Local News
Resurrected Intiman Theatre announces its lineup for summer
Seattle's Intiman Theatre reveals the details of the summer festival that will resurrect the company. Four shows will play July 11-Aug. 26; the roster includes Shakespeare, Ibsen and a work staged and scripted by Dan Savage.
Seattle takes greener approach to sewer overflows
A greener approach in Seattle aims to prevent untreated sewage and polluted runoff from flowing into Puget Sound by installing dozens of landscaped drainage systems in front of people's homes.
3 finalists for Bellevue schools chief face interviews this week
The Bellevue School Board has selected three finalists for the superintendent's job, and plans to conduct interviews this week.
Remains of missing WWII vet buried in White Salmon
After almost 68 years away from home, the ashes of Gerald "Mike" Kight were laid to rest Saturday in a cemetery in the Columbia Gorge, near the remains of his mother, who never lost hope he would be found.
'Just amazing' rescue saves boy from plunge into Wallace Falls
A 13-year-old Burien boy narrowly escaped being swept over Wallace Falls but spent the night shivering on a ledge before being rescued early Sunday.
Sports
Washington softball beats Harvard, advances to NCAA super regional
A 4-0 victory Sunday earned the Huskies an appointment with top-ranked California next weekend.
Mariners earn sweep of Rockies with 6-4 victory
Jesus Montero, Justin Smoak, Mike Carp hit homers as Mariners return home after closing trip with success in interleague play.
Justin Dentmon has been well-traveled in pursuit of sticking in NBA
The former Husky guard has played with nearly a dozen teams around the world since leaving UW in 2009.
Bud Withers
Pac-12 entering new world with its networks
The Pac-12 TV Networks are 86 days from their Aug. 15 launch, when the league's exposure enters a new world.
13 teams in Indianapolis 500 are fined | Auto racing
Indianapolis Motor Speedway might have set a track record Sunday. Series officials levied $275,000 in fines to 13 different teams, including Indianapolis 500 pole-sitter Ryan Briscoe.
Editorials & Opinion
Voters must keep an eye on trade positions of Romney, Obama
Neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney have been forthright on international trade. Washington state voters especially should pay attention to their positions on this important issue.
Leonard Pitts Jr. / Syndicated columnist
Hard on criminals, hard on justice
A wave swept this country in the Reagan years that said judges would be required to impose specific punishments regardless of the circumstances, writes Leonard Pitts Jr. In restricting judges from judging, we have instituted a one-size-fits-all version of justice that bears little resemblance to the real thing.
Guest columnist
Join the people of Greece and France: Stand up and occupy your country
Occupy Seattle activist Mark Taylor-Canfield urges Americans and stand with voters in Greece and France against austerity measures for the people and continued profits for the 1 percent.
Nation & World
Chicago police crack down on NATO summit protesters
Police clashed with scores of protesters Sunday after more than 2,000 demonstrators marched peacefully to the edge of the NATO summit where...
Convicted Lockerbie bomber dies of cancer in Libya
He was the embodiment of one of modern Libya's darkest chapters - a man synonymous with horrifying scenes of wreckage, broken families and a plane that fell out of the sky a generation ago. His name, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, was little known compared to the single word that his deeds represented: Lockerbie.
More activists charged related to NATO summit
Prosecutors on Sunday charged two more activists with crimes tied to the NATO summit, accusing one of boasting that he could blow up a downtown Chicago bridge and that he concealed some explosives in a hollowed-out Harry Potter novel.
Robin Gibb of Bee Gees dies at 62
Robin Gibb, a founding member of the Bee Gees who helped propel the group to international stardom, has died. He was 62.
Beirut clashes kill 2 amid fear of Syria spillover
Street battles between pro- and anti-Syrian groups in the Lebanese capital killed two people overnight and wounded 15 as the spiraling conflict in neighboring Syria spilled across the border.
Business & Technology
Downtown Seattle condos are finally filling up
The glut of condos that hit downtown Seattle right during the real-estate downturn is disappearing as buyers move back into the market.
In Person: 'Chief skunk' at Lockheed's secretive Skunk Works
As "chief skunk" at Lockheed Martin's famed but classified Skunk Works weapons-development facility in California, Alton D. Romig Jr. has one of the most coveted jobs in aerospace.
Yahoo to sell half of its Alibaba stake for $7.1B
Struggling Internet company Yahoo Inc. has secured a lifeline after agreeing to sell half of its prized stake in Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba for about $7.1 billion, with most of the cash going to shareholders.
Pet ID tag gets an update with QR code and web link
Link tags, produced by Issaquah-based PetHub, have a QR code — the barcode-like symbol that can be scanned with a smartphone to load a website — and an address for an individualized Web page, which the owner can update as needed.
Yahoo sells back 20% of stake in China's Alibaba
Under the terms of the proposed transaction, Alibaba will buy back the stake, valued at about $7.1 billion.
Arts & Entertainment
Rant & Rave
Rant & Rave: Mole with a Midas touch
Seattle Times readers rave about a mole-mound find and rant about the unpeaceful sound of noisy hikers.
Book review
'The Chemistry of Tears': the mournful mechanics of a broken heart
In Peter Carey's new novel "The Chemistry of Tears," a grieving conservator at a London museum mourning her dead lover brings back to life a mysterious automaton, a bird with moving parts, and learns the story of the 19th-century man who created it.
Sketches of Chihuly Garden & Glass
After months of planning and construction -- not to mention controversy -- Chihuly Garden & Glass opens to the public on Monday on the Seattle Center grounds.
Book review
'A Disposition to Be Rich': a financial scoundrel in the late 1800s
Geoffrey C. Ward's "A Disposition to Be Rich" is the compelling, thoroughly researched story of how his great-grandfather Ferdinand Ward's wheeling, dealing and defrauding in the late 1800s were the ruination of many, most infamously Ulysses S. Grant.
Loudon Wainwright brings dry, wise humor to Triple Door
Singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, who recently released a fine new album, "Older Than My Old Man Now," plays Seattle's Triple Door Sunday, May 20.
