By ERIK LACITIS, The Seattle Times

In 2011, Michael McAndrews went to 108 funerals, weddings and special events, including opening day of a fair. But mostly he went to funerals.

He went to memorials for family patriarchs and beloved co-workers, and he went to funerals that had a police presence for fear of gang trouble.

When Colton Harris-Moore faces the judge for sentencing on Friday, his mother won't be in the small Island County Superior Courtroom in Coupeville, Wash.

"I have arthritis so bad, I can barely walk," Pam Kohler says.

But Harris-Moore's attorney, John Henry Browne, wasn't saving a seat for her anyway.

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - Inside a windowless, three-story building with thick concrete walls, past a heavy metal door with a sign that says, "WARNING. Restricted Area ... Use of deadly force authorized," on this recent afternoon you can find Airman 1st Class Juliana D'Aprile, who is all of 20 years old.

WAUCONDA, Wash. - This town has a gas pump, a restaurant, a small store, a four-bedroom house and its own ZIP code, 98859.

And in a few weeks -- after being listed for sale on eBay -- it'll have new owners. It's a story of the travails of selling property on the site, the winning bidder backing out and finally a couple stepping up who had previously fallen in love with the town.

WAUCONDA, Wash. - This town has a gas pump, a restaurant, a small store, a four-bedroom house and its own ZIP code, 98859.

And in a few weeks -- after being listed for sale on eBay -- it'll have new owners. It's a story of the travails of selling property on the site, the winning bidder backing out and finally a couple stepping up who had previously fallen in love with the town.

Glenn Beck Day in Mount Vernon, Wash. was an expensive lesson for this small town, as it found out the cost of hosting a controversial celebrity.

It's on the hook for $17,748.85, mostly for 239 hours of police overtime.

Isn't that a little steep for a one-day event?

SEATTLE - There were the inevitable questions when two constables from Canada came to Seattle this week to a job fair, recruiting for the Edmonton Police Service.

SEATTLE - There were the inevitable questions when two constables from Canada came to Seattle this week to a job fair, recruiting for the Edmonton Police Service.

The demolition crew has been working at a fast pace, and the tiny, 900-square-foot house where Jimi Hendrix lived from ages 10 to 13, and first showed his love for music, was down to its shell this week.
Despite an eight-year, $100,000-plus effort by Pete Sikov - a Seattle real-estate investor who at first wasn't a Hendrix devotee, but became one - the historic structure is gone.