Friends of Daffodil Festival Princess Alexandria Tyler Cole recalled her smile, her beauty and her achievements Wednesday. Neighbor Janee Weathersby asked that the community remember the resident of Tacoma’s East Side for how she lived – not how she died.
A man armed with a gun and threatening suicide barricaded himself inside a home in the 4100 block of East T Street this afternoon, according to Tacoma police.
Five men convicted in the killing of 20-year-old Camille Love received prison sentences Friday ranging from 12 to 75 years – punishment the father of the murdered woman said was not nearly enough.
The Pierce County Medical Examiners Office has released the name of a woman who was killed late Sunday in an East Side home.
Tuesday morning, a solitary kid, maybe 8 or 9 years old, hood up and head down in the rain, trudged past the old McKinley Elementary School on the East Side.
Tacomas Franciscan Health System is broadening its reach for kidney dialysis patients with the opening of its fourth dialysis center in Pierce County in mid-January.
Tacoma police on Thursday arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with the body of a teenager found Wednesday in a garbage bin near the mans East Side home.
Tacoma police have arrested one man after the body of a teenager was found Wednesday afternoon in a garbage bin on the East Side. Investigators booked the 20-year-old Tacoma man into Pierce County Jail on suspicion of first-degree murder shortly after 1:15 a.m. today. Residents told officers that a neighbor had asked to use their trash can to throw away a dead body. Witnesses later looked in the bin and found the body.
Tacoma police officers are investigating a fight on the East Side.
The Puyallup Tribe of Indians says turning the old Gault Middle School in Tacomas East Side into a community center is too expensive for the tribe to tackle alone.
Thieves have been targeting mail boxes on Tacoma's East Side. The Tacoma Police Department reports an increase in mail theft in neighborhoods south of 56th Street, according to an email from community liaison officer Don Hensley to Safe Streets.
School’s out today, and kids on Tacoma’s East Side are looking at a summer short on supervised programs to keep them safe and engaged. This is the first summer in decades without any all-day Boys & Girls Clubs programs in that part of the city.
Tacoma police were investigating a drive-by shooting late Wednesday on the East Side that slightly injured two women. This is the fifth drive-by shooting since Friday night in the City of Tacoma. No one was injured in the previous four shootings, though property was damaged.
Tacoma police arrested a woman and were searching for her brother after they allegedly broke into his ex-girlfriend's East Side Tacoma home Wednesday night.
A 19-year-old burglar who was fatally shot Monday after breaking into an East Side Tacoma house has been identified as Jamarr Johnson.
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