Four King County jail corrections officers were injured in a fight with an inmate at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
Two officers were transported to Valley Medical Center in Renton after the Jan. 11 incident while the other two were treated the next day by their personal doctors, said Cmdr. Williams Hayes, spokesman for the RJC jail.
A 53-year-old Des Moines woman suspected in as many as 15 bank robberies in the Seattle area was arrested Jan. 11 by Kent Police for investigation of robbing an East Hill bank.
A series of rain storms with warm temperatures will be impacting Western Washington through the upcoming weekend and into early next week.
For this upcoming period, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers does not expect the amount of precipitation in the basins of the Green and White rivers to create operational challenges for its dams.
Kent Police arrested a 26-year-old man for investigation of aiming a firearm in connection with a road rage dispute between two vehicles on the West Hill.
Officers received a 911 call from a driver that a passenger in a vehicle had aimed a handgun at him at about 10:33 a.m. Dec. 28 near South 260th Street and Pacific Highway South, according to the police report.
The Kent Predators have hired Keith Evans to coach the pro Indoor Football League team this season.
Evans coached the Wenatchee Venom of the American Indoor Football Association last year and has coaching experience with several other teams, according to a Jan. 13 Predators media release to announce his signing.
Law enforcement officials soon will transfer Shawn David Gulseth from a California jail to King County to face a first-degree murder charge in connection with the stabbing death of his girlfriend at a Kent apartment.
Gulseth, 40, of Kent, waived an extradition hearing Thursday in Mendocino County, Calif., according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.
Jeff Scott bought the Kent Predators Indoor Football League team because he believes it is "a viable product that the community wants."
Scott, of Renton, a former owner and coach with the King County Jaguars semipro football team that played in Kent, is the new majority owner who along with four partners helped make sure the Predators will return for the 2011 IFL season.
The 40-year-old Kent man charged with first-degree murder for the stabbing death of his Kent girlfriend was arrested Tuesday after officers from three California police agencies found him living under a bridge in the small town of Willits in Northern California.
Kentwood High School went on lockdown this morning, after a student reported being threatened in the school parking lot.
The lockdown, which took place at 10 a.m., was lifted after 45 minutes, as local law enforcement and district safety officers investigated.
Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke will deliver her annual State of the City address at 11:30 a.m Feb. 2 at the Kent Chamber of Commerce monthly membership luncheon at the ShoWare Center, 625 W. James St.
Most Kent customers will see decreased garbage and recycling rates when the city's new contract begins April 1 with Allied Waste.
King County prosecutors filed a first-degree murder charge against a 40-year-old Kent man in connection with the stabbing death of his girlfriend, a 45-year-old Kent woman found dead Dec. 21 in her apartment.
The attempted theft of ammonia appears to be the cause of a leak Tuesday morning at the Washington Cold Storage facility in Kent along Railroad Avenue just south of West James Street.
Kentwood High School Principal Doug Hostetter and Kentridge Assistant Principal Molly King were selected as the South Puget Sound League’s Principal and Vice Principal of the Year respectively last week.
The City of Kent is activating its Severe Weather Shelter tonight at Kent Lutheran Church for the evenings of Monday, Jan. 10, Tuesday Jan. 11, and Wednesday, Jan. 12 due to predicted dangerously low temperatures and snow.
Kent Youth and Family Services received a $10,600 check Jan. 6 from the Kent Sunrise Rotary Club to help support the nonprofit group's mental health services program.
The Kent Predators will return for the 2011 Indoor Football League season.
The IFL's executive committee approved the new ownership of the Predators, according to a Monday media release from Jim Granacker, general manager of the Kent pro team.
Kent Interim Police Chief Mike Painter is one of three finalists to be the new police chief in Peoria, Ariz.
There was a new beacon in the Kent night skies Jan. 7, as the Seattle-Thunderbirds vanquished Kelowna in Western Hockey League action at the ShoWare Center.
The center's brand-new video marquee was a veritable light show to drivers passing the center on West James Street, with pictures of the T-Birds in action as well as other events coming up for the center.
It appears the Indoor Football League won't have a decision about the future of the Kent Predators until Monday or Tuesday.
