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A second sewer leak in three weeks at Lincoln Park convinced King County engineers to replace the sewer line along the popular park's shoreline and to lay a temporary above-ground bypass sewer pipe.

Work on the four-month project began…MORE

Local businessman Eric Aasness has been elected to serve as the President of the Board for Highline Schools Foundation for Excellence.

Aasness, a senior loan officer for Washington Mutual Home Loans, heads a group of 14 volunteers…MORE

Last year there were ten million victims of identity theft in the U.S. and this year, one in four people will become targets of this fast growing crime.

That was the message members of the Northwest Senior Activity Center learned last…MORE

The Seattle Monorail Board nominated a West Seattle man and a Ballard man to fill board vacancies.

Gatewood Hill resident Vlad Oustimovitch is a former member of the Seattle Monorail Review Panel, former president of the Southwest District…MORE

Charles Momah is truly a man with two faces.

At first encounter, his patients saw a seemingly kind and caring obstetrician-gynecologist who later morphed into an abusive monster.

Momah operated clinics in Burien and Federal Way…MORE

Students and parents at three Highline high schools should have a better idea in a few weeks about what will be offered in the district’s planned small learning communities.

“By the end of the month, we will have clarity,” district…MORE

An independent arbitrator has ruled that Des Moines police Officer Barron “Bruno” Baldwin was fired “for just cause” following an October 2003 incident involving a drug informant.

In denying the grievance filed by Baldwin to get his job…MORE

A soft but steady rain bathed the landscaped gardens around the Dumas Bay Center and lent a somber tone to the proceedings within Banquet Room #3.

Inside, local government was taking its job seriously.

On Saturday, January 28, the…MORE

A new survey of homelessness found that Ballard had a 26 percent increase in the number of people living on the streets, compared to the last such street count, in 2004.

The survey, done in the early morning hours of January 27, found 364…MORE

Otto Lang, a West Seattle legend of skiing, movie and TV production, books and photography, died at his Admiral District home Jan. 30 at age 98.

Lang was born in 1908 in Bosnia and grew up near Sarajevo. His mother was Croatian but his…MORE