Thursday afternoon Seattle police released a bulletin looking for a man police say they believe to be one of the last people to see radio host Mike Webb alive.

Seattle police are considering the man a "person of interest."

Former KIRO radio talk host Webb was found dead in a crawl space of his Queen Anne home last week.

The King County medical examiner's office said the cause of death was listed as "multiple sharp force injuries."

The body was found June 28 by workers cleaning out Webb's Queen Anne rental home. It was in the 3-foot crawl space, covered by boxes and a tarp.

On June 29, Webb's brother, Wayne Webb told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Graham Johnson that medical examiners said Webb died of blunt trauma and multiple stab wounds.

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SEATTLE -- Seattle Police were at the home of missing radio host Mike Webb Thursday afternoon conducting what they call a “death investigation.”

Webb, a former KIRO radio late-night talk show host has been missing for two months, according to his family and friends.

According to police, the homeowner discovered a badly decomposed body inside the house.

In early June, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News spoke with Webb’s friend and former producer Jeremy Grater who was deeply concerned about Webb’s whereabouts.

“It’s disturbing; we’re all very concerned about him. I’m worried about him. It’s not like him to disappear for this long and to just take off like that,” Grater, said.

Webb’s rented Queen Anne house is posted with notice to pay rent or quit the premises, and it appears Webb hasn’t been there in months, leaving all his possessions and clothing behind, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Karen O’Leary reported on June 14.

The King County Council on Tuesday will select one of Prosecuting Attorney Norm Maleng's top assistants to assume his office on an interim basis, while the county Republican Party submits three nominees to the council for a longer-term successor.

But voters will decide in November who will serve the remainder of Maleng's term, which expires in December 2010. It will be the Democratic Party's best chance to recapture the office since Maleng was first elected in 1978.

Maleng, who died of cardiac arrest Thursday night, was prosecutor for 28 years. He was the first partisan elected King County official to die in office since County Councilman Kent Pullen died in 2003.

This morning, the entire staff of Maleng's office gathered in the largest courtroom in the King County Courthouse to grieve and talk about their boss.

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A "Schrammie," the bobble-head doll that television commentator Ken Schram hands out to blundering public officials, won a dubious achievement of its own Friday morning: Forcing the evacuation of 350 state employees.

After a package containing the doll was found in the mailroom of the Department of Corrections headquarters and deemed suspicious, the Tumwater building was evacuated. Workers stayed away from their offices for about 45 minutes.

The package came from KOMO-TV headquarters, the station confirmed. It was addressed to the Department of Corrections secretary, Harold Clarke, Washington State Patrol Sgt. Ted DeHart said.

Schram sends the dolls to people who he thinks have done something dubious.

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"The Overlook."

Publishers Weekly
Bestseller Connelly's dazzling 13th Harry Bosch novel (after 2006's Echo Park) reunites Bosch with his former flame, FBI agent Rachel Walling. Bosch must break in a new partner, rookie Iggy Ferras, when they're called to look into the execution of physicist Stanley Kent on a Mulholland Drive overlook. When a special FBI unit, headed by Walling, arrives and tries to usurp his case, claiming it's a matter of national security, Bosch refuses to back down. Walling's focus on the potential theft of radioactive material from the hospital where Kent was lending his expertise to cancer treatment and her unwillingness to share information only make Bosch more determined to solve the case. This is a quick read, almost half the length of Connelly's previous novels, but he spares no punches when it comes to complexity and suspense. The scramble to investigate threats to national security, justified or otherwise, is a timely subject and one on which Connelly puts a brilliant new spin. (May 22)

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You've read it serialized in the New York Times magazine--or most of it, anyway, as there's new material here. Now get the book and prepare to be scared by the notion that radioactive cesium stolen from a doctor might lead to terrorism. With an eight-city tour. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

First came reports of shoddy conditions and allegations of second-rate outpatient treatment at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Then complaints of excessive medical red tape at Fort Lewis.

Now, the KOMO 4 Problems Solvers have learned the Pentagon has its hands full with soldiers across the country and at Fort Lewis insisting they've been short-changed by the military.

They claim the military is discounting their medical retirement benefits to save money.

On October 9, 2006 a bomb blast tossed a five-ton Humvee into the air on a road somewhere in Iraq.

A soldier had a camera rolling when they were hit without warning. "You want to say anything Bruce?" asks a soldier off camera. Stunned and looking into the lens, the soldier says, "Thank God we're still alive."

They are pictures we don't normally see, taken by soldiers moments after surviving a roadside bomb blast last October. "As you can see not a good day," says an unidentified soldier on the tape. "We're all alive, that's what matters."

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Author Terri Jentz as a teenager. After her college freshman year, Jentz and a friend were brutally attacked in Redmond, Ore., by an ax-wielding man, whom she says has still not paid for his crime.

In the summer of 1977 two young women just out of their freshman year at Yale set out on a cross-country bike trip, west to east. Near Redmond, Ore., hot, tired and already bickering, they gave things a rest by pitching their tent in a state park.

In the middle of the night, a man in a pressed cowboy shirt walked up to their tent. He began hacking away at them with an ax; he ran over their tent with his truck. One of the women, a bright young Midwesterner named Terri Jentz, stumbled from the attack scene and ran through the dark, smelling the blood from her wounds, she remembered, "like copper pennies held in a damp palm." Only the chance arrival of a frightened teenage couple, who raced the two to the local hospital in their truck, kept the two women from bleeding to death.

Women across the country heard about it, and canceled plans to bike or camp alone. Walter Cronkite read the headline on the news. Robert Pinsky, later the U.S. poet laureate, wrote a poem about it.

Jentz's ordeal then became one more chip in the mosaic of violence in America. Her biking partner, half blind from the attack, couldn't even remember what happened. Terri Jentz tried to forget.

But she couldn't.

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SEATTLE (AP) - Former U.S. Attorney John McKay's name was on a list of federal prosecutors to be fired in March 2005, 18 months earlier than previously reported and during the height of the controversy over the contested gubernatorial election in Washington, according to a document released by the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

At a hearing in the nation's capital, a Judiciary Committee member suggested McKay might have made the list, drawn up by the attorney general's then-chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, for requesting "some action" by the Justice Department with regard to the unsolved 2001 killing of Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Wales.

In questioning former Deputy Attorney General James Comey, Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C., said: "It was suggested that Mr. Sampson had concerns or that concerns had been raised ... relating to the murder of an assistant U.S. attorney named Thomas Wales, in which Mr. McKay had requested some action by the department."

Watt based his remark on statements Sampson made to congressional investigators during a closed-door interview last month, a Judiciary Committee staffer confirmed to The Associated Press. The staffer requested anonymity because the interview was not public.


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A street south of the University Bridge collapsed this morning when a large water main broke and sent two cars into a ravine and water gushing from the hole.

Mayor Greg Nickels was on his way to work when he got a phone call about the break, and he went directly to the University Bridge.

He said a 24-inch-diameter water main gave way, just a week after a water main broke on Dexter Avenue, although this was not related to construction.

This latest break is on a small road that provides access to floating homes below the bridge.

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We live in Montlake - not fun for bus or car commuters around here. Hope they can get this fixed soon.

How is everyone? It's been quiet, so I hope that means "no news is good news."

Just got back from my six-month check-up today, and I will be going in for another surgery sometime this month. It's not that serious, my doctor says. The growth(s) is/are small. I'll also be getting a little chemo this time around.

I hope all of you are doing well and enjoying the beauty of spring.

Organizers of the Seattle Pride parade and festival said they are disbanding and filing for bankruptcy.

Seattle Out and Proud, the volunteer group that puts on the celebration for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, owes the city $102,000 for the 2006 event at Seattle Center.

"It's unfortunate but we are a supportive group of people that want the best for our community and hope now that someone will step up and take the events to the next level," said Weston Sprigg, vice president of Seattle Out and Proud. He said the group is meeting with bankruptcy attorneys.

Supporters of the annual event, a tradition here for 32 years, are scrambling to salvage the splashy June celebration. Sprigg said the group's dozen or so volunteers are exhausted.

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OLYMPIA -- Through the prism of Democratic values, the 2007 Legislature provided a cornucopia of progressive new policy and concrete investments to help college students, gay couples, teachers and Puget Sound fish, to name just a few.

But it wasn't until the closing hours that Democrats succeeded in one of their toughest goals: ensuring that parents can take time off to care for their newborn children.

Lawmakers wrapped up the 2007 legislative session Sunday with last-hour compromises on paid family leave, the state pension system and the mandatory assessment test for high school graduation. Then they passed their $33.4 billion budget Sunday night and adjourned for the year.

The spending plan's emphasis on education, health and environmental investments instead of tax breaks clearly reflect the majority Democrats' priorities. However, the new bill establishing a five-week paid family leave is perhaps the Democrats' most notable legislation this year.

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