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Tacoma council member Catherine Ushaka dies
TACOMA, Wash. - Tacoma City Council member Catherine Ushka has died, the city announced on Thursday. Ushka was elected to the District 4 seat of the Tacoma City Council in 2017. Following her re-election to another four-year term on the City Council, she was appointed to serve as Deputy Mayor in 2022.
Tacoma neighbors urge city to resolve 'primal screaming' at youth mental health facility
TACOMA, Wash. — A couple in Tacoma said they have heard what they describe as “primal screams” coming from Pearl Youth Residence, an in-patient mental health facility that treats 12- to 17-year-olds. “The primal screaming started last summer,” Pamela Gant said. “It was a group of kids...
Prosecutors say Washington officer charged with murder ignored his training in killing man in 2019
A suburban Seattle police officer ignored his training and unnecessarily resorted to deadly force when he shot and killed a man outside a convenience store in 2019, prosecutors said as the officer's murder trial opened Thursday.Auburn Police Officer Jeff Nelson shot Jesse Sarey twice while attempting to arrest him for disorderly conduct. Sarey, 26, was the third person Nelson had killed on duty in the past eight years.Nelson's attorney, Emma Scanlan, told jurors during her opening statement that he believed — mistakenly — that Sarey had grabbed a folding knife from the officer's pocket. Instead, the knife had fallen...
Tacoma neighborhood concerned about constant gunfire after recent drive-by shooting
TACOMA, Wash. - Neighbors in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood are calling on city leaders to curb gun violence in their area following Tuesday night’s drive-by-shooting at a city park. Home surveillance video shared with FOX 13 shows the shootout between multiple people with more than 100 gunshots heard. "A...
‘I trained service dogs while incarcerated. They taught me a lot about people.’
Melissa McKee had a unique job while incarcerated for 11 years at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor, Wash. McKee earned dog training and grooming certifications through the nonprofit Prison Pet Partnership and began taking classes through Freedom Education Project Puget Sound, a college program run in partnership with University of Puget Sound. Her bonds with animals, as well as her college education, kept her grounded during reentry in 2017.
'Caged in like animals': King County sets up fencing around homeless encampment in Burien
BURIEN, Wash. - King County has set up fencing around dozens of tents at 6th Avenue SW and SW 149th Street in Burien. The encampment is adjacent to the Burien Courthouse parking lot. Campers say they were ordered to move from parts of the lot on Wednesday before fencing went up Thursday morning.
Gig Harbor Real Estate | Prices break records … again
Plagued by low inventory and ample demand, the median home price in the greater Gig Harbor real estate market continued to climb in April. Median home prices hit a new record of $875,000 for a single-family home between the Purdy and Narrows bridges, including Fox Island, according to data from the NWMLS. The figure for a single-family is up $25,000 since the first of the year and nearly $50,000 (+5.7%) since the median price bottomed out in September 2023, following the significant mortgage rate spike that saw the 30-year fixed interest rate jump to nearly 8%.
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