King County News

In what the agency called a "screw-up," King County sheriff's deputies shut down a busy Kent intersection for more than four hours Monday morning to investigate a reported suspicious package that turned out to be a dummy belonging to the sheriff's office itself.

A sinkhole has been discovered and Monster Road will be closed in both directions from the Beacon Coal Mine Road in Renton up to 68th Avenue South/Martin Luther King Jr. Way in unincorporated King County.

Renton firefighters on Monday surveyed the damage following a four-alarm fire Saturday afternoon at the Regency Woods apartment complex.

A ribbon cutting ceremony for new Advertiser Home Helpers and Direct Link of South King County will be held this Saturday, July 26 at 11:30 a.m. at their new location at 213 SW 160th Street in Burien, and all are invited.

The county's forensic anthropologist, Kathy Taylor, says one set of bones is bleached and wired together for clinical or educational purposes.

A former employee of The Country Store and Farm has been charged with theft for allegedly embezzling more than $30,000 from the business over two years.

The gloves are off in the 31st District's main bout, but so far the undercard is a friendly fight.

A An ordinance adopting public transportation service reductions in September 2014, February 2015, June 2015 and September 2015 scheduled service changes .

On July 17, King County Assessor Lloyd Hara's office mailed the 2014 property valuations to all residential property owners in Maple Valley.

Crews responded to a report of a commercial fire in the 1400 block of South 18th Street at about 2 p.m. Skyway fire officials initially said the fire was a two-alarm fire.

A spokeswoman for the King County Sheriff's Office said there is no evidence that cupcakes found Friday on Vashon were laced with marijuana.

Never has an election day been so masterfully timed to coincide with when people tune out politics as Washington's upcoming August 5 primary.

However, not everyone recycles. Or even disposes of trash in bins. I see cans, plastic bottles and garbage on the streets and near freeway onramps and offramps at least a few times a week and wonder why people can't toss the items in a trash can or recycling bin.

Marcus Naylor was born into a South Korean orphanage and was without a family until he was 9 years old.

Passengers on a sailboat told police they were slowly motoring with a low-power trolling motor after dark when a powerboat slammed into them Wednesday night on Lake Washington, according to a statement of probable cause released Friday by the King County Prosecutor's Office.

A 24-year-old Tacoma woman has been charged with first-degree attempted murder after she allegedly shot a Kent man in the face on Tuesday just outside of a Panther Lake Starbucks.

King County Elections mailed ballots July 16 for the Aug. 5 primary election. Voters' pamphlets are mailed separately and may have arrived on a different day than ballots.

The Seattle Times reports that a judge on Friday found probable cause to hold 46-year-old Richard Hicks of Renton for investigation of one count of homicide by watercraft and two counts of assault by watercraft.

King County Councilman von Reichbauer welcomed Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland to Federal Way to discuss Tacoma's challenges.

EvergreenHealth worker Sokha Hammond and young Kai Hour participate in a picket of the hospital on Thursday over staffing and the CEO's pay raise.