Pursuit of fugitive closes I-5, ends in Everett neighborhood

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When Interstate-5 closes in both directions, that’s news. When it shuts down along the greater Seattle-metro corridor during the evening rush-hour, that’s a nightmare.
Why was I-5 shutdown on Wednesday? The Seattle Times lead paragraph sums it up rather neatly:
A suspect was arrested in Everett on Wednesday night after allegedly shooting at deputies, [...]

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From Whidbey Island to B.C., an excellent source for info about the human feet that have washed ashore

A good many visitors to this post will have landed here because they’ve just learned that a human foot has washed ashore on Washington state’s Whidbey Island. They want more information about all of the other feet that have emerged in similar cases north of Whidbey Island, so they’ve Googled, Binged or Yahoo’ed and clicked [...]

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How a dark day for the prosecution in Juliana Redding murder case went largely unreported this week

It took the span of a workweek for a major development in the Juliana Redding murder case to reach the general public.  The headline concerns what unfolded during a court hearing on Monday, August 9th.  That’s when a Superior Court judge ordered that more than $800,000 in assets be returned to Dr. Munir Uwaydah. Turns-out [...]

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Grisly details emerge in Juliana Redding murder case

*Updated on July 26, 2010 to reflect change in LA Times headline featured below in Update #3.  Original LA Times headline described Dr. Munir Uwaydah as “person of interest.”  Later, the LA Times changed that language to “subject of interest.”
JUDGE RAISES SUSPECT’S BAIL TO $3.5 MILLION
UPDATE #4 (10:24pm PST): The Santa Monica Daily Press has [...]

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Reporter’s Notebook: KOB-TV’s Jeremy Jojola talks about covering the Emcore shootings

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It’s one of those stories immediately destined to be swallowed-up by a sea of adjectives.  A familiar string of weary words that often begins with brutal, tragic and shocking. No need for them when relaying what unfolded in Albuquerque on Monday morning.
The simple facts, alone, are chilling.
Police say 37-year-old Robert Reza went to Emcore Corporation [...]

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NBC’s “Today Show” features Juliana Redding murder investigation

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First came the Los Angeles Times with some substantive reporting on June 26. People magazine took notice and wrote a recap of the two-year-old murder investigation on July 2. Now, NBC’s Today Show has brought the Juliana Redding murder investigation to a national television morning audience.
Yes, after more than two years of near silence from [...]

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Just in: Kelly Soo Park pleads not guilty in Juliana Redding murder

UPDATE / 9:56pm PST, July 6, 2010: KABC-TV *VIDEO* of today’s court hearing
UPDATE / 9:27pm PST, July 6, 2010:
The Los Angeles Times website has just posted a new story about the Juliana Redding murder case.  The headline: “Judge freezes bank accounts of 3 people tied to suspect in model’s killing.” *As I read the [...]

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People magazine writes about “shocking twist” in Juliana Redding murder case

People magazine writes about “shocking twist” in Juliana Redding murder case

Calling it a “Hollywood who-done-it,” People magazine’s website published a story about the Juliana Redding murder investigation this evening.  Beneath the headline, INSIDE STORY: Maxim Models Murder — with a Shocking Twist, the online report gives more than 500-words to a story that has received little national media attention.
That may change now.  Not only because [...]

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Judge: No bail for Kelly Soo Park at this time (video link)

Judge: No bail for Kelly Soo Park at this time (video link)

Update (5:57 pm PST / June 28, 2010): Judge warns attorneys in Santa Monica model slaying case not to leak information to media (Los Angeles Times blog)
“Last week, The Times obtained a bail motion stating that defendant Kelly Soo Park received hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments from a physician who was [...]

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LA Times: “Prosecutors reveal payments to suspect in model’s killing”

Update: June 28, 2010, 8:38am PST / The Los Angeles Times has just published the following correction:
Model’s slaying: An article in Saturday’s LATExtra section about the case against a woman accused of killing Juliana Redding said that Dr. Munir Uwaydah, whom prosecutors identified as the suspect’s employer, had been convicted in an [...]

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