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Rapists' photos mailed as campaign tactic

Mug shots of menacing child rapists are showing up in the mailboxes of Washington voters as part of a new round of political-attack ads launched by a national Republican group that claims the state lost track of 1,300 sex offenders under Democratic Gov. Christine Gregoire's watch.

Washington Mutual - another one bites the dust

The US banking system is imploding with the collapse of Washington Mutual, the biggest bank collapse in US history

Weyerhauser: Logging and landslides - What went wrong?

Those fears came true last December when a monster storm barreled in from the Pacific, drenching the mountains around the Chehalis River basin and touching off hundreds of landslides. Little Mill Creek, filled with mud and debris, turned dark like chocolate syrup. More than three months passed before nearly 3,000 valley residents could drink from their taps again.

UW students find fecal coliform on campus keyboards

As part of a research project, eight UW students have discovered high levels of fecal coliform, the bacteria found in fecal matter, on keyboards at the two busiest computer areas on campus - Odegaard Undergraduate Library and Mary Gates Hall

Barack Obama coasting to victory in Washington

Sen. Barack Obama is coasting to an overwhelming but expected victory over Sen. Hillary Clinton in today's Democratic caucuses. With results still being counted, Obama had a two-to-one advantage over Clinton. About 1.5 percent of the delegates were uncommitted or were cast for other candidates.

Puget Sound orcas feeding in California -- again

In what a leading orca researcher calls an ominous sign, a group of the killer whales that frequent Puget Sound and nearby waters has turned up feeding off the coast of California for the sixth winter in a row. L pod, one of three orca families that frequent Washington waters, was spotted Sunday off Monterey Bay.

$65-Million Pantsuit: Perverting Consumer Protection

It isn t every day that tort reformers and personal injury lawyers find themselves in agreement. But when the newly renamed American Association for Justice (formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America) recently joined the American Tort Reform Association and small business owners everywhere in condemning an outrageous and seemingly vengeful lawsuit against a neighborhood dry cleaning store, a rare opportunity for nonpartisan legal reform may have presented itself.

Capitol Hill awash in corruption and criminality

April was a not a good month for the Republican Party. Two Congressional Republicans were forced to step down from their seats on powerful House committees amidst separate corruption and influence-peddling investigations and may eventually lose their seats in Congress or go to jail while the head of the US Agency for International Development, Randall Tobias, resigned from his post Monday after he was named as a client of a Washington DC call girl service.

University of Washington staffer killed by stalker, guns and domestic violence

I hate to say it but protection orders are for women who want to free themselves from annoying men. If you feel truly unsafe, you need to do whatever you can to escape the threat ... while also taking every available legal measure as well. Truly violent offenders are often only more enraged by protection orders - but not restrained by them.

Swine Story: President Pork

The House and Senate bills have too much pork, President Bush says of the $122 billion supplemental spending bill for his wars. He s right. The bill adds up to $116 billion in wasteful war spending and just $6 billion on real domestic needs. Here s the math.

Student killed at Wash. school

This is another shooting in Washington near Seattle. We're amidst a growing epidemic of gun violence in a previously more peaceful city.

King County officials defend slow vote counting, stress accuracy

Results from our 2004 elections are expected later today :)

Anti-abortion posters infuriate some students

The images were so gory and disturbing that campus officials had alerted students a week in advance. Because the university is a public institution, groups do not need formal permission to gather on its grounds, said Gus Kravas, who chairs the school's Use of Facilities Committee.

Washington State Voters Flush Right Wing's Judicial Money

Lynn at Evergreen applauds us Washington State voters for dissing all three right wing judicial candidates that were highly funded in normally non-partisan races. The right blew almost $2 million this year. I'm sure they'll keep trying...but tonight was a big victory. Lynn also summarizes other Wa races.

Washington House passes bill requiring vendors to sell biodiesel

Sounds like the bill got watered down after heavy industry lobbying, though. Now it's on to the Senate.