Kelly Earnest Merz lived the first 50 years of his life without causing trouble.
The first-ever Angelman Syndrome Foundation Walk in Washington is planned Saturday in Puyallup.
Puyallup will keep its red-light cameras.
Puyallup will keep its red-light cameras. The City Council on Tuesday approved a five-year extension of the city’s contract with its camera vendor, American Traffic Solutions.
Two-lane Canyon Road East cuts through the semi-pastoral Summit area, providing a link for homeowners surrounded by urban development between Parkland and Puyallup. The road now handles about 18,000 vehicles a day, including 1,300 trucks.
Neither Frank nor Bernice McCabe remembers any particular magic in the moment they met, back in the fall of 1946.
Puyallup officials are making plans to replace an aging concrete bridge that carries drivers across the Puyallup River.
Puyallup police were searching Tuesday for a 37-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.
With his son, Josh, dead, Puyallup-area resident Steven Craig Powell has become the focal point in the disappearance of his daughter-in-law.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys whittled a pool of 70 potential jurors for Steven Powell’s voyeurism trial to 56 by noon today.
Puyallup police are searching for a 37-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl he knows.
Terry Nelson went to Wildwood Park in Puyallup last fall to walk his two yellow labs, Jazz and Buck.
He came home owing the city $513 per dog.
The Washington State Private School Advisory Committee has appointed Judy Jennings of Puyallup to serve on the Washington State Board of Education. Her term will run through January 2014.
Expect to see two shiny new Ford Escapes on area streets soon. That’s because Drew and Derek Konzelman won NBC’s and Ford Motor Company’s “Escape Routes” Saturday night, earning them $100,000 and their own Ford Escapes.
Terry Nelson went to Wildwood Park in Puyallup last fall to walk his two yellow labs, Jazz and Buck.
Jury selection starts Monday in the voyeurism trial of Steven Powell, the Pierce County man whose connection to missing Utah mother Susan Cox Powell has generated national interest in his case.
Expect to see two shiny new Ford Escapes on the streets of Puyallup soon. Drew and Derek Konzelman won NBC’s and Ford Motor Company’s “Escape Routes” tonight, earning them a $100,000 award and their own Ford Escapes.
Pierce County prosecutors charged a Puyallup man on Wednesday with first-degree assault – considered a strike under Washington’s "three strikes you’re out" law – for allegedly punching a man outside a bar. The 21-year-old victim is in a coma after falling down and striking his head on the pavement, court records show.
BizTown was uncharacteristically quiet as nearly 100 students moved from storefront to storefront, learning the rules of commerce.
The Puyallup Valley Branch of American Association of University Women recently honored outstanding high school girls who excel in science, technology and math.
Friends and family of Susan Cox Powell have formed a committee to create a pair of memorials to the missing Utah mother and her two sons.
Puyallup’s next police chief is a familiar face.
A former Puyallup man has been charged with allegedly billing Medicaid for medical supplies never turned over to patients, the state Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday.
It appears Puyallup won’t do away with its red-light cameras, a month after a majority of City Council members had talked of doing so.
The fate of Puyallup’s red-light cameras isn’t settled, but at least one City Council member who had doubts about the program now says he’s been won over.
Pierce County Council members are proud to take their meetings on the road to constituents in each of their seven districts once a year.
The Puyallup School District will host a public forum for parents, students and community members Wednesday to inform families about its Native American Education program.
Yes, road projects near Joint Base Lewis-McChord and between Puyallup and the Port of Tacoma are still just gleams in Pierce County’s eyes.
Music-making and NASCAR are the themes of two new attractions at this weekend’s vernal version of the Puyallup Fair.
A Spanaway woman and her staff of direction-givers and question-answerers will be on hand through Sunday at the Spring Fair. The annual event, a smaller version of the Puyallup Fair in September, draws thousands over its four-day run.
The Puyallup Fair announced today that Train will perform there on the fair’s final night, Sept. 23. Tickets go on sale on Saturday, April 28 at 10 a.m.
The West Valley City Council in Utah has denied a request to release documents related to the investigation of Josh Powell.
Music-making and NASCAR are the themes of two new attractions at this weekend’s vernal version of the Puyallup Fair which swings open its gates at 2 p.m. Thursday.
The City of Puyallup is set to gain nearly 9 acres of wooded land that’s part of the Maplewood Springs watershed, an acquisition that guarantees the property will never be paved over for urban uses.
The Puyallup School District will hold parent meetings to discuss summer athletic planning at 6:30 p.m. today.
Last week’s sad death of Daffodil Princess Alexandria Cole will fall into the numbers that health experts use to alert us to risks. It will be swept into the statistics that governments use to allocate resources to the understanding and prevention of the things that kill us.
They smiled wide and raised white-gloved hands to the sky, waving at spectators who lined the streets.
At precisely 10:15 a.m. Saturday, Parade Director Jim Bradley twirled his finger over his head three times and pointed down Pacific Avenue, officially setting the 79th annual Daffodil Festival Parade in motion.
Precisely at 10:15 a.m., parade director Jim Bradley twirled his hand in the air three times and pointed down Pacific Avenue, starting the 79th Annual Daffodil Parade.
There’s only one thing better than a good book, and that’s reading it with good coffee and yummy pastries. And even though it’s been feeling like spring in the South Sound, you know we can still be guaranteed plenty of cool rainy days where a hot drink and a long book sounds appealing.
Classmates and teachers of a Daffodil Festival princess who died Wednesday want to walk in Saturday’s parades in her honor.
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.
A 27-year-old man wounded last week during a burglary at a South Hill home made his first court appearance Tuesday.
When Sarah Karamoko was learning English, a few words in particular gave her trouble. The 18-year-old senior at Foss High School still struggles at times with “encyclopedia,” tripping over its six syllables. But “opportunity” rolls easily off her tongue.
Pierce County sheriff’s deputies were investigating whether a race between two motorcyclists led to the death of one of them Friday.
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