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Seattle police are stepping up their patrols in the Greenwood neighborhood after a string of arsons damaged or destroyed businesses.

SEATTLE With 95 percent of the expected vote counted, KING 5 News is projecting that environmentalist attorney Mike McGinn has won the race for Seattle Mayor over T-Mobile executive Joe Mallahan.

Three more fires overnight in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood are arsons. Fire Department spokeswoman Dana Vander Houwen says two fires were set about 11 p.m. Sunday between two buildings on N. 78th Street at Greenwood Avenue N. KING5 News reports the fires were set in two places in a breezeway between an apartment building and a business called ...

For a moment, as the giant concrete elephant tipped in the wind, everyone was on edge.

Just confirmed with Lt. Ron Smith at the Southwest Precinct , per a tip we got earlier: Tervo's Mini-Mart on Fauntleroy Way in The Triangle was robbed again tonight, for the second time in two weeks.

Tickets are on sale now for classical stars Joshua Bell and Jeremy Denk, appearing in Seattle Feb.

WA voters pass 'everything but marriage' SEATTLE Environmentalist attorney Mike McGinn has slightly increased his lead over T-Mobile executive Joe Mallahan in the race to be Seattle's next mayor.

This is the kind of tone deaf opinionifying that's always defined this radio host, but he's dialed it up to 11 since KIRO's ratings went to hell last Spring.

Two more fires burned businesses early Thursday in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood.

In the city's most sharply-contested City Council race, Mike O'Brien, environmentalist and former chief financial officer of a law firm, appeared poised to win with 57.91 percent of votes in the ballot counts Tuesday night.

ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31ST SPD ROBBERY DETECTIVES ACTING ON A TIP RESPONDED TO A MOTEL LOCATED IN THE 16500 BLOCK OF AURORA AVENUE NORTH IN SHORELINE.

Two political newcomers battled Tuesday to be Seattle's next mayor, and a former TV news anchor and a seasoned local politician faced off for King County's highest office.

Firefighters said a fire that burned at a North Seattle Apartment complex overnight is arson.

SEATTLE, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- WHAT: Are you stressed? Do you have a family history of breast cancer? Health SMART is a study is being conducted by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to see how stress-reduction workshops can help women with a family history of breast cancer manage their everyday stresses and cancer-risk ...

Thanks to Diane for the photos and information: The Heavenly Wholesale/Leslie's storefront in The Junction, east side of California SW south of Alaska, where Funky Jane's was before moving to California/Oregon, opens this week, 10 am-6 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11 am-5 pm Sundays.

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels has identified a Seattle police officer murdered late Saturday night while on duty.

The "donated tree" harvesting is over for the year, and Aviva from Community Harvest of Southwest Seattle is sending thanks today to tree donors and volunteers for what she describes as "the bountiful harvest of 2009," exceeding the goals they set earlier in the year: 6639 pounds of plums, grapes, pears, apples and figs harvested and donated to the ...

ON 10-25-09 AT 10:00 P.M., A BLACK HONDA, CBR1100 MOTORCYCLE, DRIVEN BY A 32-YEAR-OLD MALE WAS TRAVELING WESTBOUND ON S. MYRTLE ST.

The fire that gutted four businesses in the heart of Greenwood's business district last Friday was deliberately set, according to the Seattle Fire Department.