Seattle Washington

One week after a federal judge in California ruled "don't ask, don't tell" unconstitutional, the case of discharged former U.S. Air Force major Margar...

SEATTLE — A prosecutor says he'll seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing a Seattle police officer on Halloween. Christopher ...

AP PhotoA pair of F-15 fighter jets, like the one shown in this AP file photo, caused two loud sonic booms Tuesday near Seattle, Wash. Two fighter...

The man who falsely confessed to murdering JonBenet Ramsey nearly four years ago is under investigation for cyberstalking a woman he met when he was a...

The man who falsely confessed to murdering JonBenet Ramsey nearly four years ago is under investigation for cyberstalking a woman he met when he was a...

Forget California dreamin'. These days Mason Tvert, the media-savvy founder of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation), has been...

VAIL, Colorado - Pamela K. Rice passed away peacefully on Friday at the Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction. Pamela was born April 17, 194...

"Rear View," Jason Sheehan, December 31 Bleepless in Seattle Jason's "Rear View" was fantastic, as usual. I......

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for." --Epicuru...

The Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle has humanely killed a giraffe that had degenerative bone disease. The zoo says the 13-year-old male named Joha...

SEATTLE — The United States has to take a strong role if the world hopes to deal with global warming, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says.

"All the world is now looking to the leadership of the United States and President Obama," Ban said in an interview Sunday with The Seattle Times.

Ban is making a two-day visit to Seattle as part of a trip to call attention to global issues such as climate change and to promote the U.N. to the American public. He was to receive an honorary degree from the University of Washington on Monday, after meeting earlier in the day with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda.

Ban has been pressing nations to commit to firm emission limits when they meet in December in Copenhagen, Denmark, to work out a new treaty to slow global warming, replacing the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on carbon dioxide emissions. The meeting has been billed as a last chance to avoid the impact of global warming.

This week, the Senate environment committee will take up its version of a global warming bill. The legislation would cut greenhouse gases by about 80 percent by 2050 and require more domestic energy to come from renewable sources.

SEATTLE — Maxi Sopo was living the dream of a fugitive abroad, kicking back on the beaches of Cancun by day, partying in the clubs by night.

Then he did two things that are never a good idea when you're on the run from authorities: He started posting Facebook updates about how much fun he was having – and added a former Justice Department official to his list of friends.

Because of that indiscretion, the 26-year-old native of Cameroon is now in a Mexico City jail awaiting extradition to the United States on bank fraud charges. Federal prosecutors say he and an associate falsely obtained more than $200,000 from Seattle-area banks and credit unions.

"He was making posts about how beautiful life is and how he was having a good time with his buddies," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Scoville, who helped find Sopo. "He was definitely not living the way we wanted him to be living, given the charges he was facing."

Even in the hold-nothing-back world of social networking, where police search Facebook photos for evidence of underage drinking and watch YouTube videos to identify riot suspects, it's rare that a fugitive helps authorities this much.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Move over, it's Saturday night at Club Bounce and people are bouncing onto the dance floor in a big, big way.

These are big, big people, all dressed to the nines and many tipping the scales at 250, maybe 300 pounds.

That's because this expansive nightclub a couple blocks from the Pacific Ocean, with its flashing lights, friendly atmosphere and wall-rattling hip-hop sounds, caters specifically to fat people.

That's right, fat people. Not just any fat people, either, but fat people who are proud to call themselves fat people. People who joke that they are part of the new Fat is Phat movement.

"Self-conscious? No! Not at all," laughs Monique Lopez, a curvaceous woman of 23 as she arrives in a tight, black dress and heels. "I was like, 'I'm going to Club Bounce tonight. I'm going to wear my shortest skirt.'" (Which she did.)

Daniel S. Young of Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP was elected partner in the Denver office of the San Francisco-based intellectual property law fi...