Two Spokane Police officers were justified in shooting and killing a man who they say pulled a handgun on them when they were attempting to serve a court order in September 2022, Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell announced Friday.
Spokane County Deputy Prosecutor Preston McCollam helped 23-year-old Ray Wynecoop with his neck tie before asking a judge Friday to sentence him to 65 years in prison for a series of drive-by shootings that wounded a Spokane police officer.
When Pamela Nearing walked into the restaurant at Quinn’s Hot Springs Sunday afternoon, the last thing she expected to see was the man who had molested her son sitting at the bar with a teenager.
Law enforcement agencies on Thursday arrested an “armed and dangerous” fugitive wanted for multiple crimes in Spokane and Stevens counties after receiving hundreds of tips from the public.
Mindy Wilson was known to her friends and family as “an advocate for those without a voice,” someone who spoke up to make things better for her students, her neighborhood and her children.
There is no reason for the former Spokane Medical Examiner to believe Athol resident Kendy Howard died from anything but a gunshot wound to her mouth, he testified Thursday. But he admitted he didn’t see the follow-up reports, the conflicting conclusions made by other medical experts or the two-year investigation into her death conducted by Kootenai County.
Police are asking for help to catch a burglar who broke into the Spokane Children’s Theatre, spent a couple hours inside and then made off with thousands of dollars in valuables early Tuesday morning.
A 63-year-old man told a woman he was going to be sacrificed before setting fire to their house and firing two shots from a shotgun as firefighters and witnesses ran for cover Tuesday night near Chattaroy, according to court documents.
The man who died in a Northwest Spokane house fire last week intentionally ignited the fire after an argument with his roommates and retreated to the bathroom where firefighters found him dead, according to the Spokane Fire Department.
A 36-year-old Spokane woman who liked to spend her free time teaching her daughter to ride a bike moonlighted as an “enforcer” for a Mexican drug organization, attorneys said Tuesday.