Wednesday Telegraph Room

... Oops. The guy that off-duty cop shot thrice in the abdomen in Post Alley over the weekend was an off-duty criminal defense lawyer named James Walker. And the P-I links the cop, Zsolt Dornay, to a lawsuit over an incident we wrote about two years ago in which police beat the crap out of an old man. ...

... The monorail car-tab tax ends Friday because the property sell-off raised $11 million more than the cost of acquisition. Great, but who do we see about getting our $100 million back? ... The state anticipates a mess next week when Medicaid recipients have to prove citizenship. This is one of those issues where you're either OK with helping people who are technically undeserving, or you're really not. ...

... Like, there's this story in the Times? And it's, like, the big deal among kids these days is making someone's MySpace Top 8 list? And here's an excerpt?

"Some people are, like, 'Can I be in your Top 8?,'" says Center School student Kallyn Bosch, 17. "And I'm, like, 'I don't even really know you.'"

... Here's a weird one: "A man suspected in a fatal stabbing in a quiet Bellevue neighborhood Monday night sneaked into a woman's nearby home where he spent the night, helping himself to water from her refrigerator, cash from her purse and the bed in her guest room." ... The Federal Way School Board has flip-flopped: Flip-flops are allowed. ...