A Bellevue woman charged with raping a 13-year-old boy pleaded not guilty today in King County Superior Court.

Norma Dedios, 33, is accused of having sex with the teen several times earlier this year when he was staying at her home. Dedios' attorney told KOMO-TV after this morning's court hearing that the charges are an outrage and said the boy was the aggressor.

According to court charging papers, Dedios said that the boy spent the night at her house five times. On two occasions, the boy went into her room and "touched her inappropriately," court papers said.

Dedios told police that she was having trouble with her boyfriend and liked "the attention she received" from the teen, court papers said. The boy told police that he stayed at Dedios' house because his mother had kicked him out, according to charging papers.

Dedios, who is charged second-degree child rape, second-degree child molestation and third-degree child rape, is out on bail.

Christopher Monfort, the Tukwila man charged with killing Seattle police Officer Timothy Brenton on Oct. 31, is not well enough to leave the hospital and come to court, according to testimony this morning in King County Superior Court.

Monfort, 41, was supposed to be arraigned tomorrow on one count of aggravated murder, three counts of attempted first-degree murder and first-degree arson, but the hearing has been delayed because of his condition, according to court testimony. A new arraignment date has not been announced. The arraignment has been rescheduled for Dec. 1 at 8:30 a.m.

Monfort remains at Harborview Medical Center after he was shot during a confrontation with police on Nov. 6. Monfort's family says that he is paralyzed from the waist down.

During a brief court hearing this morning, Senior Deputy Prosecutor John Castleton asked Superior Court Judge Sharon Armstrong to push back the arraignment. Monfort's lawyers said that he may be able to leave the hospital by next week.

King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg has not yet announced whether he plans to seek the death penalty. During a news conference earlier this month, Satterberg said that capital punishment is reserved for the most heinous crimes, he added that the charges against Monfort "fall squarely into that definition of the worst of the worst."

The only penalties possible for aggravated murder are life in prison without parole or death.

Brenton, 39, and rookie Officer Britt Sweeney were seated in their parked patrol car shortly after 10 p.m. on Halloween when police say that Monfort drove up next to them and opened fire, court charging papers said. Brenton was killed immediately and Sweeney suffered minor injuries.

Sweeney managed to get out of the patrol car, radio for help and return fire, striking the other car at least once.

Monfort is also charged with arson for allegedly firebombing four police vehicles at a Seattle city maintenance yard on South Charles Street on Oct. 22. Investigators believe that one bomb had been timed to go off as officers and firefighters responded. Nobody was hurt in the attack.

On the day of his arrest, Monfort was confronted by three Seattle homicide detectives who showed up at his Tukwila apartment after the manager reported that Monfort owned a Datsun that matched the description of a vehicle seen in the area where Brenton was killed, according to court documents.

When investigators tried to talk to Monfort, he pointed a gun at Sgt. Gary Nelson and pulled the trigger, court charging papers said. When the gun didn't fire, Monfort ran up a stairwell toward his apartment and again pointed a gun at police and was shot, court papers said.

A man told police he was robbed of his iPhone last night by a group of young males who then tried to sell it back to him for $100.

The victim declined their offer and instead called police.

The victim called 911 from his home around midnight to report that earlier in the evening he had been using his iPhone while waiting at the bus stop in the 1300 block of First Avenue. A bus stopped and a group of juveniles got off and loitered near the bus stop. The group then surrounded the victim and one of them grabbed the iPhone from the victim and ran away, according to police.

The remaining members of the group told the victim he could get his phone back for $100. The victim declined, went home and called police.

Police only gave a sketchy description of the suspects.

An apartment fire in Kent last night forced three families from their homes.

Fire crews from the Kent Fire Department and South King County Fire and Rescue responded to the apartment fire around 11:30 p.m. and found heavy smoke and flames coming from a third-floor unit in a building in the 23800 block of 30th Avenue South. Firefighters were able to limit the fire damage to the single unit, although two units below suffered water damage, forcing the residents to leave.

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Residents of the unit where the fire started were asleep when it broke out. They barely managed to escape, according to Kent Fire. They lost the entire contents of their unit.

The Red Cross provided lodging for some of the victims. Management of the apartment complex also provided an apartment for one of the displaced families.

Damage estimates were not immediately available. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Improperly discarded smoking materials are suspected of causing a fire this morning that damaged a Shoreline home and destroyed a car.

The fire started in a garage in the 800 block of Northwest 193rd Street around 11:30 and spread to the house. A couple and their two adult daughters smelled smoke, went outside and saw the garage fully engulfed in flames.

About 20 Shoreline firefighters and crews from the Northshore Fire Department battled the blaze.

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The fire destroyed a car and spread to a family room and kitchen of the house. The owners of the home were taken to a hospital as a precaution to be treated for smoke inhalation.

No damage estimate was immediately available.

Police this morning arrested a man in connection with a shooting near Occidental Park with at least one victim.

At around 2 a.m., police were monitoring bar-closing time in Pioneer Square when someone fired 10 to 15 gunshots in a parking lot next to Occidental Park. When the firing stopped, officers searched the parking lot for victims and suspects, but came up empty-handed.

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Shortly after the shooting, a King County sheriff's unit stopped a vehicle fleeing the scene and found a gun in the vehicle. One of the passengers in the car told deputies that another passenger was one of the shooters.

The car's occupants were detained and brought to the precinct. Police obtained written statements placing the identified shooter at the scene. The suspect was booked into King County Jail for investigation of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The car's other occupants were released.

At 3:46 a.m., Valley Medical Center notified Seattle police that a male had come in claiming he had been shot outside bar in Seattle. Officers responded to the hospital, but the victim became uncooperative and changed his story. He claimed the wound had nothing to do with the Pioneer Square shooting. The victim's condition was not immediately known, police said.

At least two men pistol-whipped and robbed a man early this morning at a motel in the 2200 block of Aurora Avenue North, according to Seattle police.

At 1:50 a.m., officers responded to the motel after someone called to report a group of armed men. When officers arrived the men were gone, but the caller led police to the victim.

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The victim told police that he had been in his room with the caller and his girlfriend and had walked outside to have a smoke. As he walked down the stairs, he heard someone say, "There's one of them" and was confronted by at least two men, one of whom had a handgun. The armed man struck him several times with the handgun. The victim also believed he was pepper-sprayed.

The victim was then robbed of his own handgun -- he has a concealed-weapons permit -- two magazines for the handgun, his wallet, cell phone and keys.

The victim managed to get back to the room of his friend. The assailants then tried to get inside the room, but were not successful.

The victim could not provide descriptions of the men who assaulted and robbed him.

A pedestrian was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries yesterday after an unusual traffic accident involving a tow rope.

The accident happened at about 10:41 a.m. near Renton Avenue South and 62nd Avenue South. A GMC pickup driven by a 43-year-old man was towing a 1993 Toyota Camry driven by a 45-year-old man, using a nylon rope as a tow cable. The two vehicles were traveling southeast on Renton Avenue South approaching 62nd Avenue South just as a 44-year-old pedestrian was walking across 62nd in an unmarked crosswalk.

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The driver of the GMC turned right onto 62nd, but the Camry did not make the turn and continued going straight. The pedestrian's legs got caught on the tow rope. The pedestrian fell to the ground, striking his head on the pavement.

The pedestrian was taken to Harborview Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.

Both drivers were interviewed by police and released from the scene. Police said they did not appear to be impaired. The investigation is continuing.