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  Environmental, fishing activists oppose dock plan

  August 22, 2011 in City, Idaho on Page A1 The mood was better than anticipated when more than two dozenkayakers, canoeists and rafters set out from Plantes Ferry Park to protest 30 private docks proposed for the Coyote Rock … 5

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  Landers: Board will hear challenge to Coyote Rock development

  August 18, 2011 in Sports, Outdoors, City, Region on Page B1 Every regulator with a clue seems to agree that plans to build up to 30 docks at the Coyote Rock development are a bad idea for the Spokane River. The … 1

• Council could change ombudsman rules

  July 27, 2011 in News, City Three Spokane groups are urging the City of Spokane to challenge an arbitrator’s ruling that the police ombudsman’s authority was improperly expanded. But the council could go the other way, … 6

• City pays $300,000 to settle PCB claim

  April 19, 2011 in City on Page A7 Spokane’s wastewater department will spend more than $300,000 to settle a claim alleging that dangerous chemicals were released into the Spokane River through city storm drains. Most of the money … 4

• Neighbor group sues over parking lot

  December 16, 2010 in Washington Voices on Page S5 The neighborhood group Families of Manito has filed a lawsuit in Superior Court against the city of Spokane over a parking lot expansion at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church that was …

• ACLU argues city denied rights

    September 23, 2010 in City on Page A5 The American Civil Liberties Union says the Spokane city attorney’s office violated the constitutional rights of a local attorney. In a letter to city officials last week, Michael Kipling, an … 8

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  Summer program offers free legal advice in the park

  August 12, 2010 in City on Page A5 For some Spokane residents who have questions about child custody or their rights as renters, the bigger question is whether they can afford legal advice. A lot of people in … 2

• Lawsuit filed over jump from bridge

  July 27, 2010 in City on Page A6 Attorneys have filed a $4.7 million federal civil suit against the Spokane Police Department and Spokane County Sheriff’s Department for their failed attempt to keep a mentally ill man from … 12

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  Spokane officer won’t have city attorneys in Zehm case

    May 6, 2010 in City on Page A1 Attorneys employed by the city of Spokane will no longer represent Spokane police Officer Karl F. Thompson Jr. in the legal battles stemming from the 2006 death of Otto Zehm, … 23

• Creek at risk, complaint alleges

    April 2, 2010 in City on Page A7 On multiple occasions last year, untreated storm water from a north Spokane freeway construction site illegally spilled into Deadman Creek, a stream that flows into the Little Spokane River. The …

• Center alleges freeway project is violating Clean Water Act

    April 1, 2010 in City The Center for Justice’s Spokane Riverkeeper project is alleging that the state Department of Transportation has violated the Clean Water Act during construction of the North Spokane freeway.

• County to pay $50,000 to settle suit in death of Trent Yohe

  March 23, 2010 in City Spokane County commissioners approved a $50,000 settlement Tuesday in the May 2007 death of a Spokane Valley man who fought with sheriff’s deputies. 4

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  Center for Justice loses lawyer

  February 23, 2010 in City on Page A5 Breean Beggs, the self-described chief catalyst for the public interest law firm Center for Justice, announced his resignation Monday, citing both fewer financial resources at the firm and aspirations for … 5

• Center for Justice director to resign

  February 22, 2010 in City Breean Beggs, the self-described chief catalyst for the public interest law firm Center for Justice, announced his resignation today citing both fewer financial resources at the firm and aspirations for … 14

• Groups criticize police oversight

  February 3, 2010 in City on Page A6 A coalition of groups fighting for stronger police oversight said Tuesday that a new police contract shouldn’t stop the city from giving the new police ombudsman more authority.

• Group says it will sue city over river PCBs

  December 2, 2009 in Idaho on Page A5 Spokane’s antiquated sewer system is pumping polychlorinated byphenyls, or PCBs, into the Spokane River, contaminating the river’s fish and violating the federal Clean Water Act, the Center for Justice said … 1

• Air agency settles suit

  November 10, 2009 in City on Page A5 The Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency has agreed to settle a lawsuit out of court for violating the state’s Open Meetings Act in 2006. The settlement was approved last week …

• 911 call perplexes Zehm attorney

  October 9, 2009 in City on Page A5 Among the details, court filings, and other developments surrounding the high-profile Otto Zehm case is a loosely related mystery that’s been downplayed by attorneys on opposing sides of the legal … 1

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  Spokane police chief applied for new job

  October 8, 2009 in City on Page A1 Spokane police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick on Wednesday downplayed suggestions that she is actively pursuing work outside Spokane, but she acknowledged applying for the top cop job in San Francisco and … 8

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  Zehm inquiry continuing

    September 17, 2009 in City on Page A1 More Spokane police officers could face criminal charges over the city’s handling of the fatal confrontation with unarmed janitor Otto Zehm, with newly filed court documents indicating a federal probe … 26

• More charges could come in Zehm probe

    September 16, 2009 in News More Spokane Police officers could face criminal charges over the city’s handling of the fatal confrontation with unarmed janitor Otto Zehm, with newly filed court documents indicating a federal probe … 5

• Feds unhappy with city attorney

    September 13, 2009 in City on Page B1 Federal prosecutors have grown increasingly critical of what they describe as questionable behavior by the Spokane Police Department’s chief legal adviser, who reportedly used his position to provide “traditionally confidential” … 7

• Thompson supporters raise cash

  August 25, 2009 in City on Page A1 Friends of Otto Zehm wore small blue buttons that read “Otto” in support of the mentally ill janitor, after he died in 2006 following a struggle with Spokane police. Now … 18

• County broke records law, court says

  August 14, 2009 in City on Page A7 Spokane County didn’t look hard enough for documents sought by a citizens group when it alleged nepotism in county hiring, a state appeals court has said. Now the county faces … 2

• Bistro’s neighbors sue county

  July 28, 2009 in City on Page A8 The county faces a new legal challenge over McGlades Bistro and Wine Bar, a Colbert restaurant at the center of a planning and zoning controversy. An attorney for the restaurant’s …

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  U.S. to pay cop’s counsel in federal Zehm case

  July 10, 2009 in City on Page A1 A federal magistrate ruled Thursday that the federal government should pay for the defense of Spokane police Officer Karl F. Thompson Jr. as he faces felony charges stemming from the … 6

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  County faces suit in man’s ’07 death

  July 2, 2009 in City on Page A1 A federal lawsuit has been filed against Spokane County alleging that deputies violated a man’s civil rights when they repeatedly used a Taser and hogtied him during a struggle in … 4

• Center for Justice sues over Yohe’s death

    July 1, 2009 in News A federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed against Spokane County over deputies’ actions in a struggle with an epileptic man in 2007 that resulted in his death. The suit … 1

• Zehm to blame for fight with officers, city says

    June 20, 2009 in City on Page A1 Otto Zehm is responsible for the events that led up to his death while in police custody, the city of Spokane said Friday as it asked a federal court to … 1

• Low-income housing may return

  March 26, 2009 in City on Page A5 Two years after nearly 50 tenants of the Commercial Building were displaced by a high-tech manufacturing company, the downtown apartments may once again house low-income residents. A federal judge has …

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