Alaska Airlines Plane on a Newark-Seattle Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Buffalo: After a credit card reader started smoking. KOMO reports that "a flight attendant's credit card machine started smoking while on a counter top in the rear galley of the plane. After pushing it into the trash can, the crew was able to douse the blaze using a fire extinguisher."
But Alaska Airlines Told the Seattle Times: âThere were no flames...The flight crew used a fire extinguisher to stop the device from smoking."
In Other Air News, If You're on a Southwest Airlines Flight Today: Get to the airport early.
A Man in His 20s Is Dead After a Shooting in Brighton Last Night, at Rainier Avenue South and South Garden Street: He died of a single gunshot wound. "Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to call the Seattle police at (206) 233-5000."
In Other Crime News: Burglaries are up 60 percent citywide and "up 69 percent in Central Seattle parking garages," reports CHS.
In Other Rainier Beach News: The neighborhood gets more rain than other parts of the city.
Carrie Brownstein Writes About Growing Up in Redmond and Bellevue in a New Memoir She Has Coming Out: And there's an excerpt of it on The New Yorker's website this morning. Representative sentence: "I thought of Microsoft taking over Redmond, and now gayness taking over my father."
#CocksNotGlocks: "Hundreds of students at the University of Texas at Austin will protest a new law that will allow more guns on campus not with signs or sit-ins, but by 'strapping gigantic swinging dildos to our backpacks.'"
Doctor's Reattach Toddler's Decapitated Head: That's quite a headline, huh? It's not quite what you're picturing, but still an amazing story out of Australia.
The President Was on 60 Minutes Last Night: Wasn't his smoothest interview ever. Here's part one.
And part twoâwhere he talks about Trump, Clinton, etc., is here.
