Troy D. Sanders - Known as the Seattle Rapper 'John Taylor' - Charged with Murder (Videos)

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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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Stealing Electricity to Grow Weed Once Again in the News

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Electrical fire at My Cahn restaurant earlier this week.
Stealing electricity to grow weed is no laughing matter. Just ask Seattle area firefighters, who seem to have been dealing with it a lot lately.

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'Epic' Half-Hour Pooper-Scooper Duel in Seattle's Plymouth Pillars Park

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Quick: What's the most references to a "pooper scooper" you've ever seen in one paragraph of a short police report? If you answered anything under three, there's a good chance you'll be impressed by this story.

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Electrical Fire Leads to Discovery of Hundreds of Pot Plants in Basement of Restaurant on MLK

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The Seattle Police Department has announced via Twitter that "hundreds" of pot plants were discovered this morning in the basement of a restaurant in the 6000 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way following an electrical fire

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Video Diaries Left Behind by Killer Peter Keller Called a "Movie in the Making"

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Peter Keller
It's been almost two weeks since SWAT team members with the King County Sheriff's Department discovered heavily suspected-killer Peter Keller's body in a survivalist bunker he'd carved into the Cascade Mountains. It's been over two weeks since the bodies of Keller's wife and daughter were found barricaded by mounted furniture inside the family's burning North Bend home.

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Phoenix Jones on Using Pepper Spray: 'You Don't Want to Be That Guy, Man'

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Phoenix Jones
Honestly, it's not easy filling the Daily Weekly's Phoenix Jones quota. Sometimes we have to stretch, much like, we assume, Jones stretches before heading out on the street to fight evil, not to mention Rex Velvet.

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Rex Velvet and the Dynamic of Real-Life Superheroes vs. Real-Life Supervillains

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So, Seattle has a new supervillain. There's a decent chance you've already heard about it, because, as we know, anything related to grownups donning costumes and acting out childhood fantasies is big time news. Seattle's new supervillain goes by the name of Rex Velvet, and he's chosen the much-loved man-in-rubber, Phoenix Jones, as the primary target of his fictionally villainous efforts.

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Inside Peter Keller's Bunker: Guns and Folgers Coffee Jugs (Photo Post)

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Peter A. Keller
I first posted about Peter A. Keller last Monday on Daily Weekly. The King County Sheriff's office was calling him a "person of interest" after two bodies were found dead inside his family's burning North Bend home - barricaded in by a couch and some other furniture.

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Mayor McGinn, Police Chief Diaz and Others Hold Press Conference on Gun Violence

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This afternoon at 2 p.m. (or so, I guess) Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, Seattle Police Chief John Diaz, Deputy Chief Nick Metz, Reverend Harriett Walden and others are scheduled to deliver a press conference on Seattle's recent spate of gun violence.

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Two Bodies Found Barricaded By a Couch and Other Furniture Inside North Bend House Fire (UPDATED)

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UPDATE: Peter Keller has now officially been named a suspect in the double murder of his wife and daughter, with the King County Sheriff's Office issuing an arrest warrant Wednesday, April 25.

UPDATE: The two victims found have been identified as Peter Keller's wife, Lynnettee Keller, and daughter, Kaylene Keller.

After the bodies of two women were found barricaded inside a house fire in North Bend Sunday morning, authorities from the King County Sheriff's Office have announced a "person of interest" in the suspected homicide, 41-year-old Peter A. Keller.

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