Puget Sound Week In Review: Measles, SR 509 Shootings, MLK Day

SEATTLE, WA - It's been a busy news week in Puget Sound, with events ranging from Microsoft's $500 million bid to build affordable housing to a serial shooter working SR 509 near Sea-Tac. To help you catch up on what happened this week, check out these news stories from the week of Jan. 13 to Jan. 18

Measles Outbreak Heads Up I-5 - There were 19 cases of measles detected in the Vancouver area as of Friday. The outbreak was moving north with some cases confirmed in Battle Ground.

Murder-Suicide In Sammamish - A 34-year-old man killed his mother and father after a dispute over the parents selling their Klahanie-area home.

Random Shootings On SR-509 - Someone - or some people - is opening fire on cars and buildings along SR 509 between Seattle and Burien. A 14-year-old boy was blinded in a December shooting.

MLK Day Weekend Closures - What's open and closed on MLK Day 2019.

HGTV Dream Home Sale - The waterfront Gig Harbor home - or mansion, really - fetched $2 million.

911 Policy Change - Kirkland police will require officers to respond differently to "unwanted subject" calls. The change comes after a controversy over a black man who was kicked out of a Menchie's last November.

Microsoft Address Housing - The Redmond-based software company will offer some $475 million in low-interest loans to developers to build affordable housing in King County.

Via-dud? - Commuters survived the first of three weeks without the Alaskan Way Viaduct in pretty good shape.

On Jan. 29, 2015, Dr. Charles Goodman vaccinates 1-year-old Cameron Fierro against hepatitis A after administering a measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR) at his practice in Northridge, Calif. The largest measles outbreak in recent memory occurred in Ohio's Amish country where 383 people were sickened last year after several traveled to the Philippines and brought the virus home.

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