Mesa News

Actions speak louder than words. Thurston County commissioners have announced they are getting ready to build more onto the Accountability and Restitution Center, or more commonly called the ARC.

The driver of a truck suffered minor injuries when it was struck by a train Friday morning at a Puyallup crossing.

District official Durga Das said four coaches derailed when the driver of the express train applied emergency brakes on seeing the freight train on the same track.

The lawyer for a U.S. Border Patrol agent charged in Mexico in the shooting death of a teenager along the Rio Grande is rebuffing calls from a Mexican government official that he be sent to there for trial.

Killed in Sunday's wreck were Jacob Nunez and Ana Julia Martinez, who were visiting from the Dominican Republic; their daughters, Maria Gonzalez and Maria Nunez, and three grandchildren, ages 3, 7 and 10.

PASCO, Wash. - Franklin County commissioners met on Wednesday and approved a permit that will expand a dairy's feedlot five miles east of Mesa.

Twenty-eight scholarships totaling $92,500 will be awarded Friday at a ceremony honoring students in the Hispanic Academic Achievers Program, or HAAP.

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