Ten-year-old Isabel Carpenter was recently honored by King County with a "911 Hero" award for her quick thinking when a stranger approached her this past February and attempted to persuade her to get in a car while she walked home from school.
Sophomore C.J. Andrus from the Southern Virginia University was named to the Capital One Academic All-District First Team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
The Federal Way H.Y.P.E. boys basketball team won the second-grade Shorty Shootout Basketball Tournament last weekend at the Rainier Vista Boys and Girls Club in Seattle.
School board member Angela Griffin, who was first appointed to position four in 2008, has announced she will not seek re-election. Griffin was recently a finalist and interviewed for a vacant position on the Washington State Board of Education.
Federal Way-based World Vision is loading trucks with supplies to assist the victims of a powerful tornado that ravaged Oklahoma.
Longtime Federal Way resident Scott Chase bought his house 23 years ago. He never could have predicted that the airplane noise over his house would become such an issue.