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A restaurant in Los Angeles is offering a 5 percent discount if you leave your cell phone in reception. Would you take them up on their offer? It's so sad that we can't even have a meal with our loved ones without our phones.

Chuck Cox, father of a missing Puyallup woman, tells 97.3 KIRO FM's Dori Monson Show he hasn't given up on the search for Susan Powell.

Dori's basketball team, the Shorecrest Scots have a tradition of singing before their games, and it must work - the team took 4th place at the state tournament over the weekend. It's the first time in 51 years of school history that the Shorecrest Scots girls basketball team placed at state!

Do you feel obligated to donate to charity at the grocery store when the debit card machine prompts you? And then for the checker to confirm that you are cold hearted? Doesn't it feel a bit like you're being shamed into donating? Or do you prefer to conduct your philanthropy this way?

Dori talks with The Seattle Post-Intelligencer crime reporter Casey McNerthney about when a 9-year-old Casey called in to Dori's first radio show back in 1990.

After a story of a group getting locked into a restaurant and meeting with police for refusing to pay the required 17 percent gratuity, Dori offered his tipping strategy. Much to the disappointment of waiters and waitresses everywhere, Dori does not tip off the total bill, but instead, subtracts the sales tax first. Brilliant move, good sir.

Dori was shocked to learn that he and a fellow groomsman both shook their heads in sorrow when their best friend said I Do. He later declined an invite from the couple to watch the wedding video together. In the end, the couple was divorced three years later.

KIRO Radio's Dori Monson was on hand at Emerald Downs to make a race call on Friday night. Take a listen.

A reminder: The teacher strike is illegal and it's messing with the lives of thousands of parents. The teachers need to take it down a notch.

The Omak Suicide Race has been going on for years and now PETA is commenting following the death of a horse this weekend. Where do we draw that line? Is it animal brutality or an Eastern Washington tradition that ended tragically this year?

How does an employee steal $800 worth of stuff from the City of Seattle, lie about it, and then get to keep his job?

Dori got into some trouble for relieving himself in his backyard this past weekend and he wants to know why he should be ashamed?

Not everyone loves Bruce Springsteen's soundtrack for 9/11, so what songs work well for you? Callers mentioned REM's "Everybody Hurts."

The Washington State Legislature's Special Session that will never end... The budget was supposed to be a priority, but instead, they prioritized 435 laws. Now they're in a special session where some lawmakers get a $90 per diem? Your tax dollars at work.

It's graduation season and Dori has two to attend. A mom kicked out of a ceremony for cheering for her daughter. She couldn't contain her excitement and so she was handcuffed. Hold your applause, people. Let's get this over with.

The 97.3 KIRO FM team went north to Everett for the second KIRO Radio on Tour event at the Everett Performing Arts Center on Thursday, June 7, 2012.

Bellevue Police Officers apologized for hassling a Seattle cop before the Seahawks game in Sept. but now the department is remaining pretty mum on the issue. A little to quiet for a certain Dori Monson, who does not believe the punishment fits the crime.

Dori has to gather photos from the early days, which he's fine with, mostly. But his high school photo is really embarrassing and he's not sure he wants to release it to the masses.

Today was Dori's first day in the new KIRO studio and he didn't exactly get the warm welcoming everyone else got. Was Dori slighted?

Parents leaving their guns out for a child to find is unacceptable. A cop is under investigation for the shooting death of his 7-year-old daughter. A sibling shot her while the family's car was stopped in Stanwood. Dad said he hid the gun under the dash and behind his wife's purse.