Новости за 08.01.2019

Tacoma, you don’t necessarily have to go to the emergency room or urgent care when sick or injured. DispatchHealth is partnering with MultiCare Health System to bring its service to … Click to Continue »

Tacoma is one of the cities now served by DispatchHealth in a partnership with MultiCare Health System. … Click to Continue »

As state lawmakers convene next week for a four-month session in Olympia, no challenge is more formidable, no task more urgent, than shedding their penchant for secrecy and doing away … Click to Continue »

Late Monday night, the final AP Top 25 poll of the 2018-19 College Football season was released. No surprise, given how they manhandled Alabama to win the national championship, that … Click to Continue »

The White House got a first hand look — or maybe, smell — of the partial government shutdown’s impact Tuesday, thanks to a shipment of trash from California. Reps. Jackie … Click to Continue »

A Lakewood man is accused of robbing three banks so far this year, and attempting to rob a fourth. The 36-year-old was arrested in Kent after police identified him through … Click to Continue »

Following a manual recount, first-time candidate and Democrat Emily Randall won the state Senate election for the 26th District. Randall’s margin of victory was 101 votes, or 0.14 percent, over … Click to Continue »

A couple found dead inside a Tacoma apartment Saturday died in a homicide-suicide, according to the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office. Mary Hoffer, 41, died by strangulation. Her longtime boyfriend … Click to Continue »

A Pierce County woman accused of shooting her boyfriend in front of two children said she resorted to violence because he was hitting her, according to court documents. The 29-year-old … Click to Continue »

The Kentucky legislature has gaveled in to begin a 2019 session that is expected to be dominated by pension changes and the race for governor. Lawmakers in the House and … Click to Continue »

Why would you want to be underground in an earthquake? Seattle’s new SR 99 tunnel is designed to survive one of the worst scenarios for the Seattle area -- a magnitude 9 off the coast of Washington along the Cascadia Subduction Zone. … Click to Continue »

Nebraska’s Republican governor Pete Ricketts has refused to sign a proclamation honoring a book about a farm family in the state, calling the author a “political activist” and suggesting the … Click to Continue »

As sure as he is breathing, Pete Carroll is an optimist. He may tell you the sun is shining at 3 a.m. So of course he’s encouraged by his Seahawks’ … Click to Continue »

Compiled from Gig Harbor police reports. Stolen power Jan. 1 — A red, 500-watt generator was stolen from a storage unit. Police were dispatched at 8 a.m. to the 11500 … Click to Continue »

A British official says a giant "fatberg" — a mass of hardened fat, oil and baby wipes measuring 64 meters (210 feet) long — has been found blocking a sewer … Click to Continue »

Kansas State Treasurer Jake LaTurner is running for the U.S. Senate in 2020. LaTurner declared his candidacy Tuesday for the Republican nomination, less than a week after four-term GOP Sen. … Click to Continue »

Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives are investigating the second death of a man at the residence of Democratic Party donor Ed Buck, who has contributed to various California races and … Click to Continue »

When just enough voters in just the right places elected Donald Trump in 2016, they wanted someone to disturb Washington and its stale status quo so deaf to their prolonged … Click to Continue »

Just before 2 a.m. Sunday, a man walked up to police officers in downtown Washington DC and confessed to killing a woman in North Carolina, according to WJLA. DC police … Click to Continue »

German humanitarian groups Sea-Watch and Sea-Eye are appealing to European Union countries to take in 49 migrants stuck on their ships since their rescue in the Mediterranean in December, warning … Click to Continue »

A Minnesota appeals court has overturned the conviction of the only person who was tried for blocking a freeway during a protest of the police shooting of Philando Castile. Jeffrey … Click to Continue »

U.S.-led coalition warplanes and artillery are pounding a village held by the Islamic State group in the last area under the militants' control in eastern Syria. Tuesday's bombardment of the … Click to Continue »

For more than six years, the leader of North Korea remained cloistered inside his country. Then Kim Jong Un emerged. His arrival in Beijing on Tuesday marked his sixth foreign … Click to Continue »

South Korea says it hopes North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's trip to China will act as a "stepping stone" for a second summit between Kim and President Donald Trump. … Click to Continue »

Human Rights Watch has called on the Australian government to allow entry to a Saudi Arabian woman who's being processed by UN refugee authorities in Thailand after fleeing her homeland. … Click to Continue »