A 16-year-old boy and his girlfriend were attacked in the Boys & Girls Club parking lot at 1620 S. 17th St. this morning, in what the male victim told Tacoma Police might have been gang retaliation.
A 16-year-old boy and his girlfriend were attacked in the Boys & Girls Club parking lot at 1620 S. 17th St. this morning, in what the male victim told Tacoma Police might have been gang retaliation.
The couple were approached by five men and two women about 1 a.m., who began punching and kicking the victims for no apparent reason, Tacoma police say.
A 44-year-old man already serving a 10-year prison sentence was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in a Tacoma gang shooting from 25 years ago.
Bernadine Sanders and Leslie Burt said Thursday they never thought anyone would answer for the shooting death of their brother, Bernard Houston, thought to be the first fatality in Tacoma’s gang troubles of 25 years ago. It's a good bet the three men dragged into Pierce County Superior Court minutes earlier had similar feelings.
A former Mount Tahoma High School student has sued the Tacoma School District in federal court, alleging that she was raped in her high school restroom by a fellow student.
Indian police say they have arrested a 20-year-old man on suspicion of raping and sodomizing a 4-year-old girl, the latest incident of sexual violence to shock the country.
The leader of an Islamic extremist group in Nigeria says his group has started kidnapping women and children as part of its bloody guerrilla campaign against the country's government, according to a video released Monday.
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