A man who has been charged in connection with the drive-by shooting death of a Kent baby girl received a 46-month prison sentence on Friday in U.S. District Court in Seattle for a separate crime involving the illegal possession of a firearm.
The Des Moines-based restaurant Scotch and Vine is expected to open this spring at the city of Kent-owned Riverbend Golf Complex.
Police arrested a man for investigation of possession of drug paraphernalia after he tried to take a glass pipe and a baggie with a white substance through security at Kent Municipal Court.
Kent Police are still looking for the person or people who shot and killed a 19-year-old man last week at the Somerset Apartments on the East Hill.
A Kent man faces a scheduled Feb. 29 trial date in King County Superior Court for second-degree manslaughter and first-degree theft for allegedly letting his 86-year-old mother die in their Kent apartment in 2014 as well as stealing nearly $180,000 from her bank account.
Crews from the state Department of Ecology spent a third day on Wednesday cleaning up waste oil spilled on a Kent Valley wetland.
A recap of a few of the strangest Kent Police Blotter items from 2015:
Kent could see a new downtown parking garage for Sounder train riders and the expansion of light rail to South 272nd Street under a Sound Transit proposal.
Here are the top 10 most viewed stories on the Kent Reporter’s website for 2015, according to Google Analytics:
The city of Kent might require commercial businesses to use Republic Services for recycling pickup rather than choosing a recycling company on the open market.
Crews from the state Department of Ecology (DOE) spent all day Monday cleaning up an oil spill on a Kent Valley wetland.
A 42-year-old Federal Way woman was killed and two Kent residents injured in a two-vehicle collision on Saturday night along southbound Interstate 5 in SeaTac near the South 188th Street exit.
It should be safer for pedestrians to cross Kent-Kangley Road next year under improvements planned by the city and state.
Three people were displaced on Tuesday night after their wood stove started a fire in the joist space between the first and second floor of their Kent home.
Kent Police believe a 24-year-old Seattle-area gang member shot and killed a 1-year-old girl in an April drive-by shooting, a retaliatory attack aimed at the baby’s father.
After the family of Ruth Castillo-Yanez told a judge how angry they were at Telesforo Hernandez-Roa for brutally stabbing his former wife to death 17 months ago, Hernandez-Roa stood up in court and asked for forgiveness.
After numerous detours, stops and wrong ways, the city of Kent finally finalized funding to build another overpass to separate vehicles and trains along South 228th Street.
Flashing yellow turn signals will come to nine Kent intersections as part of an upgrade to the city’s traffic signal system.
Kent city leaders hope to see the city operate more efficiently over the next several years if a new performance project accomplishes its goals.
The state Liquor and Cannabis Board (WSLCB) on Wednesday heard a recommendation from staff to increase the number of retail marijuana stores from the current cap of 334 to a new cap of 556.
