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A Whale Strands on Fauntleroy Beach: The female humpback whale, which washed ashore near the Fauntleroy ferry dock around 8 a.m., was just a few years old. She died around 11 a.m., the West Seattle Blog reported from the scene. According to researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Cascadia Research Collective, the whale was emaciated because of competition over food, which is "the flip side of the dramatic population growth," WSB noted. CRC was also on the scene of another humpback stranding in Bremerton in June.

ICYMI, Be Sure to Guard Your Drinks: At least 10 Seattle bar-goers have had their drinks drugged this summer, Sydney Brownstone reports.

Former Sequim Christian School Principal Pleads Guilty to Raping, Molesting Little Girls: Douglas J. Allison is "charged with 12 counts of child molestation and rape after two girls reported they had been assaulted by Allison at the Mountain View Christian School in Sequim," The Seattle Times reports. "Prosecutors say they will ask a judge to sentence Allison to 24 years in prison."

Hipsters Are Plaguing Farmers Markets: Despite ever-increasing farmers market attendance, many farmers are saying that their sales are plummeting because going to local markets in now more of "a social event than a shopping event," Ari Levaux writes for Crosscut. Levaux uses his hometown of Missoula, Montana as an example:

Sipping on their lattes, deep in conversation, they care more about the scene than the cilantro. They might purchase a breakfast taco, he observed, but no basil. Maybe a pint of strawberries, but no rhubarb. And in their unhurried schmoozing they clog up the aisles like arterial plaque, impeding the flow of serious shoppers looking for actual produce. But that’s if the serious shoppers can even get to the market in the first place, because parking stinks.

Some History About Seattle's Broadway Avenue: Writer Tom Heuser details how Martin Cordes, a German immigrant who moved his family to Seattle in 1912, helped shape today's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

Martin, Katherine, and their younger children moved into 1148 Broadway (currently The Polyclinic): right on the doorstep of auto-row while some of the older children shared a place at 1013 ½ E Pike (currently Bimbos and Cha Cha Lounge). From here, they took their time getting the lay of the land and opened their first shop at 1112 E Madison st in 1914. They called it Cordes & Sons and a few years later they moved to 1827 Broadway after a grocery concern called Getz & Lewis went out of business. The existing design of 1827 wasn’t quite to their needs, so they hired Henrikson & Company to raise the ceiling by two feet among other things.

Their new name would be Cordes Auto Repair and within a year, they made national headlines. Martin Cordes Jr built the first 8-cylinder automobile engine by simply connecting two 4-cylinder engines in tandem on a standard Ford chassis. At 50 Horsepower, a Phoenix newspaper called it an “8-valve demon.”

The full story is over on Capitol Hill Seattle.

Bremerton's Nathan Adrian Takes Home Another Olympic Gold Medal: The 27-year-old swimmer won his fourth gold medal during the "U.S. 4×100-meter freestyle relay team Sunday," the Associated Press reports.

U.S. Women Sweep the Olympic Gymnastics Competition: Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, and Gabby Douglas earned the highest team qualifying score of 185.238, but only Biles and Raisman could advance because of a two-per-country rule, NBC reports. Agh.


Police Killing of Korryn Gaines Renews Discussion of Baltimore's Lead Problem: The 23-year-old was fatally shot after a five-hour standoff with Baltimore police in her apartment on August 1. Like Freddie Gray, who was killed by Baltimore police in April 2015, Gaines was also suffering from severe lead poisoning and, "at the time of her death, Gaines was involved in a lawsuit against former landlords for lead poisoning," The Guardian reports.

In a lawsuit, Gaines claimed she grew up in “a sea of lead” and had a lifetime lead level of 12 mg/dL. The suit alleges that Gaines “suffered permanent brain damage resulting in developmental and behavioral injuries". ...

“Lead interrupts the stress reaction and so it distorts the way people view threats and so I think that’s absolutely germane to both Freddie Gray and Korryn Gaines,” said Lawrence Brown, a professor of public health at Morgan State University. “If [lead poisoning] is in fact disturbing and exaggerating the threat then you can understand why Freddie Gray is running and why Korryn Gaines has a shotgun when the police are knocking on her door.”

For Brown, the tragedy of Gaines’ death is the result of racist public policy that has resulted in hyper-segregation, over-policing and public health hazards like lead poisoning, which are largely isolated to black communities in Baltimore, which, Brown says, is still segregated by practice if not by law.

Police arrived at Gaines' apartment to serve her and the man she was living with warrants. "When they entered the apartment they found her with a shotgun. After nearly six hours of negotiations, according to police, she threatened to kill officers if they didn’t leave her home and they opened fire," killing Gaines and injuring her five-year-old son, The Guardian reports. Gaines is the ninth black woman to be fatally shot by police in 2016.

John Oliver Takes on Newspapers, Tronc, and Why We Should Support Local Media: "The media is a food chain that would fall apart without local newspapers," said John Oliver on Last Week Tonight. "The problem is, print ads are less popular with advertisers than they used to be and online ads produce much less revenue. Between 2004 and 2014, newspapers gained $2 billion in online ad revenue. Unfortunately, in that same period, they lost $30 billion in print revenue. That's like finding a luck penny on the side of the road the same day your bank account is drained by a 16 year old Belgian hacker."

20-Year-Old Fatally Shot While Playing Pokémon Go in San Francisco: Calvin Riley was walking in Aquatic Park, which is near the touristy Fisherman's Wharf, when he was gunned down around 10 p.m. on Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reports. The gunman did not take any of Riley's belongings, which is puzzling police. Authorities are still looking at security camera footage to try to identify the assailant.