Kent Police arrested a 17-year-old Kent boy for investigation of first-degree assault in connection with the stabbing of a 30-year-old Auburn man at about 6:56 a.m. Jan. 9 at a convenience store parking lot.
King County officials won’t be getting out of the animal-shelter business as quickly as they had planned.
The County Council agreed Monday with a request by County Executive Dow Constantine to extend the deadline for closing the Kent and Bellevue shelters to June 30, from the previous Jan. 31.
A 31-year-old man was sentenced Jan. 6 to a minimum of 7 years, 2 months in prison for the second-degree rape in August 2008 of a 14-year-old runaway girl in Kent.
Jamie Perry quickly has moved up the Kent City Council ladder.
The Council unanimously elected Perry (formerly known as Danielson) Tuesday as Council president for the next two years.
King County prosecutors have charged a 37-year-old Kent man as well as three other men for animal fighting in connection with reported illegal cockfighting operations in Kent and Auburn.
Fans can expect to get blown away by the rock, when the Pink Floyd Experience plays the ShoWare Center Jan. 21 in Kent.
Tom Quinn, lead guitarist for the tribute band playing the Jan. 21 ShoWare gig, described the quadraphonic sound system used on tour during a recent phone interview from his San Diego home.
A 21-year-old Kent man pleaded not guilty Monday morning in King County Superior Court in Kent to a charge of third-degree child molestation in connection with a Dec. 16 attack of a 14-year-old girl along a trail near Kent-Meridian High School.
Recent repair projects by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have greatly improved the strength of sections of the Green River levees in Kent. But other levees remain weak, and some won't be fixed until at least 2011.
Kent Police on Saturday arrested a 21-year-old Kent man for investigation of indecent exposure and child molestation in connection with a Dec. 16 incident along a trail near Kent-Meridian High School.
The King County Prosecutor's Office filed a charge Dec. 23 of third-degree child molestation against a 21-year-old Kent man in connection with a Dec. 16 attack of a 14-year-old girl along a trail near Kent-Meridian High School.
The Kent Predators found a few good men Saturday to start to build a roster for the professional Indoor Football League expansion team.
Kent signed 15 of the 55 players who competed in a tryout Saturday at The Soccer Center in Tacoma.
A state Liquor Control Board sting caught eight vendors at the ShoWare Center in Kent selling alcohol to minors during a recent hockey game.
SMG, the operators of the city-owned arena, faces a possible $500 fine or a five-day suspension of its liquor license in February by the liquor board for selling alcohol to minors at concession stands during a Dec. 11 Seattle Thunderbirds hockey game. SMG requested a Jan. 13 hearing with a liquor board officer to get the fine or suspension reduced.
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Police cited the mother of a Kent grade-school student Dec. 9, after she allegedly yelled at her son's teacher and hit the teacher with a door during the incident at the school, located in the 6300 block of South 236th Street.
Truck and car drivers no longer have to wait for trains along South 228th Street at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks.
Kent city officials Tuesday opened the South 228th Street overpass between 84th Avenue South and 76th Avenue South. The street had been closed for 18 months as construction crews completed the $20 million project.
A 58-year-old Seattle man was struck and killed by a small pickup truck as he tried to cross the Benson Highway at about 5:45 p.m. Wednesday in the Panther Lake area of unincorporated Kent.
The American Red Cross can feed thousands of residents this winter if Green River flooding causes large evacuations in Kent, Auburn, Renton or Tukwila.
Red Cross and King County officials Tuesday in Renton displayed a mobile kitchen housed in a 53-foot trailer where workers can produce as many as 12,000 to 15,000 hot meals per day.
Mix motorcycles and ice and what do you get?
You’ll find out when the World Championship Ice Racing Series comes to the ShoWare Center 8 p.m. Dec. 18 in Kent.
More than 30 professional racers will compete on motorcycles and four-wheel, all-terrain vehicles around an oval track on the ice. Racers can go from 0 to 60 mph in less than 3 seconds on the motorcycles and reach speeds of 50 mph on the all-terrain vehicles.
Dee Woods joined the King County Long Term Care Ombudsman Program two years ago to help make sure residents of adult family homes receive proper treatment.
