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Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson smile during a news conference after an NFL football training camp on Friday, July 31, 2015, in Renton, Wash. Wilson signed a four-year $87 million contract. Wilson signed a four-year contract extension with the Seahawks on Friday, keeping him with the franchise that took him in the third round of the 2012 draft and watched him become one of the most successful young quarterbacks in NFL history. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear)

Russell Wilson signs four-year contract extension with Seahawks

By Tim Booth - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014 file photo, Miami Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill (17) warms up before an NFL football game against the New York Jets, in Miami Gardens, Fla. The pontificating and prognosticating that have always swirled around the quarterback class of 2012 can transform even a punter into a pundit. Tannehill and Andrew Luck were two of the five current starting QBs drafted in 2012, and this spring, when Tannehill became the first member of the group to sign a contract extension, punter Pat McAfee was quick to suggest his Colts teammate was worth a lot more.(AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Luck still ranks atop QB class that entered NFL in 2012

By STEVEN WINE - Associated Press

Ann Rule said she was fascinated by killers' lives, going back to their childhood to find clues about why they did what they did. (Associated Press)

Ann Rule dies at 83; true crime author profiled former co-worker Ted Bundy

By Donna Gordon Blankinship - Associated Press

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announces his proposed phased-in increase of the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next seven years, Thursday, May 1, 2014 in Seattle. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Steve Ringman) **FILE**

Ed Murray, Seattle mayor, proposes Sharia-compliant housing

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Daily Briefing Kellan Howell July 17, 2015

Exclusive Washington Times Daily Briefing (July 17, 2015)

Anousone Sudettanh, an employee of Waste Management Inc., collects garbage for the city of Seattle on April 5, 2012. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Lawsuit aims to trash Seattle law requiring garbage-snooping

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

The Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl performs from a throne of his own making, after breaking his leg during a show in Sweden. A specially designed gurney allowed Mr. Grohl's chair to extend onto a catwalk to get him closer to the crowd, sometimes with bandmates joining him. "There was no way I was canceling this concert," Mr. Grohl told the enthusiastic crowd. (Associated Press photographs)

Foo Fighters rock D.C. in star-filled, stadium-packed celebration of 20th anniversary

By Eric Althoff - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Feb. 26, 2015, Monty Holmes gestures outside of his family-owned trophy shop, next door to another high-rise starting up, one of the few remaining enterprises from South Lake Union’s days as a blue-collar neighborhood in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

In Seattle, some fret over Amazon’s growth

By Gene Johnson - Associated Press

Burke Museum Paleontologists, Brandon Peecook, left and Dr. Christian Sidor, right, the first to identify a bone found by a Burke Museum research team on the shores of Sucia Island State Park, discuss the fossil Wednesday, May 20, 2015, in Seattle. The fossil is a partial left femur of the theropod dinosaur, a group of two-legged, carnivorous dinosaurs that includes velociraptor and tyrannosaurus rex and modern birds. This is the first Dinosaur fossil found in Washington State. The drawing below with the cutout is the spot the dinosaur bone it is from. (Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times via AP) SEATTLE OUT; USA TODAY OUT; MAGS OUT; TELEVISION OUT; NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDIT TO BOTH THE SEATTLE TIMES AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER

Scientists reveal Washington state’s first dinosaur

By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP - Associated Press

In this photo taken on April 16, 2015, a group of kayakers rafted together work to pull up a protest sign as they practice for an upcoming demonstration against Arctic oil drilling, in Elliott Bay in view of downtown Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

In Seattle, ‘kayaktivists’ take on Arctic oil drilling

By Phuong Le - Associated Press

In this photo taken Thursday, April 9, 2015, Chai, an Asian elephant, stands in her enclosure at the Woodland Park Zoo, in Seattle. Elephants, one of the most popular animals at American zoos, could become very hard to find over the next few decades as aging pachyderms die and the rest congregate in the handful of zoos capable of caring for the large animals. Facilities like Seattle’s have already made the difficult and controversial decision to move their elephants to another zoo so they can join a larger herd. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Popular zoo elephants likely to get harder to see in future

By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP - Associated Press

Cary Chin works Wednesday, April 15, 2015, at the front desk of Gravity Payments, a credit card payment processor based in Seattle. Gravity CEO Dan Price told his employees this week that he was cutting his roughly $1 million salary and using company profits so they would each earn a base salary of $70,000, to be phased in over three years. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Seattle CEO to cut his pay so every worker earns $70,000

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

Bridget Fonda and Matt Dillon co-star in Singles, now available in Blu-ray. (Courtesy of Warner Hoem Video)

Blu-ray reviews: Manhattan: Season One, Singles, The Imitation Game and Wild

By Joseph Szadkowski - The Washington Times

Amanda Knox's Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, right, arrives at Italy's highest court building, in Rome, Wednesday, March 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy high court deciding fate of ‘very worried’ Amanda Knox

By Colleen Barry and Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Police car lights. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Seattle high school student killed in drive-by shooting

Associated Press

In this photo taken, Aug. 1, 2013, demonstrators protesting what they say are low wages and improper treatment for fast-food workers march in downtown Seattle. In an interview with The Associated Press, Mayor Mike McGinn said he thought $15 was a "fair starting point" for the minimum wage discussion. Washington already has the nation's highest state minimum wage at $9.19 an hour. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

JUDSON PHILLIPS: Blue-state businesses on endangered species list

By Judson Phillips