UPDATE as of 1:40 a.m. Police are not looking for any suspects at this time, Schrock said. Police are interviewing witnesses. Eight Federal Way officers fired upon the man who reached for the gun, and will be placed on administrative leave, per procedure, while the shooting is investigated, Schrock said.

The exact address and name of the complex appears to be the Pinewood Village Apartments, 33311 18th Ln. S. The ages of the deceased were not immediately available, but Schrock said all were adults.

UPDATE as of 12:25 a.m. A fifth person, an …

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The manager of the Victoria’s Secret store at South Hill Mall was injured Saturday morning when she attempted to stop three women stealing brassieres.

According to Puyallup Police, three women entered the luxury lingerie shop at approximately 11:30 a.m., scooped up about 150 bras worth an estimated $8,000 and made for the door.

“It was a grab and run,” said Dave McDonald, assistant chief of the Puyallup Police Department. “They loaded up and took off.”

The store manager followed the robbers and attempted to stop them just outside the store’s main entrance.

All three of the women attacked the …

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The Board of Naturopathy and the state Department of Health have suspended a Seattle-area naturopath’s license for giving 109 patients medical marijuana authorizations at Seattle Hempfest in 2011.

According to the Department of Health, naturopathic physician Dimitrios Magiasis saw 110 people and gave all but one a medical marijuana authorization based on exams that averaged less than 15 minutes.

The patients weren’t required to provide medical records, and Magiasis didn’t adequately diagnose the source of patients’ pain.

Health officials say this “assembly-line” practice amounts to an authorization mill and doesn’t meet patient care standards.

Magiasis may not apply to …

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An 18-year-old Eatonville man recently released from prison has found himself behind bars again after allegedly ramming a Pierce County sheriff patrol car during a high-speed pursuit.

Hobert Clark pleaded not guilty today to two counts of second-degree assault, felony eluding of a police vehicle, reckless endangerment and driving on a suspended license. Commissioner Meagan Foley ordered him held in lieu of $100,000.

The incident started about 1:20 a.m. Tuesday when a deputy noticed a car driving 55 miles per hour – 20 mph over the 35 mph speed limit- in the 7800 block of 352^nd Street. Clark sped up …

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Tony Phillippi, the co-founder of the Tacoma City Marathon: He finished the race about 3:40 and had just returned to his hotel about a half mile away at the time of the first explosion. Seattle-area friends Steve Yee and Chris Warren are safe with him at their hotel at Huntington Avenue and Belvidere Street.

“They’re suggesting we stay in our hotel right now …

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UPDATE: A teenage boy riding in the car has died, Cool said. Three other people, two other teenage boys and a teenage girl, survived, she said.

PREVIOUS POST: Tacoma police and firefighters were called to Point Defiance Park this afternoon to investigate a single-car wreck along Five Mile Drive.

Police spokeswoman Loretta Cool said someone in the car was critically injured, and authorities closed part of the road. The wreck occurred about 4:50 p.m.

Further details were not immediately available.

Staff became concerned when a man walked into Frederickson Elementary School today and asked to make a phone call, spokeswoman Krista Carlson said.

“When they tried to tell him: ‘No, our phones are not for public use,’ the way he presented himself just didn’t sit well with our staff,” she said.

They called a School Resource Officer, who arrested the man, and in the process found a BB gun on his person, Carlson said.

“Mostly, the reason why we called was because he was acting disgruntled, and I guess he was not very organized in what he was saying,” she …

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