Email AuthorKeegan Hamilton
Sipping a Sundance Kid at Ballard Station Public House
November 01, 2012 in Voracious
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Evan Sargent vs. Donald Waters: State Supreme Court Accepts Public Records Lawsuit Appeal Against SPD
September 18, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
The Washington State Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of Evan Sargent, a teenager involved in an infamous altercation in a West Seattle alley with an off-duty SPD...
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Can A Million Dollars and Three Years of Research Fix Rainier Beach's Most Notorious Crime Hotspot?
August 29, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
The City of Seattle was recently awarded a grant from the federal government's Bureau of Justice Assistance worth nearly $1 million, and the money will go toward a three-year effort...
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Jorge Luis Barron Zarate: Alleged Meth Dealer Tied to Mexican Drug Cartel La Familia Michoacana Arrested in Seattle
August 28, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
Image SourceA man accused of selling and manufacturing meth for a California gang allied with the Mexican drug cartel La Familia Michoacana was arrested last week in Kent by the...
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Charges Dropped Against May Day Protestor Maria Jannett Morales
August 27, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
May DayAfter reviewing YouTube video of the May Day riot, King County prosecutors dismissed all charges against a protestor accused of punching a bike cop.Maria Jannett Morales, 30, was charged...
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'Milk Piranhas': Canada Responds to 'Americans Only' Costco Controversy With Witty T-Shirt
August 24, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
Earlier this month, a Facebook page made national headlines by calling for a Costco store in Bellingham to host "special time just for Americans," claiming that unruly Canadians are crossing...
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Attending a Megachurch is Kinda Like Doing Drugs, UW Study Finds
August 23, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
Image SourceKarl Marx famously said that religion is the opiate of the masses, and now a new study from sociologists at the University of Washington suggests that attending a protestant...
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Busted Marijuana Dispensary Owner Craig Dieffenbach Loses Real Estate License Before It's Even Issued
August 22, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
Craig DieffenbachProminent Seattle real estate developer Craig Dieffenbach was in court Monday owning up to accusations that he was the co-owner of a crooked medical pot dispensary busted last year...
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'That Pike Place Market is a Rat's Nest of Hippies,' Anonymous Grumpy Old Man Complains to Seattle Mayor in 1970
August 21, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
An angry letter to the Mayor mined from Seattle's Municipal Archives suggests Pike Place Market was a haven for hippies in 1970.The letter was reportedly found in the archives in...
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Kick-Ass Wheatpaste Kinda Makes Phoenix Jones Look Like Bane
August 20, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
Street art spotted in Ballard looks like a mash-up of The Guardian of Seattle and The Dark Knight's latest masked nemesis.The wheatpaste poster was spotted over the weekend in Ballard,...
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DREAM Act Reprieves for Undocumented Immigrants Begin, Deportation Business As Usual Continues at Federal Courthouse
August 16, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
Image SourceA new program intended to shield thousands of young, undocumented immigrants from deportation, and allow them to attend college and obtain better jobs, took effect yesterday. Meanwhile, a half...
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A Tale of Two Diagnoses: Records Show How Army Doctors Downgrade PTSD
August 10, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
photo by Kevin CaseyJohn Byron EtterleeHow does one doctor diagnose an Iraq war veteran with PTSD while another says the same soldier has a less severe condition called adjustment disorder?...
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No Medical Marijuana Authorizations at Seattle Hempfest 2012
August 09, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
photo by Pete Santos/Seattle HempfestVivian McPeakYesterday the state Department of Health filed charges against two naturopaths who wrote hundreds of medical pot prescriptions at last year's Hempfest. Don't expect a...
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Mind Field: PTSD Resources Available to Soldiers and Military Families
August 08, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
Dan CarinoOur feature story this week examines an emerging phenomenon known as "secondary PTSD," in which soldiers with little or no combat experience struggle with PTSD-like symptoms. Soldiers' families can...
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Health Department Cracks Down on Hempfest Pot Prescriptions
August 07, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
The Department of Health (DOH) announced today that they have filed charges against two naturopaths who each wrote more than 100 medical marijuana authorizations last year at Hempfest. The crackdown...
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Dubious Distinction: Scott Havsy First Washington Doctor Charged With Violating Medical Marijuana Advertising Law
August 07, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
Image SourceDr. Scott HavsyA Tacoma doctor faces sanctions from the state Department of Health for advertising the fact that he writes medical marijuana authorizations for qualifying patients.Dr. Scott Havsy, a...
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Five Places More Awkward Than Pike Place Market for Canadian Tourists to Poop in Seattle
August 06, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
Image SourceOn Friday, the Seattle Times scored one helluva poop scoop. A tourist from Toronto took issue with men's room at Pike Place Market, claiming that the lack of privacy...
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Charles Weber's 'Evil Doppelganger' Blamed for South Park Gang Shooting in Supreme Court Case
August 03, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
A man convicted in a 2003 gang shooting in South Park has appealed his case all the way up to the state Supreme Court, claiming that witnesses mistook him for...
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Decades-Old Lewis County Double Murder Cold Case Heats Up Without DNA from Accused Killer Ricky Riffe
August 02, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
Lewis County prosecutors are charging an Alaska man with the coldblooded killing of an elderly couple in 1985. Long a suspect in the grisly mystery murders, 53-year-old Ricky Allen Riffe...
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Phoenix Jones Raises $5,000 for Elaborate Costume With $198,000 Price Tag
August 01, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
Phoenix Jones's kinda sorta ended his controversial fundraising campaign to finance the construction of his elaborate new crime-fighting costume today. The self-proclaimed superhero fell considerably short of his $10,000 goal,...
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Virtual Animal Bloodbath Expected Tonight in Kirkland for Big Buck Hunter Tournament
July 31, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
Hunting is a great American tradition, but there's so much effort involved. Sportsmen must rise early in the morning, trudge through the woods, find an actual animal to kill, then...
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Rolling Gun Battle on I-5 Starts at Seward Park Seafair Festival
July 30, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
Image SourceSeafair's official Filipino American community festival precipitated a bullet-riddled car chase through south Seattle yesterday. Gunmen tailed a 20-year-old and his teenage nephew from Seward Park to I-5, firing...
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Drugs and Stolen Guns: DEA Busts Alleged Everett Meth/Heroin/Arms Dealer Juan Velasco San Juan
July 27, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
With the help of an informant, the DEA infiltrated a group that allegedly peddled meth, heroin and ecstasy, and also sold enough illegal guns to supply a small guerrilla army.Charges...
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Evan Sargent vs. Donald Waters: Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed in Case of Off-Duty Cop Who Pulled Gun in Parking Dispute
July 26, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
Zach Heistand via FlickrAn infamous 2009 incident in West Seattle that involved a blocked alley, a load of laundry, a Little League baseball bat, and an irate, pistol-toting off-duty SPD...
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Conspiracy Theory Alert: Rick Steves Gets $100,000 Refund From I-502 Campaign
July 25, 2012 in The Daily Weekly
Image SourceRick StevesRick Steves has donated a whopping $350,000 in support of I-502, the ballot initiative that proposes licensing and regulating marijuana production, distribution, and possession for adults. But why...
