Friends said a woman shot to death by her boyfriend on Sunday had a 9-month-old baby and lived with her mother at the Augusta Avenue home. Michael Trout, who said he’s known Samantha Clark Franco (right) for about 10 years, said she attended Havermale High…
Detectives are looking for witnesses to a fiery fatal crash between a pickup truck and a snowplow on U.S. Highway 195 last week. William H. Adsit, 49, of Spangle, was killed when his southbound 1994 Ford Ranger pickup collided with a snowplow truck that was…
Police have identified a body found in the Spokane River on Saturday as a mentally ill man who was reported missing last week. The body of Patrick Willard, 66, was found under the Monroe Street Bridge on Saturday afternoon. Detectives are investigating, police said today.…
A man who robbed a Spokane pharmacy of OxyContin last May was sentenced recently to nearly three years in prison. Robert K. Morris, 27, pleaded guilty to first-degree attempted robbery and was sentenced to 34 1/2 months in prison and ordered to pay $134 restitution.…
PERUGIA, Italy – Convicted murderer Amanda Knox broke into tears Saturday as she made an emotional address to an appeals court in Italy, saying she was the innocent victim of an “enormous mistake” and that her life had been “broken” by three years in jail.…
Detectives are investigating the deaths of an elderly man and woman in Chattaroy as a murder-suicide, according to the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.Their bodies were discovered today in a trailer in the 3100 block of East Chattaroy Road. Both are in their 70s.Fire personnel found…
A jail inmate who escaped from work crew was arrested Thursday at a home in the South Perry Neighborhood, leading to the renter's arrest on a criminal assistance charge. Jason W. Breedlove, 37, was allowed out of Geiger Corrections Center with a work crew despite…
Three people were arrested after a police chase, which included a near head-on crash, led officers to the Airway Heights Wal-Mart.The incident began about 11:45 a.m. Thursday when a resident in the 500 block of North Martin in Medical Lake said his 2002 Ford Ranger…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Forty years after Jim Morrison was convicted of exposing himself at a wild Miami concert, this is the end: Florida's Clemency Board, egged on by departing Gov. Charlie Crist, pardoned The Doors' long-dead singer Thursday.Some people who were at the Miami…
A Spokane woman wanted on a robbery charge was named a dangerous fugitive by Crime Stoppers a week after her public defender filed paperwork objecting to her arrest warrant. Monica R. "Boo" Sanders, 33, pleaded not guilty to first-degree robbery Thursday and had her warrant…
A Deer Park man was arrested early today after a deputy who stopped to help him with his broken down truck found $1,200 and nearly two ounces of marijuana in the vehicle. Trevor L. Weger, 30, was with his Toyota pickup at Highway 395 and…
Two Spokane police officers chased down and arrested a wanted man who was armed with a sawed-off shotgun this week.Officers Jeff McCollough and Terry Preuninger learned James D. Bacon, 23, (pictured) wanted for a felony drug violation and a Department of Corrections violation, was at…
UPDATE: Downs was denied parole and must wait 10 years for her next hearing. The Oregonian reports she still maintained her innocence at the videoconference hearing today in Salem.SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Convicted Oregon child killer Diane Downs says she won't participate in a parole…
Two Spokane officers who fatally shot at a 34-year-old man outside a Hillyard bar on Saturday have been identified as Cpl. Zac Storment and Officer Chris Douville. Storment and Douville (lefto to right) shot at Jeremy Groom as he was pointing a gun at another…
A Deer Park man was acquitted Thursday of allegations that he’d kidnapped his wife and her new lover and tried to throw them off a bridge. A jury of seven men and five women found David E. Epley (pictured) not guilty of two counts of…
A jury today convicted a Spokane woman of three counts of vehicular assault for a crash that injured three police detectives last summer. Tonia S. Vansant, 38, faces 33 to 43 months in prison when she’s sentenced Jan. 6, said Deputy Prosecutor Mary Ann Brady.…
Her stepdaughter’s children were her top priority, and Tina Crone devoted herself to their care. She took them in, eventually won custody and sought counseling to help the two accept the traumatic loss of their mother, Becky Brosnan, who was beaten to death by her…
Spokane police are asking for help finding a 66-year-old man last seen in the 3400 block of East 30th Avenue on Monday. Patrick Willard has dementia and schizophrenia, according to police. He was last seen wearing a red flannel jacket, jeans and a baseball cap.…
Two men arrested on assault charges last summer were arrested again early today after a traffic stop for vehicle equipment violations led to the discovery of cocaine, Ecstasy, marijuana and misdemeanor warrants.John Paul Ledoux, 21, and Cousteau C. Wright, 22, were arrested after Spokane Valley…
A suspected drunken driver whose blood-alcohol content registered at .354 told police he hadn't had enough to drink.Donald J. Lafavor, 66, was driving southbound in a northbound lane on Argonne Road just north of Trent Avenue when a Washington State Patrol trooper spotted him about…
There's concern within Spokane's law enforcement community about a description in a recent SR article explaining that police are trained to "shoot to kill" rather than shoot to wound, which is seen as risky because wounded gunmen can still pull triggers. It was intended to…
A recent vehicle prowl police patrol near Gonzaga University led to the arrest of a 32-year-old Spokane man and the seizure of shattered glass inside his backpack.Spokane police Corporal Kevin Keller was in street clothes and an unmarked car near East Cataldo Avenue and North…
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A woman was unfairly convicted of killing her parents in 2003 because police investigators failed to consider other suspects and a previous defense attorney who was unprepared, her attorney says.Hailey attorney Christopher Simms made the argument Tuesday in 5th District…
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — One of the jurors has been dismissed at the aggravated murder trial in Spokane of a man accused of killing five people at a Pasco auto body shop 23 years ago.The Tri-City Herald reports the juror was excused Tuesday because he…
A snow berm helped stop a Montana fugitive fleeing police in Spokane Valley Tuesday night, officials said today. Shannon David McCoy, 35, refused to stop his Ford Escort when police spotted him outside the Linger Longer Apartments in the 1800 block of North Hutchinson about…
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