August 2005

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The selfless, exhaustive work of teachers has always been well-known, but Jacob Denning and Stefanie Kelly have taken it a step further.

Denning, a teacher at Madrona Elementary, and Kelly, a teacher at Hazel Valley Elementary, recently sacrificed one of education's best perks-ummers off-to participate in a local cultural exchange program, "Discovering Our Culture."

The program, which ran throughout July, provided funding for six Mexican teachers to travel to Burien to teach the course on Mexican heritage to 120 Latino elementary scho

A security passenger screener at Sea-Tac International Airport has been arrested for posting graphic videos of child rape on the internet.

Members of a special Seattle Police Department task force raided the Des Moines apartment of Ronald McNeill, 55, on Aug.

A security passenger screener at Sea-Tac International Airport has been arrested for posting graphic videos of child rape on the internet.

Members of a special Seattle Police Department task force raided the Des Moines apartment of Ronald McNeill, 55, on Aug.

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A hotel, long-sought by supporters of downtown business development, may be coming to Burien.

City lawmakers were expected to consider on Aug.

sports CORRESPONDENT

No. 3.

Do the Burien Bearcats Junior Football League Seniors division players want to finish third in the standings as a goal?

Oh no. No, no, no, no, no. They are No.1, let's get that straight.

A security passenger screener at Sea-Tac International Airport has been arrested for posting graphic videos of child rape on the internet.

Members of a special Seattle Police Department task force raided the Des Moines apartment of Ronald McNeill, 55, on Aug.

"Superbuddy, superbuddy, we are friends. Superbuddy, superbuddy, we'll never come to an end." Superbuddy, written by Lauri Reed and Karen Fernandez, 1972

I remember Karen Fernandez. How could I not? We were glued to each other for first, second, and third grade. We spent hours together, making up plays, sharing Archie comic books, and eating ridiculous contraband candy. We even wrote a song about our friendship, "Superbuddies" and sang it together.

Two teenagers were sitting on an overlook above the Fauntleroy ferry dock early Thursday, when a small red import car drove past. It pulled up a few moments later and the driver yelled, "What are you looking at?" The driver and passenger, armed with a baseball bat, got out and said, "We're looking for gas money." When the victims said they didn't have any, one suspect punched one of the victims in the jaw. The suspects then drove off northbound on Fauntleroy. One was a white male in his late teens, about 6'1" with light hair and a heavy build.

The West Seattle Junction Association's board of directors said Friday it had hired Angela Rae as its new executive director, replacing Kay Knapton who left earlier in the summer.

Michael Hoffman, president of the association, said Rae has "an extensive background of experience and an enthusiastic attitude that will help us shape the West Seattle Junction into the thriving business district we desire to be."

"Her knowledge and talents in nonprofit administration, marketing, planning, copy writing, transportation, and grant writing/administration will be a great asset to o

The city of Seattle could take Harbor Island off its list of potential sites for a garbage-handling facility because the Port of Seattle might need the property for its growing shipping business.

Seattle Public Utilities has been looking for a site to build a "solid waste intermodal transfer facility," a place where the city's garbage would be compacted, packed into shipping containers, and then loaded onto railroad cars for shipment to a landfill in Eastern Oregon.

King County has plans to build a similar facility and has already purchased the old Fisher flour mill on Ha