Welcome to the B-Town (Burien) Blog. Please subscribe to our RSS feed, sign up for our weekly Event Newsletter, orRegister to Comment on stories. Thanks!A Renton man was struck and killed by a minivan late Wednesday in the Boulevard Park neighborhood, and the suspected driver was later arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide, the King […]

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We reported about the first incident two weeks ago, when we posted a photo of the suspect in a June 7th robbery of the KeyBank on SW 152nd in Burien.
Now comes word that the very same robber held up the very same bank last Saturday.
Same guy.
Same bank.
Within two weeks!
Deputies say he robbed the KeyBank at […]

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Ever been pepper sprayed?
I haven’t, but from what I hear, it stings and burns like a son-ova-uknowwhat.
If you’re a cop, or a cop-in-training, like we have at our local Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission facility (located at 19010 […]

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TUKWILA – Two shootings in Tukwila within about a mile of each other over the weekend left one man dead.
An 18-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday morning on North I-5 near the Boeing Access Road, Tukwila police reported. The shooting occurred around 2:30am when the man was driving northbound with friends, who were not injured.
Tukwila […]

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As we reported on June 1st, a four-alarm fire destroyed the abandoned old Angle Lake School in SeaTac.
Now comes word that the fire’s origins, while a mystery for the last few weeks, was indeed arson, according to Chief Meyer of the SeaTac Fire Department.
Here’s a great Flickr slideshow of the blaze, taken by Photog “Cave […]

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