Valley Communications Center 911 dispatchers are relentless in their efforts to assist in emergencies, but technology sometimes hampers progress.
Police seek a suspect whom they believe stabbed a man multiple times just before 5 a.m. Sept. 30 at the…
Federal Way police were called at 7:54 a.m. Sunday to recover an abandoned infant left at Steel Lake Presbyterian Church, 1829 S. 308th St.
City and county leaders, Korean Women’s Association representatives and Federal Way citizens gathered near the Federal Way Transit Center on Sept. 25 to celebrate a groundbreaking ceremony for a mixed-use, low-income senior housing project being built by the KWA. To learn more about the Korean Women’s Association, visit its Web site at www.kwaoutreach.org or visit the organization’s Federal Way location at 31218 Pacific Highway S., Suite #A.
Fall is here and that means kids are back in school. Many of them are more prepared for classes now than they were at the start of the summer thanks to an intensive math program at the EX3 Ron Sandwith Teen Center in Federal Way. The program helped 25 teens turn fear into confidence when approaching math problems.
City and county leaders, Korean Women’s Association representatives and Federal Way citizens gathered near the Federal Way Transit Center on Sept. 25 to celebrate a groundbreaking ceremony for a mixed-use, low-income senior housing project being built by the KWA. To learn more about the Korean Women’s Association, visit its Web site at www.kwaoutreach.org or visit the organization’s Federal Way location at 31218 Pacific Highway S., Suite #A.
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Flu season is approaching and it’s time for folks who want to protect themselves to get flu shots.
About a dozen active fault lines — the source of earthquakes — cross Western Washington.
Unwanted Dumas Bay seaweed could have a cutting-edge future as a biofuel.
Blue Marble Energy — a Seattle company hired by the Department of Ecology — took to the bay Sept. 24 near Dumas Bay Park in a seaweed clean-up practice run. The decomposing algae has been the source of concern since 2006, due to the noxious smell it releases when the plant’s layers break apart.
Students at Lakota Middle School are behaving a little more nicely to one another this week.
“Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece, by thought, choice and determination.” — John Luther
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The idea to write about Tasers stemmed from my daily reading of the Federal Way Police Department’s crime log, which noted multiple Taser incidents recently.
Police detectives are not as well-known as television’s CSI crime busters, but they do perform some of the same job duties.
Rickey Beaver was high on cocaine and marijuana. Drunk, too.
He was rifling through belongings in Chad Martinez’s house on the 2500 block of S.W. 334th Street when Martinez returned home to see Beaver’s shopping cart in the driveway. Realizing an intruder was in his place, Martinez started banging on the outside windows and walls.