Volunteers from Pierce County Search and Rescue sifted through tons of paper at a recycling center Sunday, hoping to find items that Josh Powell may have dumped before killing himself and his two sons in a house fire last week.
A King County Sheriff's Office deputy, while working with the state Department of Corrections, was involved in a shooting Saturday evening at an Auburn home.
At Saturday’s memorial service for Charlie and Braden Powell, the tears started when the children in the Life Christian school choir filed onstage and launched into a sweet, innocent version of “Amazing Grace.”
It was quiet outside Life Center in Tacoma on Saturday as family and friends gathered within the sanctuary’s walls to celebrate the lives of Charlie and Braden Powell.
The husband and wife from Joint Base Lewis-McChord had a novel approach to parenting. They left their two boys, ages 3 and 4, in a van with the engine running and shopped for 90 minutes at a Tacoma sex shop.
In a folder on his work computer labeled “Personal Pics,” Steve Powell maintained a peculiar collection of photos: 55 depicting his daughter-in-law, Susan Cox Powell, but few if any showing his son.
The Pierce County 911 operator who handled a social worker’s call Sunday from Josh Powell’s house told “Dateline NBC” in an exclusive interview he wishes he’d “recognized the urgency of the situation” that day.
Hundreds of community members attended this morning's service to celebrate the short lives of the Powell brothers at Life Center in Central Tacoma.
Josh Powell spent his last day alive running the errands that mark the humdrum of daily life. Powell, it turns out, checked off the items on his list with monstrous intent.
Pierce County sheriff’s investigators found a comforter stained with blood inside a storage unit rented by Josh Powell but further tests are needed to know what kind of blood it is and who it belonged to.
Pierce County sheriff’s investigators have roped off part of a Graham recycling center after receiving a tip that Josh Powell threw some paper away there before he ignited a deadly house fire Sunday.
Authorities say a computer in Josh Powell's home had animated images that depicted "incestuous" sex.
Josh Powell told his oldest son he had a “big surprise” for him moments before he attacked his two boys with a hatchet and started a fire that killed them all.
The Tacoma School Board on Thursday fired a Stadium High School security officer who is facing accusations that he had illegal sexual contact with two students.
An initiative to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana in Washington probably won’t get fast-tracked by the Legislature before it sees the ballot this fall, the campaign supporting it says.
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