Two local sisters have different child-rearing methods. One believes in reasoning with her children; the other believes that a smack on the hand is sometimes necessary. On Thursday, the sister who advocates "reason" was booked into King County Jail for investigation of assault. It seems she tried to persuade her sister that reason was a superior form of discipline. How? By choking her.

Two Burien residents are in King County Jail for investigation of rape of a child after one was found with two missing girls, ages 12 and 14. The one caught with the girls admitted he had sexual relations with one of them. The other suspect, his roommate, was already being held at the King County Jail on a previous rape warrant. The girls were returned to their parents.

An armed gunman lucked out early Friday when he robbed the clerk at a Junction gas station and got away with an unknown amount of cash. Two King County undercover detectives happened to be driving by at the time, saw the suspect walking down the street and glancing backward at the store, which seemed mighty suspicious. The detectives went to the store and heard what had occurred, but by the time the two returned to the area where they had seen the suspect, he was gone. He was a black male with a mustache or goatee, black baseball cap, a black zipper-front sweat jacket and blue shorts. And late Sunday, a black or Hispanic male with a mustache or goatee and black baseball cap robbed a Delridge 7-11 of several hundred dollars.

Good news: As he drove past a landscaper's truck, a teen's elbow (hanging out the car window) accidentally struck the truck's side-view mirror and broke it completely from the vehicle. The driver and passengers parked a block away and immediately returned to the scene, apologized, and offered to pay for damages.

When they reported to work on Monday, two construction workers discovered the job site had been burglarized and tools worth thousands of dollars were missing. Two men in their 20s had been seen at the home on Sunday, loading items into a bright red, short-box pickup truck.

A local man was hoodwinked out of $9,500 by two con artists who approached him in the Morgan Thriftway parking lot at noon on Wednesday. Beware of two black males; one small, dark complected, with a mustache and accent, dressed in a suit. The second has a medium complexion and carries a light-brown leather briefcase. If they begin to discuss monetary settlements and sending money to Africa, you're being scammed. Walk away and call 911.

A group of teens deliberately bumped into a woman in a Westwood Village parking lot Wednesday evening and grabbed her cell phone.

Burglaries by block: 2700 59th SW, 3600 56th SW, 6900 Parshall Pl. SW, 6500 40th SW, 5900 42nd SW, 6700 41st SW, 5700 SW Hanford, 2700 Alki Ave. SW, 6100 SW Spokane, 6900 Heights Pl. SW, 700 S. Dakota, 9000 and 9400 Delridge Way SW, 1000 S. Cloverdale, 8600 Delridge Way SW, 3400 SW Trenton, 800 S. Barton, 8900 14th S,

Nine domestic violence incidents and seven car prowls were reported in greater West Seattle last week.