The Phoenix Business Journal is reporting that Illinios-based State Farm Insurance is planning to build a very large regional headquarters in Tempe, Ariz.
Col. Darron Wright thought he knew who the bad guys were on his first deployment to Iraq. They were Sunni Muslim insurgents giving his soldiers hell in the communities around Saddam Hussein’s hometown.
State troopers who pulled over a bus on Interstate 5 near DuPont this week found methamphetamine on board and arrested two young men from Los Angeles.
A 27-year-old DuPont man was arrested early Saturday morning after allegedly driving up behind a Thurston County Sheriff’s deputy’s marked patrol car and passing it at about 90 mph.
State Farm Insurance, Pierce County’s seventh-largest private employer, appears to be looking for places to expand its work force, and downtown Tacoma is in the running.
The DuPont City Council, fresh from the defeat of a proposed property tax hike, raised other taxes and fees to balance its 2013 budget Tuesday.
Online shopping giant Amazon looks to be planning a second distribution center in Pierce County.
An Indianapolis-based commercial real estate company that has ties to Amazon.com has purchased 92 acres of raw land in DuPont, according to a Puget Sound Business Journal story.
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