WASHINGTON – Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was convicted of seven corruption charges Monday in a trial that threatened to end the 40-year career of Alaska's political patriarch in disgrace. The verdict, coming barely a week before Election Day , increased...
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State transportation crews will shut down the Kummer Bridge over the Green River on Highway 169 tonight for up to six months. Engineers have determined the bridge near Black Diamond is too unstable for cars, the state Department of Transportation...
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Traffic will once again shift Wednesday as part of the state's Accelerate 465 project. Before morning rush hour, four lanes will be open for the first time on I-465 northbound between I-74 and I-65, said Will Wingfield, Indiana Department of...
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The Tacoma-based company, a global investment research company with some 1,100 employees housed in four downtown buildings, said Thursday it would put off making a decision about where to relocate its headquarters until 2009. The company early this year said...
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A hotel robber suspected of eight holdups in the past month in the Tacoma area apparently struck again. Police say a robber hit hotels in Federal Way and SeaTac Tuesday night within a half-hour of each other. The Tacoma News...
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden is scheduled to appear at a campaign rally with Gov. Chris Gregoire on Sunday at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma...A spokesman for the Obama-Biden campaign, Josh Field, told the Tacoma News Tribune that backpacks, signs...
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A federal judge in Tacoma ruled an Army officer cannot be tried a second time for refusing orders to deploy to Iraq...District Judge Ben Settle said prosecuting Watada again would amount to double jeopardy. Watada's first trial in 2007 ended...
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A Longview man who hired two men to help him burn down the duplex where he was living pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit arson. The 27-year-old man, Ryan Mason Burge, faces up to five years in prison when he...
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Even with a tough economy forcing people to change their spending habits, retailers in downtown Tacoma are optimistic about the holiday season. Stores are ordering plenty of inventory for the expected demand.
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Few details about the 3 p.m. crash were immediately available, but it appears the woman who was killed went through a stop sign and was hit by another vehicle, whose driver sustained minor injuries. The Medical Examiners Office will be...
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