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Mariners showing interest in veteran reliever Jason Frasor

Right-hander chose to become a free agent after clearing waivers at Kansas City.Click to Continue »

 

Roy man pleads guilty to dealing child porn

A Roy man pleaded guilty Tuesday to dealing child pornography.Click to Continue »

 

Nikki Haley knows what racial pain is like

In the tiny, rural South Carolina town where she grew up, her father wore a turban and her mother a sari.Click to Continue »

 

Bellingham teen: ‘I was the only one that made it out’

Two days after surviving a plane crash into a mountain in North-Central Washington, 16-year-old Autumn Veatch tells a 911 dispatcher: “I was the only one that made it out.”Click to Continue »

 

Teen in good spirits after surviving mountain plane crash

With her step-grandparents dead or dying in the burning wreckage of their small plane, 16-year-old Autumn Veatch needed to somehow find her way off the remote, thickly forested Washington state…Click to Continue »

 

Animal rights activists plan protest at Tacoma grocery

A touring animal rights group will introduce a seven-foot-tall damaged chicken at a Tacoma grocery on July 15.Click to Continue »

 

Fishing report for July 14

COLUMBIA: The state Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Technical Advisory Committee forecasts 108,000 adult chinook and 500,000 sockeye returning to the river this year. The chinook forecast is the largest…Click to Continue »

 

2 teens killed, 4 injured in head-on crash in Lewis County

Two teens were killed and four others injured when a minivan collided head-on with a SUV in Lewis County.Click to Continue »

 

Tuition cuts may trigger refunds for investors in Washington’s GET

A state committee that oversees Washington’s prepaid college tuition plan is considering refunding some, or even all, of the money parents and relatives poured into the plan in recent years.Click to Continue »

 

Tacoma-area apartment vacancies drop while rents rise

Apartment vacancies are down while rents continue to rise in Pierce County.Click to Continue »

 

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