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Shawn Kemp, who spent the majority of his NBA career with the Seattle SuperSonics, entered a guilty plea in the 2023 shooting outside the Tacoma Mall in Washington state. The Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office confirmed that Kemp admitted to second-degree assault in the incident. The six-time NBA All-Star initially faced charges for first-degree assault with a firearm. Prosecutors later tacked on a second count of first-degree assault and a charge of drive-by shooting. If he had been convicted on the original charges, the 55-year-old could have been up against a considerably longer prison sentence. Tacoma police received a call...

From the leftist Tacoma newsrag, a surprising positive mention of assistance by a National Guardsman during the Mall shooting Sunday: Frank Stiles, a 68-year-old retired air traffic controller, was strolling through the Tacoma Mall on Sunday, minding his own business. He heard a familiar sound, but one he never expected to hear near a Sam Goody store: gunfire. "Once the shooting started, I recognized it for what it was," said Stiles, a former hunter and one-time military man. "I started for the deck, and I was hit in the upper arm as I went down. I was angry."Stiles was one...

Whether man, now paralyzed, could have fired is unclear TACOMA -- Brendan McKown, carrying his own pistol, was prepared to stop the "reign of terror" at the Tacoma Mall on Sunday before he was shot and critically wounded, friends and family said Tuesday."If he could be in a position to protect others, he wanted to be there," his father, Roger McKown, said. "I'm proud of my son. I think he's a hero."     Brendan McKown Brendan McKown, 38, lies critically wounded in a Tacoma hospital, and doctors fear that he might be paralyzed.Dominick Sergio Maldonado, 20, is accused of...

Upon his return from a week in Mexico, a clearly irritated Rush Limbaugh lashed out Monday at liberal critics who accused him of seeking to make a profit from troops stationed in Iraq. He says the idea for his "adopt-a-soldier" Limbaugh subscription gift offer came from a listener. While he was away, however, lefty detractors were quick to compare his program to Air America's recent (and failing) "associates" campaign....