By Adam Lynn, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Jul. 24--Somebody lied. Whether it was Pierce County's elected prosecutor, Gerald Horne, or his former No. 3 in command, Barbara Corey, will be up to a King County jury to decide.

By Mike Archbold, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Jul. 22--Bob Harding has tended the Burnett Water District and its spring water for 35 years. He isn't about to give up on it now.

By Warren Cornwall, Seattle Times May 14--Everybody, it seems, wants to save Andrew Albert's farm. The 90 acres of green hay fields and barns near Arlington hug the Stillaguamish River, which, with some restoration, could be home to abundant salmon and clean water running into Puget Sound.

By Adam Lynn, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Mar. 26--The year was 1978, and Joseph Tarricone wanted Renee Ray Curtiss for his own. The 53-year-old man wooed the object of his desire -- 28 years his junior -- with gifts, attention, even tickets to Italy, according to newly filed court documents.

By Stacey Mulick, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. Mar. 20--Pierce County sheriff's deputies have arrested a man suspected of stealing 208 gallons of gas from a Gig Harbor station last week but were only beginning to try to figure out why and how the man may have pilfered the fuel.