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An embattled Tacoma housing nonprofit is now working with a Spokane-based development firm to salvage at least part of a mixed-use building project envisioned for a key intersection on Tacoma’s Hilltop.
A Seattle man, Joseph W. Watson, 53, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Friday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma. Waston, a dishonorably discharged sailor, stole the identity of a decorated Army veteran to get medical benefits and commit bank and credit card fraud.
A 68-year-old Mercer Island man was killed when his motorcycle went down and he slid into a Jeep in Woodinville shortly before 9 a.m. Friday, the King County Sheriff's office reported.
Officially, spring comes along at 10:32 this morning. But given a warmer-than-normal winter and total blurring of the seasons, spring done sprung many weeks ago.
The outcome was preordained, but the loved ones of Kurt Husted went to court anyway Friday to say their piece about the slain Loomis armored car guard and the man who killed him.
The 19-year-old son of a Snohomish County Superior Court judge has pleaded guilty to drunk driving and fleeing from a crash that injured an Edmonds police officer last year.
State officials met with local and federal law enforcement authorities late last year to discuss a Tacoma affordable housing nonprofit’s alleged misspending of nearly $2 million of public funds, interviews and records show.
The Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldiers dodged roadside bombs. They took sniper fire from housing compounds and machine gun fire from mosques. Taliban fighters attacked them from crowds filled with women and children.
Not guilty pleas were entered Friday on behalf of a Bonney Lake woman charged with two counts of vehicular homicide in the deaths of her young sons.
Two suspected members of the Hilltop Crips pleaded not guilty Friday to charges stemming from a crackdown against the Tacoma street gang launched earlier this year.
House Democrats were preparing for a late-night vote Friday on a revenue plan offered by Gov. Chris Gregoire as a compromise between differing House and Senate proposals.
A deal shaping up between the Legislature’s weary budget negotiators would keep a prison on McNeil Island – for now – but at a fraction of its current size.
Candidates for Federal Way City Council and mayor will soon become subject to a limit on campaign contributions from individual donors.
A single-engine plane carrying two people has crashed near a house close to Morton, Wash., southwest of Mount Rainier.
A Lakewood man was charged Friday with first-degree murder, accused of shooting his ex-wife five times during a counseling session at a Federal Way church.
BELLINGHAM - The Bellingham Public Library's community rooms can't be used for religious worship, its board of trustees has decided.
Pierce County law enforcement officers stopped 256 drivers and cited 18 on suspicion of drunken driving during an emphasis patrol last weekend in Puyallup.
House Democrats were preparing for a late-night vote Friday on a revenue plan offered by Gov. Chris Gregoire as a compromise between differing House and Senate proposals.
Franklin Pierce High School was placed on a modified lockdown Friday after getting reports of the “potential for a violent act” at the school.
Gig Harbor police on Friday arrested a 27-year-old man suspected of robbing a bank while leaving his 2-year-old son in the getaway vehicle.
A small plane carrying two people crashed Friday evening in the front yard of a house in Morton, southwest of Mount Rainier. KING-TV reported that one person was killed and the other critically injured.
As Jay Carver walked along a rocky beach toward the body of his son, he turned away, fell to his knees and began to sob.
A deal is shaping up to keep McNeil Island Corrections Center open - for now - but at a fraction of its current size. Senate and House budget negotiators said they have tentatively agreed to downsize McNeil to just 256 inmates, from the 1,200 housed there now, and eventually close it.
The Army Corps of Engineers has an interim plan to reinforce the Howard Hanson Dam with a 1,000-foot-long grout curtain as early as this year but needs $44 million to complete it. The curtain along the dam’s seeping right abutment is expected to restore the flood-control capacity of the dam, which was weakened during the January 2009 flooding.
The Pierce County Sheriff's Department SWAT team was spotted in the Oakbrook neighborhood of Lakewood this morning.
A Lakewood man was charged today with first-degree murder, accused of fatally shooting his ex-wife during a counseling session at a Federal Way church.
Gig Harbor police have arrested a 27-year-old man suspected of robbing a bank while leaving his 2-year-old son in a truck. The boy was unharmed and released to family members, Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said.
Baby bottles and sports bottles sold in Washington state will soon have to be free of the chemical bisphenol A under a measure signed into law on Friday by Gov. Chris Gregoire.
The Pierce County Medical Examiner's Office has determined that an 8-year-old Silverdale boy found dead Thursday drowned. A search plane has taken off for Thun Field to look for Shantina "Kat" Smiley, Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said this afternoon.
Before leaving Morton General Hospital at approximately 3:45 a.m. Sunday, staff reported to law enforcement that Guy Lafontaine had two broken eye sockets, a broken forearm and a shoeprint on his face, according to court documents made available to the public Thursday.
Work on the Sounder Transit's M Street to Lakewood track and signal commuter rail project will close the Steilacoom Blvd. S.W. crossing to traffic this weekend.
A crash blocked the left lane of both directions of Interstate 5 in Lakewood, the state DOT reported. The crash has been cleared. Drivers were backed up for a mile in both directions.
POULSBO - A 13-year-old girl in San Antonio, Texas, may never see the last note her 102-year-old great-grandmother from Poulsbo wrote to her.
It’s the week of St. Patrick’s Day, and green is still important. The governor says green jobs are up, and Tacoma looks to be taking a serious green interest in economic development.
Justin Peterson is a 9-year-old with an apparent knack for fundraising. The Chewelah boy has raised more than $3,689 since late last year to help the region’s Honor Flight program with its mission: sending World War II veterans to Washington, D.C., to see their war memorial.
Franklin Pierce High School is on a modified lockdown this morning after some threats. According to a district spokesperson there was a fight at the high school during the first lunch Thursday. Afterward, rumors started spreading throughout the school about the "potential for a violent act."
The man convicted of killing an armored car guard during a robbery at the Lakewood Wal-Mart last year was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release during a hearing this afternoon.
The cost of the special legislative session in Olympia has shrunk to less than $14,000 a day, thanks to a growing line of state legislators who are refusing to accept their $90-per-day expense allowances.
Drivers should prepare for delays this weekend as construction forces major lane closures, revisions and traffic shifts on Interstate 5 and state Route 16.
The Port of Tacoma is finally selling its Maytown property – at an initial loss to the agency of $10 million – to a company that plans to mine the site for gravel.
The Bonney Lake mother accused in a January crash that killed her two young sons was booked into jail Thursday afternoon.
A West Richland truck driver has won a $8.8 million Washington lottery jackpot.
Investigators are still working to determine who set the fire that gutted a landmark Gig Harbor building and popular coffee house business five weeks ago, fire marshal Dick Bower said today.
Carol Parsons agreed to attend counseling sessions with her ex-husband “so he could move on with his life,” her boyfriend said Thursday. “Instead, he took hers,” said Kevin Foster of Graham.
A man charged in a hit-and-run crash that killed a 3-month-old boy in Fife earlier this year pleaded guilty Thursday.
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