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A Kent man who shot and killed a suspected intruder inside his home Saturday was armed with his own handgun when he walked in the door and found the stranger inside his home, police said. A man and woman came home to their condo on Kent's East Hill at 6 p.m. Saturday to find another man inside. The 28-year-old homeowner used his own gun to shoot the suspected intruder, said Kent police spokesman Paul Petersen. It's unknown why the homeowner had a handgun, Petersen said. Police aren't releasing the homeowners' names. The dead man, believed in his mid-20s, has not...

Proud Dad here. My ten year old made his first official catch today. Rigged the down rigger and baited the line with the herring himself then pulled this Coho in about 45 minutes later. I helped with the net. He was 22" and 8 pounds. Caught in Tacoma's Commencement Bay about 50' down at 0930 today. Would of posted this earlier but we just finished it off at dinner 8>) Now if I could just get him to clean the darn things...Didn't get the kings we were out there for but this made the day!

TACOMA, Wash. - Someone with cruel intentions placed a fake ad on Craig's List, inviting people to take whatever they wanted for free from a Tacoma home. Homeowner Laurie Raye says there's little left now of the house. The outside of the home is trashed, the inside is nearly gutted and covered in graffiti. Raye says she is devastated. "I was attached to this home because it used to be my mom's," says Raye. The homeowner says from the light fixtures to the hot water heater, everything is gone - including the kitchen sink. Raye recently evicted the tenant and...

UPDATED 3:58 P.M. A public appearance by an Army lieutenant who refuses to go fight in Iraq was postponed Wednesday after his commanders told him he couldn’t attend his press conference during duty hours. Lt. Ehren Watada’s supporters in the anti-war movement held their mid-day event at Associated Ministries in Tacoma anyway, and played a video recording of the 28-year-old Stryker soldier’s statement against the war. They said he would appear at 6 p.m. Watada says he won’t obey orders to deploy to Iraq with the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, which is leaving later this month for its second...

http://media.putfile.com/Quiet-CommercialI don't know if this one has been posted but I sorta got choked up. A nice tribute to the troops.

EVERETT - Think of clowns, and birthday parties or circus rings may come to mind -- not gun-wielding robbers. But that was the case in Everett Wednesday morning when two armed clowns hit a doughnut shop. In full clown make up with red noses, two men walked into Henry's Donut Shop and locked the door. The owner was alone, her husband on his way. "He took the gun and told me, 'not to move.' He wanted money," said husband Be Le, who also sells Vietnamese sandwiches at the shop. Le's wife showed the clowns the cash register, but they had...

TACOMA - A shooting during an attempted robbery at a Tacoma auto store has sent two people to the hospital. Police say a clerk at the Shucks Auto Supply near 72nd and Portland streets spotted and then confronted a man putting gas into a small motorcycle in their display window. But the man told the clerk he was robbing the store anyway, and then pulled a gun. However, another customer in the store was armed, and he pulled his own gun, yelling at the suspect to drop his weapon. At some point, shots were then fired. Exact details are still...

SEATTLE - "Will work for food...or beer" Those are the signs you usually see held by transients on local freeway off ramps. Some are now holding new signs --- advertising a local Web site. Its called "bumvertising." That's the term Ben Rogovy with pokerfacebook.com came up with after talking with transients about his idea. "I told them about my site, and they asked about it, they were curious," he says. "And then I asked them if they wanted to help me out and I'd pay them. And they were very willing. Appreciative, too." Rogovy says holding the professionally made signs...

Man Accused Of Impregnating 10-Year-Old PORT ORCHARD, Wash. -- A man who is believed to have gotten a 10-year-old girl pregnant has been charged with first-degree child rape. Jeremy Daniel Cockerham, 28, of east Bremerton, pleaded innocent Tuesday in Kitsap County Superior Court and remained in jail with bail set at $250,000. His trial was set for mid-August. Cockerham is the girl's stepfather, officials told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported. According to documents filed by prosecutors in court, police were alerted in March by state Child Protective Services workers who learned that the girl was pregnant. She initially told detectives...

BELLINGHAM - Police and federal agents began rounding up members of the Bandidos biker gang across the Northwest on Thursday, after a grand jury returned a 19-count indictment accusing them of crimes ranging from racketeering and witness tampering to dealing drugs and stolen Harley Davidson motorcycles. At least a dozen had been arrested by Thursday afternoon, including the organization's international president. About 300 investigators working the case in Washington, Montana and South Dakota had arrest warrants for 20 more members, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives said in a news release. They also served 21 search warrants, including...

STAR Trek legend Mr Spock has boldly gone on his bravest enterprise yet — photographing fat women NAKED. Actor Leonard Nimoy has focused on a group of very large women — many with tattoos and in a variety of poses. The sci-fi hero’s website is full of the pictures titled Full Body Project. They have even been included in an exhibition at a New York gallery. Leonard, 74, said yesterday: “I have discovered my artistic enthusiasm for photographing voluptuous naked women. I am snapping them now with great abandon.” A source said: “Leonard’s Star Trek character was strange and this...

TACOMA - A suspect was killed when he reportedly opened fire on a Tacoma Police officer late Saturday afternoon. The officer was shot in the leg during the gun battle. The police officer contacted the car for some sort of traffic stop at the intersection of S. 48th Street and Cushman Avenue. There were two people in the car and the officer asked the driver to step out of the vehicle so he could speak with him back near his patrol car. "At that time the passenger got out and began to shoot at our officer," said Tracy Conaway with...

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) -- Two off-duty state police officers were arrested after a run-in with on-duty Albuquerque police officers. The state police officers allegedly got drunk at a downtown Albuquerque bar, flashed a badge, cursed at Albuquerque police and fought Albuquerque police officers as they were taken into custody. Officer Thomas Morrissey, 30, is a patrolman assigned the Gallup district. He was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Officer Saul Canialis, 28, was arrested on a battery on a police officer charge. He is assigned to the Grants district. Morrissey was released on his own recognizance by Bernalillo County Metropolitan...

Suspect in car prowl in critical condition 10:25 AM PDT on Wednesday, May 11, 2005 From KING Staff and Wire Reports GRAHAM, Wash. - A suspected car prowler was in critical condition Wednesday after he was caught trying to take a 1967 Camaro. Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said the owner fought with the suspect and a neighbor saw what was going on and hit him with a hockey stick. "It was their car, they were protecting their property. We're just happy that the suspect didn't have a gun and nobody else got hurt," said Det. Ed Troyer. "At...

Authorities launched a manhunt Sunday after a decorated police detective was slain and another was wounded as they were working off-duty as security officers at a celebration in west Denver. Police said they were looking for a tattooed male suspect, age 20 to 25. Police Chief Gerry Whitman said he considered the suspect dangerous. "He ambushed this police officer without warning, shot two police officers. I think he's very dangerous," Whitman said. "For the safety of other officers and the community, we need to get this guy off the street right now." The slain detective was identified as Donald R....

BONNEY LAKE, Wash. -- Police responding to a report of "muffled screaming" have found two children tied up inside the garage of a Bonney Lake home, and arrested their parents in the case, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported. The two children, a 9-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy, were found at a home in the 7400 block of 207th Avenue East, police said. One child was bound with plastic "zip" ties and gagged; the other was tied to a water heater. A police department news release said both children were barefoot and the boy was clothed only in his underwear....

PHELPS, N.Y. (AP) --A suspected bank robber was killed Wednesday in a shootout with a sheriff's deputy in a small town in western New York. A man armed with a 12-gauge shotgun blew out a security camera after walking into a branch of Ontario National Bank in Phelps, 30 miles southeast of Rochester, Sheriff Phil Povero said. Bank employees called 911 and a veteran deputy arrived just in time to see the suspect driving out of the parking lot, the sheriff said. The deputy chased the suspect for about a mile before the suspect's car drove off the road and...

Almighty and eternal God, who created us in Thy image and bade us to seek after all that is good, true and beautiful, especially in the divine person of Thy only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, grant we beseech Thee that, through the intercession of Saint Isidore, bishop and doctor, during our journeys through the internet we will direct our hands and eyes only to that which is pleasing to Thee and treat with charity and patience all those souls whom we encounter. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) -- Three Moody Air Force Base airmen have been arrested in an alleged scheme to take bulletproof vests from the base and sell them to drug dealers for $100 each. Airman 1st Class Brian Aubray Skelton, 22, was arrested on a charge of theft by receiving stolen property and remained in Lowndes County Jail on Tuesday. Airman Todd Louis Boutte, 22, and Airman 1st Class Jared Wayne Roberts, 21, were in military custody, said Lowndes County Sheriff Ashley Paulk. Boutte and Roberts were accused of taking the vests from the base while Skelton was accused of distributing...

Good evening FRiends. I wanted to share some good news with all of you. At 0741 today, my son Matthew Reagan, first and middle name respectively, was delivered via c-section three weeks ahead of schedule. Matt weighed in at 8 lbs 14 ozs and was a 20 incher. Mom is doing pretty well but is a bit sore and tired. Ironically, we found out mom was pregnant the same day I signed up on FR. I'll be heading back to the hospital soon after I post this with supplies and this was the first opportunity today and most convenient way...