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Police Blotter: Hooker says she chose Kent over Miami

Kent Police arrested a 23-year-old woman for investigation of prostitution loitering at about 1 p.m. Aug. 1 near…

Beth Sylves

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Kent Events Center directors ready to roll

With the Kent Events Center slated to open in about five months, Josh Holmes and Beth Sylves have…

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Blotter: Man cited over hostile phone messages

A woman told police that a man she had met through work left hostile and vulgar voicemail messages…

Mark Maughan

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Dogs may bark, but the reader moves on for Kent city worker

During his work as Kent city water-meter reader, Mark Maughan crosses the paths of pit bulls, Labradors and…

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City looking at cost-saving measures for ’09 budget

City of Kent officials may leave open as many as 100 jobs over the rest of the year,…

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Blotter: Eggs and toilet paper make for depressing evening

Four young men reportedly stuck forks in the lawn and threw toilet paper and eggs at a house…

Kent Police Officer Randy Brennan stands at the site where police arrested more than 100 people for illegal street racing in a private lot at 20300  59th Pl. S.

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Street racing? No more for Kent

Kent Police are cracking down on illegal street racing in the city’s industrial valley.

Tammy Heldt

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Recreation is Kent city worker’s full-time job

There is something for everyone in the city of Kent’s recreation program because of Tammy Heldt.

Kent Police Department had a press conference July 30 to announce formation of a regional car-theft task force. Kent Police Lt. Bob Holt

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Regional task force to put the brakes on car theft

Police agencies throughout South King County expect to be catching a lot more car thieves soon.

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Arrest follows threatening display of gun | Kent Police Blotter

A passenger in a Jeep Cherokee reportedly pointed a handgun at a man after a fight at about…

King County Superior Court Judge Richard McDermott announces a sentence for Clayton MacDonald Thursday at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. McDermott acknowledged the series of tragedies that had befallen MacDonald’s family

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Kent teen gets 7 years in shooting death of friend

The lives of two families were forever changed because of the shooting death of 16-year-old Kyle Weis by…

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Kent: Man stabbed in botched robbery, drives self to hospital

A man drove himself to the hospital July 8 after he sustained a stab wound to the chest…

Jennifer Harrell poses in the window of a greenhouse at the city’s nursery

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Nursery manager Harrell keeps Kent in the green

When Jennifer Harrell plants a tree, birds pay attention.

Work crews were out in force Tuesday doing repair work to the flood-control levee near the Riverbend Golf Course in Kent. A great deal more work needs to be done on levees throughout the Green River Valley

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Kent, county tackle levee-repair work

The Green River Valley needs the river to run through it, not over it.

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Blotter: Man sustains knife wound to chest

A man drove himself to the hospital July 8 after he sustained a stab wound to the chest…

Edward E. Cobb

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Charge filed in July 12 Kent shooting death

The King County Prosecutor’s Office filed a first-degree murder charge Friday against an 18-year-old Seattle man in connection…

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A bigger court for Kent?

City and King County officials continue to struggle with the lack of court space at the Aukeen District…

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Kent: Man holds gun to clerk’s head in store robbery

Two men, one of them armed with a handgun, reportedly robbed a clerk July 3 at a service…

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Was gang violence behind deadly shooting in Kent?

Kent detectives were still investigating Wednesday whether gang activity was behind the July 12 shooting death of a…

Ellen Bond

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Court clerk Ellen Bond keeps the job real, enjoys her work

No two court cases are the same to Ellen Bond. Despite the hundreds of cases Bond has heard…