Police are trying to identify a group of assailants who beat a young couple near the Spokane Arena on the Fourth of July. Shantell Rushing, 21, and her boyfriend Jorge Ruiz, 21, were walking north on Howard Street from Riverfront Park when a group of…
A retired Spokane police officer will have his hypnosis weight-loss therapy paid for by city tax money. Members of the Spokane Police Pension and Relief Board unanimously approved the unusual claim from board member Gary Gow at its meeting Thursday. Gow, who retired from the…
A man who sexually assaulted a woman in front of her 4-year-old daughter in 1994 has moved to a new address in Spokane Valley. David Robert Rickard, 50, was released from prison in 2004 after serving nine years for first-degree burglary with sexual motivation. Rickard…
A 30-year-old man who lost consciousness while in Coeur d’Alene police custody died early Thursday at Kootenai Medical Center. Nicholas Andrew Clason was pronounced dead at the hospital , where he was admitted late Sunday for a possible drug overdose. Police first contacted him about…
Police say a Spokane mother who caused a car crash last month removed her injured child from the scene before medics arrived because she feared getting in trouble. Tamika L. Hill, 28, appeared in Superior Court Thursday on a second-degree criminal mistreatment charge and two…
Spokane police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick fired Detective Jeff Harvey on Wednesday as a result of an alleged confrontation Harvey had with a state Fish and Wildlife officer and what his termination letter labeled a “troubled work history.” The incident was “part of the pattern of…
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