Tacoma WA

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The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) released body-cam and dash-cam video of a 2023 pursuit and fatal officer-involved shooting of a DUI suspect on Thursday. What deputies didn’t know at the time was that the suspect was also involved in a double homicide. The video is intense and violent, but was released for...

A Tacoma nonprofit’s leader sought $50,000 for her private consultancy from a pool of taxpayer funds given to the nonprofit to award to small businesses and organizations, state records show. The proposed award to RISE LWP, a business founded by Tacoma Urban League CEO Desireé Wilkins Finch, was determined last...

Pierce County deputies found themselves in an unusual pursuit with a 40-year-old convicted felon on Tuesday. Just after midnight, Pierce County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) deputies located a truck with no working taillights and attempted a routine traffic stop in unincorporated Pierce County, PCSO announced. As deputies...

Tacoma Urban League CEO Desireé Wilkins Finch urged the state to send a chunk of Community Reinvestment Project money to a private consulting outfit she founded, and the Department of Commerce was not having it. The proposed award triggered a deeper look at multiple CRP grants in Pierce County, and Finch has been on...

BELLEVUE, Wash. — A Bellevue man has been charged with first-degree murder and felony hit-and-run after prosecutors say he circled a YMCA parking lot, struck and killed an 88-year-old woman, then fled south and was later linked to two pedestrian hit-and-run cases in Tacoma, according to King County charging documents.

TACOMA, Wash. — Nearly five decades after human remains were discovered in the woods near Mount Rainier, investigators say modern DNA technology has finally identified the victim — bringing long-awaited answers to a son who spent most of his life searching for the truth. Pierce County detectives say...

TACOMA, Wash. — The Tacoma Police Department (TPD) is investigating a fatal crash in the 2000 block of Yakima Avenue on Thursday afternoon that killed two drivers and a dog. The crash happened shortly after 4 p.m. near St. Joseph Medical Center. Police said a southbound vehicle and a northbound vehicle collided after...

A 19-year-old Kent man arrested for investigation of fatally stabbing a 17-year-old boy in Covington has been released from jail. King County Sheriff’s Office detectives arrested the man for investigation of second-degree murder in the stabbing of Saef Shamil Kamil during a fight on March 1 near the Timberlane...

SEATTLE — A century-old redwood in Seattle’s Madison Park neighborhood was cut down Friday, despite weeks of protests from neighbors who said bald eagles had been using the towering tree as a roost. The roughly 100-foot-tall redwood stood on private property along McGilvra Boulevard East, part of a...