Two suspects jailed after brutal beating of man in downtown Seattle

SEATTLE -- Police arrested two men for brutally beating a man in downtown on Friday night. The victim was transported to Harborview Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.The suspects, a 19-year-old man and a 20-year-old man, were both booked into the King County Jail for felony assault. About 9:50 p.m. officers responded to 911 calls of an assault in the 100 block of Pike Street. The ...

Blue Jays-Yankees finale scrubbed by rain

NEW YORK — Sunday's game between the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Yankees has been postponed due to rain. No makeup date was set for the AL East rivals, who are not scheduled to meet again in the Bronx until August. Toronto manager John Gibbons said before the game that right-hander R.A. Dickey would pitch Monday at home against Tampa Bay if the game were rained out. Yankees ...

Game thread Felix Hernandez looks to halt Mariners skid

, so he’ll have to limit the damage and give the Mariners a chance to score some runs and snap their two-game losing skid. Hernandez hasn’t pitched at home since April 27, making this his fourth consecutive road outing. He’s 4-1 with a 1.29 ERA in four road starts thus far this ...

New lab to give scientists underwater access

SEATTLE — Scientists around the world will soon have access to a wealth of data from a lab at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The National Science Foundation is paying the University of Washington to put laboratory equipment as deep as 2 miles below the waves and partly on top of an underwater volcano. They will be turning on 40 sensors, of 13 different types, as they are installed this ...

Sunday Memo update Mercer opens early . . . Hoops hopes . . . Powerball winner

the Seattle Department of Transportation. Crews getting ready for the demolition of the east half of the Highway 99 bridge over Mercer got their work done earlier than the expected Monday 5 a.m. completion. The rerouting that was to go into effect then has started. That means: Mercer Street is reduced to two eastbound lanes between Fourth Avenue North and Ninth Avenue North. Local access ...