February 22

• Front Porch: Comment on Mukilteo ferry plans
• Around the County
• Kids in museum’s program show what they can do with $10 and a lesson in philanthropy
• High court to take new look at affirmative action
•   Obama to seek 28 percent corporate tax rate, treasury chief says
•   2 Western journalists killed as Syria shells opposition stronghold of Homs
•   Wrong-way driver killed on Highway 520 in Bellevue
•   Camper rescued from flooding Snoqualmie River
• Santorum blasts Obama's motives on power, abortion
• U.S. apologizes for Quran burnings in Afghanistan
• Festival returns to Myanmar pagoda
• Monitoring of Muslim students sparks outrage
• New family of legless amphibians found in India

February 21

• Mardi Gras revelry, parades take over New Orleans
• County councilman calls for Aaron Reardon to go on leave during probe
• Childhood vaccine slightly increases seizure risk
• Supreme Court: Miranda rights don't have to be read to inmates
• Second L.A. girl taken off life support; mother charged
• After son's death, family tries to educate others about dangers of window-blind cords
• Greece to get $170B bailout, reduce debt
• Campaigns, super PACs to release January financials
• Higher gasoline prices could stall recovery, Obama's re-election
• Gabby Giffords' husband writing children's book
• Monroe, Stanwood, Arlington, other communities brace for flooding
• Clutter fuels Hazel Dell house fire
• Flood warning for Tolt, Snoqualmie, Puyallup
• Japan confirms flotsam on Washington coast is Japanese
• Rain raises flood, avalanche danger in Washington
• Man critically wounded in Seattle's Woodland Park
• Gov. Gregoire to visit Washington, D.C., for governors' meeting
• Guilty plea in Seattle in fatal bus stop shooting
• Syrian forces mass outside rebel stronghold
• Russians revive Ice Age flower from frozen burrow
• Historic monastery in Cyprus near collapse
• School lunch, by the numbers
• Whooping cough just keeps spreading in county
• Snohomish in line for $2.2 million loan to design sewage pipeline
• Avalanche danger closes Snoqualmie Pass; U.S. 2 closed at times
• Fire displaces Edmonds family
• Fire causes $20,000 damage to mobile home near Stanwood
• Everett Planning Commission to rule on plan for Evergreen Way
• Teens report assaults in two Lynnwood parks
• Lynnwood hopes to cut fire costs by teaming up with Fire District 1
• Gift of college funding inspires Arlington graduate to pay it forward
• Leaky flange may have caused refinery fire
• Madigan commander removed during investigation into reversals of PTSD diagnosis
• Front Porch: Cooking demonstrations and nutrition advice
• Sneaky fungus turns prime blueberries to shriveled duds
• Community Extra: Applause
• Arraignment for Deer Park man charged with murder
• Community Extra: Calendar
• Body discovered in Vancouver field
• Community Extra: Opportunities

February 20

• CT cuts take effect: 9 routes eliminated; more than 100 lose jobs
• 'It's an absolute horror story,' witness says of fatal avalanche at Stevens Pass
• Bill would sell off state's art collection
• Flood watch issued for Snohomish County rivers
• Camper in Lynnwood mobile home park destroyed by fire; no injuries
• Input sought for Mill Creek's future
• Mountlake Terrace’s intern deemed ‘a go-getter’
• Front Porch: Rain water gardening
• Getting limber in Lynnwood
• Around Snohomish County
• Two judicial officials slain in Syria
• U.N. nuclear inspectors leave for key talks in Tehran
• Active Duty

February 19

• School lunch has never looked so good
• Everett School District job-review proposal criticized
• Lawmakers consider tribal rights bill
• Santorum questions Obama's 'world view,' not faith
• North Korea threatens to attack South over drills
• Official: 44 dead in Mexico prison riot
• Sheriff, Republican candidate confirms he is gay
• University plans free-tuition contest for business students
• National Security Council wants new rules on biological research
• Mercury spacecraft workers gather 50 years after John Glenn’s launch
• Slide at Stevens kills 3; airbag apparently saves 4th skier
• UW receives record $334M from donors
• Out-of-staters get Oregon medical marijuana cards
• Spokane police investigating fatal stabbing