When does an Amazon workday end? The US Supreme Court case, according to The Seattle Times, was "filed by two former workers at Amazon warehouses in Nevada" and "could redefine what constitutes paid labor." At issue: whether the workers should have been paid for the 25 minutes they had to wait to get through security checks at the end of the work day. "A ruling in the workers’ favor could sharply limit activities employers can require just before or after work off the clock," the Times writes, "such as closing out cash registers at casinos and stores."

Case of alleged rape on Garfield High School trip settled: For $700,000, reports The Seattle Times. "Although the school district admits no liability in the incident, which took place in November 2012, it released a statement Wednesday detailing ways it plans to more effectively supervise field trips and respond to allegations of sexual assault," the paper says. "Those ways will include closer chaperoning on overnight trips, including middle-of-the-night bed checks."

Median rents all over Washington State, revealed: The SeattlePI.com is selling this as a story about "Washington's best, worst cities for renters." But... it's really just a photo gallery merged with census data on the median rent in a number of cities. So, like, maybe Kennewick is the best place for renters because its median rent is only $828? Unless you don't want to live in Kennewick?

Now there's an app that lets you summon a roving valet to park your car in South Lake Union: "Zirx, a valet-type parking app, started in San Francisco," reports KIRO 7. "It has chosen Seattle's South Lake Union as its second market... One click and the nearest agent will head your way, charging a $15 flat fee for the whole day. Service runs from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m."

Opponents compare aPodments to over-stuffed, hard-to-live-in tenements: But as PubliCola reports: "Out of the 782 microhousing rooms that exist in all of Seattle's microhousing developments, DPD spokesman Bryan Stevens says there have been zero housing standard code violations." How's it look for the rest of Seattle's apartment stock? "Out of the 147,148 rental units in all of Seattle's apartment buildings (51.9 percent of the city's housing stock) there have been 1,645 housing standard violations since 2009," the web site writes. But, it also notes, microhousing is still a new thing.

Joe Biden is coming! The Vice President will be at Renton Technical College and the Convention Center (for an event with Senator Maria Cantwell). Expect traffic.

Nunchucks deployed in Greenwood: A missing wedding ring, a rolling fight that ended in the street, a woman claiming to be "a nunchuck master," and a "spooky" abandoned home. This pre-Halloween tale of alleged robbery and attempted justice comes from MyBallard and the SPD blotter, which reports: "The man blocked the woman’s blow with his arm and tackled her to the ground. He was able to wrestle the nunchucks away from the woman, but she quickly leapt up, grabbed the man’s cellphone off a nearby dresser and fled the home.The man chased after the woman, offering to return her nunchucks in exchange for his phone. Instead, the woman shattered the phone, threw it down a storm drain and punched the man in the face... Officers seized the nunchucks, arrested the woman for assault and booked her into the King County Jail. Police were unable to locate the woman’s missing ring."

Lakeside basketball coach resigns: The latest fallout from the Steve Ballmer-related shenanigans.

New protests against police in St. Louis: After an off-duty police officer killed a black teenager in an alleged shootout. "The St. Louis police chief, D. Samuel Dotson III, said at a news conference that the teenager had fired at least three shots toward the officer, a six-year veteran who was working in the city’s Shaw neighborhood for a private security firm," The New York Times reports. "Chief Dotson said that the officer had fired 17 rounds, but that he did not know how many times the teenager had been hit."