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Yahoo
02-06-2025
- General
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Seattle police investigating masked armed robbery in University District
SEATTLE - Police were called to the University District late Saturday night for reports of a masked armed robber. Timeline The incident happened around 11:30 p.m. on May 31 in the area of NE 45th Street and Brooklyn Avenue NE. Officers are looking for a man in his late 20s, 6 feet tall, with a medium build. Police say he was wearing a gold chain, ski mask, and green and gold-colored jacket with black and green pants at the time of the incident. Investigators are looking for the man who was said to be armed with a handgun. The Source Information for this story came from the University of Washington Alert Blog. Homicide investigation underway after 5-year-old dies in Federal Way, WA Major 5-day SR 18 closure at I-90 in Snoqualmie, WA Alaska man pinned by 700-pound boulder for 3 hours walks away unharmed Why hasn't anyone been charged in Seattle clash arrests? What we know Mandatory driver's education to expand under new Washington law To get the best local news, weather and sports in Seattle for free, sign up for the daily FOX Seattle Newsletter. Download the free FOX LOCAL app for mobile in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store for live Seattle news, top stories, weather updates and more local and national news.
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
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College Inn Pub announces closure after 50 years in Seattle
SEATTLE - A staple of the University District for half a century, the College Inn Pub, will soon close its doors for the very last time. The owners posted an announcement on the pub's website laying out why the business is shutting down and when the final day is scheduled. Owners Jen Gonyer and Al Donohue announced the last day for patrons to come to the pub will be June 15, 2025. The current owners have been operating the pub on a five-year lease. Gonyer explained that without every legal partner signing off on an extension for another five years, the end of the current lease will be the end of the pub. The couple has tried to find a buyer for the pub since last year. Reimbursements for keeping things running during the slowed pandemic foot traffic, renovation costs, ADA compliance, and more costly structural problems were all cited in the letter to the University District, and the wider Seattle community. What they're saying "Small businesses in the UDistrict will be further impacted by the budgeting crisis the UW community is facing. These factors, plus the physical challenges of the Pub's space itself (no ADA access, no hood or fryer in the kitchen, an ancient relic of a beer cooler system, two aging furnaces, no street presence, and so on), were cited as reasons interested buyers passed again and again." The pub has been operating in the area since the 1970s. The current owners say they have worked to preserve as much of the original charm as possible since taking over the space, saying they are sad to see the end of an era. "We purposely did not replace the worn tables or torn seats (unless they were really bad). We saved all of the original wood details we could. These physical details are so important because they harken back to whoever was here before – and current guests are leaving their own imprint for future generations. I so much wanted the UW community to have this touchstone for future generations," said Gonyer. The Source Information in this story came from The College Inn Pub. Sweltering weather in store for Seattle this week Motorcyclist killed, driver arrested after Puyallup crash Mom of slain Idaho victim Xana Kernodle asks for help attending Bryan Kohberger trial Seattle Memorial Day weekend 2025: Your guide to events, traffic, more Tears, heartbreak at Chase Jones sentencing—teen in fatal Renton, WA crash Seattle police make arrests at counterprotest to 'Mayday USA' event in Capitol Hill Tree-sitter enters third week in WA's Olympic Foothills to halt logging Free housing for a felon? Kirkland, WA neighbors concerned over homeless hotel plans To get the best local news, weather and sports in Seattle for free, sign up for the daily FOX Seattle Newsletter. Download the free FOX LOCAL app for mobile in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store for live Seattle news, top stories, weather updates and more local and national news.
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Politics
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Mayoral candidate Rasheed Wyatt calls for cuts to police, fire overtime in effort to help budget
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Buffalo mayoral candidate Rasheed Wyatt called for cuts to overtime for police and fire as part of the effort to reduce the city's budget deficit. Wyatt, the Buffalo Common Councilman for the University District, said that the city's overtime budget for the police department and fire department has steadily increased over the past five years by over $10 million for the police department and by around $5 million for the fire department. He stated that the city has spent $127 million on overtime budgets for police and fire since 2019. He is calling for the annual budgets for police and fire overtime to be cut in half at least, but is not calling for layoffs and said he supports the police and fire unions. 'I'm not saying lay off fire, lay off police,' Wyatt said in a news conference on Wednesday morning. 'I think as a councilmember I've been very supportive of the unions. I've helped them when they wanted cars, they wanted fire equipment, apparatuses, I've supported all of those things. I'm not against unions, but I am against overtime that impinges on the quality of life of residents.' WIVB News 4 to host Democratic mayoral debate on June 3 Wyatt cited decreasing violent crime in the city over the years. According to annual police reports from the Buffalo Police Department, violent crime including homicides, robberies, assaults and burglaries have decreased steadily since 2018. Wyatt was the only member of the Buffalo Common Council to vote against last year's $618 million city budget under former mayor Byron Brown. He was a vocal critic of Brown and is a critic of current Acting Mayor Chris Scanlon, who was noted for his ability to work with Brown. Last month Scanlon announced his $622 million proposed budget, but residents and his opponents in the mayoral race have criticized him for it, including State Senator and fellow mayoral candidate Sean Ryan. Scanlon's budget includes an 8% property tax hike, a proposal for a 3% hotel occupancy tax and selling city-owned parking ramps. Scanlon announces $622M city budget, proposes 8% property tax increase 'I think the Acting Mayor is showing that he is Byron Brown 2.0, doing these types of antics that really don't help the residents of the City of Buffalo,' Wyatt said. Wyatt proposed actions such as funds for art programs, youth programs and helping small businesses as ways extra cash could be used. 'If we don't manage our finances better, we cannot be able to help the city at-large,' Wyatt said. 'We will continue to have our hand out every year begging the state, begging whoever will gibe us money to fix problems internally that I believe can be fixed.' You can view Wyatt's full news conference from Wednesday in the video player above. Latest Local News Aidan Joly joined the News 4 staff in 2022. He is a graduate of Canisius College. You can see more of his work here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to News 4 Buffalo.
