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Pierce County has reached a $1.7 million settlement with a former top-level employee in the executive’s office. Carol Mitchell, who is Black, claimed wrongful termination, retaliation, and racial discrimination after she was fired in the summer of 2020.
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Pierce County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a man they say was holding a hand grenade while walking along train tracks just outside Tacoma Friday morning.
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Attorneys for former NBA star Shawn Kemp say he acted in self-defense when he exchanged gunfire in a mall parking lot while trying to retrieve a stolen cell phone and other items. Kemp was arrested by Tacoma police Wednesday but was released from jail Thursday afternoon without charges having been filed.
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Pierce County, the second-most populous county in Washington state, inadvertently released nearly half a million partial Social Security Numbers when responding to a routine public records request in December, according to county officials.
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The Tacoma Police Department has started emphasizing cold cases — homicides that no longer have any leads — in hopes of drumming up new information to solve them.
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Republican Pierce County Council candidate Josh Harris will not be charged with any crimes following a shooting in which Harris fired at a man driving a vehicle at him in Tacoma.
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The police department in Tacoma, Washington, will hand over the investigation into a May 30 shooting involving Republican Pierce County Council candidate Josh Harris after the county prosecutor raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest.
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Pierce County Council candidate Josh Harris, who is running on a pro-law enforcement platform, fired multiple rounds from a handgun at an auto-theft suspect Monday near a homeless encampment with police officers within earshot, according to Tacoma police and the Pierce County prosecutor’s office.
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An attorney representing a Black newspaper carrier who is suing Pierce County and Sheriff Ed Troyer has filed a temporary anti-harassment protection order against the sheriff. The order, filed by attorney Vonda Sargent, went into effect Monday. Sargent alleges that Troyer followed Sedrick Altheimer on several occasions while he was driving his paper route.
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Pierce County Council members passed a regional plan to “end homelessness” in Washington state’s second-largest county. The plan calls for the county to set up a Tacoma-Pierce Unified Regional Office of Homelessness by July 2023.