Here are the top 10 most viewed stories on the Kent Reporter’s website for 2014, according to Google Analytics:
• 1: Trader Joe’s announces new Kent location (29,789 views, Jan. 17)
Grocery store signs lease to open store in the fall on the East Hill.
• 2: 22 players walk out on Seattle Impact FC because of owner (10,968 views, Nov. 21)
Players leave new Kent-based indoor soccer league team after sexual assault and other allegations against owner Dion Earl.
• 3: Top attorney, Kent community leader Prothero dies (8,011 views, April 19)
Kent attorney Mark Prothero dies from cancer at age 57.
• 4: Why Trader Joe’s is coming to Kent (7,530 views, Feb. 27)
City officials discuss why grocery store picked Kent for a new location.
• 5: A young life taken too soon; community gathers to remember Teagan (5,884 views, Nov. 9)
Friends, family honor Teagan McGinnis, a Kentridge High teen killed in a 2013 multi-car accident near the high school.
• 6: Soccer team owner receives sexual harassment protection order (5,257 views, Oct. 31)
Woman from Seattle Impact FC dance team accuses Dion Earl of sexual advances.
• 7: Lizarraga gets 38 years in prison for Kent murder of Devin Topps (4,269 views, Feb. 7)
Jorge Lizarraga sentenced in 2010 shooting of popular Kentridge High student-athlete.
• 8: Burien man claims he shot to death Shell employees because of ‘disrespect’ (3,353 views, Aug. 21)
Man tells detectives why he fired shots that killed two men at Kent service station-store.
• 9: Bullying, fights plague Kent middle school (3,155 views, May 8)
Victim of bullying tells about problems at Mill Creek Middle School in Kent.
• 10: Kent School District superintendent to step down, accept new position (2,937 views, Oct. 3)
Edward Lee Vargas announces he will take a job with a national nonprofit agency after serving Kent schools since 2009.
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