Traffic investigators with the Kent Police Department responded to a fatal traffic collision Wednesday evening on the East Hill.
Police, firefighters and paramedics were called to the 11700 block of Southeast 233rd Place at 6:55 p.m. March 23. Initial reports indicated that a baby had been struck by a car.
A 40-year-old Maple Valley man, Troy Allen Hewitt, was charged with second degree murder and first degree assault by the King County Prosecutor March 23, in superior court.
Hewitt is alleged to have stabbed to death James Reed III and wounded Reed's 49-year-old father with a knife, March 20, following a bar fight at the at the Red Dog Saloon located at 18605 S.E. Renton-Maple Valley Road in unincorporated King County.
Barb Drumheller lives in the Country Club Village neighborhood on Kent's East Hill where people know each other's names and help each other.
Many have been neighbors since they bought new houses in the area in the 1990s. So after Drumheller lost her husband Ed Drumheller to cancer in 2006, the neighborhood decided to join for the first time in the Relay for Life of Kent, the annual June event that raises money for the American Cancer Society.
A stove top fire has displaced six people in the 17100 block of SE 267 Street in Covington at 6:50 p.m. today, March 23.
No one was injured in the fire that heavily damaged the cabinets located above the stove top, but smoke traveled extensively through the two story house.
The sickly state budget dominated discussions when Washington journalists trekked to Olympia to hear from legislators and the state’s elected department heads.
Those who control millions of taxpayer dollars and oversee thousands of employees took turns lamenting the state of the budget on March 17, a day when new projections were announced. By mid-day, all knew the budget gap had reached $5.1 billion
Kent-Meridian High School will host the 14th Cherry Blossom Festival from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, March 25.
Kent's Stefano Langone will sing a Motown hit as one of the 11 "American Idol" finalists Wednesday night on Fox.
The King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office filed a first-degree sexual misconduct charge Tuesday in Superior Court, a class C felony, against Barbara Jeanne Anderson, a Kentlake High School teacher.
The 37-year-old math teacher is alleged to have had sexual contact with a 17-year-old male student who was in her class at the school.
The Kent-Auburn-Tamba Sister City Committee is accepting donations through its nonprofit, 501c3 status to forward to friends in Tamba, Japan for them to distribute toward earthquake relief.
The city of Kent launches a new garbage and recycling program April 1.
Kent’s new contract with Allied Waste Services of Kent for garbage and recycling service is designed to boost the recycling rate and save the city money on disposal fees.
Kent residents can purchase rain barrels and compost bins at a city-sponsored Recycled Products Sale from 9 a.m. until the items run out March 26 at Russell Road Park, 24400 Russell Road.
The King County Sheriff's office reported a woman teacher at Kentlake High teacher was arrested and booked into the King County jail Thursday, March 17, for investigation of sexual misconduct with a minor, first degree, a class C felony.
Sgt. John Urquhart, spokesman for the King County Sheriff's Office stated the 37-year-old woman is alleged to have had sexual contact with a 17-year-old male student.
The identities and manner of death of the three sets of human remains found March 10 at a nursery near Kent remained under investigation Monday by the King County Medical Examiner's Office.
A 30-year-old Oregon man pleaded not guilty Monday to a first-degree murder charge in connection with the May 21 stabbing death of Seth Frankel, a Kent city employee.
When Kent city officials want results from the Legislature in Olympia, they turn to Doug Levy, their paid lobbyist.
Levy works as a lobbyist for Kent and five other cities under year-to-year contracts. He's getting paid $66,000 in 2011 by Kent to identify key issues, monitor legislation and assist with state funding for city projects.
A Kent woman was shot several times Saturday night and was transported to Harborview Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.
A release from the Kent Police Department stated officers were dispatched at about 11 p.m. to the parking lot of the American Legion Hall at 25405 97th Pl. S. The officers found the woman with several gunshot wounds.
Food vendors are wanted to participate in the city of Kent’s 14th annual Fourth of July Splash.
The festival runs from noon to 11 p.m. July 4 at Lake Meridian Park.
A bar fight at the Red Dog Saloon in the early morning hours left a 27-year-old Maple Valley man dead and his 49-year-old father injured from stab wounds.
The fight occured at 12:45 a.m. Sunday, March 20, at the Red Dog Saloon located at 18605 S.E. Renton-Maple Valley Road in unincorporated King County.
Syphilis cases in King County reached a 30-year high in 2010, prompting public health officials to call for increased testing and education for high-risk populations, especially men who have sex with men. In 2010, 283 cases of syphilis were reported, an 82 percent increase from 2009. Syphilis had been virtually eliminated in King County in the early-1990s.
The state insurance commissioner’s office investigators appear to have broken a fraud case involving more than $1 million and five elderly men and women ranging in age from 74 to 90.
According to the commissioner’s office spokesman Rich Roesler, investigators from the insurance commissioner’s office and State Patrol troopers arrested Jasmine Jamrus-Kassim, who was living in Kent, Tuesday.
