After Staff Sgt. Chess Johnson was wounded in Iraq, he was flown to Germany and then to Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He spent about a month recovering from a gunshot wound to the head before being shipped home to Fort Lewis. Read more...

Cindy Argo of Port Orchard was first in line Wednesday to get a decal transponder that will let her cross the new Tacoma Narrows bridge when it opens in July without having to stop to pay a toll. Read more...

WASHINGTON – The Army said Wednesday that it was hiring case managers and boosting oversight at military facilities after a new internal review concluded poor outpatient care extended beyond Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Read more...

Video cameras at Gig Harbor High School were installed to catch trespassers, fights, harassment – the stuff that threatens safety at the campus of 1,700 students. Read more...

Verrick V. Yarbrough: bloodthirsty gangster or wrongly accused teenager? Read more...

Tom Stenger, the outspoken Tacoma city councilman known for his sharp intellect and foul mouth, won’t be running again. Read more...

King County prosecutors charged a 15-year-old boy Wednesday with three crimes after police said he brought three stolen guns – two of them loaded – to Todd Beamer High School in Federal Way last week. Read more...

Pierce County prosecutors charged a Key Peninsula fire commissioner with second-degree assault Wednesday for allegedly attacking a fellow commissioner with a coffee mug, opening a cut on the man’s head that required staples to close. Read more...

A pickup driver approached a Puyallup elementary school student Wednesday morning and asked if she wanted a ride, according to a letter to Puyallup School District parents. Read more...

Thousands of volunteers are expected Saturday at dozens of locations countywide for Parks Appreciation Day. Read more...

Grab your junk mail and other unwanted paperwork bearing your account numbers, birthday, passwords and other personal information. Read more...

The second expansion joint for the new Narrows bridge arrived early Wednesday on the bridge’s Tacoma side. Read more...

Deputy Paul Evans revamped the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department’s training program for new hires. Deputy Kory Shaffer investigated meth labs and helped in dozens of cases. Read more...

An Olympia man was killed early Wednesday when his car left a street and hit a tree, the Police Department reported. Read more...

Washington’s liquor taxes will drop this summer after lawmakers allowed a surcharge of 42 cents per liter to expire. They also agreed to more than double the number of state-run liquor stores allowed to open Sunday afternoons. Read more...