Tacoma WA

Last summer, I repeatedly warned that Pierce County Sheriff’s deputies were leaving in large numbers. I provided statistics and predicted serious consequences if the trend continued. In November 2025, more than a thousand residents voiced strong opposition to the proposed county budget through voicemails, emails, and...

SEATTLE — The man who prosecutors say posed as a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier to get inside a Seattle home and attack a couple in February, pleaded not guilty on Monday. Ian Alexander Blair, 32, is charged in King County Superior Court with first-degree burglary, first-degree extortion, two counts of...

A Tacoma man faces felony charges after he allegedly attempted to flee police from Lewis County to Thurston County before a deputy ultimately stopped his vehicle with a grappler device. Elijah

A common saying to describe a useful and innovative new invention is often “The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread.” It’s an apt reflection of pre-sliced bread’s popularity when it was first introduced in the early twentieth century. Consumers grew to love it so much that they refused to give it up during World War II.

SUMNER, Wash. — A man who is serving life in prison without the possibility of parole is seeking a new sentence for a murder he helped orchestrate in Sumner in 1994. Randy Philip Capps, 52, appeared in Pierce County Superior Court on Friday to make his case to Judge Philip E. Thornton as to why his sentence should be...

Police fatally shot a Washington man in order to stop him from a stabbing spree that left his mother and three other women dead. The Pierce County Sheriff's Office announced that Aleksandr Aleksandro Shablykin was shot dead by a responding deputy. The victims have been identified as the suspect’s mother, 52-year-old...

The Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office (PCPAO) is taking a fresh look at a fatal officer-involved shooting from 2013. Leonard Thomas, 30, was shot and killed following a four-hour standoff with the Pierce County Metro SWAT Team. A new report by the Washington Office of Independent Investigations suggested...

Katya Marie Lyne would be 40 now. She was last seen in Federal Way, Washington, on March 21, 1997. Katya was only 15 when she disappeared. Katya is listed on the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System website (NamUs #MP6336). She had brown hair and brown eyes. She has a mole above her right lip.

The Kent Police Department (KPD) says two people were arrested on Sunday afternoon after witnesses saw them dragging a man into an apartment.

Several years ago, a stem cell clinic called Seattle Stem Cell Center caught my eye. The Washington State AG’s office filed a case against US Stemology, which appears to have owned the stem cell center. The AG prevailed, but there was another development. A patient named Mike Trujillo died...