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  • Inmate allegedly extorted sex offenders to run drug trafficking ring

    CENTRALIA, Wash. -- An inmate is now facing new charges after he was busted allegedly running an organized drug trafficking ring from inside prison. According to the Centralia Police Department, 30-year-old Forrest Amos would extort personal information from sex offenders in prison in order to set up false phone lines for making collect calls. He would reportedly use those calls to set up ...

  • Study You may not need to see the dentist twice a year

    suffer from gum disease , a primary cause of tooth loss. Still, researchers from the University Of Michigan Dental School say people should analyze their own risk before scheduling dental visits every six months. Researchers analyzed 16 years of insurance claims for more than 5,000 adults, comparing those who went to the dentist just once a year to those who went twice a year. The study found ...

  • Calif. city sues MLB over As proposed move

    Major League Baseball is dragging its feet on having team owners vote on the Oakland Athletics' proposed move to a new ballpark 40 miles south in San Jose, San Jose city officials said in a lawsuit filed ...

  • Justin Smoak tries to save Mariners reputation of young core

    Mariners need Justin Smoak to start producing right away now that he’s being activated today off the 15-day DL. He’s been out since late May with an oblique strain. Photo Credit: AP With the news last night ...

  • Spurs coach puts Pop into news conferences

    MIAMI — During his team's Game 3 rout of the Heat, Gregg Popovich was shown on TV talking to his players while they were in the process of burying Miami with a stirring offensive display. "When you're open, let it fly," the Spurs' coach told them. "Put your name in the paper." A day later, San Antonio guard Gary Neal was asked about that bit of ...


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Movie Review

8MM

8MM

According to screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, the idea behind "8MM" was a single scene: a rich old man dies, and when his safe is opened, a snuff film is found among the cash and stock certificates. A simple idea, and for most of its duration, "8MM" does a good, if somewhat stomach-churning, job of exploring a logical story that might follow such a discovery. It is only in its last half-hour, wh ... ...

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  • Edmonds residents rescue woman infant from domestic assault

    EDMONDS, Wash. -- A pair of Edmonds residents came to the rescue of a woman who was being assaulted by her ex-boyfriend as she held their 15-month-old child early Tuesday morning, according to the Edmonds Police Department. The victim was driving her ex-boyfriend back to his apartment at 230th Street Southwest and 76th Avenue West sometime before 2:30 a.m. According to police, the ...

  • Bump in state revenue may avert government shutdown

    OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - A revised revenue forecast in Olympia may help avert a government shutdown, as economists determined Tuesday that an improved housing market will provide government with $120 million more in the coming years than previously anticipated.The Economic and Revenue Forecast Council now anticipates that state government will raise about $32.66 billion in the next two-year budget ...

  • Seattle police rescue trapped dog from capsized boat

    Harbor Patrol officers rescued a dog that had become trapped last night on a capsized boat on Lake Washington. The officers responded to the capsized boat near the Windermere neighborhood just before 8 p.m. and found that the three people aboard had been picked up by another boat. They were not injured, police said. However, the officers learned a large dog was trapped in an air pocket inside ...

  • Tacoma zoos leopard cub now on public exhibit

    TACOMA, Wash. — A clouded leopard cub born May 1 at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma is now on public exhibit. Zookeepers named it Tien (TEE'-en), a Thai word with a connotation of strength and stability. The News Tribune reports ( http://bit.ly/11lM2KA) the cub weighed a half-pound when born and now weighs 4 pounds. The public can see it at daily 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 ...

  • Collapsed I-5 Skagit River bridge to reopen soon

    Traffic on Interstate 5 through Western Washington should be flowing smoother soon with the opening of a temporary span on the Skagit River where the bridge collapsed May 23 when it was struck by a truck with an oversize ...

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