Rapist moves downtown

Spokane police are warning the community that a man convicted of raping a 5-year-old girl is now living in downtown Spokane.

Donald A. Radecker is a level 3 sex offender. His conviction was in 1995 in Ferry County.

Radecker is not wanted by authorities. He is being supervised by a Washington Department of Corrections officer.

Radecker, 36, is 5-foot-9 and weighs 175 pounds. He has brown hair and blue eyes.

Spokane Valley

One killed in crash on Trent Avenue

At least one person was killed Friday night in a head-on collision in Spokane Valley, the Washington State Patrol reported. The 10:30 p.m. crash demolished both vehicles – one a red Ford Explorer and the other a pickup truck.

The Ford Explorer was driving west in the wrong lane on Trent Avenue when it crashed into a pickup truck near Progress Road.

“We do have some reports of an erratic red SUV just prior to the collision,” said Sgt. Jim Hays of WSP. The Explorer caught fire, and the driver was pronounced dead. There were no passengers.

The driver of the pickup truck suffered broken limbs but the full extent of injuries was not known, Hays said.

Trent Avenue was expected to remain closed for seven hours.

Kootenai County

Ex-inmates injury claim dismissed

A former Kootenai County inmate’s claim that jail overcrowding led to an ankle injury has been dismissed.

Charles A. Marston sued Kootenai County in federal court, alleging that cramped conditions at the jail in December 2005 resulted in too many inmates being housed in close quarters. Marston, 31, claimed he broke his ankle when he was getting down from a bunk bed and tried to avoid stepping on another inmate sleeping on the floor.

U.S. Magistrate Mikel H. Williams dismissed the suit this week, ordering Marston and Kootenai County to pay their own legal costs.