Browse past news stories for Foss High School in Tacoma, WA.

• A day to cherish those who’ve gone (Tacoma News Tribune)
  posted on November 2, 2009 at 03:46:41 pm
  Mariachi music, handmade tissue paper flowers, decorated sugar skulls, art and altars – the Tacoma Art Museum came alive Sunday for El Día de los Muertos.
• Seals swimmers have stellar meet (Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber)
  posted on October 27, 2009 at 07:30:35 pm
  In all my years attending swim meets for the Vashon Seals Swim Team, I have never been so overwhelmed with pride and enthusiasm as last weekend at the October Challenge Meet at Foss High School.
• A new era for Tacoma police, students (Tacoma News Tribune)
  posted on October 25, 2009 at 07:38:31 am
  Tacoma police officer Bryce Clother makes his Monday morning rounds at Lincoln High School. He approaches several knots of straggling students and herds them toward the door, while reminding others to put out their cigarettes. Clother is one of five on-duty city police officers assigned to patrol each of Tacoma’s large high schools this year.
• Ash Street shootout: The night that changed Tacoma's Hilltop (Tacoma News Tribune)
  posted on September 27, 2009 at 07:38:02 am
  Nobody died in the Ash Street shootout. That was the miracle. Ten minutes, 300 shots. Army Rangers versus gangsters. Bullet holes and broken windows. The night of Sept. 23, 1989 turned the Tacoma Hilltop into a national bulls-eye, an emblem of unrest. • Current challenges: Street keeps a tenuous hold on relative peace • Archived: Two years after the shootout heard ‘round the nation ...
• From Foss to fame: Class clown returns (Tacoma News Tribune)
  posted on September 25, 2009 at 08:42:48 pm
  When comedian Jo Koy takes the stage tonight at Seattle’s Moore Theatre, it will mark a 20-year journey from his stand-up beginnings in an accounting class at Tacoma’s Henry Foss High School.
• SOUTH SOUND: Local students score chance for scholarship (Tacoma News Tribune)
  posted on September 21, 2009 at 07:23:41 am
  Several South Sound high school seniors are among the 16,000 across the nation to win semifinalist stature in the 55th annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
• No one hurt when shots fired outside football game (Seattle Times)
  posted on September 19, 2009 at 07:07:35 am
  Tacoma police say shots were fired in a parking lot outside a high school football game, but no one apparently was hit and the game was allowed to continue.
• No one hurt when shots fired outside football game (KNDO - KNDU Tri-Cities)
  posted on September 19, 2009 at 06:48:08 am
  Associated Press - September 19, 2009 2:35 AM ET TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - Tacoma police say shots were fired in a parking lot outside a high school football game, but no one apparently was hit and...
• Shots fired at Tacoma high school game (KING5 Seattle)
  posted on September 19, 2009 at 05:28:10 am
  The suspects and intended victims all fled the scene. The game at Mount Tahoma High School was allowed to continue.
• Tacoma: Aspiring small businesses to benefit from fundraiser (Tacoma News Tribune)
  posted on August 25, 2009 at 07:15:30 am
  Family and friends of a woman killed at the Fort Lewis post exchange last month are holding a benefit dinner in her honor Wednesday to raise money for aspiring Tacoma-area small business owners.
• City Hall: Help create citizens' code of conduct (Tacoma Daily Index)
  posted on August 24, 2009 at 09:14:35 pm
  As part of the City's Safe and Clean initiative, a Code of Conduct team was established and is working with citizens to explore creating a code of conduct.
• Fort Lewis shooter had past trouble (Tacoma News Tribune)
  posted on July 24, 2009 at 07:22:12 am
  The man who shot and killed his ex-girlfriend Wednesday at the Fort Lewis Post Exchange had been accused of domestic violence in the past, according to Pierce County Superior Court records.
• Clement’s bat works double time (Tacoma News Tribune)
  posted on July 23, 2009 at 07:17:11 am
  In the 106-year history of the Pacific Coast League, only two players have slugged five doubles in a game.
• Worker, gunman die in px violence (Tacoma News Tribune)
  posted on July 23, 2009 at 07:17:11 am
  A retired soldier from Lakewood shot and killed a woman working at Fort Lewis’ main post exchange Wednesday and then fatally wounded himself.
• SOUTH SOUND: Pierce County students learn about government (Tacoma News Tribune)
  posted on June 29, 2009 at 07:15:45 am
  Several high school girls from around Pierce County took part in the annual Evergreen Girls State seminar June 14-20 at Central Washington University, while several local boys participated in Boys State at the Ellensburg campus this past week.
• Tacoma-area high school reunions (Tacoma News Tribune)
  posted on June 25, 2009 at 12:51:29 pm
  Gatherings for this this summer.
• PIERCE COUNTY: One teen’s design will appear on library card (Tacoma News Tribune)
  posted on June 15, 2009 at 09:57:41 am
  Designs created by five student artists were selected as finalists from a field of 110 entries as the Pierce County Library System proceeds with a new library card for its 17 branches. Now the public has a chance to pick the winning design.
• All-Star Grads: ‘An inspiration to everybody’ (Tacoma News Tribune)
  posted on June 14, 2009 at 07:22:41 am
  Financial times are tough. Recessions not only pinch pocketbooks but also dampen dreams. Today’s young people know it as well as anyone.
• 23-year term for Tacoma school murder (KING5 Seattle)
  posted on June 5, 2009 at 07:55:00 pm
  Douglas Chanthabouly was sentenced Friday for the shooting death of a student at Foss High School in 2007.
• 23-year term for Tacoma school shooting (Seattle Times)
  posted on June 5, 2009 at 07:33:13 pm
  A 20-year-old man who shot another student to death in January 2007 at Foss High School in Tacoma has been sentenced to more than 23 years in prison.
• Foss High School killer gets 23-year prison term (KOMO Seattle)
  posted on June 5, 2009 at 07:31:27 pm
  More than two years ago, Douglas Chanthabouly opened fire on a 17-year-old student at a Tacoma high school, sending fellow students scrambling while Samnang Kok lay dying in a hallway.
• 23-year term for Tacoma school shooting (KNDO - KNDU Tri-Cities)
  posted on June 5, 2009 at 07:27:15 pm
  Associated Press - June 5, 2009 3:25 PM ET TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - A 20-year-old man who shot another student to death in January 2007 at Foss High School in Tacoma has been sentenced to more than...
• UPDATE: Foss High shooter sentenced to 23 years in prison (Seattle Times)
  posted on June 5, 2009 at 02:17:52 pm
  A 20-year-old man convicted of fatally shooting a fellow student at Tacoma's Foss High School more than two years ago was sentenced today to more than 23 years in prison.
• Auburn Mountainview baseball blanks Prairie 3-0 (Auburn Reporter)
  posted on May 15, 2009 at 06:13:21 pm
  Auburn Mountainview junior Brandon Williams threw a one-hit 3-0 shutout against Prairie on Thursday to keep the Lions' postseason dreams alive. Williams went seven innings on the mound, striking out six and giving up just one hit.
• Sentencing for Foss High School shooter delayed (Tacoma News Tribune)
  posted on May 2, 2009 at 07:19:23 am
  Another month will pass before the man convicted of shooting a fellow student to death at Tacoma’s Foss High School two years ago is sentenced.
• Former Lost Boys work to help those left behind (Tacoma News Tribune)
  posted on April 19, 2009 at 07:22:16 am
  Ajak Ajak knows the suffering that children in Sudan face each day. In 1987, soldiers attacked Bor,
• The two sides of a deadly tragedy (KOMO Seattle)
  posted on April 2, 2009 at 06:51:13 am
  Rorth Kok's son, Samnang Kok, was shot to death at Henry Foss High School in January 2007. "I lost him. I don't have no heart, like a crazy person," he said. Douglas Chanthabouly has been convicted of Samnang's murder. "Nobody understand how painful I am (feeling) every day," Chanthabouly's mother said.
• Man convicted of gunning down fellow student in school hallway (KOMO Seattle)
  posted on April 1, 2009 at 09:36:13 pm
  Douglas S. Chanthabouly, whose lawyers argued was mentally ill during the 2007 killing, was convicted Wednesday of murdering 17-year-old Samnang Kok at Henry Foss High School in Tacoma.
• Guilty Verdict In Foss High School Shooting Trial (KIRO 7 Seattle-Tacoma)
  posted on April 1, 2009 at 08:42:07 pm
  A guilty verdict has been reached in the murder trial of a man who shot a fellow student at Foss High School in Tacoma.
• Jury Reaches Guilty Verdict In Tacoma High School Shooting Trial (Q13 FOX Seattle)
  posted on April 1, 2009 at 08:32:52 pm
  A jury in Tacoma has reached a guilty verdict in the trial of a Foss High School student accused of gunning down a fellow student in the school's hallway two years ago.  A 12-person jury convicted 20-year-old Douglas Chanthabouly of second-degree murder after deliberating for four days.  Prosecutors had charged Chanthabouly with shooting 17-year-old Samnang Kok in January 2007.   Victim Samnang ...