Nine men have been charged for their alleged roles in a fatal shooting involving two aspiring rappers at a Spokane hotel. Spokane police detectives are looking for six men on second-degree assault charges for a Nov. 27 fight that led to the shooting death of…
Crime Stoppers is offering a reward for information that leads to the arrest of a man who tried to rob a Goodwill employee in Coeur d'Alene last month but was thwarted by a witness with a gun. The man attacked the woman with a knife…
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a thief who slipped away with $50,000 worth of margarine remains at large even though the truck that carried the payload has been recovered. The trailer was parked awaiting delivery to a Target warehouse in Cedar Falls when…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration says officers found two throwing daggers hidden in a hollowed-out book at a checkpoint at Reagan-Washington National Airport. A TSA spokesman says a passenger was stopped Monday when officers found the knives in the person's carry-on bag. The…
This hand out photo provided on Wednesday by Maverik shows David Dopp, 34, of Santaquin, Utah, posing for a photo with his daughters Shayla, left, and Olivia, right, after winning a Lamborghini on Nov.12, 2011 in Maverik's Sweepstakes at Brigham Young University's LaVell Edwards Stadium…
Missing: One 1967 Ford Mustang. The classic car was stolen from a Coeur d'Alene auto shop this month, and police are asking for help finding those responsible. Will Sando, owner of Silverlake Automotive, discovered the trailer containing the car was missing Dec. 12 at 7:30…
A burglary suspect arrested after officers tracked his shoe prints in fresh snow is believed to be responsible for a series of break-ins, including one at the Wishing Star Foundation, Spokane police announced today. Jermaine M. Garland, 29, is in jail on $25,000 bond after…
Coeur d'Alene police are trying to identify a woman suspected of stealing Botox treatments from a dermatology office. The woman had $1,705 worth of Botox and Juvederm procedures done on Dec. 6 at North Idaho Dermatology, 2288 North Merrit Creek Loop. She began writing a…
A reputed Sureno gang member who Spokane police say stayed hidden in a couch after tear gas was pumped into his apartment faces life in prison if convicted under the state's three-strikes law. Bobby S. "Angel" Decaney, 35, (pictured) pleaded not guilty Tuesday to first-degree…
Two men have been charged in a gunpoint home-invasion robbery last summer. Brian Lee "Rowdy" Riley, 26, and Jeffrey "Lucky" Salvage, 24, (pictured) are accused of entering a home at 8419 E. Bridgeport Aug. 17 and stealing $80 at gunpoint. Riley had a sawed off…
A Spokane man accused of killing his friend in Riverfront Park after a night of drinking told police he was so intoxicated that he didn’t realize who he was assaulting until he saw his shoes, according to court documents filed Wednesday. Yukio M. Rideb, 21,…
A man upset about noisy upstairs neighbors in the South Perry Street area barged into their apartment and knocked one of them unconscious, prosecutors allege. Joshua Gordon Swanson, 24, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Spokane County Superior Court to first-degree burglary and second-degree assault. His…
Shoe prints left in freshly fallen snow led Spokane police to a suspect in a burglary at a salon Tuesday night. Jermaine M. Garland, 29, was booked into jail for second-degree burglary after police responding to an alarm at Salon Centric, 124 E. Short Ave.,…
Spokane police search Riverfront Park on Tuesday. Romero Vivit's body was pulled from the river later that day. (Jennifer DeRuwe/Spokane Police Department) A 21-year-old man arrested after his friend's body was pulled from the Spokane River with what police described as "visible injuries to his…
A police dive team searches the Spokane River in Riverfront Park on Tuesday. (Jennifer DeRuwe/Spokane Police Department) A body believed to be that of a man missing since this weekend was recovered Tuesday in Riverfront Park, and a 21-year-old is facing a murder charge in…
Leaving a bomb laced with anti-coagulant along the planned route of the Martin Luther King Day Unity March was merely a “creative idea” to protest multiculturalism, domestic terrorist Kevin W. Harpham told a Spokane judge Tuesday. The explanation was an 11th-hour bid by Harpham, an…
A teenager who was with the 13-year-old boy shot during a Monday burglary had stolen marijuana from the same home less than a week before. The boy who was shot remains in satisfactory condition at a local hospital after undergoing surgery following the shooting in…
Five of 10 people indicted in a counterfeit money scheme have pleaded guilty, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced today. Jessica A. Crabtree, 28; Brittney R. Hearn, 24; Robin Knuttgen, 52; Brandy Mueller, age 22; and Melissa A. Smith, 27, faces up to 20 years in…
A man who borrowed $4 from an employee at a downtown Spokane motel returned to rob her with a hammer, police say. Eric Kevin Miller, 36, was arrested on Friday, two days after police say he left his wallet at the Select Inn, 1420 W.…
A man wanted for not paying his court fines has a reward being offered for his capture that is greater than his monthly payment amount. Joseph Patrick Brian, Jr., 34, is behind on payments for fines imposed for four felony cases between 2001 and 2005.…
A jury on Monday found a man guilty of first-degree murder in connection with the 2007 slaying of a man in Hillyard. As a result, Michael D. Coombes (pictured) faces about seven more years in prison than he would have under an earlier plea agreement,…
A federal judge Monday again ruled that government prosecutors provided enough evidence to allow a jury to convict former Spokane Police Officer Karl F. Thompson Jr. of using excessive force on Otto Zehm. As he did during the four-week trial in Yakima, U.S. District Court…
A repeat offender who has been booked into the Spokane County Jail 125 times remains there on $40,000 bond after appearing in court today. Kristopher Kenneth Roybal, 34, already faces felony methamphetamine and stolen car charges for cases filed in May and October. He was…
A Spokane white supremacist scheduled to be released from federal prison last month was convicted today in Oklahoma of assaulting another inmate. Keegan Chance Van Tuyl, 29, likely will be sentenced at least four months from now for the charge of inflicting serious bodily harm…
A pizza delivery driver was robbed and carjacked Friday in Grant County after being lured with a fake order placed through an iPhone application, officials say. Deputies responded to the robbery in the 1200 block of Pershing Road, north of Moses Lake about 9 p.m.,…
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