Tacoma WA

The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified a 28-year-old man who died after being struck by a vehicle. According to the medical examiner’s public portal , the man was Artanian Shaw. The News Tribune previously reported on the collision, which happened June 15 at about 5:28 p.m. at 400 South Tacoma Way.

In November, Pierce County voters will decide whether their sheriff should continue to be elected or instead be appointed by the county executive and confirmed by the county council. Let’s keep it real. This debate is happening because of Sheriff Keith Swank. Supporters of the change point to Swank’s...

A 19 year-old Covington man was killed in a rear-end collision with a semitruck while driving a motorcycle on the evening of June 16 along westbound State Route 18 near Tiger Mountain and just east of Raging River. Ashton S. Sawyer was pronounced deceased at the scene and his Aprilia...

Manuel Garcia Hernandez, a 41-year-old Renton resident who once ran a local construction company, has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison after investigators said he helped move pound-quantities of methamphetamine and cocaine across western Washington. The former business owner was arrested in June 2024 aft

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A man who was convicted of using stolen identities of nurses to send impostor nurses to work in long-term care facilities in Washington has been sentenced. On Tuesday, the Washington State Attorney General’s Office announced that David Mungai Njenga was sentenced to 14 years in...

A Celebration of Life Service for Anthony Lenorris Baker Jr. and Latrez James Cooper, the two men killed May 24 in a Kent car crash, will be Saturday, June 20 in Kent. The service is at 1 p.m. at New Beginnings Christian Fellowship, 19300 108th Ave. SE. Baker, 36, and...

A quiet South Tacoma block turned chaotic Tuesday afternoon when a house on the 2100 block of South 25th Street went up in flames, sending a thick plume of smoke over the neighborhood and pulling residents out to the sidewalks to watch. Engines, ladder trucks and hose lines packed the...

Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a 67-year-old missing Orting woman. According to a Silver Alert from the Washington State Patrol, the woman, Theresa Stephenson, was last seen on Sunday, June 14 around 1:30 p.m. in the 1300 block of Kapowsin Highway East in Orting. She was on foot, the release said, w

The WSP report states that he was speeding west along SR 16 and tried to exit on South Orchard Street, but failed to negotiate the curve and carried on through a grassy median before hitting a barrier on the right shoulder.

Community organizers on June 16 submitted nearly 9,000 signatures at Tacoma City Hall for a ballot initiative that would create an enforcement mechanism for Tacoma’s tenants protections. Tacoma For All, the group that spearheaded recent efforts to bolster tenants rights in Tacoma, is looking for voter approval on a mea