November 2006

The Women's Metro 3A High School Championship Volleyball tournament began last Thursday night.

The West Seattle Wildcats went to Bainbridge Island to once again face The Eastside Catholic Crusaders. It looked like the teams were evenly matched to begin the first game. Neither team won a point on their serve through a 4-4 tie when the Crusaders put together a run to take a 4-point lead.

Blogging, instant messaging, profiles, and posting comments, may leave the average adult scratching their head, but to today's teenager, they're a vital part of communicating with friends.

In the last two years, social networking sites such as Myspace, Facebook, and Xanga have risen in popularity and have acted as an outlet for teens to express themselves.

It looked like it was not going to be the Central Washington University football team's night when it went up against rival Western Washington University in the "Battle in Seattle."

But the Wildcats weren't about to let it stay that way in the action played Saturday, Oct.

Life in the professional baseball ranks took Federal Way-area graduates to the far corners of the United States in the summer of 2006.

Travis Ishikawa found himself going back-and-forth three times -- from the Class AA Connecticut Defenders to the Major League San Francisco Giants and back again and again and again.

Each time he was brought up he was substituting for first baseman Lance Neikro because of either injuries or personal reasons.

He left a good impression while with the parent club, hitting .292 (7-for-21) with three doubles, one triple, one walk a

1. The managers of the Campus Grove Apartments called 911 to report that the tenants in unit 61-3 had unlawfully entered the neighboring apartment to steal electricity from the vacant unit. The Campus Grove Apartments are located at 1300 Southwest Campus Drive. The suspects broke into the neighboring unit 61-2 and plugged in an extension cord. They were illegally consuming the power because their own electricity had been shut off since September 28.

Phone thieves make off with blackberry

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The five members of the Federal Way board of education, acting on behalf of the entire district, have agreed to sue the State of Washington for no longer fulfilling its own mandate.

The Washington State Constitution declares it's the state's duty to "make ample provision for the education of all children residing within its border" and "provide for a general and uniform system of public schools."

Federal Way schools are receiving neither ample nor uniform consideration, says the district.

According to Superintendent Tom Murphy, although the Federal Way Public S

In a determined effort that lasted six months, Starbucks employees from all nine of the Federal Way district's stores, from Hoyt Road to Des Moines, volunteered monthly at the food bank, served at the agency's annual Crab Feed, and on other projects such as toy and game drives, then turned in their hours to Starbucks Corporate Giving.

In July, their work was complete, and they had earned the $5,000 required to buy the Multi-Service Center Foodbank a new freezer.

The ad that I placed in the paper said, "Real nice tires, nearly new chrome wheels, come get them!"

I priced them at fifty percent of what I paid for them. Two days passed and the first call came in..."Hi, would you take a money order for the wheels and tires....and can you meet us at the Supermall? We can come down tomorrow!"

The voice sounded foreign and anxious and I got a funny feeling about it. I had read recently about money order fraud, and the request to meet at the mall seemed weird too.