times
Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin seems to have switched colleges at least six times in six years, including two stints...
Roadside bomb kills 2 U.S. soldiers
A roadside bomb killed two American soldiers patrolling eastern Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. military said, announcing the first combat...
Violent trek moves turbine to dam
It was a weeklong journey through Afghanistan's most dangerous Taliban territory, dodging persistent attacks by insurgents and bumping over...
Woman on path to being Israel's prime minister
For the first time since Golda Meir more than three decades ago, a woman is within reach of becoming the prime minister of Israel, a nation...
Odds and Ends
Celebrity gossip, famous birthdays and other tidbits, compiled from Seattle Times news services.
Nation Digest
4 arthritis drugs get tougher warnings
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered stronger warnings Thursday on four medications widely used to treat rheumatoid arthritis...
World Digest
Cheney says Georgia should join NATO
Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday pledged American help to rebuild Georgia and its economy, to preserve its sovereignty and its territory...
Editorial
McCain as nominee, Palin as long ball
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain's feisty selection for vice president, gave a pointed and powerful speech the other night and...
Editorial
The Seattle City Council is following its survival instincts in the right direction. After one of its own was caught trying to slough off...
Lance Dickie / Seattle Times editorial columnist
A cure is coming for health-care ills
Broad exploration of the options beyond employer-based health insurance coverage are coming from the same source as most of the original thinking and leadership on global warming: the states.
A sampling of readers' letters, faxes and e-mail.
Guest columnist
A lifetime worth of advice, carefully scripted with a red pen
Over the years, I searched for a mentor like most folks look for deals on eBay. I clung to Hunter S. Thompson's every drunken move when...
Ellen Goodman / Syndicated columnist
A mother should know pregnancy is, indeed, private
You gotta love this campaign. No sooner does the curtain come crashing down on one climactic moment than up it goes on another. The Democrats choose NoDrama...
Washington Voices
Editorial views from across the state
We sometimes get a bit cynical in the newsroom, particularly when it comes to politicians, particularly during the campaign season.
Restaurant Review
Posh food, wine and diners at Sip - and you'll fit right in
A clubby aura prevails at Sip, in the Issaquah Highlands, but you feel like a member from the minute you walk in the door.
The Puyallup Fair runs Sept. 5-21, with a concert lineup that includes Kid Rock, Fergie and Carrie Underwood.
Catching up with hip-hop group The Pharcyde
Los Angeles alternative hip-hop group Pharcyde is performing together for the first time in 11 years at the Rock The Bells hip-hop festival at the Gorge.
Book Review
"Fine Just the Way It Is": New collection of short stories from "Brokeback Mountain" author
The new Wyoming-set short story collection by Annie Proulx, "Fine Just the Way It Is," includes tales of love, loss, and a sagebrush with man-size appetites, plus a story of abandonment that rivals Proulx's classic "Brokeback Mountain."
Movie Review
"I Served the King of England": Ignorance is bliss — and highly entertaining
"I Served the King of England": For his sixth adaptation of the works of renowned Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabal, veteran Czech director Jiri Menzel has concocted a luxurious, sexy and delightfully absurd comedy about a blindly ambitious waiter (Ivan Barnev, giving a remarkable Chaplinesque performance) who reaches the peak of high society by catering to Nazis and Communists in a decades-long whirl of turbulent Czech history.
Visual Arts
Borrowing from pop culture to create art
Dan Webb's public artwork "Gnome" is unveiled at Cornish College as part of a group show focusing on appropriation, "GIMME: From Inspiration to Appropriation."
Dining Deals
Filling, well-filled sandwiches at Yeh Yeh's
Yeh Yeh's Vietnamese Sandwiches in Lynnwood serves 'em up big, tasty and messy: a meal by themselves, on 8-inch-long demi-baguettes, each under $5. There's also pho (Vietnamese noodle soup) and appetizers such as spring rolls and chicken wings.
Movie Review
"A Jihad for Love": Documentary explores the dilemma of gay Muslims
"A Jihad for Love" is Parvez Sharma's intriguing but frustrating documentary about homosexuality in the Muslim world.
"Dogtown": A checkup on Vick's pit bulls
Four pit bulls rescued from a Virginia dogfighting compound owned by former Atlanta Falcon Michael Vick are spotlighted in the two-hour season premiere of "Dogtown."
Movie Review
"La France": What's French for half-baked?
"La France": Serge Bozon makes his directing debut with this French oddity about a teenage cross-dresser who hangs out with soldiers who threaten to sing their way through World War I.
Movie Review
"Ripple Effect": Nice try, but a little self-awareness goes a long way
"Ripple Effect": This ultra-low-budget indie film is simultaneously annoying and sincere in its attempt to grapple with complicated emotions and spiritual malaise. Writer-director-producer-star Philippe Caland plays a tortured clothing designer convinced that his bad karma is connected to a hit-and-run accident that left his victim (Forest Whitaker) paralyzed.
Movie Review
"The Little Red Truck": An inadequate portrait of an admirable effort
"The Little Red Truck" is an unrevealing documentary that focuses on the Missoula Children's Theatre program for producing plays in six days throughout hundreds of American communities.
Book Review
Books | Best-sellers of the week
As reported by Publishers Weekly Hardcover fiction 1. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Sean Williams 2. Smoke Screen, Sandra Brown 3. The Host, Stephenie Meyer...
A weekly listing of new DVDs.
Past Lives: Always a challenge
Seattle band Past Lives, with a challenging new EP, plays Neumo's Sept. 7.
Theater
Small-stage openings this fall
Theater roundup: September in Seattle includes "The Vertical Hour" at ArtsWest, "Gutenberg! The Musical!" at Strawberry Theatre Workshop and a return engagement of Daniel Beaty's "Resurrection" at the CD Forum.
Stars (and networks) unite to "Stand Up to Cancer"
Katie Couric, Charles Gibson and Brian Williams will join dozens of A-list entertainers and sports figures on "Stand Up to Cancer," a live, one-hour special being simulcast at 8 p.m. Friday on ABC, CBS and NBC, as well as cable's E! Entertainment channel.
"Polanski": Director has set his own course in film, life
Some people call him a court jester seething with chutzpah, "the little brat at the head of the troops. " Others find him a charming self-made...
"American Wife" imagines the life of first lady Laura Bush
Curtis Sittenfeld's "American Wife" takes the life of Laura Bush and turns it into a provocative novel that explores the clash between private and public life in today's political/celebrity culture.
Book Review
"Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All": an American's take on contact with the Maori
Christina Thompson's memoir "Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All" tells the story of the author's unlikely romance with a New Zealand Maori foundryman, interwoven with a critical look back at European first contacts with the Maori.
Book Review
"Mrs. Woolf and the Servants": The author's complex relationship with her maids
In "Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury," historian Alison Light argues persuasively that Woolf's complicated relationships with her household staff, tied up in issues of class snobbery and dependency, reveal a great deal about the writer specifically, and about British social history in general.
Book Review
"The Impenetrable Forest": The intertwined fates of Uganda and its mountain gorillas
Thor Hanson's "The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda" is the San Juan Islander's memoir of his improbable Peace Corps job: introducing the mountain gorillas of Uganda to humans, and vice versa.
Book Review
"The Sealed Letter": BFFs behaving badly in Victorian London
Emma Donoghue's historical novel "The Sealed Letter" is a wicked tale of 1860s London that could be subtitled "Sex in the Victorian City."
Book Review
"The Various Flavors of Coffee": Coffee serves as eye-opener in young poet's life
Anthony Capella's new novel "The Various Flavors of Coffee" is set in London and Africa of the 1890s, when the international coffee trade was a gateway to intrigue, adventure and heartbreak.
At a Theater Near You
Classics for all ages, plus a touch of trash
"The Thief of Baghdad," "The Secret of Roan Inish" and an Alain Robbe-Grillet series screen in Seattle.
A selection of new titles by Washington authors, or of local interest.
Jazz Etc.
Jeanie Bryson Quartet plays Bake's Place
Head to Bake's Place this weekend, and you'll find yourself feeling it three ways: in the food, the alcohol and in Jeanie Bryson's voice...
Tom Albert drove his loaner Chevrolet Equinox like any other car. He took it to work, picked up groceries and loaded the back with bags...
Automotive Q&A
Driver abhors a lack of vacuum
Q: My ventilation air has begun blowing only out of the defroster on my Ranger pickup. Advice? A: Based on your symptom, it sounds like...
Natural gas: Tapping abundant resource for cars has its challenges
In the early 1990s, all three major American automakers started building clean and efficient natural gas vehicles. But when a new federal...
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