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News >  Spokane

Law Should Put Hammer Down On Fraudulent Contractors

Last summer, Donald Alan Stewart claimed someone stole $31,000 cash out of his pickup truck. The other day, the 31-year-old Spokane contractor confirmed in court what the cops and those he conned knew all along: That Donald Alan Stewart is a thief and a liar.

News >  Spokane

Queen Of The Hill: Garbage Collector Throws Self Into Job

Garbage collecting. Sure, it sounds like a monotonous, thankless, underpaid and smelly job. But that's only because you've never felt the thrill of having your spleen bounce three feet each time the garbage truck plummets into one of Spokane's 8 million potholes.
News >  Spokane

Nominate Your Trash Master For Top Of The Heap

You've heard of the Oscars, the Grammys, the Tonys.... Let me introduce you to one of America's lesser-known achievement awards: The Ruffies. Sounds silly, you say? Hah. How silly does free garbage bags for life sound?
News >  Spokane

New Owners Fit Old Hotel To A Tea

Louis Davenport was a patriotic American, but also quite a short one. So short, legend has it, that before he could launch a counter-strike against Hitler's evil Axis powers some 50-odd years ago, Louis had a bellboy fetch him a ladder.
News >  Spokane

Infamous Roadhouse Up For Sale

Ah, if only the battlescarred, red walls and stained shag carpet inside this old green house could speak. They'd probably say things like: "Hide the dope, man, it's the cops!"
News >  Spokane

Incinerator Tour A Chance To Talk Trash

After touring Spokane's mammoth garbage burner, I've concluded it would be much more difficult to dispose of a body there than I previously had suspected. You'd at least have to thoroughly dice your victim and then wrap the pieces tightly in newspaper to have any chance at all of getting away with the crime. True, our incinerator consumes some 800 tons of trash a day, but "the garbage gets a lot more inspection than in the days of the old landfills," says Damon Taam, assistant director of the waste-toenergy plant on Geiger Road.
News >  Spokane

In This Family, Kids Come First

They don't give medals for what Ed and Kathryn Parry have done, and that's a shame. This Spokane couple deserve some kind of award or at least a paid vacation. Next time you're balancing your checkbook and feel sorry for yourself, consider this: The Parrys just put their 12th and final kid through college.
News >  Spokane

Spokane, World Loses `One Of The Great Ones’

It's as if some Hollywood script writer concocted the life and times of John Anthony Masterson. He was truly one of Spokane's brightest lights, an overachiever who soared far and away from his working-class roots and struck gold in nearly everything he touched.
News >  Spokane

Columnist Tries To Play Cupid

"I met all my wives in traffic jams. ... There's something women like about a pickup man." - from the country hit "Pickup Man" by Joe Diffie. He roared from out of nowhere in his big macho pickup truck. She gazed up at the dark stranger from her cute little Honda.
News >  Features

Legendary Landmarks Photographer Captures The Area’s More Unusual Structures

1. "I try to document those little bits of America that are fading away," George Goetzman says. 2. "Things become standardized. Today, every town has so much that looks the same as any other town," says George Goetzman. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review 3. It takes a man like Goetzman to see the greatness of Buds Tires.
News >  Spokane

Some Learn While Being Taught Lesson

A fter 40 years of teaching, Bob Schlim may have the bestbehaved students in town. They don't skip school. They don't smuggle weapons from home. They don't sneak out to the corner for a cigarette. Nobody ever claims the dog ate his homework.
News >  Spokane

City Drags Feet As Division Follies Continue

She tied a yellow ribbon round the old street sign. Although green at fighting city hall, she pleaded her case to bureaucrats who patronized her and made empty promises. Now Patti Lauber sees red whenever she gazes out her office window and counts the daily motorcade of befuddled wrong-way drivers who think they still can travel north on Division from Sharp.
News >  Spokane

A Tough Habit To Break

Ray Blowers sits in his sea of ashtrays, wondering if anyone will come forth to buy his collection. Photo by Doug Clark/The Spokesman-Review
News >  Spokane

Follicle Farming Very Tough In Fallow Field

"I think I've got a crop failure," says Spokesman-Review columnist Doug Clark, who tried a miracle cure for baldness that promised new hair growth within about 20 minutes. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review
News >  Spokane

Bounty Agents Ready For Rough Stuff

Two handguns, a 9mm and a 7mm semiautomatic, lie loaded and holstered on the table. Two bolt-action rifles lean against a wall. Three hard men sit within reach of their weapons. They sip coffee, smoke cigarettes and exchange war stories about the more memorable suspects they outfoxed and took to jail:
News >  Spokane

Justice Was Never Served For Murdered Girls

Two little girls snatched during a walk to the candy store. One found dead hours later, her body hidden under a pile of smoldering pine needles. The other still missing. A prime suspect fingered by police.
News >  Spokane

Grim Welcome May Be Awaiting Smiling Kevin

"I don't like living by the rules. I like things my way." - Kevin Boot, accused killer of Felicia Reese Word just in from the big house: Kevin Boot's murder trial may be months away, but a welcoming committee already is looking forward to the smirking punk's arrival at the state penitentiary in Walla Walla.
News >  Spokane

Family Was Always Ready To Help; Now It’s Your Turn

The Halls of Bare Mountain are known as good Samaritans by the residents of this small, rustic community north of Spokane. After the father of a Riverside High School athlete was mortally injured in a car wreck, Debbie Hall was first in line to start a benefit drive for the griefstricken family.
News >  Spokane

Bean Counters Threaten Mission Of Morning Star

Until Spokane cops hauled him in on 14 counts, R.J. Mulvey was probably one of the city's most accomplished 13-year-old burglars. Alex De La Pena was a car thief at age 11, stuffing coats and cushions under his butt until he could see over the dashboard enough to drive the hot wheels away.