Kent News

KENT, Wash. Kent police have arrested a man suspected of being half-naked and grabbing a teenage student on a bike trail last week.

Think of it as an e-mail from a Nigerian general, with a personal touch. A 59-year-old woman is facing attempted theft charges in King County following allegations that she and a conspirator tried to swindle a woman out of $50,000. Additionally, investigators in Snohomish County and California are also looking at the woman following remarkably ...

KENT, Wash. Kent police are looking for a man who allegedly was half-naked when he grabbed a teenage student on a bike trail Wednesday morning.

Monroe Police arrested a 20-year-old Kent man Dec. 11 for investigation of first-degree rape and first-degree kidnapping in connection with a 23-year-old woman he met at a Kirkland nightclub.

A Kent-Meridian High School student said she was grabbed by a man who was partially naked while she walked to school Wednesday morning, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News....The man is described as white, in his mid-30s, about 6 feet tall and has a slim build.

A pedestrian crossing a busy Kent arterial this evening was struck and killed by a car.

A King County Superior Court jury in Seattle found a 66-year-old Kent man guilty of first-degree murder Thursday in connection with the shooting death of his wife in 2007 at their Panther Lake home.

For businesses and residents living the Green River Valley, watching the odds of a flood this fall go from 1 in 3 to 1 in 32 has been something of a yo-yo and even if the waters don't come, Danny Kakuk of Little David's Sub Shop in Kent said this has already been "history." "We have been living this thing," he said.

After two days of deliberation, a King County jury convicted a Kent man of killing his wife, then attempting to fake a burglary gone bad to cover the crime.

Dogs and cats of all ages without microchips are invited to King County's Kent Animal Shelter 1-3 p.m. Sunday to receive a deep discount on a high tech form of identification.

There are some new faces in the local business community as of late, including a new membership director at the Kent Chamber of Commerce.

The Aukeen/Kent District Court in Kent is moving to high ground in Renton to avoid any flooding of the nearby Green River.

Voters in Kent and King County Fire District 37 will decide in April whether to approve forming a regional fire authority.

Emotional moment: Law officers operated as pallbearers Tuesday for the casket of Lakewood officer Greg Richards, formerly of the Kent Police Department.

The severe weather shelter will be in operation Wednesday night, Dec. 9. Priority is given to homeless families with children who are living on the streets or in vehicles, but the SWS will also be available for single women and men.

Therea s a whole lot of fun planned Saturday at the 27th annual Winterfest holiday celebration in downtown Kent and at Kent Station.

Gage Sinclair was in a hospital bed and unable to walk three months ago. So when Sinclair, 13, participates in the city of Kent's 27th annual Christmas Rush Fun Run and Walk Saturday, it will help mark an end to a painful and challenging period in his life, and that of his family.

Join your fellow Kent residents for a candlelight vigil 6:30 p.m. Dec. 3, to acknowledge the Lakewood Police officers killed in the line of duty Nov.

A lot of family fun is expected at a oeA Holly Jolly Day in Kent,a also known as the Kent Winterfest, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec.

Iowa-bred and a Northwesterner by choice, Kent Ramsey was recently named Tacoma-area market president for U.S. Bank.