Rants

Nearly 200 Chinese cancer patients were severely harmed — some even paralyzed — by contaminated cancer drugs produced by Shanghai Hualian, a state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical company. The company exports drugs to the United States and many other countries.

Snoqualmie Pass will remain closed at least through this morning due to heavy snowfall and avalanche danger.

Raves

Time Warner Cable billed a number of Wheatland, Wisc., residents for equipment destroyed in a tornado.

After the community protested, the United States Department of Agriculture has decided not to shoot a coyote found wandering in Discovery Park.

Two former employees of Huling Brothers Auto Center have been found guilty of first-degree theft for stealing about $70,000 from the home of a mentally-ill customer.

Leo Fiyalko, a 92-year-old, legally blind golfer, scored a hole-in-one at a Florida country club.