This Sports Guy from Our Team: Is going to go play on a different sports team. Oh, no! Or—yay? Sports!
Charges Filed in the British Phone-Hacking Scandal: Eight people were charged, “including a onetime confidante of media baron Rupert Murdoch and a former senior aide to Prime Minister David Cameron.”
Amazon Tries Being Generous: Offers tuition package for low-wage employees, paying 95 percent of tuition up to $2,000 a year, for full-time employees with three or more years’ tenure, “only in areas that are well-paying and in high demand according to sources like the US Bureau of Labor Statistics,” according to Jeff Bezos. It does not appear to be as generous as what local delicious hamburger stand Dick’s Drive-In offers its employees. Nice try, though, Jeff!
In Related News: Tuition in Washington state is projected to hit $20,000 a year for in-state students by the end of this decade.
Yesterday on Slog: Poor bigots can’t even eat cereal now; Seattle City Council unveils new land-use rules (sounds boring, is important).
Sally Ride: First American woman in space dies at 61.
Amelia Earhart: Still missing.
“Sister Bites Brother, Causes Standoff”: Sometimes you just can’t improve a headline. The North Seattle standoff, which included bulletproof shields, started “after a report of gunshots that turned out to be a fight between siblings that didn’t involve weapons.” The brother and sister are 40 and 33 years old, respectively.
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