The King County Sheriff's Office Marine Unit and K-9 unit are searching Wednesday afternoon at Clark Lake Park on the East Hill in Kent in an effort to find a 49-year-old Kent woman reported missing by relatives since Jan. 2.
The American Red Cross announced Wednesday it temporarily ran out of supplies in earthquake-devastated Haiti, where up to 100,000 people may have died.
The Kent School District’s annual Technology Expo is scheduled for this month and this year’s event promises to be bigger than ever.
Kent Police arrested a 17-year-old Kent boy for investigation of first-degree assault in connection with the stabbing of a 30-year-old Auburn man at about 6:56 a.m. Jan. 9 at a convenience store parking lot.
Sheriff detectives arrested a 22-year-old Skyway man Jan. 8 for investigation of rape, robbery and kidnapping. They believe he committed at least two other rapes and perhaps more.
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WSDOT will restrict flammable cargo in both directions of I-5 under the Washington State Convention and Trade Center from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 13.
Most state-run liquor stores will be open Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 18, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The 2010 Washington State legislative session started Monday in Olympia.
This year’s session is expected to once again be dominated by the state budget and attempts to fill a $2.6 billion budget gap created by falling state revenues due to the recession.
King County officials won’t be getting out of the animal-shelter business as quickly as they had planned.
The County Council agreed Monday with a request by County Executive Dow Constantine to extend the deadline for closing the Kent and Bellevue shelters to June 30, from the previous Jan. 31.
DATE/TIME: Jan. 11, 2010, 12:35 p.m.
DESCRIPTION: Both directions of SR 516 at I-5 in Des Moines are closed due to a rolled over semi in the eastbound lanes. The ramp from Military Road S. to eastbound SR 516 is also closed. A tow truck is en route to upright the semi.
An 18-year-old Kent motorcyclist was critically injured at about 5:37 p.m. Sunday after colliding with a disabled car parked near the shoulder along eastbound Highway 18, just south of the Southeast 304th Street exit in Auburn.
The Kent Predators new pro indoor football team hired Brian Brents Thursday as vice president of operations.
In the industry, he's a known quantity, not to mention a major coup for Kent.
He was the 2009 Indoor Football League coach of the year for the expansion El Paso Generals last season.
A 31-year-old man was sentenced Jan. 6 to a minimum of 7 years, 2 months in prison for the second-degree rape in August 2008 of a 14-year-old runaway girl in Kent.
Kent Police, as of Friday, still were looking for a 49-year-old Kent woman reported missing by relatives since Jan. 2.
A frigid wind caused a multitude of candles to sputter out Wednesday night at French Field.
But the group that gathered at Kent-Meridian High School’s football stands just hunkered closer together, sharing flames from other, still-lit candles to ensure each of their comrades had a flame to call their own.
A 97-year-old Renton woman died Thursday from injuries suffered in a two-car accident earlier in the day at the intersection of Southeast 200th Street and the Benson Highway in the Panther Lake area of unincorporated Kent.
A decomposed body was found Thursday by Washington State Department of Transportation workers clearing brush along Interstate 5, about 2 miles south of Kent.
Jamie Perry quickly has moved up the Kent City Council ladder.
The Council unanimously elected Perry (formerly known as Danielson) Tuesday as Council president for the next two years.
Kent Police are still investigating the early morning accident that killed a Kent-Meridian student, but early indications are that speed and and driver inexperience played a role in the crash.
