King County sheriff's detectives are investigating the owners of an Enumclaw-area farm after a Seattle man died from injuries sustained while having sex with a horse boarded on the property.

2. Couple's final photos "an echo from the grave"

It was like a puzzle — these images from a broken digital camera washed up on a deserted beach in Thailand. Christian Pilet of North Bend could not have known the power of his discovery: the last photos taken by a couple who lost their lives in the Dec. 26 tsunami and the closure the photo diary would bring to a grieving family half a world away in British Columbia.

3. Trespassing charged in horse-sex case

An Enumclaw-area man who authorities say helped run a farm where people had sex with animals — and where a Seattle man died doing so with a horse — was charged with a misdemeanor yesterday.

4. Election trial dispatches

Judge to rule on election lawsuit today: Court is set to begin at 9 a.m. for Judge John Bridges to announce his decision in the governor's election lawsuit.

5. Vanity plate shows drug formula

A black 2002 Audi tooling around Seattle's streets has a vanity license plate that appears to have gotten in under the radar of the state licensing police. The inscription, C9H13N, is a label for many chemicals including amphetamine.

6. Videotapes show bestiality, Enumclaw police say

Authorities are reviewing hundreds of hours of videotapes seized from a rural Enumclaw-area farm that police say is frequented by men who engage in sex acts with animals.

7. Fast-food shop owner takes off, employees take over

It was a scene right out of "Home Alone," but the locale was a Quiznos Sub shop in North Seattle, where the franchise owner was absent for weeks and the skeleton crew made do with a dwindling food supply and a lot of irate customers.

8. McDermott makes list of author's 100 worst Americans

Paris Hilton's parents; the Rev. Al Sharpton; the guy who gave us "Fear Factor;" and Rep. Jim McDermott. At first glance, they don't have a lot in common. But they are linked for eternity in a new book, "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken Is # 37)." McDermott is No. 38.

9. Mall shooter: "World will feel my anger"

The 20-year-old man had shot six people and was holed up with hostages in a record store at the Tacoma Mall when he sent a cellphone text message to his best friend: "The world will feel my anger."

10. Tempest brews over quotes on Starbucks cups

Starbucks says it was hoping to inspire old-fashioned coffee-house conversations when it introduced a campaign this year featuring the words of notable Americans on its coffee cups.

11. Defense hawk Dicks says he now sees war as a mistake

It was after 11 p.m. on Friday when Rep. Norm Dicks finally left the Capitol, fresh from the heated House debate on the Iraq war. He was demoralized and angry.

12. Did local vice cops cross the line?

Lynnwood police concede they engaged in "rarely used" tactics during an undercover investigation into a suspected prostitution ring.

13. Hey, no cutting in line!

Seattle Police officers Lyndell Jones and Jeff Rodgers carry out a unique mission: They're the only cops in the state who can bust drivers for simply cutting in line.

14. Details we can't quite comprehend

Nicole Brodeur column: Like me, you may have spent the past few days starting questions that you just couldn't finish out loud. Questions about the man, the horse and the goings-on at that farm in Enumclaw. Why would he ... ? And then, how did they ... ? But then, wouldn't it ... ?

15. Judge awards $45,480 in cat's death

Paula Roemer knows most people don't understand her passion for animals. So when a neighbor's dog mauled and killed her beloved cat, Yofi, last year, Roemer barely mentioned it to people she knew. But now she feels that she found one person who understood: a judge. Last week, Seattle District Court Judge Barbara Linde ordered the dog's owner to pay $45,480.12 to Roemer for the cat's death.

16. New error found in vote tally

Oops — never mind. Three days after King County election officials explained most of a controversial discrepancy between the number of ballots cast and voters known to have voted, the gap has grown again.

17. One high school — 44 valedictorians

Back in the day, class valedictorian was the standout scholar of the senior class, the acknowledged brain. This year's 406-member graduating class at Garfield High School features 44 valedictorians.

18. Huge I-90 rockslide smashes car, kills 3 women

An early morning rockslide along Interstate 90 west of the Snoqualmie Pass summit yesterday left three women dead and snarled traffic for miles after boulders the size of cars crushed their Volvo and tumbled across the highway.

19. Charge filed in connection with man who died having horse sex

King County prosecutors have charged a man with trespassing in connection with an incident in which a friend was fatally injured having sex with a horse in Enumclaw.

20. Why state chose not to commit violent molester

Despite earlier findings that Joseph Edward Duncan III was a "sexual psychopath" with sadistic tendencies, a state psychologist in 2000 determined that he was not a violent predator who could be held indefinitely at a sex-offender treatment center on McNeil Island.

MOST-READ STORIES: JANUARY

1. New error found in vote tally

2. Idaho prof's Saturn experiment — 18 years of work — may be saved

The head of the space probe mission to Titan said today that much of the data from a botched experiment designed by a University of Idaho professor was recovered by radio telescopes on Earth.

3. Feds threatened suit over military ballots

Less than a month before the November election, the U.S. Department of Justice threatened to sue Washington state because it was moving too slowly in mailing military ballots overseas.

4. GOP says it found 300 illegal votes

The state Republican Party said in court papers filed yesterday that it has found 300 illegal votes and more than 400 that can't be verified in the governor's election.

5. Rossi backers push for revote

A group of Dino Rossi supporters has started a campaign to press for a new governor's election between Republican Rossi and Christine Gregoire, the Democrat who is set to be sworn in Jan. 12.

MOST-READ STORIES: FEBRUARY

1. Couple's final photos "an echo from the grave"

2. Fast-food shop owner takes off, employees take over

3. Hey, no cutting in line!

Seattle Police officers Lyndell Jones and Jeff Rodgers carry out a unique mission: They're the only cops in the state who can bust drivers for simply cutting in line.

4. Quiznos manager gets a boost from the top

Dawna Lentz, the manager who ran a Quiznos sub shop on a shoestring after the owners went absent, won't lose her job as she'd feared.

5. Feared Seattle property manager is arrested; dozens of guns seized

For years, Keith D. Gilbert has cut a wide swath in the Roosevelt neighborhood where he managed a collection of rental properties, neighbors say. Gilbert today is in federal custody, charged with selling automatic weapons to an undercover informant and being a felon in possession of a firearm, charges that carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

MOST-READ STORIES: MARCH

1. Manager who never quit sees Quiznos store shut

The Quiznos sub shop abandoned by its owners and kept alive by some scrappy employees, shut down Tuesday, leaving the staff and enterprising manager Dawna Lentz to find work elsewhere.

2. Big burst from St. Helens

Mount St. Helens cranked up the drama yesterday, sending a plume of ash and steam 36,000 feet in the air shortly before sunset.

3. Couple's final photos "an echo from the grave"

4. British Union Jack disrupts St. Patrick's Day Parade

At the start, it looked as if the 34th annual St. Patrick's Day Parade would provide the usual afternoon of family fun, with marching bands and dancing leprechauns to honor the patron saint of the Emerald Isle. Then a dignitary from the British territory of Northern Ireland — invited by parade sponsors to help lead the procession through downtown — raised the British Union Jack, and several spectators got their Irish up, hurling objects and expletives at him during the milelong march.

5. Cruise line warned before trip that killed UW fans

Holland America Line knew that the small Mexican airline it used for charter flights had a long and troublesome history of mechanical problems, cancellations and safety violations years before the plane crash that killed 16 vacationing University of Washington football fans in September 2001, according to documents filed in the recently settled lawsuit by relatives of the victims.

MOST-READ STORIES: APRIL

1. Partying now riskier business

Nicole Brodeur column: A Ballard High School girl's mother found out — along with police and everyone who reads the paper and watches TV — about a party she had the weekend before last. The 15-year-old told police that, after her parents left town April 10, she invited 10 to 20 friends over that night to kick off spring break. This being high school, word spread and scores came. They broke a front glass window and a stained-glass front door. They put holes in walls, broke a mirror and a coffee table and ripped the railing off the second-floor balcony.

2. 10 brain surgeries give patient unusual perspective

Charles Stuart has just had his 13th tumor excised. His head, scarred from surgeries gone by, sports a new row of stitches and staples. And though his hand's not cooperating, he and his neurosurgeon, Dr. Laligam Sekhar at Harborview Medical Center, aren't concerned. Stuart has worked his way back from much worse.

3. Teen suspected of arranging car theft

A 17-year-old Eastside youth was arrested this week on suspicion of arranging the theft of his $50,000 BMW so he could collect the insurance money to upgrade to a pricier Bentley, police said.

4. "Sticky situation" on northbound I-5

The warm tar that oozed from a tanker truck that crashed and ruptured on Interstate 5 in Seattle late this morning was cleaned up shortly after 2 p.m. today, opening all lanes to traffic.

5. Internet snag hits Comcast customers

A network problem that cable giant Comcast is having trouble fixing has resulted in disrupted service for some of its 7 million high-speed Internet customers across the country, including more than 400,000 in Washington state.

MOST-READ STORIES: MAY

1. Vanity plate shows drug formula

2. Election trial dispatches

Judge to rule on election lawsuit today: Court is set to begin at 9 a.m. for Judge John Bridges to announce his decision in the governor's election lawsuit.

3. Judge awards $45,480 in cat's death

4. Election manager linked to false report

King County's absentee-ballot supervisor has testified that she collaborated with her boss when she filled out a report that falsely showed all ballots were accounted for in the November election.

5. Deadly crash snarls I-5 traffic

A family of three was killed and four other people were injured on Interstate 5 in Marysville yesterday when a driver lost control of his pickup and slammed into two cars, according to the State Patrol.

MOST-READ STORIES: JUNE

1. Election trial dispatches

Judge to rule on election lawsuit today: Court is set to begin at 9 a.m. for Judge John Bridges to announce his decision in the governor's election lawsuit.

2. One high school — 44 valedictorians

Back in the day, class valedictorian was the standout scholar of the senior class, the acknowledged brain. This year's 406-member graduating class at Garfield High School features 44 valedictorians.

3. Man fatally shot at federal courthouse in Seattle

A man who walked into the federal courthouse in downtown Seattle today carrying a hand grenade was shot and killed, police said.

4. Man killed at court was upset over child support

Perry Manley didn't want to pay child support, and the seeming unfairness of a system that hounded him to turn over his hard-earned cash to his ex-wife had made him angry and obsessed over the past 15 years. In the end, his obsession is apparently what got him killed. Manley was shot to death yesterday, the day after Father's Day, by two Seattle police officers inside the secure foyer of the federal courthouse. In one hand, he clutched a defused fragmentation grenade.

5. Rossi will not appeal election ruling

Judge John Bridges today upheld the election of Gov. Christine Gregoire, dismissing a Republican lawsuit and so soundly rejecting the party's claims that Dino Rossi said he would not go forward with what had been seen as an inevitable appeal.

MOST-READ STORIES: JULY

1. Enumclaw-area animal-sex case investigated

King County sheriff's detectives are investigating the owners of an Enumclaw-area farm after a Seattle man died from injuries sustained while having sex with a horse boarded on the property.

2. Videotapes show bestiality, Enumclaw police say

Authorities are reviewing hundreds of hours of videotapes seized from a rural Enumclaw-area farm that police say is frequented by men who engage in sex acts with animals.

3. McDermott makes list of author's 100 worst Americans

4. Why state chose not to commit violent molester

5. Details we can't quite comprehend

MOST-READ STORIES: AUGUST

1. Tempest brews over quotes on Starbucks cups

Starbucks says it was hoping to inspire old-fashioned coffee-house conversations when it introduced a campaign this year featuring the words of notable Americans on its coffee cups.

2. Enumclaw-area animal-sex case investigated

King County sheriff's detectives are investigating the owners of an Enumclaw-area farm after a Seattle man died from injuries sustained while having sex with a horse boarded on the property.

3. Miss Everett Teen USA 2004 enlists in Army

Miss Everett Teen USA 2004 is putting away her sash to put on a U.S. Army uniform. Last summer, Jennifer Cabanayan appeared at community events, including the Mukilteo Lighthouse Festival and the National Night Out Against Crime, as Miss Everett Teen USA 2004. Now she has enlisted in the Army and will leave for boot camp at Fort Jackson, S.C., on Aug. 11.

4. Catman's transformation raises concerns over extreme surgery

At a time when plastic surgery has become fairly commonplace, some believe the Catman of Whidbey Island may have gone too far. Dennis Avner, who goes by his Native American name, Stalking Cat, is known around the world as the Catman. Over the past 25 years, Stalking Cat, 47, has received so many surgical and cosmetic procedures he's lost count.

5. Postage error dooms appeal by Wal-Mart

Incorrect postage has cost Wal-Mart a challenge to a state Land Use Board of Appeals decision backing the city's denial of plans for a new 207,000-square-foot store.

MOST-READ STORIES: SEPTEMBER

1. Huge I-90 rockslide smashes car, kills 3 women

An early-morning rockslide along Interstate 90 west of the Snoqualmie Pass summit yesterday left three women dead and snarled traffic for miles after boulders the size of cars crushed their Volvo and tumbled across the highway.

2. Writer claims responsibility for Bellingham slayings, warns other offenders

The investigation into the slaying of two Level 3 sex offenders in Bellingham has taken a twist with an anonymous letter claiming responsibility for the killings — and threatening the county's other high-risk offenders.

3. Islamic School of Sex? Error chagrins feds

The Islamic School of Seattle is a small, private institution for pre-kindergarten to middle-school children. It does not have sex education in its curriculum. So you might understand why school officials were a little surprised — shocked, actually — to find the school listed on a U.S. Department of Education Web site as the Islamic School of Sex.

4. Girl, 12, apparently hangs self in choking game

A 12-year-old girl died yesterday after she apparently hanged herself in her bedroom while playing a choking game, Seattle police said.

5. Nickels rejects latest monorail plan

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is withdrawing his support for the monorail, and at a press conference this afternoon said he is canceling the agreement for monorail construction permits.

MOST-READ STORIES: OCTOBER

1. Trespassing charged in horse-sex case

An Enumclaw-area man who authorities say helped run a farm where people had sex with animals was charged with a misdemeanor yesterday in connection with a Seattle man's death.

2. Did local vice cops cross the line?

Lynnwood police concede they engaged in "rarely used" tactics during an undercover investigation into a suspected prostitution ring.

3. Charge filed in connection with man who died having horse sex

King County prosecutors have charged a man with trespassing in connection with an incident in which a friend was fatally injured having sex with a horse in Enumclaw.

4. Crash victim's insurer should have a heart

Danny Westneat column: Ethel Adams was driving along minding her own business last March when a pickup truck was forced into her lane, slamming into her head-on. It would seem Adams was the unlucky victim of an unforeseen event — what most anyone would call an "accident." Not her insurance company.

5. A beating, a slaying and a lot of questions

Two days after a nightclub brawl that hospitalized Seattle Seahawks free safety Ken Hamlin with a blood clot on his brain, police have this to work with: a victim who has no memory of the attack, a violent felon found slain four hours after the fight and the brother of the dead man, himself a convicted felon, trying to connect the incidents.

MOST-READ STORIES: NOVEMBER

1. Mall shooter: "World will feel my anger"

The 20-year-old man had shot six people and was holed up with hostages in a record store at the Tacoma Mall when he sent a cellphone text message to his best friend: "The world will feel my anger."

2. Defense hawk Dicks says he now sees war as a mistake

It was after 11 p.m. on Friday when Rep. Norm Dicks finally left the Capitol, fresh from the heated House debate on the Iraq war. He was demoralized and angry.

3. Momah found guilty of sexual crimes against patients

A King County Superior Court jury in Seattle today found Dr. Charles Momah guilty of sexual crimes against patients, capping more than three days of deliberations following a four-week trial.

4. Monorail dream reaches end of line

Seattle voters have abandoned the dream of building the nation's longest monorail line, but they will keep paying for the project a while longer.

5. Dead pigeons falling from Wenatchee skies cause flurry of calls

Pigeons were falling dead from the skies over downtown Wenatchee, and the Wenatchee Valley Humane Society got a flurry of calls. Was it the feared avian flu? No.

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