Local News - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

A power outage affecting more than 3,700 customers in the Rainier Beach and Skyway neighborhoods is expected to be restored by around 3 p.m. Tuesday, Seattle City Light officials said.

LONGVIEW -- A woman has been killed and her husband wounded in a shooting in Longview.

BEAVERTON, Ore. -- A poster at a high school featuring presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain was removed after it was defaced with a racial epithet.

OLYMPIA -- Gov. Chris Gregoire plans another $240 million in immediate budget savings, including a 1 percent across-the-board cut at state agencies.

King County has forecast a stunning $90 million shortfall in its general fund next year. Public Health, like other departments bracing for the cuts, is expected to take at least a $12 million hit.

BELLINGHAM -- A Whatcom County blogger who wrote threatening comments after last month's fatal shooting spree in Alger has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge.

ROSEBURG, Ore. -- A man facing charges for shooting an intruder in his home has pleaded not guilty and faces trial in May.

OLYMPIA -- A record number of voters are registered in the state leading up to the November election.

LEBANON, Ore. -- The Insane Clown Posse is not welcome at Lebanon High School.

MEDFORD, Ore. -- Dutch elm disease has been found for the first time in Southern Oregon.

OLYMPIA -- The state Department of Community Trade and Economic Development is closing the Olympia headquarters on Fridays as part of the shift to a four-day workweek.

OLYMPIA -- The State Patrol say a person who jumped from the Capitol Boulevard overpass onto Interstate 5 in Olympia was struck and killed.

OLYMPIA -- The Thurston County coroner has issued a death certificate for a woman who has been missing since 1993.

MEDFORD, Ore. -- A second bat has tested positive for rabies in Southern Oregon.

TACOMA -- A jury in Tacoma rejected a claim of self defense and convicted a man of murder in the shooting death of man last January in Midland.

TACOMA -- An employee at Western State Hospital pleaded not guilty to rape and sexual assault charges in Tacoma and was released on $50,000 bail.

County Executive Ron Sims has proposed that he and his staff vacate the space they rent in the Columbia Center downtown and occupy instead the eighth floor of the county's new office building a few blocks south.

With less than a month until the Nov. 4 election, Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi has been named in a lawsuit that seeks to show he illegally worked with the Building Industry of Association of Washington to raise money for the group's political action committee.

As sure as Halloween displays start appearing in supermarkets, zombies start walking the streets of Seattle this time of year. Saturday's pub crawl was a kickoff for a few zombie events in the next few weeks.