Extra Extra: There Goes The "Slow News Week" Meme
In an exact opposite approach to the news that we saw on Monday, Tuesday supplied a large number of noteworthy items, with impact that reaches across international borders, the revisiting of a couple trouble making repeat offenders and the transition to a new era in urban commuting.
A man suspected to be responsible for the recent armed robberies of a Lake City Starbucks and Jack In The Box has been arrested. Though the Seattle Police Department have yet to connect the 41-year-old man with the crimes, they are currently investigating their suspicions. [Seattle PI]
All of the elements are in place for tolling along the 520 tolling bridge to begin on Thursday; the tech savvy system being used is the first cash-free tolling program implemented in the US, and if it succeeds other cities are lined up to experiment with it. [Seattle Times]
A Japanese whaling institute has asked a Seattle-based US District Judge to issue a court order that would restrict the Sea Shepherd, an anti-whaling group based out of Friday Harbor, WA, from interfering with their whaling activities. A hearing is set for early-February. [KIRO]
A series of grisly murders in Detroit, Michigan has ties to Village Voice Media's Backpage.com (an entity that manages to be as bedraggled as the SPD has been lately), prompting Seattle authorities to review the new case in order to bolster their search to take down the website's escort ads. [KOMO]
Speaking of the SPD, while former police chief Norm Stamper (about whom we wrote about earlier today) makes waves by speaking with BBC News about the "failed tactics" being used by police in reaction to the Occupy movement, a Seattle lawyer becomes the first public figure to call for the resignation of SPD Chief John Diaz after another incriminating dash-cam video, along with a corresponding 9-1-1 recording, is released. [BBC News, KOMO]
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