Briefly

Man injured in bar stabbing

A 26-year-old man was in critical condition Saturday, after being stabbed during a fight at the Out of Bounds tavern in Clark Fork, Idaho.

Blaine B. Stevens was airlifted to Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane. Bonner County sheriff’s deputies arrived at the tavern shortly before 2 a.m. New Year’s Day.

Details of the altercation were not available Saturday. The Bonner County shift sergeant did not return phone calls, and Sheriff Elaine Savage could not be reached for comment.

Man jailed after fight at party

One man was hospitalized with a stab wound and police arrested another man on a charge of first-degree assault at a New Year’s Eve party Friday night in Spokane Valley.

The 30-year-old victim was in stable condition Saturday night after surgery, police said.

Spokane Valley police officers had been called to a home at 13719 E. 21st shortly before midnight, and learned while on their way that a stabbing victim was being taken to a Valley medical center, according to a police department news release.

Officers split up between the hospital and the home, where they found a large number of partiers and the front windows of the house shattered, police said.

Police said a fight erupted during the party between the victim, a resident of the home, and another man, Michael A. Kannall, 21. Kannall stabbed the other man, cutting his own hand in the process, police said.

Two other men were treated for minor injuries suffered during the altercation.

Kannall was booked into the Spokane County Jail on a felony charge of first-degree assault, police said.

Bicyclist dies when hit by police car

Bonney Lake, Wash.

A 14-year-old boy riding a bicycle was struck and killed by a Pierce County sheriff’s deputy on his way to answer a burglary call early Saturday.

The boy and a 15-year-old friend were riding on a two- lane unlit road south of Bonney Lake when the accident occurred about 3 a.m. The 15-year-old boy survived.

Sheriff’s department spokesman Ed Troyer told KING- TV News that the deputy was responding to a report of a burglary in progress. He said the boys rode their bicycles into the path of the deputy’s patrol car.

The deputy has been placed on administrative leave. Troyer said the deputy was distraught over the accident.