The four yellow parcels in the center of the image are where Portofino Investment plans to develop between 107 and 132 middle incoming housing units With Memorial Day over a month away, now is a good time… Continue reading © 2025, Kent Reporter + Sound Publishing, Inc. + Black Press Media Monday (May 5) for more than 3,200 seats on city councils He was found possessing a “ghost gun,” which is illegal in Washington state 12-year-old dies after late-night crash in Enumclaw CRIME BLOTTER 9:29 AM | Updated: 2:51 pm People are focusing on public safety as the key issue in the upcoming election BY LUKE DUECY The Auburn Police Department (APD) is investigating a shooting early Tuesday morning in the city’s Lea Hill neighborhood that sent one woman to the hospital Police said an argument erupted between multiple people inside the Auburn home around 2 a.m in the 31800 block of 120th Avenue Southeast the heated exchange of words turned into an exchange of gunshots with the 39-year-old victim caught in the crossfire More local crime: Three teens –ages 13, 14 — arrested for brandishing handguns at Chinatown Seafair Parade Police said they received several 911 calls after the shots rang out When officers arrived at the scene of the shooting in Lea Hill They located her soon after at a nearby hospital “When officers got to the scene they quickly got a call from a local hospital saying that a 39-year-old woman reported to the hospital with one gunshot wound,” APD spokesperson Kolby Crossley told KIRO Newsradio “That woman was then connected to the scene of the crime.” The area where the shooting took place in Lea Hill is described as a more compact neighborhood dotted with smaller homes that sit very close together Police said they received multiple calls to 911 from nearby neighbors who heard the gunshots Police hope in any incident like this that cooler heads prevail shooting is never the answer in any situation,” Crossley said “We’re here to hopefully prevent this from happening or figure out what happened as quickly as possible so we can bring justice to the situation.” More from SPD: Armed good Samaritan saves pregnant woman from attacker Police said the victim suffered one gunshot wound but did not immediately know her condition They said she was alert enough to speak with detectives and share details about the incident APD announced late Tuesday morning in an X post it had arrested a 35-year-old man in connection with this case was arrested for “multiple counts of first-degree assault and drive-by shooting.” If anyone has information regarding this case, they are asked to contact the Auburn Police Department Tip Line at (253) 288-7403. Luke Duecy is a reporter for KIRO Newsradio. Candidates can begin filing at 8 a.m. Monday (May 5) for more than 3,200 seats on city councils, county commissions, school boards, and special districts. He was found possessing a “ghost gun,” which is illegal in Washington state. 12-year-old dies after late-night crash in Enumclaw. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Armstrong Williams takes on the news of the week and asks the questions you want answered. Don’t miss our weekly town hall. 18-year-old arrested after driving through Auburn park accused of terrorizing people enjoying an Auburn park Saturday afternoon Video on social media shows the driver of a black Honda Fit pull off the street and into Lea Hill Park kids I mean it’s a park,” Tony Rosales told KOMO News Witness video also shows people running across the park to either escape the path of the vehicle or run to help the person hit Rosales said he was enjoying family day with his wife when he said they witnessed the horror happening in the park Rosales said the park was full of families at the time who were enjoying the sunny weather The Auburn Police Department (APD) told KOMO News that several emergency calls about this man and his erratic behavior started coming in around 2:30 p.m An officer, headed to Lea Hill Park spotted the black Honda Fit 911 callers described. Dashcam video released by APD shows how the officer quickly made a u turn and chased the suspect for a short distance before bumping the car to stop it Two officers then boxed the driver in and arrested him crashing you know in the front and the other one to the side and I mean he (suspect) could’ve had a gun and started shooting the police,” said Rosales "Early Investigation leads officers to believe that this could most likely be a domestic violence situation, and the driver was targeting a significant other," the APD wrote in a social media post "One of his charges is for DV Assault in the First Degree." Rosales told KOMO that windows were down on the Honda Fit and he was close enough to look into the driver's eyes The APD told KOMO their investigation is ongoing and have not said the vehicle used on Saturday was stolen or not Auburn police also said that medics took both the woman and suspect to the hospital just be checked out; neither suffered major injuries We mournfully announce the passing of Ronica Lea McKinley on April 19th Ronica was surrounded with love as she passed at home due to the effects of glioblastoma multiforme brain cancer A gathering to celebrate her life will begin at 9:00am Saturday May 18 2024 at Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home and Crematory Ronica was one of the most caring people brought into this universe and losing her will be felt by many people across the globe including a Bachelors in Child Psychology and a Masters in Mechanical Engineering Ronica was most recently employed at John Deere in a product engineering capacity Ronica also achieved various levels of yoga teacher training and provided her coworkers with gentle yoga sessions online during the recent restrictions Ronica was an active member of the Society of Women Engineers and was most recently the chairperson for their awards committee Ronica also maintained an active participation with Society of Hispanic Engineers Ronica was the driving force and one of the founders of the global Indigenous Resource Group at John Deere she married Thaddeus and they together developed a family with three children Ronica was a loving mother whose presence and guidance will be greatly missed Ronica is survived by her husband Thaddeus In lieu of flowers or gifts please donate or volunteer with a local charity of your choice A pursuing officer deployed a PIT maneuver on the Honda Fit resulting in the vehicle turning sideways onto the side of the road — Police are searching for a man they say raped a woman at her apartment complex in south King County on June 1 The incident occurred around 1 p.m. at a complex on Lea Hill, the Auburn Police Department (APD) tweeted The woman was alone in the apartment when the stranger "walked in and sexually assaulted her," police said The suspect then ran behind the complex to a wooded area The man's appearance made the victim believe he was a transient dark brown scraggly hair and acne on his face a dirty black hoodie with holes on the sleeves and dirty jeans Police ask anyone with information to call 911 or the APD's tip line at253-288-7403 Green River Community College uses the 8.97-acre Lea Hill Park to the north more than the residents of Lea Hill do most often as a practice field for intercollegiate sports For the first time since Washington state enacted a new law in 2024 to improve standards for warehouse workers Bella Red Salon and Third Dimension Salon of Auburn teamed up April 13 to provide 64 free haircuts to children at Evergreen Park in Auburn See the video: The owner said it was a terrifying experience but she wants to continue operating in Auburn Ed Herda learned a humbling lesson from his resourceful students - Record rainfall is saturating several hillsides in the Puget Sound region a massive mound of mud and trees came crashing down across 105th Place Se in the Lea Hill neighborhood but still catching quite a few people off guard “I don’t know any back roads out of here so I walked down there to see it and it’s pretty bad this whole hill of trees cross the whole road,” said Tim Ghee “I’ve been here for about four years now so yeah unfortunately this is what happens when you live on a hillside Valley Regional Fire came out when the hillside first gave way to assess it and the city of Auburn has been out assessing the mess at 4:30 in the morning to walk down the hill to see why the road’s closed “I didn’t see anything at first till I turned the corner and then I was like wow that’s crazy The whole hill came down there’s trees across the whole road I mean the pile of dirt higher than the vehicles,” he exclaimed This Auburn neighborhood is not the only one dealing with a slide from all the rain that fell this week There's a new landslide in the Somerset neighborhood of Bellevue just six weeks after a water main break sent a house sliding off its foundation crews need to work on cleaning up this new slide and stabilizing the hillside Auburn and many local areas sculpted out of hills that when saturated this is an area prone to slides and this is not the first one here seen in a line of jersey barriers lining the street were placed there more than 20 years ago after a previous slide “The last one was not that bad they had it cleaned up in about a day this one might take a little bit different,” said Rhodes the city’s got its Geotech coming out to fully assess the hillside before any crews come in to clean up this mess and get the road back open to traffic This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page — Auburn police said Wednesday that a teen boy who was driven around a neighborhood Monday afternoon while he was stripped naked beaten and robbed resulted from an orchestrated robbery by two teen girls and three males The initial report was that the 15-year-old victim was kidnapped but police said later on social media that the teen willingly got into the vehicle after being lured there by a 16-year-old girl and 12-year-old girl Police did not immediately disclose the ages of the three male suspects The two teen girls have been arrested but as of Wednesday the three male suspects remained at large It was not immediately clear what charges the two teen girls might face Investigators said the incident started at the Promenade apartment complex on SE 312th Street and ended a few blocks away when the teen victim managed to escape from the car and get help from a neighborhood resident Amanda Smart was trying to re-park her car and was checking her mirrors when she spotted a teenage boy wearing just his underwear and socks who was trying to get her attention “By the time I checked my other mirror he was already at my window and pounding on my window and asking for help,” Smart said “And even with the storm and everything I could tell that he was bloody and shaking and crying and terrified." She said the teenager told her he was taking out the garbage from his mom's apartment unit when he was forced into a car at gunpoint by three boys who looked a few years older than him The assailants ordered the boy to strip off his clothes or they would shoot him and also demanded that he hand over his phone “He said that they started beating him," Smart said "He said that he could hear them saying shoot him in the leg,’ while they were beating him According to a spokesperson with the Auburn Police Department at one point the suspects with the guns slowed down at the bottom of a hill and the driver honked the horn Two girls approached the car and were about to get inside the teen victim jumped out and started running Officers showed up to the apartment complex and spotted the black car Smart said it is a wake-up call for her neighborhood “If I could knock on every door on Lea Hill and tell every mom out there what had happened I would because I just want them to protect their babies." If you want to use the new traffic roundabout at the intersection of Southeast 304th Street and 124th Avenue Southeast here’s the simple rule: incoming drivers yield to what’s in there Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application Bonnerup Funeral & Cremation Services - Albert Lea Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time A man has been charged with murdering his brother after the discovery of a body following a house fire in north-west Victoria on Wednesday faced Bendigo Magistrates’ Court on Friday charged with the murder of his brother Kevin James Lea A Swan Hill man is facing murder charges after his brother was found dead in the home they shared following a house fire Police allege Lea deliberately lit a fire inside the house the pair lived in on Domaille Crescent in Swan Hill about 5.40pm on September 18 Emergency services rushed to the scene after reports of a fire and found the front of the house well alight and “extensively damaged” A spokesperson from Country Fire Victoria confirmed 25 firefighters attended the scene According to charge sheets obtained by The Age Bruce Lea was found outside the burning property without his brother Victoria Police officers searched the property after the fire was extinguished and found his brother’s body Lea was transported to Swan Hill hospital for assessment and then taken into custody The court heard Lea is withdrawing from ice and has been diagnosed with schizophrenia Lea was remanded in custody and will appear at Mildura Magistrates’ Court on January 29 Start the day with a summary of the day’s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights. Sign up for our Morning Edition newsletter faced Bendigo Magistrates\\u2019 Court on Friday Emergency services rushed to the scene after reports of a fire and found the front of the house well alight and \\u201Cextensively damaged\\u201D Victoria Police officers searched the property after the fire was extinguished and found his brother\\u2019s body Lea was remanded in custody and will appear at Mildura Magistrates\\u2019 Court on January 29 Start the day with a summary of the day\\u2019s most important and interesting stories to the late Carroll Eugene “Gene” and Joan Rose Hill where she met her future husband; served as a certified nursing assistant and was activity coordinator for the restorative care unit at Haywood County Hospital; she was a dispatcher for the Canton Police Department then went to Harrah’s Casino as a security officer and EMT she was a familiar sight at Edgar McElroy’s truck stop and at Sandy’s truck stop during her school years and anything related to Charles Shultz’s Peanuts which served as a journal of her life and relationships She was a notorious prankster who also loved video games She served on the safety committee while at Lea Industries where she also served as an on-site first responder she won a statewide public speaking competition on job safety while working at Lea Rock Springs and other Baptist and Methodist churches before illness kept her from attending She was the church pianist for Rock Springs for a number of years and wrote two cantatas for the church She also filled in as a pianist for other churches She is survived by her husband of 23 years Ricky Dean Hill (Sherry) of Hyder Mountain; three aunts both of Crabtree and Stella Nell Messer of Cleveland who she loved and treated like a little brother; a nephew Ernie Hill; a niece Mary Hill Sheehan (Isaac) Jennifer was also close to her first cousins Kristy Rogers and David Harold Rogers of Crabtree; Judy Slagle (Dave) and Davisro (Lorraine) Messer Billy Ferguson and Bob Hagen will officiate Burial will follow at Upper Crabtree Cemetery Ray Hagan and Greg Best will serve as pallbearers Dave Slagle and Ernie Hagan as honorary pallbearers The family will receive friends from 2 to 3 p.m Memorials may be made to Upper Crabtree Community Cemetery Fund Crawford / Ray Funeral Home and Cremation Service is honored to be caring for the Frizzell family Students and staff at Arthur Jacobsen and Lea Hill elementary schools could not contain their excitement Tuesday as Seattle Seahawks safety Earl Thomas visited Lea Hill and tight end Luke Willson visited Arthur Jacobsen as part of the Seattle Seahawks Play 60 program King County recently awarded the City of Auburn a $60,000 Youth Sports Facilities grant to help build a transformable court at Lea Hill Park https://www.youtube.com/live/1Ju3sTaRoQg?si=8Danujh1-YHsYWEg preceding the funeral service at the chapel Basketball Video Clip Slade's Dave Hill interview: 50 years of 'Merry Xmas Everybody' and how John Lennon helped make it but could the original lineup get back together Slade are out on the road at the moment for their annual Christmas jaunt Dave Hill is the sole founding member in the band's current lineup Noddy Holder and Jim Lea quit the band in 1992, while Don Powell was axed from the group three years ago in controversial circumstances There was a failed attempt at a reunion in 2010, but in the last couple of years there have been consistent rumours that the Holder Hill and Powell lineup could get back together for live shows Noddy Holder's manager poured cold water on the suggestions at the start of this year and now Dave Hill has seemingly shut the door on the prospect "That won't happen, not even for a one-off gig," Dave told The Mirror "I cherish the memories of us years ago but we’ve moved on in life and we're all doing different things He added of the band's split and his relationship with his ex-bandmates: "Back in 1992 Noddy wanted to get into other things "I think he didn't want to continue But he’s a good pal and I respect his decision But me and Nod have always been in tune with each other and if he was interested in doing something I'd not be against it He comes to my house and we’ve always got something to talk about 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of some of Slade's very biggest hits, including 'Cum on Feel the Noize', 'Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me', 'My Friend Stan' and – of course – 'Merry Xmas Everybody' The band's chart-topping Christmas single was promoted this year with a new Top of The Pops video combining two of the band's iconic 1973 performances of the song Hall Of Fame Paul McCartney Rod Stewart Song Lists The Beatles Auburn School District officials have identified three potential locations to construct a pair of new elementary schools You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser or activate Google Chrome Frame to improve your experience Hill’s Gardens has been an Albert Lea institution for over a century While the independent grower and retail garden shop isn’t going anywhere anytime soon the way it conducts business may look a little different as it opens for the season amid the COVID-19 pandemic According to Melonie Robran — daughter of Hill’s owners Paul and Judy Hill and sister of Hill’s vice president Tony Hill — the first few months of the year were business as usual for Hill’s sorted and been getting ready for the center’s usual April opening Facebook page on Tuesday stated its inventory would not be any less than in previous years “Our plans (were) set in place long before the outbreak was even a thing Orders were booked and we had taken delivery of most of the young plants before the outbreak hit the U.S. so please don’t panic,” the business stated on its page “Our supplies are the same this spring with or without the pandemic.” Hill’s Gardens employees “burn the candle at both ends” to get ready to open the nursery as the business has been working since February to get ready for the season – Colleen Harrison/Albert Lea Tribune Hill’s likely won’t have its traditional grand opening event — where it hosts children’s activities and refreshments during its first opening weekend of the season who is helping with marketing while everyone at Hill’s gets ready for the season said Hill’s will still open for the season April 18 What that opening will look like is what’s up in the air Tim Walz says and issues in the days leading up to the opening The store may implement phone orders or email ordering or try curbside pickup while limiting the number of people in the store at one time She said the business doesn’t want to invest too much into changes that may differ by the time it plans to open but it also can’t afford not to plan to do things differently during the coronavirus pandemic Hill’s will share its plan for how it will operate with customers on its Facebook page Robran said all they’re asking for from customers is “a little grace a little patience and a little positivity” as the business figures out how to change how it operates for the first time Colleen Harrison is the photo editor at the Albert Lea Tribune She does photography and writes general-assignment stories The Minnesota Timberwolves (33-29) are home in Northwest Division play versus the Utah Jazz (15-45) on Sunday which includes the Tampa Bay Lightning versus the Florida Panthers Top 25 teams will take the court across two games on Monday’s college basketball schedule The college basketball schedule on Monday should provide some fireworks Our computer model has provided picks against the… Ranked teams are on Monday’s college basketball schedule for two games including the Kansas Jayhawks squaring off against… Shane Hill of Albert Lea stands in the studio at The Chapel in front of walls lined with action figures Hill said he values a tattoo he received showing the date he decided to become clean and sober Tattoos illustrate Shane Hill’s past and the present Want to read more?See this and other stories in the March/April issue of Albert Lea magazine Hill said he faced seven years in prison for first-degree possession of methamphetamine and was held for 107 days in lockup he didn’t have many tattoos other than his initials on his right forearm in the shape of a dollar sign “That was my thing back in the day,” Hill said Hill pleaded for rehab and years on probation It was a step forward in his rehabilitation “I just had to make a decision that it’s probably time to get my stuff together and do something else,” he said He worked a variety of jobs including waiting tables and road construction and he now works at Alamco Wood Products in Albert Lea “I’m just kind of switching my addictions,” he said “I’m going from doing bad things to things that they’re not going to arrest me or throw me in jail for.” which was a turning point: the moment he decided to go clean and sober “This signifies my journey and the things that are important to me and the people who are important to me,” he said “They’re reminders to keep moving in the right direction.” He said his employer hasn’t mentioned either in a negative light and that both are becoming more socially acceptable “Back in the day it was only gang members and bikers who had tattoos,” he said Everyone has tattoos from police officers to doctors to nurses I’ve even seen a grandmother getting a tattoo.” Most of Hill’s tattoos were done by Gilbert Johnson Jr. who has owned The Chapel in Albert Lea the last 15 years Hill said he spends his free time cheering for the Iowa Hawkeyes football team and controlling Traxxus remote control trucks His brother has a track for the remote control trucks on his farm in Clear Lake The dollar-sign tattoo is still visible in the middle of his sleeve A 43,959 foot building is set to become Rally Pickleball Club Auburn Riverside downs Kennedy 3-1 en route to longest win streak since 2022 Hillis is a Riverside alum and former Bellevue College player Bob and Ginny Hill and Mitchell and Charmane Biggers The bride is the granddaughter of Edna Hill of Austin The groom is the grandson of Peggy and the late Daniel Biggers of Cleveland and Jerry and Mary Trammell of Dahlonega The bride is a graduate of Albert Lea High School and Minnesota State University Mankato where she received her degree in marketing with a minor in business administration The groom is a graduate of White County High School He attended Toccoa Falls College and received his undergraduate in youth ministry and his masters of divinity and masters in church leadership from Liberty University He is employed at Restoration Point Church wedding is planned at The Bridge Church in Cleveland