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County in 10-year deal with popular dog wash at Marymoor
If you’ve been glad to give your muddy, happily exhausted canine a good sudsy hosing at Wash Spot Express in King County’s Marymoor Park in Redmond after a romp in the “Doggy Disneyland” off-leash area...
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Sound Transit’s ridership up, but big challenges loom
Commuter volume through August of this year on the buses and trains of Seattle’s regional transit agency Sound Transit was 18.5 million, up 11.7 percent compared to the same time last year. Regional...
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Washington juvenile arrest rates highest in rural counties
Overall 2011 juvenile arrest rates in Washington state were highest in rural counties while the state’s most populous and urbanized county, King, was among those with the lowest rates. The data come...
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South King County votes to decide on new schools, more
Among local ballot measures likely to be decided tonight in suburban King County are a major annexation proposal in Renton, funding for new high schools in Federal Way and Auburn, a new fire station...
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Metro’s share of King County’s big tort payouts spikes in Q3
King County Metro Transit was responsible for 71 percent of third quarter 2012 large negligence claim settlements paid by the county, according to a newly issued report. Metro’s share of those payouts...
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Sound Transit Didn’t Validate $17M in Security Charges
Violating the terms of its own contract with the King County Sheriff’s Office for security services, the regional transit agency serving King, Snohomish and Pierce counties failed to secure...
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King County pays $10.5 mil in 4th quarter negligence cases
A woman run over by a bus in West Seattle. A man who had already won a large settlement for police excessive force but whose attorney was denied key records in the process. A woman attacked and injured...
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Citizen Panel: Sound Transit Needs To Tighten It Up
In its year-end 2012 Performance Report, presented Thursday at the monthly Sound Transit board meeting in Seattle, ST’s Citizen Oversight Panel took the regional transit agency to task for poor...
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Port of Seattle porn probe prompts painter’s exit
Internal reports obtained by Public Data Ferret through a public records request reveal a Port of Seattle sign painter and Snohomish County resident named David John Swensen resigned from his job after...
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Port of Seattle temp’s scam try brings three felony charges
A former Port of Seattle temp named Kelly Wengping Lee hired from the AppleOne firm is charged in King County Superior Court documents with three counts of felony identity theft for allegedly trying to...
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UW teaching associate faces felony sex charge in recent Seattle sting
A PhD candidate at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business who also teaches undergraduate business courses at UW Bothell was charged in mid-March with the felony offense of commercial...
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CapHill bartender charged for alleged sex acts with girl, 13
A hip presence on the Seattle restaurant scene has been charged with the Class A felony of Rape of a Child in the Second Degree. According to King County Court documents Matthew Aaron Cannelora, 28,...
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Prosecutors: online sex predator victimized girls in WA, PA
In separate cases, criminal prosecutors in King County, Washington and Delaware County, Pennsylvania have charged the same 20-year-old Virginia man with felony sex offenses after he used social media...
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Kirkland domestic abuser guilty of two felonies, avoids jail
A 30-year-old Kirkland man named Bahman Dabestanisharifabad, from Iran, pled guilty last month in King County Superior Court to felony harassment and felony witness tampering. This occurred after...
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Software consultant charged in Renton sex sting
An Orange County, Calif. Oracle software expert who bills himself at his LinkedIn page as current “finance lead consultant at Boeing” has been charged in Washington state with the felony crime of...
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Seattle police sting: felony sex charge for Ravenna man
Jason Edward Price, 42, of Seattle’s Ravenna neighborhood, is facing charges in King County Superior Court for commercial sexual abuse of a minor. Court records recently accessed by Public Data Ferret...
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Prosecutor: West Seattle man molested disabled niece, 7
A 62-year-old West Seattle man has been charged by King County prosecutors with the Class A felony offense of child molestation in the first degree after in one visit to her West Seattle home allegedly...
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Felony sex bust of California software worker, in Seattle sting
A 29-year man from India in the U.S. on a work visa and employed at the time as a San Jose, Calif.-based software development manager for Amazon.com, was arrested April 12 and charged April 19 in King...
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Few births in Washington outside of marriage; 5th lowest rate
Washington state has one of the lowest rates of out-of-wedlock births in the U.S., according to the Census Bureau. A new report issued in May 2013 says that in the most recent year for which detailed...
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12 surgeries for Renton DUI victim; perp gets 6 months
When Garrett A. Bakken last July was charged with the felony DUI offense of vehicular assault after veering off Lake Washington Boulevard in Renton, Wash. and slamming into a pedestrian on a pathway,...
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