A 24-year-old Kent man allegedly set up a Bellevue woman he met through an online dating service to steal $8,500 in cash from her for a trip to Las Vegas and a move to Florida.
A former Kentridge High School teacher faces a King County Superior Court hearing Feb. 4 in Kent on a charge of attempted commercial sexual abuse of a minor.
An accident in Kent between a King County Sheriff's Office patrol car and another vehicle that killed a teen driver could go before a Driving Review Board in February.
The operator of a medical marijuana collective garden in Kent has applied for a state license to sell recreational marijuana at the same location.
The Kent City Council will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, in Council Chambers at City Hall, 220 Fourth Ave. S., about its six-month moratorium against marijuana businesses.
A house fire in the 25000 block of 20th Avenue South in Kent has been ruled accidental and caused by an electrical malfunction in the attic space wiring.
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An inmate in custody at the King County jail in Kent died on Thursday, Dec. 26, after he hanged himself.
The King County Superior Court hearing for Kent City Councilman-elect Ken Sharp on his first-degree theft charge has been continued to Jan. 13.
A court hearing has been continued to Jan. 15 for a 14-year-old Kent boy charged with first-degree rape and first-degree rape of a child for his alleged attack Nov. 7 on an 8-year-old girl near a Kent hotel.
Residents have the chance to honor and congratulate the city of Kent’s recently re-elected and newly elected city officials at a Welcome Reception from 6-7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 7.
The state Liquor Control Board has received 18 Kent applicants so far for recreational marijuana businesses despite a city ban to prohibit such businesses.
William L. Phillip Jr., will face a second trial starting Feb. 24 in Kent after jurors were unable to reach an unanimous verdict about whether he stabbed Seth Frankel to death in 2010.
Kent city officials will try to get the 2014 Legislature to include $15 million to construct a grade separation of South 228th Street from the Union Pacific railroad tracks as part of a state transportation funding package.
City of Kent road crews will start their shifts at 4 a.m. Friday and maybe even sooner to combat a predicted snowfall of a couple of inches late Thursday night and early Friday morning.
Target, which has a Kent location, announced Thursday that it experienced a massive data breach, exposing approximately 40 million customer accounts across the United States.
A King County Superior Court jury took just one day to convict Jorge Lizarraga of the murder of Devin Topps, 18, in October 2010 in Kent.
The jury was deadlocked so King County Superior Court Judge Andrea Darvas declared a mistrial Wednesday in the first-degree murder case against William L. Phillip Jr., for the 2010 stabbing death of Seth Frankel, a city of Kent employee.
A King County Superior Court jury will begin deliberations Tuesday in Kent about whether Jorge Lizarraga shot and killed Devin Topps during a fight after a 2010 Halloween party.
