"This is where you start the movie about the hunt for bin Laden," said one U.S. official briefed on the intelligence-gathering leading up to the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound early Monday.

Friday (Track wet fast) 16 furlongs, purse $4,100, claiming $2,500, 3-year-olds and up. Horse /Jockey 1/4 Str Fin Odds Taking Liberties...

Security forces fired on demonstrators in six Syrian towns and cities in a day of protests that activists declared a "Friday of Defiance." At least 30 people died, activists and human-rights groups said.

Enumclaw's Kasey Kahne posted a record-setting qualifying lap Friday for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.

The 25th Windermere Cup with pair the UW men's crew team against Cambridge and Stanford, while the women will take on Cambridge and Oklahoma

Once the favorite for Saturday's Kentucky Derby, Uncle Mo was scratched from the race Friday after his owner and trainer decided the colt had not recovered sufficiently from a gastrointestinal infection.

Dirk Nowitzki scored 32 points, Jason Terry from Franklin High School in Seattle had 23 and Peja Stojakovic scored 11 of his 15 in the fourth quarter, rallying the Dallas Mavericks to a 98-92 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night that puts the two-time defending champions on the brink of elimination.

The Washington women's golf team will enter the final round of the NCAA West Regional on Saturday in position to advance to the NCAA Championship — thanks in large part to Sadena Parks.

Just when they were about to make things interesting, Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers blew it.

Manny Pacquiao, considered the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world by many observers, risks his WBO welterweight title against "Sugar" Shane Mosley on Saturday in Las Vegas.

The Mariners had only three hits the first seven innings. But they also had Felix Hernandez on the mound and that keeps you in any game.

This time, it helped them win 3-2. Jack Cust and Jack Wilson singled off Matt Thornton with one out in the ninth and then Brendan Ryan hit a two-out single up the middle for the win.

Redhawks look to salvage series finale Saturday

Kam shared that photo, reporting: “SDOT just finished with the first phase of repairs on Shore Pl. Thank you to the A-team pothole-repair crew!” According to Kam, it was a three-person team – truck driver plus Reneé and Leon with the asphalt. (Shore Place is right off Beach Drive, recently dubbed “Pothole Drive” – here’s [...]

West Seattle photographer (among other things) Robin Lindsey caught the famous pedestrian geese on camera – along with the drivers who stopped for them. She notes, “Of late, the geese and their goslings have decided the grass is sometimes greener on the other side of Harbor Avenue. This poses a major danger to them as [...]

Our recent rainy weather has meant gaping holes opening up along Seattle's roadways. They ruin tires, but if you want the city to pay up, be prepared for a low offer.

Shane Farnworth turned in his resignation to city officials on Thursday, citing "personal reasons."

Stefan Bisciglia is one of only two in our state authorized to sell seats to space -- suborbital flights aboard Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic Space Ship Two.

A nationwide hunt for cyberattackers on a rock star's website brought federal agents to a home in Gig Harbor with guns drawn.

The report found several serious problems with the hospital ground transport program, getting critically ill babies and children from one hospital to Children's for advanced care.

A Penticton, B.C. woman, missing for several weeks after she and her husband drove from home on a trip to Las Vegas, has been found alive on a remote Nevada logging road, police said Friday.

According to a proposal from the Snohomish City Manager, things are so bad, the police department and parks are on the chopping block.

The state is no longer promising to finish the floating section of its new Highway 520 bridge by 2014, as Gov. Chris Gregoire and other officials have announced. But transportation managers say the goal of a late 2014 opening is still possible.

Adam LaRoche hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the top of the 10th and the Washington Nationals escaped a jam in the bottom of the inning to break a three-game losing streak by beating the Florida Marlins 3-2 Friday.

Andre Ethier extended his hitting streak to 30 games, but Jason Pridie's three-run homer in the sixth inning carried the New York Mets past the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-3 Friday night in the opener of a weekend series between baseball's most financially troubled teams.

Gio Gonzalez pitched seven effective innings and the Oakland Athletics ruined Eric Hosmer's much-anticipated major league debut with a 3-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Friday night.

Milan Lucic scored twice, Johnny Boychuk got the go-ahead goal, and the Boston Bruins stopped any chance of another historic comeback by the Philadelphia Flyers with a 5-1 win Friday night that completed a sweep of the Eastern Conference semifinal series.

The Phillies placed pitcher Roy Oswalt on the 15-day disabled list on Friday night because of what they called lower back inflammation.

Authorities say a junior cornerback for Wayne State's football team has been fatally shot in a downtown Detroit parking lot.

Derrick Rose shook off the sore ankle and that shocking loss at home. With his team scuffling through the playoffs, he decided it was time to take matters in his own hands.

Curtis Granderson homered twice into the upper deck, rookie Ivan Nova limited the Texas Rangers to two singles while pitching into the eighth inning, and the New York Yankees ended their season-worst three-game losing streak with a 4-1 victory Friday night.

A bloody border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia is expected to hijack talks between Southeast Asian leaders trying boost regional security and ease economic disparities across borders.

Venture capital-backed startups got a slap on the back this week, but that was followed by a slap in the face in the latest round of Washington political gamesmanship over how much lawmakers should or should not encourage venture capital-backed innovation. So far, the battle to enhance U.S. innovation is taking yet another hit. What [...]

San Francisco-based JiWire, which operates an online advertising network targeting public Wi-Fi networks in places such as airports, said today that it has raised $20 million in new funding. New investor Trident Capital led the Series C round, which was joined by existing investors Comcast Interactive Capital, DFJ Frontier, Norwest Venture Partners, and Panorama Capital. The [...]

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Franklin Gutierrez tripled in his first at-bat and scored a run on Thursday night for Triple-A Tacoma. Then, he came out of the game. Not to worry, though. The Seattle Mariners center fielder wasn’t experiencing any health issues this time. Mariners manager Eric Wedge said they simply didn’t want to take any chances with their [...]

Chat live with beat reporter Kevin Dowd as the Huskies host No. 1 Arizona State.

No. 13 Washington Softball vs. No. 1 Arizona State

Four hedge funds based in New York and New Jersey are being questioned in response to an accusation that they used insider information to trade Washington Mutual Inc. securities after the bank failed. At least one official from one of the funds, Aurelias Capital Management, was deposed this week in New York City in relation to the accusation, according to court documents and people familiar with the situation. Similar depositions are scheduled later this month for the other funds — Appaloosa Management, Centerbridge Partners and Owl Creek Asset...

Bankrupt real estate developer Michael R. Mastro no longer requires a guardian and is competent to testify at his trial, according to a ruling this morning by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Marc Barreca, in Seattle. Spencer Hall, attorney for bankruptcy trustee Jim Rigby, said he will call Mastro as a witness. Hall told the court this morning, “I do think the guardian ad litem appointment was under false pretenses. Mastro was writing checks and spending money a week after the guardian was appointed.” Mastro's guardian, retired state Supreme Court judge Faith Ireland, clearly offended by Hall’s remarks, remarked on his “rudeness” after the proceeding but declined to comment any further on the reasons behind the decision to have her step down as Mastro’s...

Boeing is halting movement on its 747-8 production line for a month to allow workers to catch up, adding further delay to a program already two years late. According to stories in the Seattle Times and Aviation Week, the delay will allow workers to finish work that wasn’t done early in the production pathway, called traveled work, and will also give them time to make some fixes to issues that have resulted from flight testing. The 747-8 is Boeing’s largest plane, the most recent version of the venerable 747 jumbo line that was first delivered in...

Ten years ago on Tuesday, Seattle-born Boeing did something that until then seemed unthinkable: The company decided to move its corporate headquarters to Chicago. The May 10, 2001 decision hasn't substantially eroded Boeing’s presence in Washington, or at least not so far. In a story published May 6, we found that a higher percentage of Boeing’s people now work in Washington, 46 percent, compared to 41 percent in 2001. However the absolute number of Washington Boeing workers has dropped by 3,000 over a decade, to 74,000, as increasing productivity and outsourcing have allowed Boeing to cut employment...

April bankruptcy filings in Seattle were up about 5 percent from the same month in 2010, according to U.S Bankruptcy Court statistics. But in Tacoma, filings actually dropped more than 9 percent. Last month there were 1,458 bankruptcy filings (including Chapters 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15) in the Seattle location of U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Washington. Meanwhile, in Tacoma, there were 911 bankruptcy filings. Both figures are slightly down from the previous month. The most popular type of filing was Chapter 7, in which a trustee liquidates the filer's...

The 101,000-square-foot Legacy Corporate Center in Redmond has been sold for $14.17 million, or about $140 per square foot, to an entity based in San Rafael, Calif. The three-story building is located at 18300 Redmond Way. Built in 2009, the office complex has been vacant since it was completed, according to Tom Abbott, a senior vice president in the Investment Properties Group in the Seattle office of CB Richard Ellis. Abbott, along with CBRE Senior Vice President Tom Pehl, represented the sellers, Ohio-based Partreo LLC and FFI Real Estate Holdings LLC of Vancouver,...

With the line outside City Mouse Studio and Store (WSB sponsor) in The Junction this morning, you’d have thought a rock star was visiting. Oh wait – one was: The strollers might have been a giveaway – the rock star on hand was Chris Ballew, aka Caspar Babypants, posing above with City Mouse proprietor Donna [...]

One of the most sidewalk-less areas of West Seattle is in line for a few blocks of potential change. Lisa spotted survey workers on 35th south of Roxbury yesterday, found out their work had something to do with a paved walkway, and asked what we knew about it. We checked with SDOT‘s Marybeth Turner, who [...]

(2009 WSB photo of Highland Park’s wading pool, which hasn’t been open since 2008) Almost two years after the plan to convert Highland Park’s wading pool to a spray park first surfaced, it’s getting closer to construction: A public meeting has just been announced for May 25th. The Parks and Green Spaces Levy allotted the [...]

Two days after our first report that the Missile Defense Agency‘s Sea-Based X-band Radar (SBX) is on its way to West Seattle for three months of maintenance/upgrades at Vigor (formerly Todd), we have a bit of an update: While the military won’t be any more specific, they say SBX “is expected to enter Vigor … [...]

Fresh out of the Inbox, this notice about the West Seattle Kiwanis ”poker run” fundraiser – sounds like a lot of fun! KIWANIS OF WEST SEATTLE 2nd ANNUAL CHARITY MOTORCYCLE POKER RUN, BIKE & CLASSIC CAR SHOW PROCEEDS GO TO KIWANIS CHILDRENS CANCER CARE PROGRAM (KCCP) BECAUSE KIDS WITH CANCER DESERVE A FUTURE On May 14, [...]

The father of the only U.S. soldier held captive in the Afghan war has posted a video on YouTube appealing to the Pakistani military for help in freeing his son.

Law enforcement officers on Friday honored two police officers who made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.