The King County Prosecutor’s Office filed a first-degree murder charge Friday against an 18-year-old Seattle man in connection with the shooting death of a Renton teenager July 12 at a Kent fast-food restaurant.
A shy twin girl competing in a cutthroat beauty pageant. That isn’t Casi Goodman. But that’s who the 12-year-old Renton girl will be during the three productions of “Beauty Idol,” on July 24-26 in Charlotte Martin Theatre at Seattle Children’s Theatre.
John Hamilton turns 100 later this month. But he hasn’t spent much time thinking about it. He’s too busy with other things — like discovering how magnetism works.
Nature has established a rhythm through the millennia of our planet’s existence. It’s a rhythm that, for the sake of our children’s children, society cannot continue to ignore.
An 18-year-old Issaquah woman got behind the wheel of her car on July 18, 2006. When she did, she made…
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The black bear of recent Kennydale fame is on the lam. Missing in action.
When a potentially injured bear was reported near the Klahanie Shopping Center in Issaquah recently, Fish and Wildlife officers responded within about 10 minutes.
A chlorine leak Tuesday morning from the the Liberty Well on Houser Way near Liberty Park closed a stretch of Houser Way for about an hour.
Kent detectives were still investigating Wednesday whether gang activity was behind the July 12 shooting death of a 17-year-old Renton boy at a Kent fast-food restaurant in the 300 block of East Smith Street.
King County Fire District 20, which covers Skyway, recently graduated 20 new volunteers from its firefighter recruit training academy. The new recruits bring the number of volunteers for King County Fire District 20 to 63. Volunteers include firefighters and support personnel.
Food, music, art, sports and inflatables. IKEA Renton River Days is bringing all this and more to Liberty Park in less than a week. The 23rd annual festival kicks off with Kids’ Day Wednesday, July 23 and continues Friday through Sunday, July 25-27, with a Senior Day Picnic in between.
Renton Technical College’s Childcare Center will hold a free Health and Safety Carnival on July 18 from 4:30-6:30 p.m.
A few weeks ago I surveyed the major contenders to be named for Barack Obama’s running mate and concluded that he will likely select a popular governor in a swing state. Why a governor? Because anything associated with Washington, D.C. is toxic. President Bush’s popularity is in the 20s and the popular rating for Congress is 9 percent!
In 1854, a cholera epidemic struck London, England. Thousands of people were dying and no one could determine the cause. Doctors were stumped as deathly ill adults and children filed into the overcrowded hospitals.
I’m planning to write one of those self-help, motivational books one of these days. That is, if I can get up for it. I almost got around to it yesterday, but I got invited to a chili feed at the last moment.
A look at what’s going on, on the entertainment front, in Renton, starting July 16.
Gary Fergus has always wanted to climb Mount Rainier. The snow-capped mountain was a frequent sight during his many Renton years. The 33-year-old Portland firefighter and emergency medical technician has taken many day trips up the Cascades’ tallest peak, but didn’t make his first summit attempt until early this month.
Competitive man and trusty machine share a long association, more than 30 years of chasing down challengers on a quarter-mile asphalt strip.
A Skyway house fire Saturday caused $100,000 in damages, but left an elderly Skyway woman and her two dogs unharmed.