A 17-year-old driver briefly pinned a Spokane police officer inside his patrol car during a chase Monday that ended with the boy's arrest, officials said today. Police were called to a fight near North Chestnut Street and West Mallon Avenue about 10:30 p.m., where people…
A drunken driver mistook railroad tracks for a roadway early Sunday in southwest Spokane County. Miles D. Matthews, 43, jumped from his 2002 Mercury Mountaineer just before a train hit it head on about 2 a.m. near Cheney-Spokane and Scribner roads in Marshall, the Spokane…
A Spokane man is accused of beating another man in the head with a tire iron and stealing his car. Grant T. McAdams, 24, asked Emad Mohammed Salih for a ride outside the 7-Eleven at West Indiana Avenue and North Washington Street May 9, then…
Trial for a man accused of plotting to kill a federal prosecutor and witnesses in a North Idaho marijuana case is set for July. Pre-trial motions in the case of Kelly J. Polatis are due by June 1 with jury selection set to begin July…
Questions about whether an accused killer had sex with his victim before or after she was dead has led to the suspect's lawyer being named a witness in the case. A judge ruled Monday that defense attorney Chris Bugbee will continue to represent accused crossbow…
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Two Somali men pleaded guilty on Monday to piracy in the hijacking of a yacht that left all four Americans on board dead, while new details emerged about who fired at the hostages. Burhan Abdirahman Yusuf and Jilani Abdiali face mandatory…
CONNELL, Wash. (AP) — Coyote Ridge Corrections Center officials say the death of an inmate found hanging in his cell appears to be a suicide. Spokeswoman Lori Wonders says 26-year-old Michael Araiza was found Saturday and could not be revived by corrections officers and medical…
An executive at the company that provides red-light cameras in Spokane has been suspended after a newspaper in Western Washington discovered he misrepresented himself as a local resident on its website and made comments to promote business in the area, a company spokesman said Friday.…
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