Burien News

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King County tax advisor Barbara Alsheikh likens paying property taxes to owning a racehorse.

Jeff Kearney is well known around Burien for his smile, and gregarious spirit. But tonight, the 36-year-old is at Harborview Medical Center, in a coma after a driver hit him in a crosswalk and then took off.

Burien Little Theatre is putting on the Hollywood glitz in more ways than one with the unconventional musical comedy "Christmas with the Crawfords," created by Richard Winchester and written by Mark Sargent.

Today's swearing-in of County Executive Dow Constantine means there is now a vacancy in Council District 8. The Metropolitan King County Council received 11 applications from individuals who are seeking to replace Constantine on the County Council.

Leemah Carneh was charged in 2001 with four counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of a high school cheerleader, her boyfriend and his grandparents.

The memories all came flooding back. All it took was the first sentence of Lauri Hennessey's column, printed on page 5, about her daughter's entry into middle school.

Riders will enjoy existing levels of bus service next year despite the recessionary drop in the sales tax revenues that support Metro, as a result of actions by the King County Council to reprioritize property tax revenues and set a small fare increase for 2011.

A Burien community program has offered a $1,000 reward to find whoever hit and critically injured Jeff Kearney in a White Center crosswalk Tuesday.

Scientists have determined that - by frying their rice - the Chinese are shrinking Greenland glaciers at a rate of 1.037649 inches per year.

The Burien Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing on proposed zoning for the North Highline annexation area on Tuesday, Nov.

A bar fight at closing time Nov. 12 led to the death of one man. A second victim was taken to Harborview with stabs wounds.

A fare increase in 2011 and setting new priorities for property tax revenues will allow Metro to maintain existing levels of bus service next year despite the recession, following action Monday by the King County Council.

Guy Harper is a retired citizen who resides in Gregory Heights and is a nationally respected wood carver, working with red cedar to create Northwest Indian art.

It's the middle of winter in the Washington cascades, and in a mountain pass town a mysterious visitor arrives at a small hotel just before a winter storm blocks the path both ways.

A couple accused of importing an illegal cosmetic device and then bribing a federal official to let them use it in their Burien beauty salon has pleaded guilty to the charges.

It's a deadly, if familiar, progression of events: drinking leads to a confrontation, the confrontation leads to fisticuffs and fisticuffs to tragedy not limited to but including murder.

One man has been killed and another seriously injured in a stabbing at a Burien bar.

Sure, we've come to expect intramural fighting within the Des Moines Council, but who figured there would be just one disputed council race in Burien and all-out warfare in SeaTac? Last election, the SeaTac incumbents all ran unopposed.

A man and his ex-wife accused of broadcasting live online the rape of a 4-year-old girl pleaded not guilty to all charges in court Monday.