Girls basketball going to state

North Beach High Hyaks celebrate close 43-40 win to send them to state. My first sports assignment in a while. It was a nice change of pace.
For the record: We also had a long, long meeting today about a potential redesign of the paper’s Web site, so we’ll see how that goes.

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Court quotes XIII

Another short set because of my reduced appearances in court, but here you go:
“Maybe the sun will rise in the west.” – Judge on chances of defendant’s reform.
“I am the defense attorney and you are the prosecutor.” – Attorney.
“The shoe is on his foot. It’s not on her foot.” – Judge.
“Let’s go get margaritas.” [...]

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A video without video

So we finally did it — video!
Almost.
We posted our first edited video piece today with a story about the derelict vessel, the Northern Retriever.
The problem is that the video doesn’t have any video in it. It’s just a video/audio slideshow built in a video program. For some reason the editor (iMovie) won’t read .avi files [...]

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Some days just start rough

The phone woke me up this morning. Never good.
The police chief is on the line:
“We had a homicide last night.“
Never good.
Shooting. Drug-related. One dead. One injured. Suspected shooter in custody.
I jumped out of bed and headed into the newsroom. We tracked down information on the victim and pieced together the allegations, scrambling against deadline. I [...]

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A few entertaining photos

Spotted along Highway 109 near Copalis Beach. The newspaper and Sara finally get some credit for all the crooks we protect. More fun photos.

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More fun than it should be

More fun than it should be, originally uploaded by jonesdaily.

i’ve been borrowing this. and having a pretty good time.

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And she’s down again

And she’s down again, originally uploaded by jonesdaily.

Why do the car gods hate me?

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Court quotes — The Groundhog Edition

So with my shifting schedule who knows if court quotes will be as steady, but here’s a fresh batch of random from Monday morning:
Attorney 1: “Are you still addicted to weed?”
Attorney 2: “To weed? Am I addicted to weed?”
Attorney 1: “No, Wii.”
Attorney 2: “Oh, caused I’ve moved on to much better stuff than weed.”
“He ran [...]

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Happy Groundhog Day

Even rodents are bringing bad news these days.
But this is hands down my favorite completely ridiculous/pointless holiday. I hope everyone is celebrating appropriately, not that I’m sure how you’re supposed to.

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