A car reportedly crashed into a Kent home Wednesday night, knocking the house off its foundations.
A car reportedly crashed into a Kent home last night, knocking the house off its foundations.
A Kent man was killed this morning after his motorcycle collided with a car in front of the Indigo Springs apartment complex, at 11101 S.E. 208th St., in unincorporated Kent.
They will see trophies earned during their senior year, class yearbooks, uniforms from their generations and music from their decade. They can bring their children and grandchildren to show off their old high school. The Kent-Meridian hip-hop dance group will perform for each group, and refreshments will be served.
Local businesses can bring non-hazardous office waste for recycling 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 14 during the Kent Business Recycling Event at Russell Road Park, at the corner of Russell Road and South 240th Street. Accepted materials include: cardboard, CDs, cell phones, computer equipment, fluorescent lights, plastics, and scrap metal. The limit is one load per business. For details, call 253-856-5549.
A wood-debris fire continued to burn Friday at a Covington wood recycling facility, just east of Kent.
Kent Police arrested a 23-year-old woman for investigation of prostitution loitering at about 1 p.m. Aug. 1 near South 240th Street and Pacific Highway South.
The Kent School District Board of Directors on Wednesday will hear its first reading of the district’s $257 million 2008-2009 budget.
A woman told police that a man she had met through work left hostile and vulgar voicemail messages for her after she told him she had no romantic interest in him because she already had a boyfriend.
Kent Police shot and injured a 24-year-old Bonney Lake man at about 3 p.m. Friday after the man reportedly tried to drive his vehicle past officers to avoid being stopped for a traffic offense.
Starting in the fall or early next year, it will cost $5 to use the boat launch at Lake Meridian Park.
With the Kent Events Center slated to open in about five months, Josh Holmes and Beth Sylves have taken on the challenge to help make the new arena a hit.
Kent residents now can use the city's Web site to file non-emergency crime reports such as theft, identity theft, vandalism and harassing phone calls.
During his work as Kent city water-meter reader, Mark Maughan crosses the paths of pit bulls, Labradors and Doberman pinchers.
But only one dog has ever bitten him.
“The worst one, and it bit me twice, was a Chihuahua,” Maughan said Tuesday, sitting in at the Centennial Building in downtown Kent. “It bit me in the shoe and again in the back of my shoe on the way out. I think it had little-dog syndrome.”
The Kent Fire Department continued to monitor the smoldering remains of a wood-debris fire at a Covington wood-recycling facility Thursday.
City of Kent officials may leave open as many as 100 jobs over the rest of the year, in an effort to reduce spending due to rising costs and declining tax revenue.
A tough economic year equals more hungry youths in Kent, but the Kent School District is there to make up the difference.
It’s a relationship that began 56 years ago this week, according to Mira Slovak, one of the biggest names in the early days of hydroplane racing.
Four young men reportedly stuck forks in the lawn and threw toilet paper and eggs at a house in the 28000 block of 122nd Place Southeast. The incident took place at about 1:30 a.m. July 22.
The incumbent has two challengers in a race in the Aug. 19 primary election for state representative in the 47th District.
