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Team Speedtrap's Nuutti Hakkanen gets ready to rifle a shot past Tasers goalie Colin Nash during action Saturday at Kent Valley Centre. Speedtrap won the game

Hockey tournament supports Cops With Cancer

It's summer hockey on ice, all for a good cause. Fifty-two area players, including one who flew in from San Francisco, competed on four teams at the sixth annual DJ Baskin Memorial Hockey Tournament at the Kent Valley Ice Centre this weekend.

Team Speedtrap's Nuutti Hakkanen gets ready to rifle a shot past Tasers goalie Colin Nash during action Saturday at Kent Valley Centre. Speedtrap won the game
The Blue Angels return to the skies over Seattle this week

Blue Angels to fly over Seattle today

Pilots with the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, will fly over Seattle today.

  • Jul 28, 2014
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The Blue Angels return to the skies over Seattle this week
Some Kent residents want the city to extend its ban on fireworks to include the Fourth of July.

Kent residents lodge fireworks complaints at City Council

Several residents made enough noise about fireworks in Kent that the City Council's going to see what it can do to address the problem of so many illegal devices landing in the yards of homes.

Some Kent residents want the city to extend its ban on fireworks to include the Fourth of July.

Maple Valley Youth Symphony offers opportunities this summer

The Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra expands its low-cost summer program, offering two camps in August.

  • Jul 25, 2014
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Kent Soroptimists

Soroptimist of Kent turns golden

One of Kent's longest-running service clubs celebrates 50 years this year.

Kent Soroptimists
Joe Fain

League of Education Voters endorses Fain, Sullivan for 47th District

The League of Education Voters (LEV) has endorsed Sens. Joe Fain (R-Auburn) and Rep. Pat Sullivan (D-Covington) for Washington's 47th District for the upcoming elections.

  • Jul 24, 2014
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Joe Fain
Jack Bermingham

Highline president receives national award

Dr. Jack Bermingham, president of Highline College, was selected as a recipient of the Diversity Visionary Award from Insight into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education.

  • Jul 24, 2014
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Jack Bermingham

Prosecutors charge Burien man with killing ex-wife in Kent

King County prosecutors filed a second-degree murder charge against a Burien man in connection with the stabbing death Sunday of his former wife at a Kent Park & Ride lot.

Players battle along the baseline during the ShoWare Shootout 3-on-3 basketball tournament last Saturday. A field of 122 teams competed on 14 courts over two days for division titles.

Champions crowned at ShoWare Shootout | SLIDESHOW

Dave Stump and his teammates like the outdoors and prefer the half-court.

  • Jul 24, 2014
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Players battle along the baseline during the ShoWare Shootout 3-on-3 basketball tournament last Saturday. A field of 122 teams competed on 14 courts over two days for division titles.
Eighteen coal trains per day could start rolling through Kent if a proposed Gateway Pacific terminal is built near Bellingham to ship coal from Montana and Wyoming to China.

Coal trains could increase vehicle wait times by 65 percent

Coal trains could cause an average 65 percent increase in traffic wait times at rail crossings, with no benefit to local economy, according to an economic impact study by the Puget Sound Regional Council.

  • Jul 24, 2014
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Eighteen coal trains per day could start rolling through Kent if a proposed Gateway Pacific terminal is built near Bellingham to ship coal from Montana and Wyoming to China.
Ralph 'Phil' Abbenhouse turned 100 last Saturday. In the photo is Abbenhouse

Celebrating a centenarian

Family and friends threw a surprise 100th birthday party for Ralph "Phil" Abbenhouse in Kent last Saturday.

  • Jul 24, 2014
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Ralph 'Phil' Abbenhouse turned 100 last Saturday. In the photo is Abbenhouse
King County Executive Dow Constantine.

King County executive calls for federal action to protect region from oil train disasters

King County Executive Dow Constantine commented Thursday about the oil tank car derailment earlier in the day underneath the Magnolia Bridge in Seattle:

  • Jul 24, 2014
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King County Executive Dow Constantine.
A computer rendering of a proposed underpass at the Union Pacific railroad tracks along South 228th Street. City officials are considering local improvement districts to help pay for the project.

Kent City Council further studies LIDs to pay for street/railroad grade separations

Commercial and manufacturing property owners would be the ones to pay if the Kent City Council decides to form local improvement districts (LIDs) to help fund major street construction projects.

A computer rendering of a proposed underpass at the Union Pacific railroad tracks along South 228th Street. City officials are considering local improvement districts to help pay for the project.

Kent Police get $15,000 grant to crack down on illegal street racing

Kent Police are planning a big crackdown on illegal street racing this summer because of a $15,000 grant from State Farm insurance to combat the problem.

Kent woman among three arrested for providing material support to foreign terrorist group

A 44-year-old Kent woman was among three people arrested on Wednesday on charges of providing material support to al-Shabaab, a designated foreign terrorist organization that is conducting a violent insurgency campaign in Somalia.

  • Jul 23, 2014
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Find out about potential light rail routes to Kent and Federal Way at a Sound Transit open house from 3-6 p.m. Thursday

Sound Transit to host light rail open house July 31 about Kent extension

Sound Transit will have an open house on Thursday, July 31 about extending light rail to Kent/Des Moines by 2023 with plans to reach Federal Way when more funding is secured.

Find out about potential light rail routes to Kent and Federal Way at a Sound Transit open house from 3-6 p.m. Thursday
Roads could get wet and slick if rain hits on Wednesday in Kent as predicted.

Rain could make Kent roads slick Wednesday

Kent drivers could experience slick roads on Wednesday if rain finally strikes the area as predicted.

  • Jul 22, 2014
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Roads could get wet and slick if rain hits on Wednesday in Kent as predicted.

Kent Police investigate West Hill killing of woman; suspect turns himself in

Kent Police are investigating an apparent domestic violence killing on the West Hill of a 39-year-old woman found dead in her car at a Park & Ride lot on Military Road South.

Kent officers involved in shooting treated and released at hospital; victim identified

The four Kent Police officers injured in Sunday's shooting and explosion along 86th Avenue South each were treated and released later on Sunday at Valley Medical Center in Renton.

Kent Old Timers 25th reunion on Aug. 10

The annual Kent Old Timers Greater Community Reunion will run from 1-4 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 10 at the Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith St.