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.
The King County Prosecutor's Office filed a charge Wednesday of third-degree child molestation against a 21-year-old Kent man in connection with a Dec. 16 attack… Continue reading
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Assault
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.
ASSAULT
A 27-year-old woman told police that her husband of eight years grabbed her, shoved her and broke through a locked bedroom door to get to her during a domestic dispute at about 12:07 a.m. Nov. 25 at an apartment in the 24800 block of 101st Place Southeast.
Kent city officials plan to lobby the state Legislature next year to help pay for Green River levee repairs as well as a design to rebuild the Highway 167 interchange at Willis Street.
Heather McIntosh and two dozen other Kent city employees used silly humor, energy drinks and motivation to make it through nearly 30 straight days of work filling giant sandbags, in preparation for possible flooding this winter.
A King County Superior Court jury in Seattle found a 66-year-old Kent man guilty of first-degree murder Thursday in connection with the shooting death of… Continue reading
The King County Animal Control Officer's Guild filed a lawsuit Friday against King County and County Executive Dow Constantine to seek release of e-mails from a citizens' advisory committee that in 2007 issued a report that called conditions at the Kent animal shelter “deplorable.”
Voters in Kent and King County Fire District 37 will decide in April whether to approve forming a regional fire authority. The new entity, if approved, would merge the Kent Fire Department with King County Fire District 37.
The Kent City Council voted 5-2 Tuesday night to adopt what Council President Debbie Raplee called "a pretty conservative" 2010 city budget.
The professional Indoor Football League is coming in March to the ShoWare Center in Kent.
ShoWare Center officials and the co-owners announced at a press conference Monday that the Kent Predators will compete in the second-year league.
TobyMac calls it a "Winter Wonder Slam" tour.
But fans should expect to hear Christmas songs as well as regular hits when the Christian rapper and three other artists perform 7 p.m. Saturday at the ShoWare Center.
