TACOMA, Wash. (HawaiiNewsNow) – Colleagues and loved ones gathered to honor the life and service of Mililani High School graduate Tara-Marysa Guting, 29, who died in the line of duty as a trooper in Washington State.

Tara-Marysa’s older sister, Shannen Tanaka, spoke at the funeral.

“Tara, although our heart aches with your absence, we know you did not leave us behind. You remain bound to us by love that does not end. You remain just beyond our sight until the day we are able to be together again. We love you,” Tanaka said.

She delivered an emotional eulogy as she stood at the podium with siblings Troy and Ariana Hirata at Saturday’s memorial service.

“I don’t know how familiar you all are with the movie Lilo and Stitch, but there’s a quote that says Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind. It was a sentiment that Tara lived by,” her sister said. “Ohana, in its deepest sense, is unconditional love, support and inclusion. It reaches beyond blood.”

The Washington State Patrol Trooper was struck and killed while responding to a crash in Tacoma.

The 2014 Mililani graduate leaves behind her husband Tim, who serves as a Deputy State Fire Marshal at the Washington State Patrol Fire Training Academy.

Together they had four pets.

Tara-Marysa was one of many first responders in her family, including her brother-in-law Devin Tanaka.

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“Tara’s passing is a devastating loss to a family who knows all too well both the rewards and risk of public service,” Devin Tanaka said. “We will never forget Tara, nor the 33 heroes that died members serving the State of Washington State Patrol.”

Friends and coworkers say Tara-Marysa left an impact on everyone she met.

“Tara you were my safe place, you made the world feel softer, more funny and exceedingly more manageable just by being in it, and even though I don’t know how to exist in a world where I can’t sit next to you on that couch again, I do know this, your love did not leave with you,” said Lily Guerrero, Tara-Marysa’s best friend.

One of her co-workers said, “It felt like every other day she was bringing some sort of gift or Hawaiian snack to literally every person in the building where we worked just to spread a little bit of joy.”

The funeral ended with a solemn salute for Guting.

She was the 34th person to die in the line of duty in the 105-year history of the Washington State Patrol.

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A Washington State Amber Alert has been issued for 14-year-old Cheyanne Howell after she was reported missing from Lummi Nation, tribal officials say. Anyone with information is urged to call 911 immediately.

Cheyanna was last seen at around 2 a.m. on Saturday when she left Bellingham with another individual, according to the amber alert. Specific details about the circumstances of her disappearance were not immediately released.

Cheyanna is described as a 14-year-old female with brown hair and brown eyes, standing 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing 200 pounds. She wears glasses and was last seen wearing a pink camouflage zip-up sweatshirt, possibly red pants and carrying a gray backpack.

Cheyanna is believed to have been taken in a white 2003 Lexus LS430 with Washington state license plate CLX6617. No information has been released about the person she left with.

Earlier on Saturday, police issued a Missing Indigenous Person Alert (MIPA) for Cheyanna, but it was later upgraded to an Amber Alert.

Anyone who sees Cheyanna or the suspect vehicle is urged to call 911 immediately, or call the Lummi Nation Police Department at 360-676-6911 if you have any other information that could help investigators. You can also call the Washington State Patrol.

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After 50 years as the FBI’s main headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover Building in D.C. is closing permanently, Director Kash Patel announced Friday.

“We finalized a plan to permanently close the FBI’s Hoover headquarters and move the workforce into a safe, modern facility,” Patel said in a post on X.

He didn’t state the exact date the building will close and when FBI employees will move into its new offices.

The agency had announced in July that it would abandon the Hoover building and move to the Ronald Reagan Building, just a few blocks away at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Patel noted in his post that when President Donald Trump’s administration came into office in January, “taxpayers were about to be on the hook for nearly $5 billion for a new headquarters that wouldn’t open until 2035. We scrapped that plan. Instead, we selected the already-existing Reagan Building, saving billions and allowing the transition to begin immediately with required safety and infrastructure upgrades already underway.”

His said that most of the FBI headquarters’ employees will be in the Reagan Building and “the rest are continuing in our ongoing push to put more manpower in the field, where they will remain.”

In November, Maryland leaders sued the Trump administration after it scrapped plans to move the bureau’s headquarters to Greenbelt and opted instead to keep it in Downtown D.C.

Maryland leaders criticized White House officials for ignoring the site selection process of Congress and the General Services Administration when it chose to remain in D.C. The lawsuit also pointed out that Congress had already appropriated funds for the Greenbelt relocation.

When the move to the Reagan Building was announced over the summer, critics maintained that it would not meet the security demands needed for the FBI. Patel said the agency is working on the building to ensure it has the required safety and infrastructure upgrades.

The Reagan Building is connected to the International Trade Center, and already houses some federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as well as several non-government businesses.

The J. Edgar Hoover Building was designed in the brutalist style popular in the 1960s when it was conceived and constructed. It was criticized for not conforming to the style of other federal buildings, and Hoover himself called it “the greatest monstrosity ever constructed in the history of Washington.” It was completed in 1975, and President Richard Nixon named it after the longtime FBI director after Hoover’s death in 1972.

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