Stories for August 2010
Stories for Tuesday, August 31
Costco Veal Leads To Protests By Animal Rights Group
Issaquah-based Costco is the target of an animal rights organization that claims one of their vendors is mistreating veal calves. The group 'Mercy for Animals' revealed a disturbing videotape Tuesday. (WARNING, GRAPHIC VIDEO).The video shows newborn calves at an Ohio farm being violently dragged away from their mothers, then chained ...
Police Kill Man After Chase, Crash In Federal Way
A chase, crash and gunfire rattled a Federal Way neighborhood in the second fatal officer-involved shooting in as many days in the Puget Sound area Tuesday evening. WATCH IT: Officer-Involved Shooting Leaves Federal Way Man Dead Federal Way Police said they were dispatched to a call of a possibly occupied ...
Seattle Police: More Questions Than Answers In Fatal Officer-Involved Shooting
Seattle police Chief John Diaz said there are more questions than answers in the case of a man who was fatally shot by an officer in downtown Seattle Monday.Police say John Trouble Williams, 50, was shot after he came toward an officer with a knife. The incident occurred on Monday ...
Des Moines Police Investigating Womans Death As Homicide
Des Moines Police detectives tell KIRO 7 they are conducting a homicide investigation at an apartment complex on 25th Ave. South near South 240th Street.A woman’s body was found inside one of the units following a 911 call just after midnight Tuesday.Police say the landlord who lives in the complex ...
Jackknifed Semi Blocking 4 Lanes Of NB I-5 At MLK Way
A semi trailer is blocking the right four lanes of northbound Interstate 5 in the Duwamish area of South Seattle.Department of Transportation video shows the trailer across three lanes and part of a fourth lane.Traffic is only getting by remaining two lanes, one of which is the HOV lane.
Macaw Missing In Tacoma
A 5-month-old macaw went missing from his South Tacoma home Monday at 8 p.m.The bird, worth about $2,000, was lost in the area of 80th and Hosmer St. near Lakewood.His name is Arthur and he is a little bigger than a crow or a seagull with an orange belly and ...
Move From Detroit To Seattle Turns Into 'Nightmare' For Woman
A woman who just moved to Seattle from Detroit wants to warn others to choose the moving company they use very carefully.Kathy Klein contacted KIRO 7 Consumer Investigator David Quinlan after she says she was charged much more than the initial quote for the move. And she says several items ...
New Supervisors: 30 New Firefighters: 0
The city of Tacoma is letting 31 firefighter positions languish, unfulfilled. At the same time, Fire Chief Ronald Stephens has announced he’s promoting the largest number of supervisors in department history.Dozens of pay raises and other costs associated with the move during a tough budget year caught the attention of ...
Jack-Knifed Semi Blocks Traffic Near Southcenter
According to the Washington State Department of Transportation a jack-knifed semi blocked three left lanes on southbound I-5 at Klickitat Drive near Southcenter.The incident occurred around 10:05 a.m. on Tuesday.Fire Assistance, the Incident Response Team, Tow Assistance, and the State Patrol arrived on the scene.WSDOT said the collision was cleared ...
Man Dies In Spanaway After Tasered By Deputy
The Pierce County Sheriff's Office is investigating how a man died after deputies shocked him with a stun gun, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.Jerry Bates with the sheriff’s office said officers responded to a call of an unwanted person who had broken a window at 170th and B Street in ...
Morton Teacher In Touching Scandal Calls In Sick 2nd Time
A Morton teacher who won his job back after he was jailed in suspicion that he inappropriately touched students called in sick a second time after he was scheduled to return to class.Michael Moulton teaches history at Morton Junior-Senior High School. He was charged late last year in connection with ...
Stories for Monday, August 30
Seattle Teachers Accept Contract, Vote No-Confidence on Superintendent
Seattle teachers have voted to accept their tentative contract, and passed a no-confidence vote on Superitendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson.The contract covers the school years 2010-2011 through 2012-2013."I am so pleased that our collaboration with teachers has us so close to reaching agreement on a new contract," said Goodloe-Johnson. "This agreement strengthens ...
Whittling Man Fatally Shot By Seattle Police
A man who was whittling something was fatally shot by a police officer after he came toward an officer with a knife, Seattle police said. WATCH IT: Deadly Officer-Involved Shooting The incident occurred on Monday at about 4:15 p.m. at Boren and Howell streets in downtown Seattle.Seattle police told KIRO ...
Naked Park Exposer Caught In Act On Camera
One victim of a man seen exposing and fondling himself in a Kirkland park was able to catch the man on camera during the act, police said.King County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. John Urquhart said the incident occurred on August 5 at O.O Denny Park in Kirkland.Two women, ages 63 and ...
Local Men File Sex Assault Lawsuit Against Boy Scouts
On Monday, two Puget Sound-area men filed a civil lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America and its Seattle chapter for sexual assaults they say they suffered as children by an assistant scoutmaster in Kent, Seattle attorney Tim Kosnoff said.The lawsuit said Boy Scouts of America allowed the Mormon Church ...
Striking Coke Employees Return To Work
About 500 Coke employees from six Teamster locals across Western Washington are returned to work Tuesday.The Teamster's union announced that employees agreed to return to work unconditionally on Monday because the company agreed to bargain in good faith.Teamsters Union representatives said the employees will resume normal operations to catch up ...
Masked Armed Robbers Hit Mount Vernon AM/PM Store
Mount Vernon police officers responded to a report of an armed robbery at an AM/ PM store at 2100 East College Way Sunday morning.Police said a store employee said two men wearing ski masks entered the store at 5:19 a.m., displayed a gun and confronted the employee and two customers.Police ...
Vashon Island Home Invasion
A man was bound with duct tape and repeatedly pistol-whipped after two masked men broke into his Vashon Island home recently.The incident occurred about 6:30 a.m. on Aug. 19th. The man was alone and asleep in the 9400 block of Southwest Gorsuch Road when the two men tied him up.The ...
2 Aurora Avenue Hotels Closed After Battle With City
Two motels on Aurora Avenue in Seattle are closed Monday after a long legal battle with the city.The Isabella and Italia were shut down after the city filed 152 criminal charges involving a total of five motels in that area. The manager of the Marco Polo Motel across the street ...
Teacher Accused Of Touching Students Allowed To Return To School
Parents gathered outside a Morton school Monday morning to protest the planned return of a teacher who was jailed on suspicion that he inappropriately touched students, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.Michael Moulton teaches history at Morton Junior-Senior High School. He was charged late last year in connection with inappropriately touching ...
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