University Place News

Pierce County Sheriff's deputies will continue policing University Place through at least 2017 under an agreement unanimously approved by the City Council this week.

A 20-year-old man alleged to have a history of impersonating police officers and claiming to be a soldier was arrested Monday after he roamed hallways and visited classrooms at Drum Intermediate School in University Place.

A 20-year-old man spent several hours Monday lecturing students at a University Place middle school about his adventures fighting for the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A man was arrested at a University Place middle school earlier this week for allegedly impersonating a narcotics officer.

A divided University Place City Council voted early this morning to rescind a 2010 pay raise they adopted just two weeks ago for council members elected today.

A divided University Place City Council voted early this morning to rescind a 2010 pay raise they adopted just two weeks ago for council members elected today.A proposal to cut council pay by 50 percent and increase their family health-insurance premiums failed when the six members present deadlocked 3-3.

The mayor of University Place is urging coaches, parents and other boosters of the city parks and recreation department to attend the City Council meeting tonight to speak against cutting the department and to press council members to rescind a pay raise they gave themselves earlier this month.The regularly scheduled council meeting will start at 7 ...

Here are recent posts from The News Tribune's Political Buzz blog. For the inside scoop on government and politics, go online to blog.thenewstribune.com/politics . Among the campaign money streaming into the Tacoma mayor's race in the final weeks before Election Day are two intriguing donations recently made to candidate Marilyn Strickland.

Seattle police say a Washington's Most Wanted viewer has identified two accused tag team robbers as: Samantha Chapman Kirk Sandifer.

Timothy Clinkscales secret hiding room is no longer a secret. If you're going to hide, you might as well be well-prepared. That's what Timothy Clinkscales was thinking.

The convicted child rapist featured Friday and Saturday on "Washington's Most Wanted" was captured thanks to viewer tips, and police said the man had a secret room in a University Place apartment.

A child rapist is back behind bars after a tip led police to his secret hideout.

Make a Difference Day gave groups in Enid the excuse they needed to kick off service projects for the community.

Pierce County has taken another step toward opening two and a half miles of Puget Sound beach that has been closed to the public for a century.

Pierce County has taken another step toward opening two and a half miles of Puget Sound beach that has been closed to the public for a century.The county has begun construction of a pedestrian bridge over the railroad tracks at its Chambers Creek Properties in University Place.

It's that time of year when pumpkin surgeons, young and old, start itching for a knife.

In University Place, one issue overshadows this election: the achingly slow progress of Town Center, the public/private development on Bridgeport Way the City Council envisions as a way to expand the tax base.

A former member of the Pierce County Conservation District board of supervisors, who's now a candidate for a local city council race, was the subject of tough questioning by a Pierce County councilman this week.

Question: Larry Bucklin of University Place is concerned about illumination on Interstate 5. 'It seems that for the last year or so most of the overhead lights on the off ramp from southbound I-5 onto SR 16 have been inoperable,' he writes.

Friends, relatives and neighbors of Merna De Shon watch a 220-foot tall crane lift the 50 foot boat built by her husband George De Shon, Wednesday, October 7, 2009.