Lives, dreams lost in fateful crash Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Robert and Linda Jacobs were working on adopting two brothers before the couple was killed suddenly in a car-motorcycle accident.
Council mulls using streetcar money for suburban bus shelters Seattle Times
One year after the Metropolitan King County Council agreed to spend $7 million on a new maintenance barn in Seattle for Metro's waterfront
City Council budget plan pumps up the police force Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A Seattle City Council panel agreed Tuesday to expand the city's Police Department ranks by 30 officers, in addition to retaining six temporary officers and filling dozens of anticipated vacancies.
Why Seattle is losing the Sonics and Storm in 10 easy steps Seattle Times
A small arena, a slumping economy, a sale to far-off investors. And last week, a vote that sealed the deal.
Highland Park Cyclo-cross/Verge MACCS #5 - C2 Cyclingnews.com
Matt White (Fiordifrutta) dazzled the crowds with his second stylish solo win. The soloist left Chris Horner (Specialized) tracing his tracks into second place and his teammate Jamey Driscoll (Fiordifrutta) in a battle for third.
Exploring the Reasons Why They Dance The New York Sun
Felice Lesser is pulling back the curtain on all the rigors and rituals of the sometimes inscrutable world of professional dance. Ms. Lesser is the founder of her own company, the Felice Lesser Dance Theater, which has hovered on the fringes of the New York dance scene since 1975. Last fall, she began sketching out a 30th anniversary piece that would explore the dynamics of the rough-and-tumble
Junk mail: The good and the bad The Herald-Mail
Junk mail. The U.S. Postal Service doesn't like that term, while many people just don't like getting it.
Theatrical scientist Ping Chong explores how it feels to be an 'Undesirable Element' The Morning Call
In 1992, Ping Chong was in an Amsterdam bar, hosting an international cast of theater workshoppers, when he had an epiphany. Pleased by strangers happily talking about art in several languages, the director/designer thought about creating a production all about being ''the history of lives lived and the phenomena of culture itself.'' Long a multimedia scientist of otherness, he dreamed of uniting
Seattle's proposed 2-year budget would add 37 police officers Seattle Times
Heeding community calls for more police, the Seattle City Council took advantage of a growing economy to add 37 police officers over the
October 2006 glimpses USA Today
Here is a closer look at many of the U.S. military personnel killed in October because of the conflict in Iraq.