Sherry Adkins

As far as Korina Baker is concerned, playing basketball at North Idaho College is not much different from her days at tiny Freeman High. “Freeman is small and the NIC campus is little,” she said. “It’s like I really have not left (high school).”

Being “immortal” was not in the cards for Michael Jackson. Yet that didn’t deter Cirque du Soleil from bringing Jackson back to life, in the same way it revived Elvis in “Viva Elvis” and John Lennon and George Harrison in “Love.”

Walter Crumm led what would probably be considered an unremarkable life, living in a boarding home in Browne’s Addition and spending his days in downtown Spokane. But he had something a lot of people might envy – friends who really cared about him. He was about 58 when he died in July 1984 (his exact birthday is uncertain). He had a heart attack in the winter, but it was kidney failure that claimed him. Not a whole lot is known about this mentally disabled man’s background, other than the fact that he was abandoned at a young age at Lakeland Village in Medical Lake, later transferred to Eastern State Hospital and released from there in 1958. He lived in community homes the rest of his life.

When Sarah and Emily Kladar visited a medical clinic in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, three years ago, they were stunned by dozens of photos plastered on a wall. All were of children – many their own ages – who might die without heart surgery.

Hits were scarce in the first few innings as Spokane and Tri-City batters had to deal with pitchers standing partly in sunlight and partly in shadows.

Police released a photo Wednesday showing a vehicle they think may have struck and killed a 42-year-old Spokane woman on Sunday, and Crime Stoppers is offering a reward for tips that help solve the crime.

A baby who police say was abused by his mother’s boyfriend was taken off life support Tuesday afternoon, three days before his three-month birthday. Izayah Arlen Wayne Denison’s heart, kidneys and liver will be donated to three babies, said his mother, Jenauh Denison, 22.

Holiday travelers in the Inland Northwest had better get where they are going by noon on Wednesday. Otherwise, they may be in for another wintry nightmare.