Sunday, November 8, 2009 - Page updated at 10:07 a.m.
Bombs, guns found at home of suspect in Officer Brenton's slaying
Seattle police detectives are trying to determine why Christopher John Monfort, 41, suspected of arson and deadly shooting, held a grudge against officers that apparently spiraled from destructive to deadly in so little time. Police on Saturday labeled him a "domestic terrorist" who was apparently acting alone and whose motives remain under investigation.
Ida becomes hurricane a 2nd time off Mexico coast
Ida grew into a hurricane for a second time as it roared over the Caribbean on a path that could take it between Mexico's resort-studded Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba before heading for the southern United States.
Police: Suicide bomb in Pakistan market kills 12
A suicide bomber apparently targeting an anti-Taliban mayor struck a crowded market Sunday in northwestern Pakistan, killing the mayor and 11 other people and wounding dozens, police said.
Landmark health bill passes House on close vote
The Democratic-controlled House has narrowly passed landmark health care reform legislation, handing President Barack Obama a hard won victory on his signature domestic priority.
How an underdog named Mike McGinn took City Hall
How did Mike McGinn apparently take Seattle City Hall? The mayoral candidate had a fleet of volunteers so devoted they deferred graduate school, borrowed money from their parents and spent hours contacting voters for McGinn.
Preps Football | Liberty tested but advances with 32-22 win
It was speed versus power. In the end, finesse won out and Liberty of Issaquah rallied for a 32-22 victory over Camas on Saturday evening.
Saturday's detailed prep swimming results
At Marysville-Pilchuck H. S. * All-America consideration time ** All-America automatic time Team scores — Shorewood 479, Marysville-Pilchuck...
A bicycle helmet helped a young Oregon woman escape serious injury when her head was run over by a car after a collision.
More than 200 pounds of marijuana was seized in a raid on a growing operation in Southern Oregon that produced far more marijuana than allowed for the medical patients it supplied.
Older couple found dead in Spokane Valley home
A Spokane Valley couple in their 70s have been found dead in their home of apparent gunshot wounds and a Spokane County sheriff's spokesman says authorities think it is likely a murder-suicide.
Jail escapee captured in Mexico
A gang member who escaped from a Sunnyside jail in 2006 has been captured in Manzanillo, Mexico.
Golf | Mickelson, Woods to play in final group of tournament in China
Phil Mickelson was unwinding from a day of high energy and quick turnarounds, one that took him from a two-shot deficit against Tiger Woods...
Statewide prep football scores
Everett 41, Sedro-Woolley 6 Federal Way 35, Gig Harbor 21 Squalicum 31, Granite Falls 6 Wellpinit 46, Sprague-Harrington 16 Cascade Christian...
Rain or shine, Auburn salutes vets with longtime Veterans Day parade
One of the largest Veterans Day parades in Washington state is held each November in Auburn.
Danny Westneat
Lee the Horse Logger found slow wagon shrank tumor
A Ph.D.-dropout-turned-rancher, Lee Crafton started his pioneer odyssey three years ago, inching across America at 3 miles an hour in a horse-drawn covered wagon as his own way of slowing down to take on his cancer.
In a last-minute compromise to build a majority in the House, Democratic leaders agreed to new language on abortion that advocates say offers stronger guarantees that federal money will not be used for abortions and that critics say goes beyond upholding current law.
College Football | Central stymies Western Oregon, finishes unbeaten
Quarterback Cole Morgan ran for one touchdown and passed for another one as Central Washington beat Western Oregon 20-6 Saturday to finish the regular season undefeated.
The House narrowly approved an overhaul of the nation's health-care system late Saturday, advancing legislation the Democrats said could be their defining social-policy achievement.
Boxing | David Haye takes WBA heavyweight title from Nikolai Valuev
Boxing Haye earns majority decision: David Haye of Britain backed up weeks worth of boasting, winning the WBA heavyweight title with a majority...
Coming to terms: long-term investing
Q: I've heard that you should invest in stocks for the long term. Just how long is that? A: For tax purposes, you should aim to hang on...
Parents want answers on new Seattle school boundaries
Pointed questions about school quality dominated a meeting Saturday at Rainier Beach High School, the second-to-last public meeting on the boundaries that soon will govern where Seattle students go to school.
3 Cascade Mountain passes close due to snow; more rain, wind expected Sunday
An early winter storm that led to a freak deadly accident in Shoreline and flooding in Westport, Grays Harbor County, also closed three passes in the Cascade Mountains.
Family of Spokane shooting victim describes 'frustrating' wait for details
A man from Spokane was one of the victims of the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas.
Union readies low-income trainees for Got Green jobs
Graduates of the first weatherization training course sponsored by a laborers union in Seattle hope that billions in federal stimulus money to weatherize homes nationwide will create demand for the new skills they have learned.
Civic activist grew up in Bellevue
When Erna Hardman Poliak grew up along the shores of Meydenbauer Bay and on what is now Clyde Beach Park, it was considered "the country."
How your U.S. lawmaker voted this week
Here's how the state's members of Congress voted on major issues in the week that ended Friday.
Spokane grandma loses $17,000 to scam
An 82-year-old Spokane woman was bilked out of more than $17,000 of her savings last month by swindlers who persuaded her to wire them money — purportedly to bail her grandson out of trouble with the law in Canada.
State claims fraud after man's hike
A Puyallup man who climbed Mount Rainier last year has pleaded not guilty to charges he took $366,000 from the state in fraudulent workers' compensation claims.
Here is a list of events scheduled for Veterans Day in the Seattle area.
Flags were key link to cop slaying, bombings
An American flag left at the scene of Officer Timothy Brenton's slaying on Halloween and at a city maintenance yard where four police vehicles were torched on Oct. 22 gave investigators a key link between the two crimes even before a Tukwila man was identified as the suspect.
Heavy snow in Cascades shuts down roads
The Washington state Department of Transportation has temporarily shut down two highways in the Cascade Mountains due to heavy snow from a fall storm and plans to close a third.
Heavy snow in Cascades shuts down roads
The Washington state Department of Transportation has temporarily shut down two highways in the Cascade Mountains due to heavy snow from a fall storm and plans to close a third.
Huskies suffer another heartbreaking loss to UCLA
Washington's losing streak against UCLA at the Rose Bowl continues with a disheartening 24-23 Pac-10 football loss.
Mora's words, Seahawks' losses reverberate loudly
With a one-win Lions team in town, the Seahawks realize they must win Sunday at Qwest Field or watch a stumbling season turn into a free fall.
WSU endures painful defeat at Arizona
The most damaging part of Saturday's 48-7 loss might be the knee injury sustained by freshman quarterback Jeff Tuel.
Steve Kelley
Huskies have to learn to finish
Coaches and players made mistake at the end that cost them a victory that was there for the taking against a beatable UCLA team.
Officiating has Sounders FC ready for rough-and-tumble finale
The Major League Soccer Western Conference semifinal series moves to Houston on Sunday, and the referee will be watched closely. Key calls in the series opener had Seattle fans howling and Sounders FC players scratching their heads.
Talks to restart between Mariners, Ken Griffey Jr.
Agent Brian Goldberg said Sunday nothing has changed since the end of the season, when Ken Griffey Jr. said that he's open to returning for another season in Seattle if the Mariners want him back.
Larry Stone
Big decisions await Jack Zduriencik as he heads for GM meetings
With its management team in place and a firm grasp of the Mariners' talent, Seattle's second-year executive heads to the baseball's GM meetings in Chicago with a lot to decide.
Jerry Brewer
Let the scrutiny begin of snakebit Seahawks
Forget the playoffs, the Seahawks must use the rest of this awful season to evaluate what they need to do to get ready for 2010.
Sideline Chatter
They were sent to jail? You cannot be serious
Love-40 it wasn't. Two 80-something tennis players — George Morell, 85, and Raymond Moore, 82 — got hauled off to jail in Sun...
Baseball | Ex-Mariners reliever J.J. Putz files for free agency
Reliever J. J. Putz, previously with the New York Mets, and Minnesota Twins pitcher Carl Pavano filed for free agency Saturday.
Cal's Jahvid Best suffers concussion
California tailback Jahvid Best suffered a concussion and was carted off the field Saturday night and taken to the emergency room after he was flipped over an Oregon State defender.
College Football | Northwestern stuns Iowa
Northwestern's Dan Persa threw a touchdown pass and Marshall Thomas recovered a fumble for another score to help the Wildcats snap Iowa's 13-game winning streak with a 17-10 victory Saturday.
Horse racing | Undefeated Zenyatta, a 5-year-old mare, beats males in the Breeders' Cup Classic
SThe 26th running of the Breeders' Cup World Championships at Santa Anita Park came to an emotional climax as undefeated Zenyatta unleashed her closing kick in the lane to pass four-time Grade I winner Gio Ponti and win by a length.
NBA | Winless Nets are still challenge for Celtics
Boston bounced back from its first loss of the season with an 86-76 victory Saturday night.
Soccer | Chicago Fire advances to MLS Eastern Conference final
John Thorrington and Cuauhtemoc Blanco scored as the Chicago Fire advanced to the Major League Soccer Eastern Conference final with a 2-0...
Toby Gerhart ran for a school-record 223 yards and three scores, Andrew Luck threw for two touchdowns and Stanford held on to beat No. 7 Oregon 51-42 Saturday to become bowl eligible for the first time in eight years.
Donald Butler isn't sorry about big hit on UCLA quarterback
Washington linebacker sorry Kevin Prince was injured, but says hit shouldn't have drawn penalty.
Summit East Ski and Snowboard Area at the The Summit at Snoqualmie aiming to reopen next season
On Jan. 7, 2009, a huge landslide about several hundred feet wide of debris, snow and trees wiped out the resort's Keechelus double chairlift and a cabin.
Auto racing | Kyle Busch wins NASCAR Nationwide Series event in Texas
Kyle Busch won his fourth consecutive Nationwide Series race at the 1 ½-mile, high-banked track Saturday.
College Football | Alabama takes LSU 24-9
Julio Jones broke free for a 73-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter, and No. 3 Alabama locked down No. 9 LSU in a 24-15 victory Saturday.
In Philly, Dallas' Romo back to face demons from humiliating loss
Tonight, Tony Romo returns to Lincoln Financial Field for the first time since last year's deflating loss. First place in the NFC East is on the line, and the Cowboys are riding a three-game winning streak.
NBA notebook | Iverson gets OK to leave the Grizzlies
Disgruntled Memphis guard Allen Iverson returned to his home in Atlanta after receiving permission to leave the team to attend to personal personal business.
A quick look at highlights of the Washington-UCLA football game.
Players of the game: Take your pick of several Arizona players in this one.
Girls State Cross Country | Eastlake claims 4A crown
The second-ranked Wolves captured their second straight 4A title with 100 points, despite not placing a runner in the top 10. No. 3 Tahoma was second with 124, followed by No. 6 Stanwood (126) and top-ranked Gig Harbor (136).
Prep Football | Mountlake Terrace's season ends with loss to Central Kitsap
The Hawks were blanked by Central Kitsap, 35-0, in the preliminary round of 32 on Saturday at Edmonds Stadium, but the fact that they were even playing in the game was reason to celebrate.
Prep Swimming | Twice as nice for Juanita's seniors
Juanita swimmers Emilee Kaufman and Kelly Tannhauser were both two-time individual event winners at Saturday night's Sea-King 3A District championships at Mary Wayte Pool and have already committed to swim at Division I colleges next season.
Prep Volleyball | Curtis defends its 4A district title
Six teams earn berths into state tournament.
Saturday's detailed prep water polo results
At Rogers H. S. (Puyallup) Wilson 10, Curtis 7 (Curtis scoring — C. Bateman 2 goals, P. Hammer 1, M. Lietzinger 2, J. Pryor 2. Wilson scoring — K...
Letters to the Sports Editor
Saturday's detailed prep cross-country results
At Sun Willows Golf Course (Pasco) Team scores — 1, Ferris, 68; 2, Jackson, 100; 3, Issaquah, 150; 4, Eisenhower, 156; 5, Lewis ...
The Saxons, ranked ninth nationally but first in the preseason according to the Harrier Super 25 poll, kept alive the Greater Spokane League's 22-year winning streak at state. Blanchet, in 1986, was the last non-GSL team to win, as Ferris, Mead and University have swept all of the titles since then.
Ralph Lauren outfits Winter Olympics athletes in retro garb
Ralph Lauren's affinity for Americana will be on full display on athletes at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C. — complete with red, white and blue, stars-and-stripes flags and, of course, polo ponies.
The local, public face of Chase, Phyllis Campbell is trading on trust
Into the WaMu breach, Phyllis Campbell is taking up the challenges at Chase.
10 investing missteps to avoid
There are never any guarantees when investing, but avoiding these 10 missteps will better your chances of success.
Sunday Buzz
Boeing fighter to run on biofuel; Mastro bankruptcy trustee keeps job
Boeing is testing whether biofuels can power the F/A 18 Super Hornet jet fighter. Also, Seattle developer Michael Mastro's "Friends & Family" creditors fall short in vote to replace the bankruptcy trustee.
On the Economy
Washington state has to play the add-value card, not low-cost-leader ace
Now that the Puget Sound area sees the vulnerability of the aerospace cluster, how do we leverage this asset for a less Boeing-centric future?
What makes visionary entrepreneurs such as Apple's Steve Jobs, Amazon's Jeff Bezos and P&G's A. G. Lafley tick?
Your Funds
Target-date funds shoot at moving, variable targets
Looking at target-date funds is a bit like trying to decide on a rental car.
Investing
Keep it in checking or put it in a bond fund?
If you don't have a need for cash in the near future, it would be good to put it to work. If you have a need for it in the near future, buying the fund would be foolish.
Money tip: Old-school shaving can trim your spending
Shaving aficionados swear men and women can get a better shave with the old-style razor, compared with today's pricier and disposable multiblade razors and electric shavers — and at a fraction of the price.
Heads up: It's a light week for economic reports. September trade data are out Friday, as are the University of Michigan consumer-sentiment survey. The bond market is closed Wednesday for Veterans Day.
Breaking the ice on free-trade era?
Charles Schwab this past week launched the first lob in what could be a lucrative race for investors.
Crude prices saw big gains in October, making this sector among the best performers last month.
House, Senate health care bills detailed
Here is a comparison of the three health care bills before Congress, including one by House Democrats and an alternative by House Republicans.
Talks in Philadelphia transit strike break off
Negotiations aimed at ending a transit strike in Philadelphia broke off Saturday night over disagreement on pensions and the impact of possible national health care overhaul, and Pennsylvania's governor walked away from the negotiations.
Fort Hood shooting suspect had shown troubling signs
Some who knew Nidal Malik Hasan said they saw clear signs the Army psychiatrist — who authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood that left 13 dead and 30 others wounded — had no place in the military.
The Army on Saturday released the names of the 13 slain Thursday at Fort Hood. Maj. Libardo Eduardo Caraveo Caraveo, 52, of Woodbridge...
Russia may back Iran sanctions
President Dmitri Medvedev said Russia might back sanctions against Iran if the Iranians did not take a "constructive position" on an international plan to temporarily diminish their stockpile of enriched uranium.
Berlin Wall, 20 years after the fall
The impending anniversary Monday has prompted a powerful national conversation, not just about a moment two decades in the past, but about the Germany of today. It is a country that is peaceful, more united and less turbulent than few here or abroad expected or, given its troubled 20th century, many thought it deserved.
Killings remain unsolved as D.C. sniper execution nears
As Virginia prepares to execute convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad Tuesday for an October 2002 slaying, authorities are unable to answer a basic question: How many people did he and fellow sniper John Lee Malvo shoot and kill?
Obama trip puts spotlight on growing power of Asia
President Obama will leave the country Thursday for a four-nation tour of Asia despite a variety of domestic concerns, including a sharply rising jobless rate and health-care legislation stalled in the Senate.
For some in Russia, time for Putin to go
Along with the perennial calls for "land for farmers" and "factories for workers," communists who marched in Moscow on the Saturday anniversary of the 1917 revolution offered a slogan of more recent vintage: "Russia without Putin."
Jewish school in London is accused of bias
The questions before the judges in Courtroom No. 1 of Britain's Supreme Court were as ancient and as complex as Judaism itself. Who is a Jew? And who gets to decide?
Manufacturer withdraws Accutane
Teenagers and young adults who have severe, scarring acne may lose the most effective treatment for the condition.
Should juveniles get life in prison?
There are more than 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without the possibility of parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed. All are in the United States, and 77 are in Florida.
H1N1 vaccine-production method faulted
Most of the world's H1N1 vaccine started in 30 chicken eggs kept in a warren of labs at New York Medical College. Bucher and her team did what they always do: take an isolated H1N1 flu strain and allow it to exchange genetic parts with another flu known to grow well in chicken eggs with embryos. The new hybrid would be the vaccine seed.
Airstrike inflames Afghan tensions
U.S. and Afghan authorities investigated Saturday whether a botched NATO airstrike was to blame for the death of Afghan soldiers and police during a search for two U.S. paratroopers in a Taliban-infested area of the country's west.
On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le was taken from his homeland at age 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming as the commander of a U.S. Navy destroyer.
Pakistan's sense of style lives amid the turmoil
As surging militant violence grabs headlines around the world, Pakistan's top designers and models took part in the country's first-ever fashion week.
Mushroom trove returns to China after 7 decades
A Chinese scholar persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for smuggling a rare collection of mushrooms out of China before World War II was honored Saturday when the collection was returned more than 70 years later.
Trust tries to use chili peppers to keep elephants away
Deaths from elephant attacks are increasing in southern Zambia and northern Botswana, where people are crammed in with a rising elephant population. A Zambia-based trust is training African farmers in four simple steps to repel elephants by using chili peppers, which elephants hate.
Officer describes firefight that downed Hasan
One of two police officers who confronted the alleged Fort Hood killer says he shot Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan before kicking the man's weapon away, handcuffing him and ending the nation's worst killing spree on a military base.
Staff Sergeant Amy C. Tirador, 29, of Albany, N.Y., based at Fort Lewis, died Wednesday in Kirkush, Iraq, in a non-combat-related incident, the Department of Defense said. This was her third deployment.
Leonard Pitts Jr. / Syndicated columnist
An Iraqi immigrant father runs down his daughter with his car and calls it honor. That is not honor, writes columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. It is an act of appalling cowardice suggestive not simply of religious extremism but of a people in fear of the sexuality and independence of women.
The birth of 'Grunge,' in photos by Michael Lavine
Photographer Michael Lavine's book is titled "Grunge," but it's not really a history of the musical movement that put Seattle on the rock 'n' roll map. It's a look at the punk scene on the streets and in the clubs of Seattle that gave rise to Nirvana, Mudhoney, Pearl Jam and more.
Book review
Ayn Rand: goddess of the market, gateway to the American right
Two new biographies of Ayn Rand tell the remarkable story of an author whose creed of radical individualism drew legions of devoted young followers, many of whom would become leaders of the American Right.
Hits and misses on the fall-TV front
"NCIS," "Cougar Town" and "Community" boom while Jay Leno and Ashton Kutcher bust on the fall-TV lineup.
Tlingit heritage helps glass artist Preston Singletary break new ground
Seattle glass artist Preston Singletary draws on his Tlingit heritage to create striking, sumptuous work.
Book review
'Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same': a teenaged friendship in rural Alaska
"Sometimes We're Always Real Same-Same" is Mattox Roesch's debut novel of two teenaged boys and their unlikely friendship in rural Alaska.
Boundary-pushing Devo returns with 2 Seattle shows
Devo comes to Seattle to play its classic albums, "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo" and "Freedom of Choice," in their entirety.
Book review
'The Children's Book': A.S. Byatt's opus of the Edwardian age
"The Children's Book" is English novelist A.S. Byatt's richly detailed saga of a free-spirited English family in the Edwardian age.
Book review
'Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary': on fire with the cause, at odds with everyone
"Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary" by Bertrand M. Patenaude tells the life story of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, a man who couldn't get along with anyone, even his fellow Trotskyites.
A peek inside Preston Singletary's process
An explanation of glass artist Preston Singletary's "sandblasting" technique.
New in crime fiction: dark doings from Hong Kong to Seoul to rural Idaho
New in November crime fiction: Michael Connelly's new novel sends Harry Bosch to Hong Kong. Christopher Fowler's latest in the Bryant & May series unfolds in London; Spokane's Patrick McManus visits Blight County, Idaho, and Lynnwood's Martin Limón returns with a new Korea-based mystery.
The Short List
What our writers love this week
Jazz singer Tahoe Jackson, the novel "Old Filth" and Seattle's Broadway are at the top of the Seattle Times Short List this week.
Best-sellers: 'The Lost Symbol' and 'Have a Little Faith'
Dan Brown ("The Lost Symbol") and Mitch Albom ("Have a Little Faith") again top the best-selling books list.
Queen Anne Books' best sellers
Local authors Sherman Alexie and Timothy Egan are among the top sellers at Queen Anne Books.
The Short List: A&E highlights from Pixies to puppets
'An Education,' Pixies, 'Raven' tales told with puppets, Complexion Dance Company and artist Fay Jones are among this week's arts highlights in Seattle.
The People's Pharmacy
Solutions for painful breast-feeding
A new mother found that Mentholatum or Vicks VapoRub helped with painful breast-feeding.
10 ways to take control of your health
Easy ways to get started on a healthy lifestyle.
Wine Adviser
'Pocket Wine Book' slips into sloppy
British wine writer Hugh Johnson has come out with a new "Pocket Wine Book" for 2010, but this new version is confusing and, with regard to the Northwest entries at least, riddled with mistakes.
Northwest Living
A Whidbey Island château would suit hobbits, too
Styled like a French country château, a Whidbey Island home features fine craftsmanship, soaring ceilings and enough nooks and crannies to make both princes and hobbits feel comfortable.
Destinations
Sikkim offers an otherworldly experience to trekkers
Sikkim retains its colorful, otherworldly spirit despite its annexation to neighboring India.
Plant Life
Hedgerows offer variety and shelter to urban gardens
The classic English hedgerow can be adapted to modern urban and suburban gardens just fine, helping add color and texture to smaller gardens while also giving shelter to birds, bees, butterflies and more.
Taste
Ruth Reichl still reigns as queen of America's culinary scene
Ruth Reichl has lived and cooked on both coasts, written for two of the top newspapers in the country and coproduced a popular public-TV show celebrating the art of cooking. She also presided as editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine for the past 10 years. Recently, she's traveled across America to suss out the best of regional cuisines. All of it has arguably made her the nation's most influential food person.
Now & Then
Arboretum Aqueduct stands test of time and traffic
The aqueduct in Seattle's Washington Park Arboretum has lasted since 1911, standing firm against wayward traffic while conveying sewage above the park's boulevard.
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Choosing a new sedan? Weigh the impact of your choice on your wallet and on the planet.
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