Crime/Public Safety

A head-on crash left one driver dead and the other seriously injured Friday north of Millwood.

Spokane police identified the man believed to have robbed on Wednesday an East Central Spokane credit union.

A 53-year-old man died in a house fire last week in Airway Heights.

A man who died in a crash this week at Riverside State Park has been identified as 21-year-old Arnold Andersen, according to the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office.

A convicted killer asked a judge Friday to give him a harsher sentence moments after the judge delivered a nearly 15-year prison term.

Two men in their 60s were rescued from frigid waters of Horseshoe Lake on Thursday by Spokane County Sheriff’s deputies, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.

Apr. 11—A Goldendale man has pleaded guilty to tampering with the brakes of railcars after the train left Pasco and stopped at Wishram, Wash., on the Columbia River enroute to California. Forrest Ethan Wanous, 58, says he was drunk at the time and has no memory of his action, according to court documents. He is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court for the crime of violence against ...

A 38-year-old man served less than two months in jail for killing a 40-year-old man who those involved in the case determined was largely “an aggressor or provoker” of the Spokane Valley shooting.

An 18-year-old man is accused of robbing a person at gunpoint Wednesday night in downtown Spokane and was arrested shortly after at a youth facility in the Chief Garry Park Neighborhood.

Spokane Valley detectives are working to identify a man who they suspect robbed a coffee stand Wednesday morning.

A 37-year-old Post Falls woman admitted to evading paying more than $150,000 in federal taxes over a six-year period.

Spokane police arrested three more people suspected in a daylight downtown robbery where the assailants pepper sprayed the victims.

A man died after the truck he was driving rolled several times down a steep embankment Wednesday at Riverside State Park.

Witness testimony during a court hearing this week provided a sliver of new information into the ambush at a Boise hospital last month that left three correctional officers injured. Skylar Meade — one of the men accused of being at the center of an attack at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise — appeared at the Ada County Courthouse on Monday for a preliminary hearing that ...

A man is on the loose after police say he robbed a credit union Wednesday in East Central Spokane.

The 18-year-old who was arrested last week just hours before the FBI said he planned to attack a Coeur d’Alene church pleaded not guilty at a hearing Wednesday morning.

The Whitman County Prosecutor’s Office declined to charge a 20-year-old Washington State University student who was shot at by a campus police officer after prosecutors say the student tried to “induce the police to kill him” last month in Pullman.

An explosive device was chucked onto the front porch of the Satanic Temple in Salem, Mass., earning the ire of the city’s mayor, who dubbed it a “terrorist attack.” Nobody was inside the house of worship when the device landed outside the front door Monday morning around 4:15 a.m., Salem police said in a news release. And while the device failed to fully detonate, a part of the building was ...