Youths throughout King County showed their family dogs, mixed breed and purebred, Saturday April 2, at Argus Ranch.
Kent Police arrested two women on prostitution charges April 2 at a Kent hotel after undercover officers responded to an ad offering escort services.
Two members of the same Kent family were arrested for DUI in King County within one hour of each other on April 3, according to the Washington State Patrol.
Take a few minutes to visit with camera collector Bob Kelly and it's easy to understand why a friend refers to him as "The Argus King."
Kelly, who will participate in the 31st annual Puget Sound Photographic Collectors Society sale and show 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 9 at Kent Commons, collects Argus cameras, sales brochures, user guides and other company documents.
King County prosecutors have charged a 32-year-old inmate with one count of first-degree assault and four counts of third-degree assault for when he allegedly fought five county corrections officers in January at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
Barbara Jeanne Anderson, a Kentlake High School math teacher, pleaded not guilty in superior court today to a charge of first-degree sexual misconduct.
The King County Prosecutor's Office filed the charge, which is a class C felony, against the 37-year-old teacher alleging she had sexual contact with a 17-year-old male student in her class.
I can’t tell you how many years I have waited to become a grandmother.
I had just about lost hope when, approximately two years ago, our daughter and her husband told us they had started the adoption process. Then the waiting began.
I have forgotten how to have fun. It’s rather pathetic, but I realized the other day I struggle to have fun in my every day life. I was contemplating my inability to have fun and thinking of all the times I’ve had fun: partying in my 20’s, dating, getting married, delighting in my little kids, watching them discover the world. It was somewhere in the “delighting in my little kids” when I think I stopped having fun.
Stepping stone. Building block. Both have been used to describe the success of the Kentwood High girls track team last spring, a season in which the Conquerors won the program’s first-ever South Puget Sound League North Division title with a perfect 5-0 record and went on to take a school-best sixth place at the state meet.
Stepping stone?
Building block?
The Conquerors view last season’s success as a springboard. And what lies ahead could be truly special.
April is Disaster Preparedness Month and the King County Office of Emergency Management (OEM) urges citizens to take simple steps to prepare for earthquakes, floods, man-made disasters and other emergencies.
“We can’t stop disasters from happening, but we can prepare to survive them,” says OEM Director Hillman Mitchell. “Now is a perfect time to think about what you would do if a large disaster were to strike our region."
The Himawari Japanese Preschool is hosting a charity bazaar from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. April 16 to support earthquake-ravished Japan.
The Sierra Club South King County group and Friends of Soos Creek Park, in coordination with King County Parks, gathered Saturday morning for the 16th semiannual restoration of Soos Creek Park and Trail.
Cherry Blossom Celebration
The retrial of a former Kent businessman, accused of the first-degree murder of his wife in 2008 in Federal Way, is scheduled to start April 4 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
Casey Calamusa, of Kent, stopped to notice the walls posted with names at an emergency evacuation center in Tome, Japan, just days after the earthquake and tsunami struck the country.
People had posted names on the center's walls of relatives they had yet to hear from since the disaster.
King County Assessor Lloyd Hara is on the road again talking about property values and economic conditions past, present and future.
Since taking office in November 2009 he has made more than 300 presentations to the public explaining and discussing the effects of the Great Recession on the property values around King County.
"American Idol" viewers disagreed with a couple of the show's critics who predicted Kent's Stefano Langone could be sent home Thursday night. The voters advanced Langone into next week's top nine.
Renton Police filed papers Thursday to recommend that the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office file first-degree assault and reckless endangerment charges against a 63-year-old Kent man who was shot and injured March 30 by Kent Police.
King County prosecutors filed second-degree murder charges Thursday against a 20-year-old man in connection with the shooting death of Devin Topps last Halloween at a party in Kent.
The King County Flood Warning Center, which has been monitoring rain-swollen rivers since early Wednesday morning, has issued a Phase II flood alert level for the Green River. Only minor flooding is expected as a result of controlled increased flows on the Green River, and only in the primarily rural areas without river levees upstream of Auburn.
