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January 2008The KING 5 Investigators' tipline is full of stories from people who feel they've been ripped off. I grew up in Western Washington. Sedro-Woolley to be exact. As a kid, the gray skies, rain and cold never bothered me. After graduating from UW, I spent the next 10 years living throughout the West. Five of those years were spent in Las Vegas and Phoenix. When I moved back to the Northwest a little more than a year ago, I was shocked at just how much I'd changed. The grey skies that had gone unnoticed all those years, now really affect... After closing I-90 for about 30 hours, the Washington State Department of Transportation had to make a call. To open the pass now that the avalanche threat had greatly dimished, or keep it closed despite an estimated impact of nearly $20 million a day to the economy. I couldn't resist the pun that rose quickly to mind on this one. A Seattle Police report from the weekend detailed allegations a Cinnabon manager stole thousands of dollars from his store by pocketing rolls of cash that were supposed to be deposited at the bank. ...If you enjoyed your commute to work this morning, you know the winter weather phenomenon known as La Nina continues to hang around... and, according to Ted Buehner with the National Weather Service in Seattle, it looks like La Nina's staying with us right through the winter. I had intended to drive in to work from Redmond into Seattle this morning because the roads were pretty clear, but before I'd even finished my latte, the snow began to fall - hard. It was quickly piling up so I decided to take the 545 express bus, which is one of those bendy "articulated" buses. Who hasn't hosted a little gathering at home among friends and new acquaintances after a night at the bars? I for one have attended a few after hours. But here's a cautionary tale about opening up your house for a late night shindig. ...I've blogged previously about the danger of sending checks in the mail since I read about the incidents of identity theft reported by the Seattle Police Department every day. Well, I came across another one today I wanted to share. ...In the past month, Seattle Animal Control has captured two servals in West Seattle. Although they were underweight and malnourished, they tell us these wild African cats are much bigger and more dangerous than domestic cats - and are also illegal in the city. This is the spectacular new Terminal 3 at Beijing's airport. Photographer Ken Jones is always up to a challenge. Here, he goes lens-to-nose with a sewer pipe-crawling remote controlled inspection device. This and other very cool sewer-inspection-and-repair devices were used in more than 700 miles worth of sewer lines in and around Olympic Park. ...
It's too late at night after too long a day to be blogging, but here I am anyway... Fraternities get a lot of bad press, at least that is the complaint we hear often when we're out on the UW Greek Row. Too often the media focuses on the drinking or the hazing. Fraternities get a lot of bad press, at least that is the complaint we hear often when we're out on the UW Greek Row. Too often the media focuses on the drinking or the hazing. But tonight we met a group of young men at Tau Kappa Epsilon who help dispell the bad reputation. ...It could have been so much worse. At 12:42 p.m. London time, a British Airways Boeing 777 lands short of the runway at London's Heathrow Airport. So what do you do when it snows like crazy in Beijing and a lot of your video shooting plans get wiped out? Take a break of course, shoot what you can and relax and enjoy the setting and the people and accept the fact that the sky isn't blue and the video you're going home with is the video you have. ...This past week, photographer Ken Jones and I have been in Beijing, getting the lay of the land so to speak in preparation for our 2008 Olympic Games coverage. This morning, White House deputy drug czar Bertha Madras was in Des Moines, discussing the idea of random, mandatory drug testing of students in high schools. Face to face with The Chairman. On the road again, stopped in traffic between Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, staring at history. The following was received Tuesday, 6:49 a.m. Seattle Time (Tuesday, 10:49 p.m. Beijing Time).
Ni Hao! I'm in China along with photographer Ken Jones, just starting a 4-day get-to-know-ya tour of Beijing and the brand new Olympic venues. BOCOG, (the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games) Media Centre is hosting us. We won't be wandering around on our own much. The itinerary is packed and every minute is scheduled. ...Washington’s public disclosure laws are tough, but not as tough as you’ll see in other states. Here, if a court finds a governmental agency wrongfully withholds documents from a citizen, the judge can fine the agency between $5 and $100 a day for each record not turned over in a timely manner. One state over, it's way tougher. In Idaho they’re talking about personal accountability to discourage government secrecy. A judge can... Governor Christine Gregoire proposed today to pay for half the four billion dollar cost of a new 520 bridge with tolls. Most people have felt it at least once. That sudden wave of panic and jolt of adreneline when you realize you're a victim. Someone has broken into your car, your home, maybe you've been vandalized. If you're like me, what follows is anger and you're asking yourself, "what kind of person does this?" When I heard what happened to Tana Barro... With the waves of winter storms dumping more and more snow on the mountain passes, many drivers will be sitting in traffic backups because of avalanche control work. While it may not seem like it as the freeway becomes a parking lot, I have to tell you the avalanche crews do work as fast as they can to limit closure times. So, is she right or wrong? Are you for or against? I'll be the first to admit I'm a WNBA fan more than an NBA fan. Call it boring if you want, but I prefer taking my nieces and nephew to see more of an emphasis on fundamentals than the high-flying dunkonomics and poor free throw shooting that you seem to see on the NBA floor every night. So, I was thrilled to hear that Clay Bennett >> Continue reading: Storm staying: Good enough for you? On Friday, Warner Brothers announced it was going to stop offering movies in the HD-DVD format and go exclusively with Sony's Blu-Ray. Have I told you lately how much I love this job? I don't watch much football, but even I know USC has a reputation for acting arrogant and spoiled on the football field. So I shouldn't have been surprised to see Desmond Reed flip into the end zone for a touchdown during the Rose Bowl Game against Illinois. I shouldn't have been surprised when his teammate Fred Davis pranced around waving his fingers to taunt the Illini after scoring a touchdown. The resulting 15 yard penalties were clearly... If you were like me, you were stunned when the fireworks mysteriously stopped at the Space Needle just after the stroke of midnight with the Star Wars theme playing in the background. (Watch video of the show here.) "We wish you could show you more right now, but something has stopped," said KING 5 anchor Dennis Bounds. Then, less than a minute late... |
