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Mar. 22—The family of a 19-year-old man fatally shot during a violence-reduction mentorship program meeting has filed a lawsuit alleging the nonprofit Community Passageways was negligent in his death and failed to provide adequate security. Omari Wallace had been placed in Community Passageways as a court-ordered alternative to incarceration on pending felony robbery charges. He was attending ...

Several area tribes announced plans to have an encampment along the Spokane River at the Expo ’74 site.

Cheaper app subscriptions. Additional payment options. Greater freedom for app developers on the App Store. More consumer choice. Those are some of the possibilities that consumer advocates hope will come to pass for users of Apple iPhones, iPads and other products if the U.S. Department of Justice wins its long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against the Cupertino, California, tech giant.  

State Farm, California’s largest insurer, announced it will discontinue coverage for 72,000 homes and apartments starting this summer, a move likely to sharply inflate housing costs for affected residents in a state that’s reeling from a series of destructive recent wildfires.

Henrietta Burroughs was so deeply devoted to her 1991 Dodge Dynasty that she saved its floor mats to honor the car’s two decades of service. But everything else about its replacement — a bright red 2017 all-electric Chevy Bolt, now adorned with the Dynasty’s old floor mats — is better. “It’s reliable, it’s practical, it’s modern — and what really sold me on this car was that it was within my ...

If you’re feeling “under the weather” these days, you’re probably human. We all are feeling it, whether we’re aware of it or not. Our health remains tethered to the air and light around us, despite all the progress that has given us a certain insularity.

A teen boy who was shot two weeks ago at a Spokane Valley apartment died two days after the shooting that also injured two others.

Mar. 21—The mother of a Tri-Cities murderer will spend 60 days in jail after admitting to her role in a series of crimes surrounding the killing. Kari Ann Golden's sentence was initially supposed to be 30 days, but Judge Norma Rodriguez felt the joint recommendation was too low for the crimes. "I want you to know that it's difficult for me to go over the prosecution recommendation, I hope you ...

A fugitive on the run for three years after being accused of sexual assault in Arkansas was living in Cheney and arrested there Thursday, the U.S. Marshals Service said .

A body was recovered Thursday from the Spokane River near Nine Mile Falls.

Spokane’s elected leadership wants it to be free to ride a bus in Spokane County for nearly nine weeks during the 50th anniversary celebration of Expo ’74. Some members of the Spokane Transit Authority board are skeptical.

Prosecutors announced Thursday they will not file criminal charges in connection with the death of Nex Benedict, a nonbinary student who died a day after a fight last month at a high school in suburban Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who lied to police about seeing a toddler on a busy interstate, then faking her own kidnapping, has avoided jail and was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty on Thursday.

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced the last two of six White ex-law enforcement officers in Mississippi to lengthy prison terms for their torture of two Black men last year, a racist assault that reignited demands for broader police accountability.