
Sunday 20th May, 2012
Big stores, small, specialty and grocers – all will compete for your liquor dollars
Near South 37th and Steele streets in Tacoma, two retail giants are girding for battle this summer. Each is betting that its business will win over a significant and profitable share of Tacoma ...
Seattle live music and bar events: May 20 – May 26
Sasquatch , one of the best music festivals around, you still won't be disappointed with what's going on in your own backyard. Among dozens of other worthy acts on any given night, ...
Wash. man accused of killing classmate on trial
A trial opens Tuesday for a Washington state man accused of killing a beauty school classmate, in a case that shook a farm city that bills itself as the "Apple Capital of the ...
Police beat: Honking, road rage and fight over feeding squirrels
The News TribunePerhaps it would have been wiser to let the old man feed the squirrels.The old man was 77. He used a walker.He lived in an assisted-living community in the 200 block of St. Helens Avenue. A sign ...
Funding is blowing in wind at remote Maryhill Museum
The Seattle TimesBesides a sculpture garden featuring Pacific Northwest artists, the grounds of the rural Maryhill Museum of Art now include 15 income-producing wind ...
From the Panama Canal to the Puget Sound
The News TribuneA wider, deeper Panama Canal will open in 2014, meaning that bigger cargo ships filled with more containers of consumer goods can move directly to the population centers of the East Coast instead of ...
Fire officials respond to pair of fires
The News TribuneTacoma Fire Department units responded to a pair of fires on Saturday evening, one at a commercial facility at the Port of Tacoma and the other at an East Side ...
New Roy chief plans to restore stability
The News TribuneThe small City of Roy has a new police chief – its fifth since 2006. The city of about 800 people had nobody acting as chief, and was down to one patrol officer, for a full year. Darwin ...
Sewer facility expansion will make way for growth
The News TribuneMajor construction on a $353 million expansion of Pierce County’s sewage treatment facility in University Place will begin late this ...
Motorcycle season calls for safety
The News TribuneSunshine and warm temperatures are all the motivation a rider needs to get the motorcycle out of the garage and onto the highway. As summer draws near, law enforcement and safety instructors are ...
Art museum talk connects faith to issue
The News TribuneThree reverends, a pastor and a rabbi walked into an art museum on Saturday, but this was no joke. The mood was respectful, polite and ecumenical as five members of Tacoma’s Associated ...
Eat lots of fish, need cleaner waters
The News TribuneState government assumes, when deciding how clean Washington waters should be, that people eat up to a half-pound of local seafood per ...
Knee surgery stats prompt changes at US hospitals
The Seattle TimesNew Hampshire's Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is changing the way it handles knee replacement surgeries based on the results of a data-sharing project aimed at improving health care ...
Seattle Times wins honors for print, website
The Seattle TimesThe Seattle Times was judged the best large newspaper in the Northwest, both online and in print, during the 2011 Northwest Excellence in Journalism contest sponsored by the Society of Professional ...
Zito beats old A's team as Giants win 8-6
The Seattle TimesSAN FRANCISCO — When equipment manager Steve Vucinich told Josh Donaldson he might want to change something to work out of his hitting funk, the third baseman shaved off his beard Friday. ...
Emerald Downs results for Saturday, May 19; handicaps for Sunday, May 20
The Seattle TimesFirst race: 2 p.m. 1 1 mile, purse $5,100, 3-year-olds and up, maiden claiming $5,000 PP Horse Jockey Line Wt. Disco D J Crispin 7/2 124 4 Our Woody D Hoonan 3 124 9 He'll Rockyou E Kubinova ...
Amarista's big night leads Padres past Angels 3-2
The Seattle TimesAlexi Amarista scored San Diego's first two runs against his former team and then doubled in the go-ahead run off Dan Haren in the seventh inning to lead the Padres to a 3-2 victory against the ...
Manny Ramirez Ks 3 times in minor league game
The Seattle TimesALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Manny Ramirez felt pretty good - despite all the boos and the three strikeouts. The 12-time All-Star went 0 for 4 for the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats on Saturday night ...
APNewsBreak: 22 states join campaign finance fight
The Seattle TimesTwenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws ...
Thunder rally past Lakers, take 3-1 series lead
The Seattle TimesLOS ANGELES — With Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant engineering yet another late comeback, the Oklahoma City Thunder pushed Kobe Bryant to the brink. Westbrook scored 10 of his 37 points ...
Clean-water settlement: Worst pollution would get priority
The Seattle TimesSeattle City Council members will get their first look this week at a federal consent decree that will govern hundreds of millions of dollars of local ratepayer spending on water-pollution control. ...
Game thread, Mariners vs. Rockies, May 19 : Mariners romp, 10-3
The Seattle TimesGeoff Baker covers the Mariners for The Seattle Times. He provides daily coverage of the team throughout spring training, and during the ...
Verlander nearly throws 3rd no-hitter for Tigers
The Seattle TimesDETROIT — As no-hit bids go, this one was proceeding almost predictably. Justin Verlander was commanding his pitches brilliantly on the mound. An overmatched Pittsburgh lineup looked ...
Seattle's First Hill: carriage rides and early fortunes
The Seattle TimesTHEN: Agnes and Alfred Anderson, who made a fortune in timber, built this big home at the southeast corner of Minor Avenue and Columbia Street, appropriately in the First Hill neighborhood of ...
Toliver leads Sparks past Seattle, 72-66
The Seattle TimesSEATTLE — It started with an innocent spurt that only seemed as if it would make an inevitable season-opening loss for Los Angeles a bit more respectable. Before she knew it, Kristi Toliver ...
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