A Stevens County man has been charged with a felony after investigators say he voted twice in the 2008 election. Handwriting experts believe Alan Dennis Christensen, 34, filled out paperwork allowing him to vote in Stevens County and in Oregon, according to documents filed in…
Gunfire on the South Hill Sunday didn't injure anyone but shot out the back window of a car. How the gun discharged is a point of dispute. Spokane police say one suspect, Andrey Y. Fedin, 22, told them a friend accidentally shot the gun while…
A child rapist considered likely to reoffend is living as a transient in Spokane County, the sheriff's office announce today. Edwin L. Kedish, 54, served 80 months in prison after being convicted of third-degree rape of a child and first-degree child molestation in Pend Oreille…
The president of a Spokane-based company under investigation for an alleged $50 million-plus Ponzi scheme is to give up a motor home and Corvette, according to a legal notice published last week. An Internal Revenue Service official declined comment on the probe involving Doris Nelson,…
Fifteen months after voters rejected a tax to pay for a new police evidence building, city officials say they can open an improved facility without new taxes. The city announced this week plans to buy a warehouse in East Central Spokane and convert it to…
A former Spokane County Jail deputy fighting his dismissal over use of force has been charged with misdemeanor assault in the same incident. Wayne S. Green (right) is accused of grabbing inmate Daniel Clinger, son of a now former Spokane Fire Department captain Ron Clinger…
Although a shooting in northeast Spokane on Thursday likely wasn’t gang-related, the Los Angeles man accused in the incident was arrested earlier this year in a crack cocaine investigation targeting several gangs.Members of one of the gangs, the Atlantic Drive Compton Crips, were allegedly involved…
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