South Hill News

Two state run liquor stores close their doors today for the final time as the beginning of June will mark the start of a new chapter for liquor sales in the state of Washington.

In a crime his own attorney called senseless, Merz, now 51, of Puyallup, shot his roommate to death and sexually violated her corpse before burying her body in some nearby woods.

Pierce County prosecutors have charged a 47-year-old man in a series of strong-arm robberies and burglaries targeting elderly women.

Thurston County Sheriff John Snaza led deputies on a pursuit Wednesday afternoon and helped apprehend two burglary suspects after they crashed their pickup on RW Johnson Boulevard, a sheriff’s spokesman said.

Fort Wayne police spokesman John Chambers says a witness called police Monday evening after seeing a man and woman strap the kids to the car in a liquor store parking lot, then drive away.

A Puyallup woman who said she was acting in self-defense when she fatally shot her fiancA© in front of their two young children was released from jail last night, following the Pierce County prosecutor's decision not to file criminal charges against her, according to sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer .

Coyotes defending their pups on the bluff below High Drive last week - sending a few dogs to the vet for stitches - created a minor stink on the South Hill.

Pierce County sheriff's deputies have arrested a Spanaway man they believe killed his mother with a chair and severely injured his father with a vacuum cleaner during a drug-fueled rage Monday night.