King County prosecutors filed a first-degree murder charge Friday against a 15-year-old Kent teenage boy in connection with the Oct. 30 shooting death of a 16-year-old boy in the Boulevard Park neighborhood, south of Seattle. They also filed a first-degree robbery charge that day against a second 15-year-old Kent boy in connection with the shooting death.
More than 500 people showed up at a job fair for the Kent Events Center on Nov. 1 at the Kent Commons recreational facility.Ticket takers… Continue reading
A 16-year-old girl lost control of her car and drove it off the Green River Road into the swollen, swift moving waters of the Green River just north of the Auburn Municipal Golf Course on Friday morning.
Two boys, ages 2 and 13, were in the car at the time and remained missing as of 1 p.m.
Kent firefighters rescued a man from the top of his car after the vehicle stalled in flood waters at 6 a.m. Friday in the 22000 block of 76th Avenue South.
It’s never too early to get kids thinking about graduation on going on to college and at Scenic Hill Elementary School, they’re taking that to heart.
Voters in Kent, swept up in the same blue wave that sent Democrats to the White House and the governor's mansion, sent four Democrats of their own to Olympia to represent them for the next two years.
The following is a listing of the most recent tallies for many of the major political races affecting Kent residents. Results come from the King County elections Web site, www.kingcounty.gov/elections, and the Washington State elections Web site, www.secstate.wa.gov/elections.
Residents can tell the Kent City Council what they think about crime, traffic or any other issue at a town hall meeting 9 a.m. Saturday at the Kent Station branch of Green River Community College, Room 238, 417 Ramsay Way.
After needing three counts and several days to claim victory in 2004, Gov. Christine Gregoire appeared to sail to re-election Tuesday night with the major… Continue reading
What is happening at the King County Elections Office in Renton today began in 2004, in the wake of a highly controversial governor's election that sparked hundreds of reforms in how the county runs elections.
Democrat Christine Gregoire won that election by just 129 votes – statewide – after recounts and court rulings. Her opponent: Dino Rossi.
Sen. Barack Obama has won the U.S. presidential race electoral college votes, beating out Sen. John McCain, according to national news outlets.
It's election day, and across the nation, polling stations have been filling up, as well as mailboxes with absentee ballots.
It was no different Tuesday afternoon at Kent Commons, where polling workers assisted a steady stream of voters, checking them in and handing them ballots.
Thunderbirds fans should expect to be impressed in the months ahead, when a fancy scoreboard with video screens and graphics lights up at the Kent Events Center.
Cottage-style housing could be coming soon to Kent despite a 4-3 vote by the City Council on Oct. 21 against a proposed ordinance that would allow developers to build as many as two housing-demonstration projects.
Police responded to a report of a man in his 30s swearing and throwing French fries at a fast-food restaurant at about 9:30 a.m. Oct.… Continue reading
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers announced Saturday that its members voted to ratify a new four-year contract with The Boeing Co. by 74 percent.
The Kent Sister Cities Association has scheduled its annual recognition event for 6-8 p.m. Thursday at Kent City Hall Council Chambers, at Fourth and Gowe in downtown Kent.
Kent Police and other law-enforcement agencies arrested 23 known gang members for outstanding warrants or probation violations, during an Oct. 24 crackdown from Federal Way to South Seattle.
Two people were killed and two seriously injured Thursday night in a five-car accident involving a wrong-way driver on southbound Interstate 5 at South 272nd Street in Federal Way.
