Stefano Langone has cracked the top 24 of 'American Idol.' At tonight's nail-biter 'Idol' episode, judges Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler sat Langone down and after a some discussion pregnant with anxiety, they gave hin the news:
He's in.
Every Friday morning, Scott Skinner goes to Scenic Hill Elementary knowing he’s got a friend waiting, just for him.
But rather than playing Four Square or the other things typical sixth-graders do, Scott’s friend does something else.
She shows him how to be successful.
Scott, 12, is the recipient of a mentor – a grownup who spends time with him each week, to help him get the most out of school.
Thanks to the Communities in Schools of Kent organization, Ann Hagensen for the past two years has been helping Scott navigate the tricky shoals of being a teenage student. As a volunteer, Ann helps Scott understand some of the basic elements of being a good student: to connect and have fun with other kids, to be organized, to follow directions.
Kent city street crews will de-ice and sand streets as needed Thursday night and Friday morning as freezing temperatures are expected to turn any moisture on roads to ice.
King County is growing and has a diverse multitude of residents, based on data revealed Feb. 23 by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The census counted 1,931,249 residents in King County, a number that confirms the county's rapid population growth during the first decade of the 21st century, according to a county media release.
The snow showers appear to be over in Kent but record-setting low temperatures are expected for Thursday night and Friday.
Many buses on snow routes, warming shelters open, some King County government agencies have delayed start
Residents urged to prepare for a slow commute, check ahead, and have patience as region wakes up to overnight snow
Although King County government as a whole is officially open, several departments affected by the weather conditions have announced delays for Thursday, February 24.
City of Kent road closures this morning due to snow.
The Kent City Council last week approved a $1 million cut to the city’s 2011 general fund budget, and another $288,000 reduction in the city’s street and youth-fund budgets this year because of an unexpected major drop in revenue from the city’s 6 percent telephone-utility tax.
“This is one more hit,” Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke said in a phone interview Tuesday. “We can’t seem to get a break. It took us all by surprise.”
Cooke hopes the city gets a break from any Green River flooding the rest of this winter.
That’s because the city plans to use its $1 million flood-emergency fund set aside in this year’s budget,to plug the hole in the general fund left by the drop in telephone-utility tax revenue.
“Hopefully, we are still in a position where we do not need to use the flood money,” Cooke said, of events in the months ahead.
Jury selection is expected to start Wednesday at King County Superior Court in Seattle for the man charged with stabbing to death a Kent woman in 2007.
King County prosecutors charged Randall Edward Connor, 31, with first-degree murder for killing Merianne Lorentson, 24, in her East Hill apartment.
The city of Kent is opening its severe weather shelter Wednesday through Friday nights at Kent Lutheran Church, 336 Second Ave. S., due to predicted dangerously low temperatures and snow.
Anywhere from 1 inch to 6 inches of snow could strike Kent and the rest of Western Washington Wednesday afternoon with even heavier snow showers predicted for Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
Kent Predators quarterback Charles McCullum shares a hotel room with another player and gets one meal per day as an Indoor Football League player.
The team covers the cost of the hotel and meal for McCullum and about 16 other out-of-state players on the 30-member squad. The rest of the players are from the Puget Sound area and most have full-time jobs. Players are paid $225 per game for their only football income.
The retrial of a former Kent businessman accused of the first-degree murder of his wife in Federal Way has been scheduled for April 4 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
King County prosecutors announced Feb. 9 the second trial date for Joseph Naimo, 63, a former general manager at AAA Pest Control in Kent. He remains in custody at the county jail in Kent in lieu of $1 million bail.
Firefighters from the Kent Fire Department and South King Fire and Rescue are assisting Highline Community College staff in Des Moines in cleaning up water damage following a small fire at about 8 a.m. Tuesday in the Community Outreach building in the 23800 block of Pacific Highway South.
A 7-year-old Kent boy died Saturday after he flew off a sled into a Snoqualmie Pass roadway and was hit by a car.
A measure aimed at stimulating economic development and promoting tourism in King County was introduced late last week by state Rep. Tina Orwall, (D-Des Moines).
A Kent businesswoman is throwing her hat into the local political arena.
Gwen Allen-Carston, well-known in Kent business circles, is running for a seat on the Kent City Council.
Valley Medical Center has scheduled six public meetings where the public can get information and ask questions about the proposed strategic alliance with UW Medicine.
The medical center’s Board of Commissioners recently approved a letter of intent that allows executives with Valley and UW Medicine to work out the details of the alliance.
Under the alliance, Valley Medical Center would affiliate with UW Medicine, which has similar arrangements with Northwest Hospital in Seattle. Also part of UW Medicine are Harborview Medical Center and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.
A 32-year-old Burien woman was sentenced Friday to a minimum of 26 years in prison for first-degree rape of a child, first-degree child molestation, sexual exploitation of a minor and dealing in child pornography in connection with the rape of a 4-year-old girl as well as sending videos of the abuse to a pedophile in California.
Hollie Beston received the same sentence that her ex-husband Brian K. Beston, 36, of Kent, received in June on the same charges in connection with the girl.
Kent resident Stefano Langone has advanced to the top 60 on "American Idol" and a spot in the Feb. 23 show from Las Vegas when contestants must perform songs by the Beatles.
