West Seattle-wide WS4OSO benefit updates: Sunday’s the big day; events …

West Seattle-wide WS4OSO benefit updates: Sunday’s the big day; events tonight, Saturday too March 28, 2014 at 11:56 am | In How to help, West Seattle news | 14 Comments This pup’s helping in the aftermath of the Snohomish County slide … Compelling photo of a muddy search dog at the scene of the fatal Washington mudslide. NA-66FR pic.twitter.com/7tbUvjx4Pc — CNN Newsource (@CNNNewsource) March 28, 2014 …can you? You don’t even have to head 65 miles north to Oso Read more [...]

NSA listed Merkel among leaders subject to surveillance – report

The National Security Agency appears to have included Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, on a list of world leaders subject to surveillance. The news, the latest extracted from documents supplied to media outlets including the Guardian by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, was reported on Saturday by the German magazine Der Spiegel and The Intercept, a website set up by the former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald with the support of the founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar.Der Read more [...]

Five Stunning Waterfront Rentals in Massachusetts

Are you looking for a summer getaway? Or maybe you just like looking at fantastic houses by the water? Take a look at these fives homes, currently listed for rent this summer, on Zillow.com in waterfront communities in Massachusetts: Fifth Avenue, Hyannis Port: $32,500/month — This 4,123-square-foot home has only been on Zillow for five days. With 11 rooms, five bedrooms, four baths and a private neighborhood beach, it has several views of the sunrise and sunset over the ocean. Read more [...]

Battersea power station bedsit goes on sale for almost £1m

For sale: Battersea bedsit. Price: close to £1m. In the latest sign of the boiling hot London property market, two-bedroom flats in the soon-to-be-converted Battersea power station have gone on sale for more than £1.5m, three-beds for more than £2.7m and four-beds for at least £4m. The 254 homes mostly fashioned from the derelict switch houses in the converted Grade II*-listed 1930s colossus will go in sale in May with "refined industrial-authentic" designs by the architect of David Cameron's Read more [...]

41 ‘possible suspects’ listed in Elaine trial

John Docherty, 49, also claims that at the time he is alleged to have stripped and strangled Elaine Doyle, 16, in a lane in Greenock he was at home with his parents, who are no longer alive. Docherty, now of Dunoon, appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh at the start of his trial. He pleads not guilty to a murder charge which alleges that on June 2, 1986, in a lane near Elaine Doyle's home in Ardgowan Street, Greenock, he seized her by the hair, struck her on the head and either removed or compelled Read more [...]

Crist support spans parties – Sarasota Herald

Siesta Key resident Gary Kompothecras has arguably been the most influential Republican campaign donor in the region over the last five years, giving more than $1 million to GOP causes and candidates.And Sarasota resident Frank Brunckhorst may have been the most influential Democratic donor during the same period, with more than $1 million in contributions to that party’s priorities and candidates statewide.But in an unusual political development, both now find themselves on the same side, underscoring Read more [...]