When Kent city officials want results from the Legislature in Olympia, they turn to Doug Levy, their paid lobbyist.
Levy works as a lobbyist for Kent and five other cities under year-to-year contracts. He's getting paid $66,000 in 2011 by Kent to identify key issues, monitor legislation and assist with state funding for city projects.
A Kent woman was shot several times Saturday night and was transported to Harborview Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.
A release from the Kent Police Department stated officers were dispatched at about 11 p.m. to the parking lot of the American Legion Hall at 25405 97th Pl. S. The officers found the woman with several gunshot wounds.
Food vendors are wanted to participate in the city of Kent’s 14th annual Fourth of July Splash.
The festival runs from noon to 11 p.m. July 4 at Lake Meridian Park.
A bar fight at the Red Dog Saloon in the early morning hours left a 27-year-old Maple Valley man dead and his 49-year-old father injured from stab wounds.
The fight occured at 12:45 a.m. Sunday, March 20, at the Red Dog Saloon located at 18605 S.E. Renton-Maple Valley Road in unincorporated King County.
Syphilis cases in King County reached a 30-year high in 2010, prompting public health officials to call for increased testing and education for high-risk populations, especially men who have sex with men. In 2010, 283 cases of syphilis were reported, an 82 percent increase from 2009. Syphilis had been virtually eliminated in King County in the early-1990s.
The state insurance commissioner’s office investigators appear to have broken a fraud case involving more than $1 million and five elderly men and women ranging in age from 74 to 90.
According to the commissioner’s office spokesman Rich Roesler, investigators from the insurance commissioner’s office and State Patrol troopers arrested Jasmine Jamrus-Kassim, who was living in Kent, Tuesday.
A town hall meeting was the top entertainment recently in Covington with the 47th-District legislators from Olympia presenting some good news and some troubling predictions.
The Kent Police Department will offer its next Community Police Academy starting on April 20. Registration is open now.
The goal of the Community Police Academy is to develop lasting partnerships by increasing the public’s knowledge about law enforcement, according to a Kent Police media release.
For community members curious about the workings of their police department, this is an opportunity to get an inside look at the Kent Police Department.
A 21-year-old Kent woman was injured after a car she was a passenger in crashed at about 12:05 a.m. Friday in the Mount Baker Tunnel on Interstate 90 in Seattle.
State Patrol troopers arrested 29 DUI drivers in a 12-hour period during a crackdown St. Patrick's Day evening in King County.
A former teacher in the Kent and Renton school districts pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor for having sexual conduct with a 17-year-old male student in June when she was a teacher at Garfield High School in Seattle.
The La Crosse Spartans rushed for five touchdowns and crushed the Kent Predators 66-28 in a professional Indoor Football League game Thursday in Wisconsin.
If America doesn't know about the singing abilities of Kent's Stefano Langone, they know him now.
The former Kentwood High School student nailed Simply Red's version of "If You Don't Know Me by Now" on "American Idol" Wednesday night.
With the slogan “Let’s make our mark – and cover theirs!” serving as inspiration, service clubs and volunteer groups from throughout Kent will celebrate the arrival of spring this year by working to cover up graffiti around the city.
Pianist Alpin Hong, in Kent for a March 18 concert, also took time to stop by a few schools for educational outreach assemblies.
Kent's Stefano Langone and the rest of the "American Idol" final 12 contestants will sing songs from the year they were born on Wednesday night's show on Fox.
The city of Kent is sponsoring a teen job fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 19 at the Kent Parks Community Center, 11000 S.E. 264th St., Kent (Also known as the Kent Phoenix Academy).
The Rainier Chorale was one of seven groups that received a total of $8,450 in February from the Kent Arts Commission for 2011 projects.
To help unite families and friends in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Comcast announced Tuesday it will provide free calls to Japan for its Xfinity Voice and Business Class Voice customers.
King County prosecutors have charged a 41-year-old man with first-degree theft in connection with allegedly conning $2.3 million from a Kent businessman.
