Tacoma Mall Shooting: 20 Years Later
Today marks the 20-year anniversary of the 2005 Tacoma Mall shooting, where Dominick Maldonado opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle and pistol, wounding seven people.
TPD honors citizens who intervened in Point Defiance knife attack
Victoria Nizzoli is lucky to be alive. The local architect endured the unimaginable on the early afternoon of February 10, 2024. While walking alone on a trail in Point Defiance Park, she was brutally attacked by a stranger with a knife. He ambushed her while she was turned around, stabbing and slashing her within an...
WA dirt biker falls down cliff during photograph, airlifted to Tacoma hospital
TACOMA, Wash. - A man was rescued and airlifted to a hospital in Tacoma on Friday following a frightening end to a photo attempt. The victim fell down a cliff while the rest of his group remained safe. The 33-year-old was dirt biking in a wooded area above Wilkeson, just...
18-year-old suspected ‘prolific’ car thief arrested; police say he cloned fobs to steal
Renton police say they have arrested a “prolific” suspected car thief who allegedly filmed himself cloning fobs to use in the theft.
He sought 19-year sentence for killing Tacoma boy, 2. He got 100 years instead
Catherine Colley shouldn’t have been back in a Pierce County courtroom Friday. Almost exactly 12 years ago, she stood before a judge and forgave her grandson’s killer, a 19-year-old man who had admitted to the atrocious crime of raping and murdering his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son. At the time, Jake Musga’s face was...
Drugs seized, several arrested in raid at property on Seabeck Highway
Several people were arrested in a major drug bust west of Bremerton on Friday, Nov. 21 that temporarily closed a nearby road in the morning. According to a statement by the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office, detectives and SWAT served a narcotics search warrant at a property in the 1700 block of Seabeck Highway, near...
VIDEO: Thurston County deputy fights with DUI suspect who grabbed her gun at crash...
THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. — Newly-released videos show the moments a suspected impaired driver grabbed a Thurston County Sheriff's deputy's gun during a fight at the scene of a car crash last month. The deputy was driving home on Oct. 15. when she came across a crash at the intersection...
Tacoma teen receives life-changing kidney transplant surgery: HealthLink
SEATTLE — A Tacoma teenager is celebrating a second lease on life, thanks to an extraordinary gift from her sister. 17-year-old Mary Head received a kidney transplant that's transforming her health — and also marks a milestone for Seattle Children's Hospital. For Head, the condition that led to...
Tacoma food bank expands door-to-door service as feds tighten SNAP rules
As federal officials consider new rules for SNAP benefits, a Tacoma food bank is struggling to meet rising demand and expanding its reach by delivering food directly to families in need.
Dirt biker survives near 200-foot fall on remote trail near Wilkeson, rescuers say
A dirt biker was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center on Friday after falling 100 to 200 feet when the ground collapsed beneath him on a trail near Wilkeson.
