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Fife police officers and Tacoma firefighters responded Friday to an apparent suicide in the 2500 block of 62nd Avenue East.
A sheriff’s SWAT member shot and killed a Fife man early Friday after the man held his 4-year-old son hostage for more than four hours Thursday night.
Of the more than 550 bridges in Pierce County, 28 are designated as “structurally deficient” and need some kind of repair, rehabilitation or replacement, according to interviews and a News Tribune analysis of national bridge data.
In a note digitally embedded in the photo of State Sen. Don Benton, R-Vancouver — now posted on the Legislature’s website — a legislative staffer conveyed how Benton “would like to slightly ‘fix’ a few things about his picture.”
How the closure of Interstate 5 in Skagit County will affect the flow of commerce isn’t yet clear. The inability of trucks to use the state’s major north-south highway will certainly mean adjustments for shippers and distributors. But none interviewed Friday could form any kind of prediction.
As part of the major renovation of Tacoma’s Stadium Way, the southbound lanes of Schuster Parkway will be closed during daytime hours for about six weeks, starting Tuesday.
Two Pierce County men who the U.S. government alleged are part of the “sovereign citizen” movement were sentenced Friday to federal prison for several crimes.
As an adoptee, state Rep. Tina Orwall hoped to win more disclosure.
Even having guests and the photographer south of the collapsed Skagit River Bridge won’t stop a wedding Saturday in Sedro-Woolley.
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