Bellevue News

If your looking for snowboard gear one of the top local headquarters has moved.

Snowboard Connection has moved their Bellevue store to 10697 Main St. They continue to offer a wide variety of outdoor wear, boots, bindings, optics, boards and more. Plus, there's a repair shop in the store.

Check it out for yourself!

A bizarre murder-suicide from August has taken another strange twist, and it has become just the second murder in Bellevue in the last three years.

The investigation of the murder of Rhan Rha of Sammamish has determined that she was murdered in the Bellevue condo of Albert Beutler in the early morning of August 12.  Police now believe that after strangling her, Beutler took Rha's body to Seattle, then the San Juan Islands.  He borrowed a boat that Rha's body was eventually found on, and that was the boat he shot himself on.

The San Juan County Sheriff's Office originally had jurisdiction on the case, as it was believed Rha was killed on the boat.  But with the new evidence, Bellevue Police have taken over the murder investigation.

The murder was the second in Bellevue this year, following no murders in the city the previous two years.

Your commute just might get a little easier!

WSDOT has begun installing a series of electronic speed-limit and lane status signs on SR 520 and I-90. Linked to sensors in the pavement, the signs will warn motorists when a stall or collision is causing congestion ahead.

Workers have started construction on new sign bridge bases and installation. Some signs should be working by the summer of 2010.

Learn more and watch a video about the new signs online.

Residents are being asked to donate toys at any of the city’s nine fire stations between Nov. 21 and Dec. 7.    

Toys will go to children at the Crossroads Community Center’s annual holiday party in December. Last year, more than 1,500 families turned to the center for help, and organizers say that number could be even higher this year.  

Residents are encouraged to bring new, unwrapped toys, books, games, gift certificates and sports equipment for young people of all ages to any Bellevue fire station.

Plush animals and gift certificates for parents are good for infants and toddlers; soccer balls, basketballs, arts and crafts kits, cars/trucks and dolls are good for children ages 3 to 12; and teens want  gift certificates for clothing, restaurants, malls and music stores.