February 2007

A petition campaign to ask the King County Council to provide funding for a King County Sheriff's gang unit is underway.

"We hope to complete the drive by early March," organizer JoAn Cox said last week.

Mrs. Cox is the mother of King County Sheriff's Deputy Steve Cox, who was killed in the line of duty Dec. 2 while questioning a suspect in a house in White Center.

The man who fatally shot Cox was a known gang member.

Noting that her son's killer "actually lived in Burien," Mrs.

It was a dark and devastating Thursday night in Burien for a local basketball team.

Startling sudden scoring strikes shot Shelton to a shocking 58-55 upset of state fourth-ranked John F.

Boys basketball

Foster 66, Steilacoom 59

Travis Miller tallied 16 points for the Foster Bulldogs in their Saturday, Feb. 17 Nisqually League win.

Quinton Hendrix added 11 points, Robert Gutierrez 10 and Reuben Donaldson nine.

SCS 53, Orting 39

Paul Mickelson led the Warriors with 21 points in the Saturday, Feb. 17 Nisqually League tournament victory. Nick Stubberfield added seven.

Travis was a Bull, more than in name. He continued a nice top eight or better place run in his last three years of high school wrestling at state for the Kennedy Lancers, including this year's Bull run that pitted him in the consolation final for third-fourth place. He won the match, giving him the highest placement of any wrestler from all our area schools at the Tacoma Dome's Mat Classic XIX held Feb. 16 and Feb.

Kennedy took second as a boys swim team at state recently, as if we couldn't have guessed that the Lancers would score a high finish.

"We took fourth in '05, and third in '06," said Kennedy coach Marc Stock.

Just a natural progression it seems, as Lancers swimmers, led by co-swimmer of the meet Kevin Munsch, put together strong efforts -- though few in number -- at the WIAA Dairy Farmers of Washington Swim/Dive championships, at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way Feb. 16-17.

Was it a natural progression for Stock, though?

TACOMA-Senior Anissa Madrid of John F.

arrested by SWAT team

Des Moines police arrested a man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman in her apartment following a six-hour standoff on Feb. 20.

After she was assaulted, the woman, in her 40s, escaped and ran to a neighbor's house, while the man barricaded himself in the woman's Des Moines apartment around 3:30 a.m.

Responding police officers had reason to believe the man, in his 40s, was armed with a gun.

The spring Citizen's Police Academy of the Burien and SeaTac Police Departments and the King County Sheriff's Office will begin Wednesday, March 14.

Participants in the 13-week catered session at the Law Enforcement Training Academy increase their understanding of police department activities.

Classes are held from 6 to 9 p.m.

The SeaTac and Burien Fire and Police Departments will partner to offer a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training session beginning March 15.

Classes will be held Thursdays from 6 to 9 p.m. for eight weeks at Burien/Normandy Park Fire Station No. 28, 15100 Eighth Ave.

Several Normandy Park residents are up in arms over a potential housing development they believe will cram too many houses in an area that's to small.

Developer John Kaleas, who owns 3.6 acres west of First Avenue South just south of South 202nd Street, wants to build 16 houses on the property.

He has asked the city of Normandy Park for a rezone that would allow him to subdivide the parcel into 16 lots.