In concert with Pierce County, Kitsap County, Mason County and the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, King County called a Phase 1 burn ban.
Thanks to Kent Police Chief Strachan for his article on the Miranda decision and its impact on law enforcement and the criminal justice system in the United States. I applaud the chief’s efforts and intentions in opening up the communication and dialogue with the people of our community and in maintaining a professional police department. However, I have a different perspective on the Miranda decision and its impact on law-enforcement practices and policies.
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Did you know Thomas Edison’s cylinder phonograph could be used to play and record sound? And that magnetic tape-recording technology was actually taken from the Germans after World War II?
What does royalty do the night before a coronation? Well, if the royalty is Miss Cornucopia 2008, the answer is: help perform surgeries.
Rui Li, who stars for the Kentwood High golf team, won the girls 16-17 age division with a 1-under-par 71 in the final Washington Junior Golf Association District Six sub-district tournament last Monday at Lipoma Firs Golf Course in Puyallup.
A list of recreational events happening in Kent.
They dreamed big.
But Chuck and Elena Stowell never imagined things would snowball quite like they have.
Or in such magical fashion.
The Kent couple lost their only daughter, Carly, on April 12, 2007 of an acute cardiac arrhythmia. Just days away from her 15th birthday, Carly collapsed in a North Carolina hotel room while at a tournament with her select AAU basketball team, the Emerald City Legends.
In 1854, a cholera epidemic struck London, England. Thousands of people were dying and no one could determine the cause. Doctors were stumped as deathly ill adults and children filed into the overcrowded hospitals.
Amador Reyes AbrejeraAmador Reyes Abrejera of Kent, passed away July 20, 2008 at the age of 69, in the presence of his wife and daughters.… Continue reading
A biting sense of humor pulled her through.
Because during even the most difficult of times in what was supposed to be the finest volleyball season of her already strong prep career, Alison Fairchild always had that on which to fall back.
Even when she couldn’t fall back on the one thing she once unknowingly counted on the most: her left knee.
Adam Marsland has lived the life of a touring musician for many of his 36 years, and now the California-based, genre-jumping artist will make a stop in Kent.
• EVENT: 21st Annual Schuck’s Auto Supply NHRA Nationals, the 14th of 23 events on the NHRA Powerade Drag Racing Series.
Gary Densham says one of the three biggest days of the year in Northwest – along with Seafair weekend – is when the NHRA comes to Pacific Raceways in Kent.
A few weeks ago I surveyed the major contenders be named for Barack Obama’s running mate and concluded that he will likely select a popular Governor in a swing state. Why a governor? Because anything associated with Washington, D.C. is toxic. President Bush’s popularity is in the 20s and the popular rating for Congress is 9 percent!
Carson and Tess Henley don’t need Simon Cowell or Paula Abdul to tell them they’re talented.
She’s only 2, but Super Dixie already is making her mark at Emerald Downs.
It wasn’t what the King County Jaguars had in mind for the third annual Cornucopia Bowl.
Kent Police were still looking Monday for a gunman in connection with the shooting death of a 17-year-old Renton boy. The youth reportedly was shot in the head during an argument among more than 20 young men Saturday evening at a fast-food restaurant on the 300 block of East Smith Street.
A 31-year-old caregiver pleaded not guilty July 2 in King County Superior Court, to charges of second-degree rape in connection with alleged attacks on a physically and mentally disabled woman at a Kent assisted-living facility.
