Truck Driver Burned in Tacoma Blast Dies

The driver of a propane tanker who was severely burned in a series of explosions at a Tacoma foundry died Sunday, a hospital spokeswoman said.

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Tacoma Explosion Caused by Tanker Blast

An explosion at a foundry was caused when a propane tanker burst into flames, touching off a series of other blasts, authorities said.

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Toyota, NUMMI, Mississippi and the Corolla/Prius Conundrum

For the record- As Sergeant Shultz of Hogan's Heroes would say...... I KNOW NOTHEENG!!! There is much speculation about Toyota and the possibility of NUMMI's closure. Allow me to speculate as well.

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There is no cut-and-dried decision for Toyota to make on NUMMI.

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Repeated threats. "Somebody has to stop it!"

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Last week, researchers at the University of Massachusetts and the University of Southern California released a study that confirms what many people are all too familiar with: toxic pollution falls disproportionately on lower-income neighborhoods and communities of color.

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An interesting look at a Pacific Northwest city.

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This is a great piece on a thorny issue. I'm involved in Newsvine and other forums because of my job, but not at all sure that I would be otherwise for this very reason.

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Consignment sale franchise.

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The Pacific Grill is the highlight of the renaissance in the Tacoma restaurant scene and it is surviving the downturn in the economy better than most...it just opened a new conference center and among other events has recently hosted a monthly meeting of the TacomaAngel Network.

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Excerpt: Police arrest a 39-year-old Tacoma man in the July 2007 disappearance of his girlfriend. Glenn D. Riccio reportedly said he killed Jessica Armstrong and buried her at his Hilltop home. ...

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Galloping Gertie – A Different Kind of "Wreck" Dive

"These days most are aware of the location, identification and recoveries from the Titanic. The Titanic was a large ship but in comparison it would take 5.56 Titanics end for end to occupy the space that Galloping Gertie now occupies.

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SEATAC, Wash. -- Multiple emergency crews have responded at Sea-Tac Airport after people were exposed to fumes from a deicing solution, airport spokesman Perry Cooper said.

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A woman who saw children Monday with no mittens bought 300 pairs of gloves and donated them Tuesday to Stanley Elementary School in Tacoma.

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TACOMA, Wash. -- A 15-year-old boy was arrested in north Tacoma Wednesday for allegedly pointing toy guns at passersby while perched in a tree, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News. The boy allegedly had both a toy pistol and a toy rifle.

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Pierce County authorities are looking to charge a cancer patient's caregivers after the man was left alone in his house for days and mauled by hungry puppies. One of those caregivers is the patient's own daughter.

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The Zombies are Coming, the Zombies are Coming! Ambling through an unsuspecting city of succulent, meaty brains--our numbers large, our visage fearsome--we foist ourselves into large crowds and feast upon their shock, awe and, of course, their brains.

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With three masts, 21,350 square feet of sail and five miles of rigging, the U.S. Coast Guard Barque Eagle is a vestige of the past still used to train seamen. Master Helmsman Kate Turner has steered the Coast Guard Barque Eagle into 25-foot waves.

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Wolf-Eel: "The Ugly Old Man of the Sea"

A few years back I attended a local showing of the Hollywood blockbuster, "Lord of the Rings". Frequently, the heroes of the film were attacked by masses of hideous, howling and slathering "Orcs".

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A former Army Ranger accused of masterminding a bank robbery in Tacoma two years ago, and then claiming he'd done so to draw attention to war crimes he'd witnessed in Iraq, pleaded guilty today in U.S.

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Up and Coming in Tacoma: Taylour Woodruff and Number the Stars

I'm going pretty deep into indie territory here to bring you a young, talented, artist from Tacoma with an extremely bright future. Her name is Taylour Woodruff and her latest project is called Number the Stars.

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www.nwgangs.com This is simply a mention of a website about gangs operating in the Northwest. This site was created and is maintained/updated by a man named "Brad". Why didn't they write an entire article? They obviously talked to this guy.

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Security Guard Fired For Unionizing

TACOMA - on Thursday February 21st a picket line was staged at the Port of Tacoma APM Terminals to push the administration of Maersk, the largest ship supply vessel in the world with its North American headquarters in Tacoma, and Securitas, its contracted security department, to  …

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The house I bought in Gig Harbor (outside of Seattle) is next to the golf course mentioned in the article. I am happy to read the open space near the small airport will be left open.

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The ad on Craigslist invited people to help themselves to anything at a woman's house in Tacoma. But the woman who owns the house wasn't the one who posted the ad. Now she's trying to recover thousands of dollars that she lost.

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Bob's Java Jive, Tacoma's nearly 80-year-old coffee pot-styled building that houses a karaoke bar, was closed indefinitely Wednesday after city inspectors found serious electrical, building and fire violations.

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