Were the ashes of Bismarck the deceased Monroe police dog aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket? While the evidence isn't conclusive, and if the dog's remains did make the flight it means someone broke the rules, The Herald in Everett reports that it sure looks like that's the case.

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Troy D. Sanders

Earlier this week we wrote about Seattle-area rapper Troy Deshone Sanders, who raps under the name "John Taylor." On Wednesday Sanders was charged with the murder of Courtney Taylor (no relation) - a crime that took place in a Jack in the Box parking lot on Rainier Avenue South while Sanders was allegedly making a music video.

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At least twice in the last two weeks police and medics have responded to the scene of a violent crime only to be confronted and slowed down by a crowd of angry bystanders. The latest episode in this disturbing trend came yesterday, as authorities were attempting to come to the aid of a stabbing victim in Cal Anderson Park.

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Chone Figgins looks worried.

Oh, Chone Figgins. The Mariners can't win with you, and the team doesn't seem inclined to lose without you. With Casper Wells sent down to Tacoma yesterday to make room for the mighty return of Miguel Olivo, the team squandered yet another chance to rid itself of the most glaring blemish on GM Jack Zduriencik's resume.

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Riley just doesn't look right in a Chivas jersey.

After being shut out in back-to-back home losses and snatching a draw from the jaws of defeat in Vancouver over the past two weeks, Sounders FC--without their most important player, defensive midfielder Ozzie Alonso--face this season's first gut check tomorrow night in Carson, Calif., south of Los Angeles, when they visit Chivas USA (7:30 p.m., KING-TV).

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It was a who done it, albeit not the ordinary kind. The suspects were wolves. The victim a calf. And although the murder hasn't been completely solved, justice is being served.

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Maybe you heard about the tiger on the loose in Puyallup yesterday. Check that. Of course you heard about the tiger on the loose in Puyallup yesterday! Everyone heard about the tiger on the loose in Puyallup yesterday. It was huge. It stole the show. And, for a few hours at least, it made Twitter lose its goddamn mind.

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A short-term, voluntary treatment center for people with mental illness and substance abuse problems is scheduled to open in the Central District in late July despite protests from some homeowners concerned about living next door to the facility.

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This week, supplementing his current feature on the impact privatization has had on the mental-health system in Pierce County, Keegan Hamilton has been posting to Daily Weekly with additional details, source documents and insight gained during the extensive research process for the cover story.

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Grandma has never looked better.

Still searching for something to do with grandma's cremated remains? Well, then, an outfit growing in popularity in Hong Kong and Canada may have just the answer for you: Remembrance Diamonds.

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Kellen Winslow Jr.

Seahawks fans were excited earlier this week at the news that the team had traded for former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Cleveland Browns tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. As we know, not an offseason goes by when the team doesn't acquire a new flashy tight end that will ultimately disappoint. And, speaking of disappointment, Winslow's former landlord is plenty disappointed with the way the gridiron star allegedly left a luxury home in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif he was renting.

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Earlier this week I reported that a vial purported to contain the blood residue of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan was being auctioned off by Channel Islands online auction house PFC Auctions. The key word in that sentence is "was" ... as today news has broke that the auction has been cancelled.

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UPDATE: As one of Working Washington's tweets included in this post indicate, Amazon has reportedly announced this morning it will not renew membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC.

As was expected, protestors rallying against Seattle's Amazon.com during a shareholders meeting this morning at the Seattle Art Museum gathered on damp sidewalks to voice their displeasure over what the group alleges is the company's tax-dodging ways along with its affiliation with the lobbying organization ALEC.

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A section of this week's feature story about Pierce County's experiment with privatized mental health raises questions about the increases in both suicides and suicide attempts in the Tacoma region. And the first question that comes to mind is this: Why have so many south Sound citizens been trying to kill themselves lately?

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As Rick Anderson periodically reminds us, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder has been called many things over the years, from shell shock to "irritable heart." Now, a Seattle-based retired general and former Army vice-chief of staff is trying to change the name again to encourage more soldiers to seek treatment.

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Troy D. Sanders

Yesterday 26-year-old Troy Deshone Sanders - better known as the Seattle-based rapper John Taylor - was officially charged with the murder of Courtney Taylor (no relation) in a Jack in the-Box parking lot on Rainier Avenue South. The second-degree charges came exactly one week after Courtney Taylor, also an area rapper, was gunned down back on May 16.

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Marc Emery

On Tuesday Seattle Weekly's Keegan Hamilton posted to Daily Weekly about Paul George Cartier, a Canadian man who occasionally calls himself "666" and has been charged with sending a series of death threats to federal prosecutors in Seattle on the eve of Marc "The Prince of Pot" Emery's extradition to the U.S. to face drug charges.

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Pot legalization isn't the crazy, fringe idea it used to be. Anyone with a pulse can sense that. And the traction being gained by Washington's I-502 only backs it up. Now a recent nationwide poll does too.

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Good lord are we glad we don't work for the state. If we did, or even if we just happened to share an office with the Department of Transportation (or were, say, the beneficiary of a $586 million contract to replace the 520 Bridge), we'd almost certainly be subject to one hell of a KOMO 4 Problem Solver investigation.

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OMG (left) and WTF

Heading east recently toward a concert at Snoqualmie Casino gave me the opportunity to try GreenLink, a medical-marijuana access point in Issaquah. GreenLink's owners, Lydia and Jake George, beat the odds by getting the Issaquah City Council to approve collectives back in 2010, working with the city to create a medical-marijuana ordinance after an initial dispute had resulted in a moratorium on access points.

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