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‘We are all human’: Amid crisis back home, Spokane group supports area’s growing Haitian community

Fri., April 19, 2024

Katia Jasmin was about 18 years old when she woke up to the sound of the door to her family’s home in Haiti being broken down.

News > Spokane

50 years ago in Expo history: The fair’s Pan-African Pavilion was expected to offer a ‘much-needed’ lesson

Fri., April 19, 2024

Julian Bond, civil rights leader and Georgia state legislator, toured Expo ’74’s Afro-American Pavilion (sometimes called the Pan-African Pavilion) and called it “very impressive.”

News > Crime/Public Safety

City public defenders office files over 200 motions to disqualify Judge Gloria Ochoa-Bruck from cases

UPDATED: Mon., April 22, 2024

As of this month, more than 200 motions – filed on behalf of defendants accused of misdemeanors – have been filed to remove cases initially assigned to Municipal Court Judge Gloria Ochoa-Bruck.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Lawsuit alleges Central Valley School District failed to protect teen from teacher’s ‘sexually predatory behavior’

Fri., April 19, 2024

The Central Valley School District failed to protect a student from one of its former teacher’s “sexually predatory behavior,” according to a lawsuit filed against the school district last week in Spokane County Superior Court.

News > Business

Recent Gonzaga graduate on his way to $1 million company

UPDATED: Fri., April 19, 2024

For years, Kody Lukens wanted a better tool to help him with his attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

News > Business

Springtime means tulips and for-sale signs are popping up in Spokane

UPDATED: Fri., April 19, 2024

As the weather warms in the Lilac City, it becomes the season for days at the lake or time spent in the garden.

News > Nation/World

Supreme Court tackles homelessness crisis. What that means for U.S. West

UPDATED: Sat., April 20, 2024

The Supreme Court is poised to hear its most important case ever on the homelessness crisis, and to decide whether cities in California and the West may enforce laws against camping on sidewalks or other public property.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Police officers shoot man on edge of Shadle Park High School

UPDATED: Fri., April 19, 2024

A man was shot multiple times by Spokane police officers Thursday on the edge of Shadle Park High School after police say the man shot a tow truck during a dispute with the driver earlier in the day in north Spokane.

News > Business

California sees two more property insurers withdraw from market

UPDATED: Fri., April 19, 2024

California’s already strained property insurance market is facing a new challenge as two more insurers, Tokio Marine America Insurance Co. and Trans Pacific Insurance Co., plan to withdraw from the wildfire-prone state entirely starting in July.

News > Nation

Maryland teen threatened to ‘shoot up’ a suburban D.C. high school, police say

UPDATED: Thu., April 18, 2024

A Maryland teenager was charged with threatening mass violence after investigators in Montgomery County found a 129-page “memoir” the 18-year-old had written that described shooting up a high school and elementary school, according to court documents filed Thursday.

News > Nation/World

Widespread 911 outages are reported in four states

UPDATED: Thu., April 18, 2024

A large-scale outage on Wednesday affected residents' ability to call the 911 emergency number in parts of Nebraska and Texas, the entire state of South Dakota and Las Vegas, according to local authorities.

News > Further Review

The Beginning of an Epidemic: Columbine, 25 Years Later

Thu., April 18, 2024

A quarter-century ago, two heavily armed teens shocked middle America in what was then the first highly publicized school shooting. Fifteen people died in the Columbine shooting, and since then, the number of injuries and fatalities caused annually by school shootings has skyrocketed.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Raids in Eastern Washington target Norteño prison gang and drug trafficking

UPDATED: Thu., April 18, 2024

Federal, tribal and local agencies arrested more than 20 people in a crackdown on gang crime in raids Thursday morning across Eastern Washington.

News > Health

‘We are the heart of Sacred Heart’: Providence technical workers are now on strike

UPDATED: Mon., April 22, 2024

With chants of “We are the heart of Sacred Heart,” the Providence hospital strike launched Monday afternoon.

News > Health

High schoolers get a taste of medical practice at special UW event in Spokane

UPDATED: Fri., April 19, 2024

Dozens of Spokane-area high school students gathered at the UW School of Medicine Friday afternoon to learn what it means to have a career in health care.

News > Business

Bankrate: How to buy life insurance

UPDATED: Fri., April 19, 2024

At first, thinking about how to get life insurance might seem overwhelming. If you’re not familiar with coverage types or how to buy life insurance policies, you might be tempted to put it off.

News > Business

Ada County home prices just spiked by a record-setting amount

UPDATED: Fri., April 19, 2024

The Treasure Valley is hitting its spring homebuying season with a force.

News > K-12 education

No-phone day at Saint George’s school leaves students feeling free: ‘I would do this every day’

UPDATED: Fri., April 19, 2024

Something was missing in Saint George’s School on Thursday. A lot of somethings.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Spokane Police release video footage of 2022 officer shooting of Robert Bradley

UPDATED: Thu., April 18, 2024

Spokane police have released body camera and surveillance footage of officers shooting and killing an armed man on his property, weeks after prosecutors found the use of force justified.

News > Business

Red state coal towns still power the West Coast

UPDATED: Fri., April 19, 2024

In the early morning light, it’s easy to mistake the towering gray mounds for an odd-looking mountain range — pale and dull and devoid of life, some pine trees and shrublands in the foreground with lazy blue skies extending up beyond the peaks. But the mounds aren’t mountains.

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