In an updated press release, Pierce County Sheriff's Department spokesman said a school bus was not hit by gunfire this afternoon. Shots were fired elsewhere and a car fleeing that incident struck the school bus. No students were injured.
Defense attorney Wayne Fricke and Pierce County deputy prosecutor Brian Wasankari agreed on two things Friday: Xing M. Zhu suffers from a mental illness, and she killed her mother.
Teen gymnast Jacoby Miles plans to come home from the hospital Monday, but she saw Sunday that it’s not exactly the same house she left. Miles got a sneak peak of the 1,300 square feet added to her family’s South Hill home. It was one of the 15-year-old’s only outings from the hospital since a dismount from the uneven/parallel bars Nov. 16 left her paralyzed from the mid-chest down.
UPDATED WITH VIDEO: A homeowner in the Summit area shot and killed two men who apparently were trying to steal marijuana from a pot-growing operation at the home, Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said today.
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