October 31, 2009
By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee at 10:22 pm
(updated with additional info) A veteran Seattle Police Department Field Training Officer was killed in the line of duty in a shooting in the Leschi neighborhood Saturday night. A female officer, who recently graduated from the academy, was also wounded in the shooting. Police say at about 10:15 p.m., Field Training Officer Timothy Brenton—who had [...] read more →
By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee at 12:48 pm
Police are on the lookout for a man suspected of stabbing another man in Ballard minutes ago. The incident occurred at NW Market and Ballard Avenue. Update: Police have not been able to locate the victim. The incident was called in by a construction worker working near NW Market and Ballard Ave. Update 2: Turns [...] read more →
By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee at 11:33 am
At about 11:30 last night, a man waiting at a bus stop at 3rd and Pine in downtown Seattle was robbed and beaten by a group of men. Police say two members of the group approached the man, asked him for money, and then attacked him. Two other members of the group joined in, and [...] read more →
By Josh Feit at 10:06 am
We haven’t called your attention to the Blog-Rola in a while—our exclusive list of 10 local blogs or sites that pass the cola taste test. (Scroll down on the left for the actual links.) This week we put Seattlecrime.com on the list, the new blog from Seattle’s deeply-sourced, gumshoe reporter Jonah Spangenthal-Lee. For scoop after [...] read more →
October 30, 2009
By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee at 6:32 pm
A 20-year-old man was, as expected, sentenced to nine months in jail earlier today, for fatally shooting a car prowler near Northgate late last year. From the PI: Filing a second-degree manslaughter charge in September, King County prosecutors alleged that Douglas Cameron Sheets acted with criminal negligence when he shot Jhovany Hernandez outside his Northgate [...] read more →
By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee at 6:17 pm
Two west seattle residents were hit in drive-by BB gun shootings last weekend, a police report says. Around 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, the man was walking his dog in the 6700 block of 35th Ave SW when he was hit by several BBs fired from a moving vehicle. Minutes later, a woman on 35th Ave [...] read more →
By Erica C. Barnett at 5:48 pm
The Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission plans to penalize City Attorney Tom Carr for failing to report a $400 deposit that included $200 from Gil Levy, the attorney for the controversial Rick’s strip club (for more about Strippergate, see here) in a timely fashion. Carr’s campaign waited more than four and a half months to [...] read more →
By Josh Feit at 5:39 pm
Looking for PubliCola’s endorsements for Tuesday’s election? Just scroll down over on the left side. There’s a link to all our endorsements right below the Nerds list. Don’t have time to scroll down? Click here: read more →
By Josh Feit at 3:38 pm
Yesterday, Erica wrote a followup to a story that was on local conservative blog Sound Politics and getting play on the local talk radio: A female employee at the King County Council had filed some sort of “complaint” against King County Council Member (and K.C. Executive candidate) Dow Constantine. I say “some sort of” because [...] read more →
By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee at 2:40 pm
Earlier this month, several residents of Tent City 3 were violently attacked by a group of teens and young men near Rainier Beach High School. Residents of tent city claim they were targeted in the assaults because they are homeless. Up until last week, Tent City 3—which hosted about 100 men and women—was located on [...] read more →
By Erica C. Barnett at 2:22 pm
Editor’s note: This post was originally published at 12:30. It has been updated with statements from TVW president Greg Lane. Greg Lane, head of the state public-affairs cable station TVW, released a statement today complaining that the Dow Constantine campaign violated the station’s copyright policy by using its footage in an anti-Susan Hutchison commercial. The [...] read more →
By Erica C. Barnett at 12:36 pm
PubliCola is excited to be a co-sponsor of two talks next month by Alex Steffen, co-founder of Worldchanging.com (and, full disclosure, a friend of mine). Worldchanging, a Seattle-based nonprofit web publication, takes an optimistic approach to environmental journalism: Instead of writing about what’s wrong in the world, they cover cutting-edge solutions to the world’s problems [...] read more →
