Warning: Light posting ahead
I'll be out of the office beginning Friday, June 26 and returning Monday, July 13. Editor David Wasson will update this blog when he can, but expect light posting until I return.
Sirens & Gavels archive for June 25, 2009
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2009
Captured: Spokane's own Hamburglar?
Call him Spokane’s alleged version of the Hamburglar. Police today arrested a man they say is the ringleader of a cutlet cartel that had been stealing meat and selling it in Spokane for at least three years. Read Sara Leaming’s story here.
Courthouse watch: 6.25.09
Two former employees of a Spokane nonprofit dedicated to feeding low-income residents used more than $80,000 in donations to pay for booze-soaked lunches, Victoria’s Secret shopping sprees, video rentals, computer equipment, home upgrades, furniture and a Florida vacation, investigators alleged last summer. One of those…
'Their voyage will be terminated'
Kootenai County marine deputies will be patrolling lakes and river this week looking for dangerous boaters, according to a news release. Operation Dry Water is a national campaign sponsored by the National Association of Boating Law Administrators. In a line reminiscent of a Star Trek…
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