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Get Your Star Wars on at the Bellevue Square Microsoft Store April 2
The Microsoft Store in Bellevue Square will have a launch party for the Kinect Star Wars game April 2 in preparation for the game's midnight launch.

The Microsoft Store in Bellevue Square will have a launch party for the Kinect Star Wars game April 2 in preparation for the game's midnight launch.

The first of Bellevue School Foundation's Education Connections series launches Thursday talk on school finance. The series continues the next two months with talks on the arts and technology.
Headliners to the Bellevue Jazz Festival includs the Clayton Brothers Quintet, Booker T. Jones and Hubert Laws Quintet. Tickets to go on sale Friday.
The pet shelter in the Eastgate neighborhood of Bellevue needs wet dog food for its Pet Food Bank, which helps pet owners who need assistance purchasing pet food.
Humphrey is one of the adoptable pets at the Seattle Humane Society featured this week on Bellevue Patch. Check this column soon to meet another featured adoptable pet.
An update on the case of Matthew James Jones, the Tillicum Middle School science teacher accused last year of having sex with a former student when she was 16. Public Data Ferret and OSPI have updates.
A Bellevue man who told police that he killed his wife with a hatchet remains in King County Jail in lieu of $1 million bail.
Coffee sales to help students in the "Soup and Tutor" program, which helps students who need help stretching their budgets, and provide help with their studies.
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Aikido Eastside came out on top in our battle over the Readers' Choice for kids martial arts schools.
More details have been released about the man who walked into Bellevue Police Department headquarters and confessed to murder.
The man, in his 70s, went to a police station to turn himself in. Police say it's unusual for someone to walk into the Bellevue Police station and "confess to murder."
Newport High School will celebrate retired coach Bob Albo at Saturday's game against Bellevue High School. Albo will throw out the first pitch at the baseball field named in his honor.
Federal forecasters and UW weather guru Cliff Mass are predicting a mostly dry spring weekend.
The Washington State Department of Transportation will hold two open houses on the State Route 520 Bridge construction. The first of the open houses is in Medina. Get the details here
The cuts are coming from call center operations throughout the U.S., and the Bellevue-based company said that it will "restructure and optimize" operations in other areas.
The long-awaited movie based on the popular trilogy by Suzanne Collins opens at midnight Friday morning. Lincoln Square Cinemas in Bellevue has it in IMAX, but it also is showing at Crossroads and Factoria.
Lulu is one of the adoptable pets at the Seattle Humane Society featured this week on Bellevue Patch. Check this column soon to meet another featured adoptable pet.
Bartell Drugs and Target are among the stores that have applications pending to begin selling spirits.
Speakers from A Regional Coalition for Housing (ARCH), Youth Eastside Services (YES) and a longtime Muslim community leader and Bellevue Police Department volunteer will lead a panel on neighborhood issues.