A Hoopfest Dec. 3-4 at Kent-Meridian will benefit the girls basketball team. It's doubtful Shawn Kemp will play, but he is expected to attend the event.
The Seattle-based company plans a multi-million dollar investment in the plant that opened in 1992 in north Kent.
Ex-University of Washington basketball player Venoy Overton is scheduled to go to trial Jan. 23 in Kent on a charge of second-degree promoting prostitution.
Kent, Tukwila and other King County law enforcement agencies will conduct extra DUI patrols from Nov 24 through Jan. 2.
King County Sheriff's Office detectives plan to meet this week with prosecutors to determine whether to final additional charges against a man in connection with a 34-year-old woman found dead Nov. 8 in her Kent home.
The trial date has been continued to Feb. 20 for a Seattle man arrested in Kent and charged with promoting prostitution, leading organized crime, promoting sexual abuse of a minor and other charges.
Kent Police found no evidence of foul play during an investigation of the deaths of two Kent men found Nov. 12 in a car with the engine running inside a garage.
Kent Police arrested a man for investigation of obstructing a law enforcement officer after six officers responded to a report of man threatening customers at about 11:23 p.m. Nov. 11 at the Pied Piper Tavern.
A 15-year-old Kent boy charged with two rapes on Kent's East Hill had a hearing Monday in King County Juvenile Court to find out he will return to court Nov. 30 for a status conference.
A Kent city prosecutor and Kent Police are investigating the recent illegal topping of more than two dozen large trees on about 6 acres of city property on the West Hill.
After keeping deficits under $30,000 the first six months of 2011, Kent's ShoWare Center lost $277,376 in the third quarter.
King County prosecutors filed first-degree rape and kidnapping charges Thursday against a 15-year-old Kent boy for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl and 19-year-old woman on separate nights in late October on the East Hill.
Kent Police arrested a man for investigation of provoking assault and obstructing an officer after he fought another man along the street at about 4:54 p.m. Nov. 4 in the 6800 block of South 194th Place, just off the West Valley Highway.
Russell Hanscom said he was unsure last month if he would take a Kent School Board position even if voters elected him because of the time commitment.
The Kent City Council will have two new members in January with Bill Boyce and Dana Ralph cruising to victories in Tuesday's election.
Kent Police arrested a 15-year-old boy Monday for investigation of two counts of first-degree rape and first-degree kidnapping in connection with attacks on a 17-year-old girl and 19-year-old woman Oct. 29-30 on the East Hill.
Kent School District officials locked down Kent-Meridian High School for about a half-hour at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday after a report of a man carrying a gun near French Field, the stadium next to the school.
The trial date has been continued until Nov. 14 for Shacon Fontane Barbee, the Seattle man arrested in Kent and charged with promoting prostitution, leading organized crime, promoting sexual abuse of a minor and other charges.
Kent City Council candidate Bailey Stober claims he is paying back the state for overpayment of unemployment insurance benefits in 2010.
King County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested a 25-year-old SeaTac man Friday wanted in connection with a recent string of home break-ins in Kent and Southeast King County.
