Kent Police arrested a woman for investigation of two counts of fourth-degree assault after she reportedly pushed over another woman (her significant other) and the son-in-law of her lover.
A total of 1,504 vehicles dropped off storm debris in Kent during a King County collection event last weekend.
Boys between the ages of 6 and 9 from throughout the greater Seattle area are eligible to audition for the Northwest Boychoir.
Six Kent School District schools have received the 2011 Washington Achievement Award from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Washington State Board of Education.
Scald burns – caused by hot liquids, steam or foods – are very painful and may require prolonged treatment. These burns affect all ages and may result in lifelong scarring and even death. Annually in the United States and Canada, over 500,000 people receive medical treatment for burn injuries; roughly half of these are scalds.
For students enrolled in aerospace-industry courses at Renton Technical College, a bill proposed in the Legislature to extend the Aerospace Training Student Loan Program (ALP), if passed, could alleviate some of the stress of paying for tuition.
Kent's ShoWare Center Public Facilities District Board will have a special meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23 at the Centennial North and South conference rooms at the city of Kent's Centennial Center, 400 W. Gowe St.
The Washington State Patrol is asking for help from anyone who might have witnessed the death of a 21-year-old Sammamish man after he jumped from the Boren Street overpass and landed in northbound traffic along Interstate 5 in Seattle.
Construction has started in Kent on a new $1.2 million community center at a 114-unit public housing complex on the East Hill.
While supportive of King County’s overall river management approach, an independent peer review of the County’s river and floodplain projects found that the program would benefit by better defining and articulating its overall strategy to the public.
In 2007, Dick Spady, co-founder and president of Dick’s Drive-In Restaurant, launched the “Easy Citizen Involvement” initiative effort to create a new model for public feedback and discussions on county issues.
Mountain View Fire and Rescue firefighters responded to a brush fire near Black Diamond.
A women’s support group for victims and survivors of domestic violence is being offered by the Jennifer Beach Foundation.
Change is the unofficial theme of this year’s Covington-Maple Valley-Black Diamond Relay for Life event.
Monroe Ezell, 23, of Seattle, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to five years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Officers discovered the loaded, stolen Glock .45 pistol in the locked glove box of Ezell’s car. Ezell had given the officers permission to search the car when he was contacted about an assault suspect wanted by police. Ezell is a longtime member of the 74 Hoover street gang, a gang active in south Seattle. The five year sentence was imposed by Chief U.S. District Judge Marsha J. Pechman.
Chief Ken Thomas expects the Kent Police Department to move ahead "just fine" despite the retirements of three longtime officers.
When Kent Police officers Brian Jones, Mike Painter and Wayne Himple each hang up their blue uniforms for the final time over the next month, they will take away 97 years of experience from the department.
Nine Kent adults and six children were displaced by an apartment fire at about 8:51 a.m. Friday in the 1600 block of Maple Lane in the Kent Valley.
Kent city officials sent out a scam alert Friday morning via Twitter about someone with a white truck and a Kent logo offering to pick up tree limbs for $25 cash.
Extra law enforcement will be on the roads looking for impaired drivers in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties on Super Bowl Sunday.
