The Fife School District bus driver who had a medical emergency while driving middle school students to school Monday morning has died.

Ryan Callis, a 43-year-old father of three, never regained consciousness. He died Wednesday morning at St. Francis Hospital in Federal Way, said Reggie Green, a cousin of Callis.

Green said Callis enjoyed being a bus driver. He was an Army veteran and had driven a bus for Pierce Transit.

“He was a good bus driver,” Green said. “He was more than that. He was a good person.”

Callis was driving 12 students to Surprise Lake Middle School about …

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A quick-acting Milton middle school student guided his school bus safely off the road Monday morning after the driver had a medical emergency.

With the driver passed out, Jeremy Wuitschick grabbed the steering wheel, steered the bus to the curb and took the keys out of the ignition. Meanwhile, another student called 911 to get medical aid for the 43-year-old driver.

“We’re just happy the kid was thinking on his feet,” Milton Police Chief Bill Rhoads said of Wuitschick. “(He did) a great job.”

The scene unfolded about 8 a.m. on Milton Way near the entrance …

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A 74-year-old woman with dementia who was missing in Milton last week was found dead.

King County Public Works employees found Oksoon Mulligan’s body Thursday afternoon near the intersection of South 360th Street and 28th Avenue South. The body was along a dirt road in the area of an old landfill, the Milton Police Department reported.

The King County Medical Examiner’s Office conducting an autopsy on Mulligan last week. Her cause and manner of death are pending further tests.

Mulligan was last spotted the day before by a barista in the Safeway at 900 E. Meridian, Milton police reported. She …

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Milton police are asking for the public’s help in finding a 74-year-old woman with dementia who was last seen Tuesday.

Oksoon Lee Mulligan was last spotted by a barista in the Safeway at 900 E. Meridian, Milton police reported. She left the store and hasn’t been seen since. A police dog tried to track Mulligan but did not find her.

Mulligan is Korean, 5 feet tall and weighs about 110 pounds. She has some dementia and short-term memory loss, police reported.

She primarily travels on foot and has a noticeable hunch when she walks, police report.

Anyone with information on …

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The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department has released surveillance photos of a suspect wanted in two bank robberies, including one Monday at the Columbia Bank branch inside Summit Trading Company grocery on Canyon Road East near Puyallup.

The first crime occurred July 8 at the U.S. Bank branch inside an Albertsons store in Milton.

In both robberies, the suspect came into the grocery store wearing a motorcycle helmet. He walked up to a bank teller and then handed over a note demanding cash and threatening violence, the sheriff’s department said.

The man took the money, walked out of the store and …

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