“I know everyone says they’re innocent, but I really am.”

– 19-year-old Timothy L. Jacobs, who was arrested as an arson suspect in connection with the July 23 Whitley Fuel fire in northeast Spokane, then released 72 hours later because no charges had been filed.

“The F-16 is an evil, menacing scary sound, and at the same time – amazing.”

– Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown, after U.S. military fighters scrambled and one of the jets circled a small propeller plane and escorted it away from a no-fly zone that surrounded a presidential visit to a site near a charity air show.

“They were cutting those wires while they’re still hot and pulling them out.”

– Washington state Department of Transportation spokesman Mike Westbay, describing the audacity of copper thieves who knocked out power to electronic message boards four times in a two-week period as they stole wire from

conduit boxes beside Interstate 90 on Snoqualmie Pass.