| Pierce County prosecutors have charged a 20-year-old woman with robbing a coffee stand on Tacoma’s East Side last month.

| When the police showed up he was holding a black bag full of stolen money.

| The Department of Justice on Thursday honored Pacific Lutheran University’s work to raise awareness about violence against women.

bonney lake: City begins collecting money, may seek bond | Now that Bonney Lake officials have the land they need to build a YMCA, they’re looking at ways to get it up and running ahead of schedule, including asking people for money.

| <strong>Police seek man who robbed Umpqua</strong>

Pierce County: Tacoma Fire, Lakewood Fire District to combine efforts by 2015; no proposal yet for payment | The two dispatch agencies that handle virtually every fire call in Pierce County want to consolidate &ndash; first by sharing a building, then by merging their communication operations into one.

deployment: Lewis-McChord unit will return to Afghanistan | President Barack Obama in December pledged to send 30,000 more troops to the country. His top commander there ordered many of them onto smaller bases to be closer to the local population.

| The Sprague Avenue exit in Tacoma and its traffic weave on state Route 16 will stay open another week, the state Department of Transportation said Thursday.

| Lt. Gen. Charles Jacoby returns home Sunday after a year as the American military&rsquo;s second-in-command in Iraq, but he won&rsquo;t stick around Joint Base Lewis-McChord much longer.

tacoma: Many upset they got no warning or chance to try to save aging Boys & Girls facility | Nobody wants Tacoma&rsquo;s East Side Boys & Girls Club to close &ndash; not the kids, not their parents, not the neighbors, not their teachers.