Kent Police considered Lakewood Police officer Gregory Richards "one of our own."
Richards, 42, of Graham, was one of four Lakewood officers shot and killed Sunday in a Parkland coffee shop. He started his police career in 2001 in Kent.
With a shiny new namesake opened around the corner, the old Panther lake Elementary School on 108th Avenue Southeast sits empty these days. But if floodwaters rise this winter, the old school will be pressed back into service to house students from schools in the flood zone.
Don Ihry, known throughout Kent for the decorated antique tractors that lined his property on Benson Avenue, died this past weekend. He was 71.
The Kent fire department responded to a house fire on Kent-Kangley Road early Friday morning that has displaced one local family.
According to Captain Kyle Ohashi of the Kent Fire Department, firefighters received a call for a house fire at approximately 12:20 a.m. Friday and arrived at the 12100 block of Kent-Kangley to find the house in flames.
Devin Stumpf does not look like your stereotypical poet.
But when the sixth-grader at Park Orchard reads his writing – reluctantly, at first – his work connects him better to his feelings and a way to express them.
The Kent City Council has scheduled two special workshops to discuss the 2010 city budget.
King County Elections Tuesday morning certified the results of the county’s first all-mail General Election, completely accounting for all ballots received and processed by the… Continue reading
The death of a 50-year-old Boeing employee Nov. 18 at the Boeing plant in Kent has been ruled a suicide, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office. The agency released its findings Nov. 19.
Firefighters from Kent and Tukwila responded at about 2 p.m. Wednesday to the plant near the corner of South 212th Street and the West Valley Highway.
ShoWare Center officials say the new arena in Kent could post a loss of as much as $343,000 this year.
When she grows up, Andrea Alvarez wants to be a poet. Or an artist. Or an author.
“I mostly like to write poetry and stories,” she said, telling a little bit about her most recent story, a tale of a boy waiting in the principal’s office. “I like writing because you can write whatever you want.”
The Kent City Council will vote Dec. 8 whether to ask voters next spring to approve forming a regional fire authority merging the Kent Fire Department and King County Fire District 37.
The Kent Sunrise Rotary has received notification that it is one of 12 area clubs approved by Rotary District 5030 for matching grants. The club plans to fund a portable shower trailer for local churches collectively running a shelter for 30 homeless men.
Western Washington residents may be feeling panicked and powerless as storms, high winds and floods destroy homes, buildings and other property.
Better Business Bureau cautions homeowners, businesses and charity donors that faux charities solicit donations and fly-by-night repair companies seek to take advantage of those in need during times of natural disaster.
Assault
A 48-year-old man reportedly stabbed a 41-year-old woman in the hand with a fork during a dispute at about 12:10 p.m. Nov. 16 at a chemical dependency treatment center in the 500 block of Washington Avenue South.
While a lot of businesses close their doors for the Thanksgiving holiday, that is not the case at the Golden Steer.
Thursday afternoon, while the restaurant may be open, it won’t be for business.
A Sunday evening fire at an apartment building on the West Hill has left three Kent families temporarily homeless.
The Kent Fire Department, South King Fire and Rescue and Medic One crews were called to the scene of an apartment fire in the 23800 block of 30th Avenue South at approximately 11:30 p.m. Sunday.
A 43-year-old Kent man was sentenced Friday to 31 years in prison for the stabbing death of his Kent girlfriend last year on Interstate 5.
Christel David Murphy was sentenced at the King County Courthouse in Seattle by Superior Court Judge Palmer Robinson, said Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the King County Prosecutor’s Office.
The state Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) has rejected most of a proposed rate increase for Puget Sound Energy electric and natural-gas customers.
The Kent City Council continues to grapple with the 2010 city budget after a second public hearing about the budget this past week.
The Council will have a budget workshop 5 p.m. Dec. 2 at City Hall, and is scheduled to adopt the budget Dec. 8, although that date could change.
Seventy-two parents and players from a Kent soccer club packed the Kent City Council meeting Tuesday night at City Hall to plea for replacement of the fields lost two years ago when the city built the ShoWare Center.
