Kent Reporter’s most viewed website stories of 2016

Marty Kime enters a not guilty plea to murder in January 2016.

Marty Kime enters a not guilty plea to murder in January 2016.

Here are the top 10 most viewed stories on the Kent Reporter’s website for 2016, according to Google Analytics:

• 1: Man accused of shooting, killing Kent baby pleads not guilty (11,520 page views, Jan. 26)

• 2: Lizarraga gets 38 years in prison for Kent murder of Devin Topps (7,188 page views, Feb. 7, 2014, story ran two years ago but still gets lots of views)

• 3: Kent’s first Sonic Drive-In to open next year (4,288 page views, May 20)

• 4: Kent’s sale of city park to home builder upsets neighbors (3,987 page views, Jan. 21)

• 5: Jury convicts Burien man of Kent Shell station murders (3,625 page views, Aug. 23)

• 6: Kent woman wanted for insurance fraud (3,548 page views, May 11) (No web link available)

• 7: Kent man dies in car crash; Kent driver arrested (3,137 page views, July 27)

• 8: Students, faculty walk out amid high tensions at Green River College (2,818 page views, April 22)

• 9: Alligator tale strikes Kent’s Lake Meridian (2,714 page views, Aug. 12)

• 10: Kent Police to open substation at East Hill crime hotspot (2,673 page views, July 20)


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