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A look at local web happenings in Tacoma, Pierce County and South Puget Sound
Monday, December 31st, 2007
Posted by Mark Briggs @ 06:37:37 am

What did you read on our web site last year? Crime, sports and a couple oddities - the usual mix of Internet news.

Our most popular story of the year, about three Fircrest families who receive death threats via cell phone, was viewed more than 160,000 times making it the most-viewed story in the web site's history (at least as far as I can tell). That's more page views than our entire site receives on a slow day. It benefited from the same linking from other sites that drive a lot of traffic to our sports coverage (which I wrote about previously).

One particular oddity this year is that almost half the stories were published in June (Nos. 1, 3, 6, 8 and 11). Not sure how to explain that.

Here are the most popular stories from 2007:

1. A horror movie comes to life
2. Death stuns school
3. Pressure's on Portland
4. Student dies in shooting at Foss High School, suspect captured
5. Seahawks intend to shop Jackson
6. Stuckey's stock rising
7. Bombing at Iraqi parliament kills 8
8. Dressed up dead fawn left near theater
9. Ridnour trade talk emerging
10. Airline employee from Lakewood arrested after flight from Seattle

The No. 11 story from 2007 is a candidate for the Darwin award, too: Nude driver cited for drinking and 'embracing' while driving

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