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  • Census Idaho ed spending still at the bottom

    SPOKANE, Wash. — A report from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that Idaho remains at the bottom of public education spending. The Spokesman-Review ( http://bit.ly/192nNDO) reports that Idaho spent about $6,800 per student for the 2010-2011 school year. Only Utah spent less, at roughly $6,200 per student. It's the third straight year that Idaho has ranked second-to-last on the list. ...

  • Man critically injured in Frederickson motorcycle crash was off-duty King County deputy

    A 47-year-old man seriously injured in a motorcycle crash near Frederickson Monday night was an off-duty King County deputy, Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer ...

  • Puyallup City Council votes 5-2 to end water surcharge

    The Puyallup City Council voted 5-2 Tuesday night to approve an ordinance that eliminates the usage rate surcharge to water utility customers living outside the city ...

  • Kidnapping charge filed a second time against Tacoma man

    Kidnapping charges have been refiled against a 36-year-old Tacoma man accused of trying to snatch a 3-year-old last year. A second-degree kidnapping charge was dismissed against Tyrone Greene in October after he was found incompetent to stand trial. He was civilly committed to Western State Hospital.He is about to be discharged, and Pierce County prosecutors have noted he is "a high risk ...

  • JBLM’s wartime growth was fifth fastest across entire military

    A new report from the Government Accountability Office shows that the number of civilian and military employees at Joint Base Lewis-McChord has increased by almost 64 percent since 2006, a pace that marked the fifth-fastest clip for any domestic military ...


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Movie Review

Mondo Cane

Any way you look at it, "Mondo Cane" (which is pronounced "car-nay") is a patently silly piece of cinematic junk masquerading as an important anthropological documentary of strange and exotic parts of the world. The dead give-away to its exploitative nature is the condescending, inflated narration that immediately clues the viewer in to the fact that the filmmakers have no respect for the cultures ... ...

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  • Court agrees with state on foster kids

    The state will not have to return 15 troubled foster teens it removed because of safety concerns from three private facilities, including one in Lacey, a Thurston County Superior Court judge has ruled in part of an ongoing ...

  • 2nd-degree murder charged in killing at Lakewood bar

    Pierce County prosecutors charged a man Tuesday with second-degree murder for allegedly killing a man with a single punch at a Lakewood bar. Robert Ancheta, 31, pleaded not guilty to the charge. Bail was set at $1 million. His girlfriend, who was arrested on suspicion of helping hide Ancheta from police, was to be released, pending further investigation.The assault happened last Wednesday at the ...

  • Fallen Tacoma firefighter lived life filled with discoveries explorations and love for all

    Al Nejmeh steers the 156-foot schooner Te Vega in the Baltic Sea alongside the Rainbow Warrior II in 1989. He joined the Tacoma Fire Department in 2001. (DAN EINBENDER/Courtesy ...

  • Amid immigration reform calls to change asylums

    As Congress debates legalizing about 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, immigration advocates are pushing plans they say will open the asylum process for thousands of more people who flee persecution in their home ...

  • Susan Powells dad gets private eye to review file

    Police say they've taken their best shot at finding missing Utah mother Susan Powell. Now, her dad is hoping a review of the newly released case file - containing tens of thousands of pages of detective reports, maps, interview transcripts and more - might turn up something the investigators ...

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