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Just over a year since officer Vásquez Lasso’s killing, the Chicago Police Department is mourning officer Luis Huesca’s death after he was shot and killed while heading home from his shift early Sunday morning, two days shy of his 31st birthday.

An 8-year-old girl and her 5-year-old brother were killed when a suspected drunk driver plowed into a child’s birthday party at a Michigan boat club Saturday, in a devastating crash that injured 15 others.

The cost of a proposed NASA mission to gather rocks on Mars and return them to Earth is spiraling upward and slipping further into the future. So on Monday, space agency officials asked for ideas on simplifying the mission and trimming its price tag.

More than a dozen people were injured when a four-car tram crashed at Universal Studios Hollywood on Saturday night, authorities said. The last car of the tram struck a rail when it was traveling down a hill near a parking structure.

Following passage in the House of a major military aid package for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that his country will only be able to repel an anticipated Russian offensive if the U.S. weapons arrive quickly.

Ada County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Tobin Bolter, 27, died after he was shot during a traffic stop Saturday night – the first in-the-line-of-duty death in the office’s history.

A little more than 20 years ago, officials in Alta, Utah, realized that as much as the town prided itself on being a place where generations of families return to vacation every year, it was losing families among the employees who make it run. Young people who had children left because there was no school.

A flotilla of ships bound for the Gaza Strip is preparing to sail from Turkey in the coming days, organizers say, on a mission aimed at breaching Israel’s naval blockade and highlighting the lack of aid reaching Palestinians in the besieged enclave.

With less than two weeks until opening day, work at the Expo ’74 site was reaching a “frantic pace.”

Some of Spokane’s favorite local gathering spots will donate a portion of their sales this week to support Volunteers of America Eastern Washington.

Donald Trump is picking up his fundraising pace even as he fights criminal charges in four cases and appeals a nearly half-billion dollar civil fraud judgment against him in New York. But his legal expenses continue to be a tremendous burden on his campaign and its allied groups.

Ten prison inmates dug into Medical Lake soil Thursday, placed ponderosa pine seedlings and packed dirt around them to secure the plantings in place.

Editor’s note: For Sexual Assault Awareness Month this April, The Spokesman-Review asked survivors to share their healing journeys. Each Sunday, we will profile a survivor and share resources in the Inland Northwest.

After a backlash, delegates returned Saturday for the final day of the state Republican Party convention in Spokane and endorsed gubernatorial hopeful Semi Bird, a day following party leadership’s attempt to to skip making an endorsement in the race altogether.

The scenery starts to change when you leave the tall hotels and tapón (traffic jam) of San Juan behind.

A fisherman who reportedly fell Friday in the Coeur d’Alene River was recovered Saturday, according to the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page.

The Israeli army and border police have reportedly killed at least 10 gunmen in a major military operation in the West Bank.

One man died and three others, including two children, were in critical condition after a house fire broke out early Saturday morning across the street from North Central High School.

An Israeli airstrike on Iran on Friday damaged an air defense system, according to Western and Iranian officials, in an attack calculated to deliver a message that Israel could bypass Iran's defensive systems undetected and paralyze them.