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

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

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

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 »

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 »

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

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 »

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

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 »

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