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Kent Police looking for who shot and killed 19-year-old man

Kent Police are still looking for the person or people who shot and killed a 19-year-old man last…

Crews work to clean up oil dumped on a private wetland in the Kent Valley near South 216th Street

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State, city of Kent trying to determine who dumped oil on wetland

Crews from the state Department of Ecology spent a third day on Wednesday cleaning up waste oil spilled…

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Kent man faces trial date for death of his mother; cash thefts

A Kent man faces a scheduled Feb. 29 trial date in King County Superior Court for second-degree manslaughter…

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Best of Kent Police Blotter for 2015

A recap of a few of the strangest Kent Police Blotter items from 2015:

A new parking garage for Sounder train commuters in Kent is part of a Sound Transit proposal for future projects that still need to be funded.

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Sound Transit proposals could benefit Kent

Kent could see a new downtown parking garage for Sounder train riders and the expansion of light rail…

A Kent Police drug bust in February in Renton that included $400

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Kent Reporter’s most viewed website stories of 2015

Here are the top 10 most viewed stories on the Kent Reporter’s website for 2015, according to Google…

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Kent considers recycling contract change for commercial businesses

The city of Kent might require commercial businesses to use Republic Services for recycling pickup rather than choosing…

State crews clean up an oil spill on Monday in Kent on a wetland off of South 216th Street

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State crews clean up oil spill on Kent wetland

Crews from the state Department of Ecology (DOE) spent all day Monday cleaning up an oil spill on…

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Federal Way woman dies, two Kent residents hurt in I-5 crash Saturday

A 42-year-old Federal Way woman was killed and two Kent residents injured in a two-vehicle collision on Saturday…

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City plans pedestrian improvements to Kent-Kangley Road

It should be safer for pedestrians to cross Kent-Kangley Road next year under improvements planned by the city…

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Wood stove fire damages Kent home

Three people were displaced on Tuesday night after their wood stove started a fire in the joist space…

Kent Police Chief Ken Thomas speaks to the media on Monday at City Hall about the arrest of man for the drive-by shooting death in April of a baby girl. King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg

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Gang retaliation shooting reportedly led to murder of Kent baby girl

Kent Police believe a 24-year-old Seattle-area gang member shot and killed a 1-year-old girl in an April drive-by…

Telesforo Hernandez-Roa lowers his head as defense attorney Robert Perez watches speakers prior to the Friday sentencing in Kent of Hernandez-Roa to 16 years in prison for the murder of his ex-wife in July 2014. The headset provided Hernandez-Roa with an interpretation of what the speakers were saying.

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Burien man receives 16 years in prison for stabbing ex-wife to death

After the family of Ruth Castillo-Yanez told a judge how angry they were at Telesforo Hernandez-Roa for brutally…

Crews will start work next year on a new South 228th Street overpass over the Union Pacific railroad tracks to separate vehicles and trains.

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City of Kent finalizes funding for South 228th Street overpass

After numerous detours, stops and wrong ways, the city of Kent finally finalized funding to build another overpass…

Here's a sequence of how flashing yellow lights will work in Kent at nine intersections.

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Flashing yellow turn signals come to downtown Kent

Flashing yellow turn signals will come to nine Kent intersections as part of an upgrade to the city’s…

City of Kent Chief Administrative Officer Derek Matheson.

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City of Kent aims to run more efficiently with new performance project

Kent city leaders hope to see the city operate more efficiently over the next several years if a…

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Bullet flies through couple’s Kent hotel room | Police Blotter

A husband and wife escaped injury at a Kent hotel despite a bullet coming up through their room…

The state will increase the number of recreational marijuana retail stores allowed to 556 from 334.

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State board to increase number of marijuana retail stores by 222

The state Liquor and Cannabis Board (WSLCB) on Wednesday heard a recommendation from staff to increase the number…

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Kent mobile home fire displaces West Hill family

An early Wednesday morning fire displaced a family of three from their Kent West Hill mobile home.

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Hit-and-run driver injures pedestrian in Kent on South 212th Street

An 18-year-old SeaTac man suffered serious injuries and spent four days in the hospital after being struck in…