It was the shoes on a riverbank that brought Debbie Carlson close to tears.
The Meridian Middle School teacher was on a trip to Eastern Europe this summer, and her tour group passed by a bronze sculpture of shoes, lined up on a riverbank. There were work shoes, children’s shoes, ladies’ shoes: a mixture of jobs, genders and ages.
The significance of the sculpture wasn’t lost on Carlson, who happened by this spot in the soft light of a summer day in Budapest, along the banks of Danube River with her tour group, while visiting sites of the Holocaust.
A man being held on an out-of-state fugitive warrant died Sept. 13 while in the custody of the King County Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention at Harborview Medical Center.
King County prosecutors charged a 53-year-old Kent man Sept. 9 with second-degree assault after he held a woman hostage at knifepoint and threatened to set himself and the woman on fire Sept. 3 at a Kent apartment.
Rocky Dell Pettengill is scheduled to be arraigned for the alleged assault of his Kent roommate at 9 a.m. Sept. 21 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.
Divers from the King County Sheriff's Office searched for a skull Monday in the Green River near Ravensdale but did not locate a skull or other bones and will not resume the search.
Divers conducted the search, east of Kent and Covington, after the Sheriff's Office received a 911 call about 8:30 p.m. Sunday from three people reporting they saw a skull submerged in the Green River, according to a Sheriff's Office media release.
A 60-year-old Federal Way man died Sept. 11 from injuries suffered when his motorcycle collided with a car Sept. 10 along southbound Interstate 5 near South 200th Street, just northwest of Kent.
Kent has a finalist in the 20th Annual Sutter Home Build A Better Burger Contest, a leading national competition.
Mark Pyne, 49, of Kent is one of five finalists chosen from 7,000 entries to compete for the $15,000 prize in the alternative (non-beef) burger category. Pyne will travel to Miami for the cook-off on Sept. 23, where he will have three hours to prepare his burgers for the judges.
Thirteen-year-old Lucas MacMillan left a city of Kent Parks volunteer event in the spring saying to his mother, “Everyone is so nice! I really want to do more of this community stuff.”
Gina MacMillan was touched by her son’s unprompted and genuine reaction so she passed it on to city parks staff and added, “Thank you for giving even the little kids an opportunity to help.”
Do you have old prescription drugs or over the counter medicines to get rid of? If so, the Kent Police will offer a collection site Sept. 25.
Medications can be dropped off from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at a collection site in front of the Kent Police station, 220 Fourth Ave. S.
King County prosecutors charged a 53-year-old Kent man Sept. 9 with second-degree assault after he held a woman hostage at knifepoint and threatened to set himself and the woman on fire Sept. 3 at a Kent apartment.
Rocky Dell Pettengill is scheduled to be arraigned for the alleged assault of his Kent roommate at 9 a.m. Sept. 21 at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.
A 33-year-old Kent woman pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to conspiracy to commit theft of government funds and misuse of a social security number.
Police arrested a 40-year-old man for investigation of possession of a stolen vehicle, possession of marijuana, obstructing justice and driving while license suspended during an incident at about 1:18 a.m. Sept. 1 near Southeast 208th Street and 108th Avenue Southeast.
I’m pleased to share good news with you – President Obama recently signed legislation that funds improvements to strengthen the Howard Hanson Dam, reducing the risk of flooding to the Green River Valley. The funding allows the dam’s operator, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to complete repairs by the 2011/2012 flood season.
Lisa Bartholomew couldn't believe the short notice she got, telling her that vehicle access would be cut off for a full day to and from her Kent home for street repairs.
"We were locked in for nine hours," Bartholomew said.
Kent Police arrested a 29-year-old Renton man for investigation of vehicular assault in connection with a T-bone collision Wednesday morning on Kent's East Hill that critically injured his passenger, a 27-year-old Renton man.
A 31-year-old Renton man pleaded not guilty Sept. 8 to two counts of vehicular homicide in connection with the deaths of two Des Moines women Aug. 24 in a three-car accident in Kent.
Gregory Aurdell Ross entered the plea at King County Superior Court at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent.
Kent firefighters responded to two Kent businesses early Wednesday morning after heavy rains caused damage to the buildings and one partial roof collapse.
No one was injured in either incident.
Kent Station is adding three new stores totaling more than 10,000 square feet of retail space: Toys ‘R Us Express, Banyan Tree and General Nutrition Center (GNC).
All will be open by Sept. 10.
The Kent Land Use and Planning Board will meet at 7 p.m. Sept. 13 in Council Chambers at City Hall to discuss where to allow installation of electric-vehicle charging stations.
City staff will present options at the workshop about locations for electric vehicle charging stations as well as signage and parking spots for the vehicles.
Kent Police arrested a 33-year-old man for investigation of telephone harassment after he reportedly sent 56 text messages and left six voice mails to a former girlfriend's cell phone over a seven-hour period on Aug. 20.
The man also allegedly called the 25-year-old woman's house phone eight times in four hours earlier in the day, according to the police report.
Kent artist Danny Pierce was just 4 years old when he saw a magazine photo of a cow that he wanted to trace.
Pierce's cousin, however, had other ideas.
"I wanted to trace it but he wouldn't let me," Pierce said. "I drew it. That started it."
That cow drawing at his Woodlake, Calif., home helped launch Pierce's lifelong career as an artist and art instructor. He created a legacy of nationally recognized work, being recognized by the Washington Post in 1958 as "...of America's most outstanding graphic artists."
