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David Lange, engineer and owner of Lange Studios, retired in 2021 and passed the torch to his son Ben. It's a new era for the studio, but jazz musicians who've recorded there for decades are excited about it's future.
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Help KNKX create a crowd-sourced collage of sounds. Grab your phone and record 30 seconds of a place or sound that is truly Tacoma. Send us your audio clip by Nov. 8
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University researchers found detention staff threw balls of pepper spray and used other means of force against detainees, including those with mental illness. They found such incidents occurred on average once a month.
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Dolly Parton visited Tacoma Tuesday to celebrate the statewide expansion of her Imagination Library in Washington state, which provides free books to kids.
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Manny Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man, died March 3, 2020, in police restraints after a struggle with police officers in Tacoma, Wash. KNKX is covering the trial of the officers charged with killing him: Matthew Collins, Christopher Burbank and Timothy Rankine.
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The Puyallup Tribe is celebrating the launch of its partnership with Kenmore Air, a new venture to diversify its economic development. Scenic seaplane flights start Friday with air tours of Commencement Bay in South Puget Sound, from a new terminal in Tacoma.
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Tacoma police officer Matthew Morse was fired after eight months of paid leave. Internal investigators were probing allegations of excessive force and workplace violence, but a police advisory committee remained unaware of the internal complaints for months.
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As of Friday's vote count, leading candidates in Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia, Bellingham and Spokane support some form of sending unarmed civilians to respond to mental health crises and other nonviolent incidents.
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Inmates at the Pierce County jail say persistent raw sewage backflow and putrid smells are causing illnesses and infections.
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Michael Reinoehl, who identified as an antifascist, fatally shot a supporter of the Patriot Prayer group after a demonstration in Portland, Oregon, backing then-President Donald Trump. The lawsuit says the federal task force didn't have any plan to arrest Reinoehl without using deadly force.