Many were killed in avalanches on Mount Everest.
The casualties on Mount Everest in the wake of Nepal's earthquake included a few Pacific Northwesterners. Mount Everest / Shutterstock

A Member of a Seattle-Based Climbing Group: Has died on Mount Everest, along with at least 18 other people.

A Lummi Island Couple That May Have Been on Mount Everest: Is currently missing. They've been married for 25 years. They haven't been heard from since the ground started rumbling.

Here's Footage of the Avalanche: From someone at base camp.

The Overall Death Toll in Nepal Has Risen Past 3,800: "The magnitude-7.8 earthquake shook a vast portion of central Nepal on Saturday, from Mount Everest to Katmandu and points west." Much of the stricken area remains "inaccessible... with some roads blocked by landslides."

How You Can Help Earthquake Victims: King 5 has some ideas.

All you have to do to really create confusion on a Washington State ferry is toss a life ring overboard.
Apparently, all you have to do to really create confusion on a Washington State ferry is toss a life ring overboard. Bainbridge Ferry / Shutterstock

The Award for Most Annoying Ferry Ride of the Weekend: Goes to "the 9 p.m. run from Seattle to Bainbridge Island" last night, which "suddenly stopped and quickly reversed course to begin a search for a person overboard after a life ring was spotted in the water." Then they did a head count and reportedly realized no one was missing. The Coast Guard is still double-checking that.

See you later, medical marijuana system in Washington State as it has existed since 1998.
See you later, medical marijuana system in Washington State as it has existed since 1998. Marijuana / Shutterstock

Medical Marijauna in Washington State Is No More: At least, not as you currently know it. Starting next summer, there will still be medical marijuana, but you will have to walk into a recreational store to get it.

One Silver Lining to Medical Marijuana System Getting Messed with So Hard: Is that medical marijuana currently is under no regulations regarding pesticides. Recreational marijuana is heavily regulated, pesticide-wise.

The president dropped a pot-smoking joke at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
The president dropped a pot-smoking joke at the White House Correspondents Dinner. ChameleonsEye / Shutterstock.com

VIDEO: President Obama at the White House Correspondents Dinner: He said, "And Bernie Sanders might run. I like Bernie. Bernie's an interesting guy. Apparently some folks really want to see a pot-smoking socialist in the White House. We could get a third Obama term after all!" (It's at the 13:55 mark.)

The pangolin—which is basically a scaly anteater—is poached because its fetuses are believed by some to be an aphrodisiac.
The pangolin—also known as a scaly anteater—is poached because "its fetuses are believed by some to be an aphrodisiac." Paul Allen is not cool with that. Pangolin / Shutterstock

Obviously, Poaching Pangolins for Their Fetuses Just Because You Think It's Gonna Improve Your Sexy Times Is Not Cool: A pangolin is "a rare, scale-covered mammal about the size of a cat." Paul Allen is spending a lot of money on an initiative that would make poaching pangolins or trading poached pangolin fetuses illegal in Washington State, along with elephants, rhinoceroses, tigers, lions, leopards, cheetahs, marine turtles, sharks, and rays.

Gaylord Hotelier Who Hosted Party with Ted Cruz Regrets Throwing Gaylord Party for Ted Cruz: "I am shaken to my bones by the e-mails, texts, postings, and phone calls of the past few days. I made a terrible mistake," says the gay idiot who waited until after throwing Ted Cruz a party to watch videos of Ted Cruz talking about gay marriage.

Speaking of Elections, the Koch Brothers Just Get Scarier and Scarier: Their budget for spending on the 2016 race is $889 million, "about equal to what the Democratic Party and the Republican Party will each spend."

Meanwhile in Chile, They're Just Starting to Dig Out from a Ton of Ash: After the volcano Calbuco "roared back to life" last week, "after lying dormant since a minor eruption in 1972."

Even Michael Cunningham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and former Pulitzer judge, thinks the fiction Pulitzer is awarded weirdly. He made David Foster Wallace a finalist the year that the board decided not to give any novel the award.
Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and 2012 Pulitzer judge, thinks the fiction Pulitzer is awarded weirdly. He advanced David Foster Wallace to the final round that year, but the board decided not to give any novel the award. lev radin / Shutterstock.com

The Pulitzer Prize in Fiction: Is a baffling award. Not the award itself, but the way the award is awarded. Consistently, every-year-in-a-new-way baffling. This year was no exception.