Summit News

A Pierce County judge ruled Friday that a brother and sister should spend at least 40 years in prison for shooting a man to death and dismembering his body 31 years ago.

With nothing to do around here but drop rocks from freeway overpasses, Tacomans have spent years mastering the skill of standing around aimlessly.

Signs many of them illegal clutter the roadside at the intersection of Canyon Road and 160th Street East south of Summit.

It's been a good month for Barbara Bitetto. On March 26, the Sumner resident was honored as one of five Unsung Heroes at the Sumner School District Community Summit, just days after she was presented with the 2009 Outstanding Adult Award by Pierce County.

Nearly 120 days after it began, the merging of the Puyallup Fire Department into Central Pierce Fire and Rescue is still an ongoing task.

There were tears in a Pierce County courtroom Friday, but none came from convicted murderer Renee Ray Curtiss.

Remarks to the Motion Picture Association of America Second Biennial Industry Summit Washington, D.C. Thank you, Dan, and a good, East Coast, early morning to all of you.

Plenty of my memories are filled with the opening day of trout fishing in lowland lakes, which happens to be this coming weekend.

EDs: APNewsNow; Will be led. With BC-Obama-Summit WASHINGTON Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is criticizing President Obama's performance at the just-concluded Latin summit, saying he bestowed a sense of legitimacy upon Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.

SUMMIT. Obama extends hands to Chavez, Ortega at summit. SUMMIT-VENEZUELA-US. Venezuela's Chavez to restore ambassador in US.

It's one thing to develop a hot new product. It's quite another to innovate -- to implement an idea that changes behavior, makes business more efficient, or eases humanity's environmental burden.

LeMaster Daniels in Yakima has hired Daniel Soto as an accounting specialist in the tax department.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd arrived here on Monday and is due to have talks at the White House with U.S. President Barack Obama on the war in Afghanistan and the current world financial crisis.

There are two types of people in this world. There are males and females, which I just recently re-learned after watching an episode of "A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila." I sometimes forget that there are ...

RNC: Welcome Back Rosy, Have Democrats Traded One Form of Deception for Another in the Budget Process? WASHINGTON, Feb.

It's hump day!! The roads are dry and visibility is good in most areas but we'll be watching for any issues you need to know before you leave your house.

Water rushes past a washed out road near Blewett Pass on U.S. 97 on Wednesday. Tom Campbell helps an unidentified man through the water covering the intersection of Roeder Avenue and Squalicum Parkway in ...

Pierce County 4-H will hold a memorial Monday for the 15 horses killed in a stable fire in the Summit area earlier this month.

MIKE ARCHBOLD; mike.archbold@thenewstribune.com Published: December 13th, 2008 12:05 AM An overturned space heater in a tack room caused the fire that killed all 15 horses inside a boarding stable in the Summit ...

Fire officials say 15 horses have died in a blaze at the Eckstein Farms boarding stable in Pierce County.