Kent Police are asking the public to help find a man allegedly connected with the death of a 45-year-old Kent woman found Tuesday at her East Hill apartment.
Officers found the body of Bonnie K. Peterson inside her Village at Lake Meridan apartment, 25811 110th Ave. S.E., after a call from a concerned friend.
Time is the only thing Joey Sexton is counting these days.
The hours and minutes that unfold as her daughter, Jayne Johnson, lays asleep in her hospital bed.
Those hours are the key to a process slowly unfolding in Jayne’s body. While Joey sits in that hospital room, the clock ticking away, it will only be more time before the answers finally come.
“Her body’s healing; she’s sleeping; I’m watching,” Joey said.
Maple Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra invites you to join its 2010-2011 season beginning Jan. 3. Mid-season auditions are scheduled for Jan. 5 and 12 at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, 23855 S.E. 216th St., Maple Valley, WA 98038.
Kent Police are investigating a 23-year-old Federal Way man for vehicular homicide in connection with a single-car crash Dec. 17 on the East Hill that killed a 32-year-old Kent man, one of his four passengers.
Kent Police found a 45-year-old Kent woman dead Tuesday in her East Hill apartment from a "violent homicidal death."
Police responded to a call at about 10:22 a.m. Tuesday from a friend of the woman about a suspicious death at an apartment at the Village at Lake Meridian Apartments, 25811 110th Ave. S.E.
An officer pursued three males who reportedly robbed a man but then could not find the trio or the man who initially flagged down a patrol car.
An officer drove southbound along 64th Avenue South near Meeker Street at about 1:40 a.m. Dec. 4 when a shirtless man ran out in the street in front of the patrol car waving his arms for the car to stop, according to the police report.
The Kent City Council has approved a $66,000 per year contract with Doug Levy to serve as a state lobbyist for the city in 2011.
Levy has received an annual consulting services agreement from the city each year since 2000. The Council approved the contract Dec. 14.
Kent Police and other King County law enforcement agencies continue to add extra patrols as part of the holiday Drive Hammered, Get Nailed campaign by the Washington Traffic Safety Commission.
The holiday crackdown by police against drunk and other impaired drivers started before Thanksgiving and runs through Jan. 2.
Kent firefighters responded to two house fires Monday morning on the East Hill.
The first fire at 1 a.m. in the 12400 block of Southeast 235th Street displaced a family of three. The second fire at 6:48 a.m. in the 11000 block of Southeast 217th Street sent a woman to the hospital, according to a Kent Fire Department media release.
The Washington State Patrol is looking for help to find the victim or victims of a drive-by shooting that occurred at about 3 a.m. Dec. 11 on northbound Interstate 405 near State Route 167.
Construction has started on the new ShoWare Center marquee that is expected to be operating by Jan. 7.
Kent Police arrested a 28-year-old SeaTac man Dec. 16 for investigation of commercial sex trafficking of minors, rape and assault.
The Lucy Lopez Center will offer coats and other winter items for free from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, or until supplies last.
You’ll probably never see an African marimba on MTV.
Make that the same for any Taylor Swift offerings.
For a group of student musicians at East Hill Elementary School, however, the African marimba permeates their consciousness in more ways than a Top 40 ballad ever could.
A community lunch to talk about the plight of the homeless last week netted more than 1,000 articles of winter clothing for Kent’s neediest citizens.
That was the word from Sally Goodgion, organizer of the Kent Kiwanis Club’s “Hope for Families 2010,” a fundraising lunch Dec. 9 that asked audience members to each contribute warm winter clothing as part of their admission.
The Kent City Council voted 5-2 Tuesday to adopt the 2011 budget.
Lakewood Police are seeking the public's help as they investigate the disappearance of three Pierce County men who were last seen Dec. 12 at a Kent apartment complex.
The Green River levees and the Howard Hanson Dam had no trouble this past weekend handling the deluge of the winter’s first major Pineapple Express weather system.
The cities of Kent, Auburn, Tukwila and Renton escaped any major Green River flooding despite the more than 2 inches of rain that fell Sunday.
The pillars of the Kent-Meridian High wrestling program graduated last spring.
Jesus Valdez, Nick Lemmon, Andrew Smith and Thomas Reinhart — four of the South Puget Sound League North Division’s top wrestlers last season — have moved on.
“You have four outstanding kids. They were so exceptional, natural leaders,” said Kent-Meridian coach Todd Owens.
A 23-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder for the shooting death of a 17-year-old boy two years ago inside the Southcenter Mall in Tukwila.
