August 31, 2011
By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee at 11:51 pm
Yet another (former) iPhone owner was robbed after a man let a stranger borrow his phone near the Othello Light Rail stop last week. The victim was walking to the stop at Martin Luther King Jr Way S and S Othello around 2:30 p.m. on August 22nd when two men approached him and asked if [...] read more →
By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee at 10:27 pm
A man was taken to Harborview Wednesday night following a stabbing in the Greenwood neighborhood. The man, who is in his 30s, was stabbed in the back at 97th and Greenwood just before 10:00 p.m. by a suspect who fled the scene in a white Ford Explorer. Police say the suspect is “at large,” but [...] read more →
By Erica C. Barnett at 5:16 pm
Seattle Magazine: The Seattle City Council offers some "big ideas" of its own. read more →
By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee at 3:29 pm
THIS GUY! Hey, folks. After two long years of spending my spare time writing about shootings, stabbings, iPhone robberies, and other criminal shenanigans that didn’t happen at 3rd and Pine (hi, Backpage!) I finally have the opportunity to go back to reporting full time, and am joining up with ace political reporters (and good pals) [...] read more →
By Josh Feit at 3:13 pm
PubliCola buys local news site SeattleCrime.com and brings on ace crime reporter Jonah Spangenthal-Lee. read more →
By Erica C. Barnett at 3:03 pm
Gubernatorial rivals Jay Inslee and Rob McKenna agree on one thing: The T-Mobile-AT&T merger, as proposed, is a bad deal for Washington State. read more →
By Erica C. Barnett at 1:59 pm
Al Jazeera reports that potential Washington State Congressional contender Dennis Kucinich offered to help the Qadaffi regime in Libya. read more →
By Josh Feit at 11:44 am
Mayor Mike McGinn and AG Rob McKenna's righteous crusade against juvenile prostitution doesn't go far enough. read more →
By Erica C. Barnett at 10:25 am
SeattleCrime.com: AG Rob McKenna demands that the Seattle Weekly-affiliated Backpage.com (the paper and the classified site are both owned by Village Voice Media) prove that they're working to prevent sex trafficking of children on the site. read more →
By admin at 9:59 am
Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna and 44 other AGs from around the country have asked Backpage.com to turn over their records to substantiate the company’s claims they are working to prevent juveniles from being sold into the sex trade on the site. McKenna also wants Backpage to remove their adult services section, as Craigslist has [...] read more →
