Officials announced Nov. 30 that they will not charge the driver of a car that killed a Bellevue toddler in a crash on Bel-Red Road and Northeast 140th Avenue on Sept. 29.
Bellevue Deputy Police Chief Jolliffe has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the results on an internal investigation, police confirm.
Both Chipotle locations in Bellevue received unsatisfactory health inspections little more than a week after they had reopened following an E.coli outbreak.
The Bellevue SWAT team served a warrant at the Piedmont Apartments near Crossroads for the Eastside Narcotics Task Force as a part of an ongoing investigation.
Congressmen Adam Smith and Jim McDermott, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, and King County Executive Dow Constantine joined together on Nov. 24 to stress that King County will welcome any refugees the area may receive.
Bellevue Police K9 units and King County Sheriff’s police helicopter engaged in a late-night chase Nov. 20 to catch a suspect accused of stealing a car in Bellevue last month.
A garbage truck clipped a power line Nov. 23, overloading a junction box and igniting a residential fire at Southeast 18th and 154th Avenue.
First graders at St. Louise School deliver donated food that were organized in baskets to deliver to those in need on Thanksgiving. Over 27 complete Thanksgiving meals were delivered to both St. Vincent de Paul and Catholic Community Services. The annual project between the parish and the school has been conducted for over 20 years.
Incredible credibility: The suspect called Overlake Hospital and stated “I’m going to blow your place up”. She made similar threats to Evergreen Hospital’s satellite clinic in Redmond. Overlake security advised this is the fifth such threat made by the suspect in the last four years. The staff does not find the threat credible and simply wished the incident be documented. The suspect was arrested by Redmond Police because they did find the threat to their clinic to be credible.
The Bellevue School District is pursuing a partnership with Microsoft for Elementary 18, the district’s first entirely new elementary school in years, Superintendent Tim Mills recently announced.
The fiancé of a Bellevue woman who died in a car crash on Nov. 11 – a man with a reported history of violence who had reportedly been released from jail recently— has been identified as the driver in last week’s hit-and-run accident and is being held on $2 million bail.
November 13
Mailbox mischief: A building manager reported that approximately 66 mailboxes for the apartment’s residents had been pried open. It was unknown if any mail was taken, but it has been confirmed that anyone who pries open mailboxes to revise their letter to Santa does end up on the naughty list.
Enrollment in the Bellevue School District grew beyond the projected rate this fall, but administrators say class sizes remain relatively stagnant and below the state funded levels.
Just over six months since he took over the reins of the Bellevue Police Department, Chief Steve Mylett is laying out a new program that he says will help facilitate communication, reduce the amount and fear of crime in the community.
Thousands of Bellevue residents are without power due to downed trees and winds throughout the area that have darkened approximately 11,000 Puget Sound-area residences and offices.
Deep in concentration, Alexis Hwa carefully copies the practice letter she had written at home to Santa Claus, asking for a bunny for Christmas. Placed on her small shoulders was the task of kicking off Macy’s eighth annual Believe campaign benefitting Make-A-Wish this year with her letter to Santa, and she wanted to make sure every word was spelled correctly.
Not-so-shortcut: The subject and his wife left their home at 1:30 p.m. for a doctor’s appointment. They never made it to the appointment and their son called because he was concerned. At 8:30 p.m., the wife called 911 stating she was lost and needed help getting home. They were found in Kirkland after being missing for missing for seven hours.
Five murder mystery writers, four different eras of the mystery genre, a growing number of murder victims and one killer. Such are the stakes in Newport High School’s production of “Done to Death,” a 1970 murder mystery comedy that pays homage to the many tropes of the genre, much of them far older than the actors.
A new pop-up shop run by Bellevue residents is proving a growing business model: that small temporary stores can have a big impact.
Police arrested a Bellevue man for vehicular homicide and a hit-and-run Nov. 12 after witnesses reported seeing him, covered in blood, near the scene of a car crash that killed a Bellevue woman the night before.
