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  • Longer Dreamliner official but not its production location

    At the Paris Air Show on Tuesday, as expected, Boeing Co. launched the final and largest member of its Dreamliner jet family, the 787-10. The jet officially entered the market with 102 orders from blue-ribbon customers United Airlines; British Airways; Singapore Airlines; GE Capital Aviation Services, the airplane leasing unit of General Electric Co.; and Air Lease Corp., the lessor run by ...

  • Puyallup sets rule for offender homes

    The Puyallup City Council unanimously passed an ordinance Tuesday night that bans two or more sex offenders or violent felons from living together in residential areas within the city ...

  • BROWNS POINT Fire claims home occupants unhurt

    Fire ripped through a house in Tacoma’s Browns Point neighborhood Tuesday morning, firefighters said. The blaze broke out just after 3 a.m. in the home in the 4200 block of Browns Point Boulevard.Firefighters arrived to find flames shooting through the roof. Seven people who’d been inside the house - five adults and two children - made it outside unharmed.The house was severely ...

  • MOUNT VERNON Collapsed I-5 Skagit bridge reopens Wednesday

    A temporary bridge over the Skagit River will reopen Wednesday, restoring Interstate 5 traffic less than a month after the old bridge ...

  • Plan protects law enforcers

    A Pierce County Council committee Tuesday recommended making it illegal for suspected prostitutes and their customers to attempt to detect undercover officers by engaging in sexual contact before a transaction is made. The proposal, which moves to the full council in about a month, is the same as what Tacoma adopted two years ago. Lakewood approved a similar provision in 2009.Council members ...


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Movie Review

American Pop

"American Pop," Ralph Bakshi's animated generational history of twentieth century American music, is an epic without scope. In just over an hour and a half, it follows the paths of four generations of fathers and sons, starting with their immigration from czarist Russia, and taking them through the speakeasies of Prohibition, the beatnik rhythms of the fifties, the drug-addled sixties, and right i ... ...

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  • Military suicides not always tied to combat

    Nate Evans had three children depending on him and held down a good job running a hyperbaric chamber at a hospital. But what he really wanted was to go to war.In 2008, as the U.S. death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan approached 5,000, Evans became a medic in the Navy Reserve and was assigned to a Marine company."He wanted in the trenches," said his wife, Catherine Evans. To her relief, ...

  • Lawmakers see hope in state budget forecast

    Substantial improvements in Washington’s financial outlook provided state lawmakers with a pathway to resolve their budget differences Tuesday, and negotiators expressed optimism that they would avoid any government ...

  • Fife schools’ longtime leader says goodbye

    When Steve McCammon became principal of Fife High School in 1996, the Fife School District was recovering from a 37-day teachers strike the previous fall, which was a state record at the ...

  • Tacoma Dome no more Arena could receive a new name

    What’s in a name? For an aging but highly visible city icon, potentially big dough.Or so hope city of Tacoma officials, who this week began soliciting bids to explore selling the naming rights to the 3-decades-old Tacoma Dome."As much as we love her, the Dome is 30 years old," Tacoma public assembly facilities director Kim Bedier said Tuesday. "And in these times of budget ...

  • Padres have 7-game winning streak end

    Jesus Guzman put the San Diego Padres in position to extend their winning streak and add yet another come-from-behind win. The good feeling did not last ...

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