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The Associated Press TACOMA — A federal spokesman says about 150 detainees at Washington state’s Northwest Detention Center refused to eat Monday morning as a hunger strike entered its fourth day. Immigration detainees began the strike Friday. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has said any detainee who does not eat for 72 hours will be referred…

TACOMA — Pierce County prosecutors have charged the ex-wife of a retired Tacoma police detective with multiple counts of identity theft, forgery and theft. They allege that Rhoda Ramirez took advantage of the man, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. Ramirez is also a former Tacoma police officer. The News Tribune reports that Ramirez’s lawyer Barbara Corey says…

A taxicab passenger was killed after a collision with a pickup truck early Tuesday on Highway 167 near Tacoma.The taxi was heading south on Highway 167 just after midnight when a Dodge Ram pickup heading the opposite direction crossed into oncoming lanes. The taxi driver swerved, but was struck by the pickup, according to the State…

Kenyon S. Chan, the former chancellor of the University of Washington Bothell, is stepping in to run the University of Washington Tacoma as its interim chancellor. He replaces Debra Friedman, who died Jan. 26 of lung cancer. Chan, who stepped down from the Bothell post last year, is expected to serve until a new chancellor is…

TACOMA . (AP) — A woman was sentenced to six months in confinement for raping a 12-year-old boy who was one of her students at a Tacoma middle school. Keshia Shaw was sentenced Tuesday in Pierce County Superior Court and given credit for four months served in jail since pleading guilty in October to child rape. Judge…

The Associated Press TACOMA — Nearly four-dozen people demonstrated outside the federal Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma to protest deportations, and about five locked themselves together to block an entrance. The demonstration started about 6:30 a.m. Monday. Police spokeswoman Loretta Cool says it broke up about 9:30 a.m. when the people blocking the street were asked to…

King County Sheriff’s detectives arrested a 34-year-old man Saturday night in connection with a shooting death last Monday evening at a Lake Desire home near Renton. Investigators believe the victim, Ryan Prince, 27, may have interrupted a burglary. The suspect was arrested in the 1700 block of South Homer Street in Tacoma. Investigators say they are seeking other suspects and a…

TACOMA (AP) — A man serving life in prison for the 1996 rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl is seeking to retest DNA evidence that helped convict him. The News Tribune reports that attorneys for Guy Rasmussen have asked a Pierce County Superior Court judge to allow DNA evidence collected in the case…

A Tacoma man was sentenced Friday to 16 1/2 years in prison for violently shaking his infant son, causing severe head trauma and internal bleeding. Joshua Sullivan, 19, pleaded guilty on Jan. 31 to assault of a child in the first degree for shaking his 7-day-old son on May 23, 2013, according to the Pierce County…

A Tacoma man pleaded not guilty today to a first-degree murder charge in the suffocation of his 2-year-old daughter at his apartment, according to the Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’ Office. On Wednesday, Salvador Sanchez-Orozco, 26, allegedly squeezed his daughter until she stopped breathing, then called 911 and told the operator he had killed his daughter. In January,…