King County Sheriff's Office detectives are investigating what they believe was a double suicide Tuesday evening at a home just south of the Kent city limits in the 27200 block of 33rd Avenue South.
Shawn David Gulseth, the man charged with first-degree murder in the connection with the Dec. 20 stabbing death of his Kent girlfriend at her apartment, is scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 3 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
Drivers can expect traffic delays Jan. 25-28 eastbound and westbound along West James Street near the ShoWare Center due to sidewalk and road construction.
Players from the Seattle Thunderbirds hockey team will appear from 6-7 p.m. Jan. 26 at Fred Meyer stores in Kent and Renton.
The Kent School District will host its annual Technology Exposition 6-9 p.m. Feb. 3 at the Kent ShoWare Center. The Tech Expo is an opportunity for Kent School District students and teachers to demonstrate how technology is used in their classrooms, alongside local businesses showcasing technology in careers. This partnership provides students and community members a chance to see how technology skills acquired today translate directly into future professions.
Golfers can compete in the 17th annual Winter Ball Buster Feb. 12 at Riverbend Golf Complex in Kent.
A fundraising dinner in December for Kent's Lucy Lopez Center raised nearly $3,000 - something for which Roberto Gonzales, a cofounder of the center, is thankful.
"It went wonderful," said Gonzales, seated last month in a booth at his Mexico Lindo restaurant in Kent, and recalling the Dec. 5 Mexican festivities at the Kent Senior Activity Center. "We had about 100 people."
But while the assistance is appreciated, it underscores what has become a harsh reality for the nonprofit center.
It paid to keep the facility operating for just one month.
Kent Police are investigating a pair of carjackings that occurred the evening of Jan. 21 in Kent.
Entertainment cannot get much more local than the first "Kent's Got Talent" show coming up 7 p.m. Jan. 29 at the Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith St.
King County officials continue to monitor the Green River Friday for flooding because of rainfall and releases of water from behind the Howard Hanson Dam.
But only minor flooding is expected in the lower Mill Creek basin, and in rural areas of the Green River Valley without levees upstream of Auburn, according to King County.
Kent city crews opened 76th Avenue South from South 212th Street to approximately South 222nd Street Friday afternoon after the street had been closed earlier Friday due to water over the roadway.
Helena Reynolds gladly helped place the new sign board along East Smith Street to promote the weekday lunch at the Kent Senior Activity Center.
Reynolds, a program coordinator at the city-owned senior center, continually looks for ways to let more people know about Kent Parks Deli & Cafe lunch deal to help keep it going.
Kent residents and business owners near the Green River can soon find out how new preliminary Federal Emergency Management Agency flood insurance maps could impact them.
FEMA will present the new flood maps at an open house from 6-8 p.m. Feb. 7 at the Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith St.
Chelsie Jorgensen, a member of the Seattle Mist women's Lingerie Football League team that plays at the ShoWare Center in Kent, appears in the February issue of Playboy.
Pat Curran, a longtime Kent resident and 2009 Kent Cornucopia Days Old Timers Queen, died Jan. 15 of lung cancer. She was 77.
As Bobby Dean stands in front of a cowboy mural in the entertainment room at his Kent home, he can’t help but marvel about the sudden rise of his country music singing career.
Dean, 53, signed a two-year contract in June with Lamon Records of Nashville. Lamon released Dean’s first CD “On the Radio” Jan. 4, including the single “Hank on the Radio.”
Ken Thomas couldn't even legally carry a loaded gun his first few months with the Kent Police Department because he was just 20 years old.
"Another officer had to carry my gun to the police academy," Thomas said in a phone interview Wednesday about his police debut in 1989.
Twenty-two years later, Mayor Suzette Cooke has named Thomas as Kent's new police chief.
The Howard Hanson Dam performed well during recent heavy rains to help control flooding along the Green River, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Drivers can expect traffic delays as the westbound lanes of Kent Kangley Road near the intersection of 108th Avenue Southeast will be intermittently closed between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Jan. 20 as Kent city crews work on a water main tie in.
The Kent Predators of the Indoor Football League will have tryouts for the 2011 dance team Jan. 22 at Kent Commons, 525 Fourth Ave. N.
