Last night, the planning committee for the Brenton Memorial met. They are confident that as a community, they can come together and build the memorial by October 31. Read

A Ron and Don Show listener has stepped up to provide the granite that will make up the centerpiece of the memorial. See the photos

Leschi raising funds for memorial for Officer Timothy Brenton

The Leschi Community Council is trying to raise $25,000 for a permanent memorial dedicated to slain Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton.

Below are images of the proposed design for the memorial.

The Leschi Community Council is collecting check contributions at:

Attn: Officer Brenton Memorial
Po Box 22391
Seattle WA 98122-0391

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the alleged beating of two men by New Orleans Police Department officers in the days after Hurricane Katrina.

Now PBS Frontline, Propublica.com and The Times-Picayune of New Orleans have come together to present the special "Law and Disorder"

Blago's Elvis statue recently sold at auction. Here he is last year imitating his favorite singer of all time.

(photo Peter Momford)

Leland Cobain has his famous grandson's sky-blue eyes and wry smile. His salt-and-pepper hair is cropped short and his sturdy frame gives way to a round Buddha belly. At 86, the patriarch of the Cobain family is less ambulatory than he'd like, and his hearing is nearly shot. He spends his days inside a cluttered double-wide trailer in the small community of Montesano, roughly 10 miles east of Aberdeen, where Kurt grew up.

The trailer, which Leland shares with a son and a yappy little dog, is a mini-Graceland of Kurt Cobain memorabilia. Photos of his grandson as a smiling preteen and later as a surly 15-year-old are pinned to a cork board, sharing space with a few portraits of Kurt —some good, some considerably less good—sent to Leland by obsessive Nirvana fans. A plastic Kurt action figure rocks out beneath a gold-plated Nirvana album that Kurt gave Leland when the band finally made it big.

Leland is not famous in any tangible sense. He hasn't done anything (save for successfully procreating) that should garner him much recognition outside his immediate family. Yet the man gets a lot of fan mail these days, and even at his age he responds to every letter with a handwritten note and a few photocopied pictures of Kurt....MORE

Along with this photo of a bag Philip Markoff used to kill himself, Fox News Boston also posted photos of the blood scrawled walls. View

Time magazine expolores whether Ground Zero really is "hallowed" ground.

They looked around the neighborhood and found New York Doll's Gentleman's Club, and the Pussycat Lounge are two strip clubs that sit within a block of Ground Zero, but are not seen as a threat to the land's hallowed nature. So it seems to some, freedom of religion might be a problem, but a $10 lap dance is not (or maybe it's $15 now, NewsFeed hasn't been there in a while).

Then there's Off Track Betting, where visitors to the sacred neighborhood are able to place bets on the horses without even breaking their solemn focus on the dump trucks and cranes that sit where the Twin Towers once stood. Think about it: where else can you show your reverence while at the same time putting all your faith in Fat Chance Cinnamon or Poco's Black Charger?

Let's not forget Thunder Lingerie and More, where you can pay your respects to the 9/11 tragedy, then take in a peep show, or pick up a few naughty items for that trip back to the hotel.

Keith Olberman from MSNBC described the area as a ghost town: