A Seattle woman pleaded not guilty to felony charges of providing false information on a voter-registration application. Jane Balogh, 66, registered her dog, Duncan MacDonald, as a voter last year to protest a 2005 state voter-registration statute that she says makes it too easy for non-citizens to vote. Balogh used picture of a paw print to sign the ballot for at least three election polls, but wrote "Void" on them so that they are not counted.

A 45-year-old woman from Pierce County, Washington has reportedly tied a record for the amount of alcohol in her blood by measuring a blood-alcohol content of 0. 50 two hours after she was arrested for on charges of driving drunk. Rebecca G. Lingbloom's blood-alcohol level was more than six times the legal limit of . 08 and ties the mark for the highest level ever found in a person's blood by technicians at the Washington State Patrol's toxicology laboratory in Seattle.

The city beaches in Fort Lauderdale, Florida will soon be equipped with high-tech automated toilets that welcome its users with a polite greeting and also soothe them with light music during the process. The computerized toilets are expected to cost between $250,000 and $350,000 for a single-toilet restroom. The city commissioners voted Tuesday in favor of paying $25,259 to an engineering firm to design the site.

Officers at Seattle Animal Shelter have rescued 110 parakeets that were apparently caught and confined in one huge cage by a man and kept in the living room of his one-bedroom apartment home. The discovery was made Tuesday after a law enforcement officer with the Seattle Humane Society conducted a welfare check at the apartment following several complaints of noisy birds by the neighbors. Neil Deruyter, an animal control officer with the society described the man in his 50s and said that he had been collecting the birds for about five years, according to Seattlepi. com reports.

A newly opened pet store meant especially for female dogs is angering city residents over its unique name - High Maintenance Bitch. The offensive word in the store's name is widely seen from one of the main intersections in the Wallingford neighborhood business district west of Interstate 5 and north of the Lake Washington Ship Canal. Janet Stillman, executive director of the Wallingford Neighborhood Office told AP, "I am probably the most progressive liberal person in the world and I am personally offended by the sign. It's so blatant and so in your face. "