Neighbors looked on with relief Wednesday as a demolition crew knocked down and hauled away what was left of the Graham-area house where Josh Powell killed himself and his two sons.
Steve Powell called in sick to work a day after his daughter-in-law, Susan Cox Powell, disappeared from her home in West Valley City, Utah, more than two years ago, The Salt Lake Tribune has learned.
The 2-year-old papillon named Roxie gave it a go in the “Best Smile” contest, but when Daffodil Festival princesses Emily Moffitt and Brianne Shaw leaned in close and urged her to do her stuff, Roxie’s lip curled into what was definitely a sneer.
The Bethel School Board has appointed Stanley Chapin to represent Director District No. 3, which covers the Elk Plain-Spanaway area. He will fill a vacancy left by the resignation of board member Marianne Lincoln.
Pierce County Fair's annual Most Magnificent Mutt Show is 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at Frontier Park, 21718 Meridian, Graham.
The Bethel School Board today will interview candidates for two openings on the School Board. The openings follow the recent resignations of Joy Cook and Marianne Lincoln.
A Graham firefighter won her 14th title among female competitors Sunday at the annual Firefighter Stairclimb, finishing more than a minute ahead of the rest of the pack.
A South King Fire & Rescue firefighter critically injured on the job in November is to return home next week.
Josh Powell – in a form filled out a day after his father’s arrest and placement of his sons in foster care, and nearly two years after his wife Susan disappeared – stated he had no symptoms of depression, anxiety or sadness in the previous year.
Crime writer Ann Rule plans a book on the story of Susan Cox Powell, who disappeared more than two years ago, and her husband, Josh, who killed himself and his two sons in a fiery blaze earlier this month.
The Pierce County library system picks a book every year for county residents to share in the Pierce County Reads program. This this year the book strikes close to home. Jamie Ford’s “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” a 2010 New York Times bestseller, sets a bittersweet childhood romance squarely in one of the Northwest’s – and America’s – most controversial events: the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Nobody used the word “exorcism,” but it seemed to apply. About 30 people, including religious leaders from a half-dozen faiths, gathered Saturday morning at the house where Josh Powell killed himself and his two sons, seeking to use prayer and symbolic ritual to rid the place of whatever evil might remain.
The Bethel School Board is seeking two new members following a pair of resignations, including a board veteran who won re-election to her seat in November.
East Pierce County was abuzz Thursday with talk about renewed plans for a master-planned community formerly known as Cascadia, now named Tehaleh.
The hurt just keeps on coming for the people who knew Charlie and Braden Powell or live near the house where their father, Josh Powell, murdered them on Feb. 5.
The home Josh Powell showed to authorities was nothing but a sham. He did not live there. He did not keep his important things there. And when he found he could not keep his children there he decided to blow it up.
Pierce County sheriff’s investigators found some books and a map of Utah during a search Sunday of paper at a Graham-area recycling center.
Graham-Kapowsin High wrestling coach Scott Stirts worked hard this season to fill his team’s schedule with some of the toughest meets in the region.
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 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.
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.
Listening to the 911 tapes now, after we know what was about to happen at Josh Powell’s house, the 911 call takers seem agonizingly dense and rude.
School enrollment numbers are leveling out in Pierce County’s largest suburban districts, slowing a trend that saw these districts explode with new housing and kids in the 1990s and early 2000s while urban Tacoma’s student population steadily declined.
Investigators searching through the rubble of Josh Powell's home found two five-gallon gas cans, including one near the bodies. Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer also said Powell had sent emails to family members and his pastor, some notes including instructions of what to do with his estate.
The Bethel School District has rescheduled three school days, to replace those lost due to bad weather in January. The school make-up days will be May 25, June 15 and June 18 – the new last day of school. There will be no school on Feb. 17. District officials said that day could not be used as a snow make-up day because of employee contract provisions.
The man who gave life to 7-year-old Charlie Powell and his 5-year-old brother Braden apparently took it away Sunday in a fiery blast that left behind only charred walls at a Graham-area home.
According to Pierce County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Ed Troyer, emails are being received from Josh Powell’s email account. “We are getting emails from him,” Troyer said. “They lead us to believe that this is intentional, this is planned.”
Three bodies have been found in the Graham-area home where Josh Powell was living and where he was to have a supervised visit with his children today, the Pierce County Sheriff's Department said this afternoon.
At least two people were killed today in a house fire in the Graham area.
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