Investigators continue to search for an arsonist responsible for leaving more than two dozen low-income people homeless last weekend. Firefighters were called to the HiFumi En Apartments, 926 E. Eighth Ave., early Saturday morning. The blaze did extensive damage: Officials said it could take six…
A former Post Falls church youth leader could be out of custody in about six months after being sentenced Thursday for three counts of statutory rape. Jordan C. Vernon, 20, was sentenced by Kootenai County District Court Judge John Mitchell to three consecutive sentences of…
A Spokane man arrested after DNA from a fake beard connected him to a grocery store robbery will be in a diversion program for six months after being sentenced this week. Donald R. Wright, 35, was given six months in jail and 18 months probation,…
A former Spokane Valley man is on trial in Nevada for the murder of a 19-year-old college coed and sexual assaults of two other women near the University of Nevada, Reno. James Michael Biela, a 1999 West Valley High School graduate, could face the death…
Spokane firefighter Todd Chism has been placed on unpaid layoff status pending the resolution of felony charges that he assaulted Washington State Patrol troopers in Stevens County last month. City Administrator Ted Danek informed Chism, a lieutenant, of the change during an afternoon meeting at…
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) — The victim might have forgiven the woman who ran him down in a Massachusetts crosswalk, but police haven't.Police say a Pittsfield woman has been cited for running down a man named Lord Jesus Christ as he crossed a street in Northampton…
A man escaped serious injury Thursday when a house fell on him.The man, who was not identified, was trying to move the home at 3633 E. Second Ave., which had been sold by the state Department of Transportation as part of the North Spokane Corridor.…
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