Crime/Public Safety

Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris temporarily restored the special deputy status of Coeur d’Alene Police leaders just days after revoking it in an act of alleged “retaliatory” behavior, according to documents obtained by The Spokesman-Review.

A Mead School District bus struck and killed a woman crossing the street Monday evening.

A 39-year-old woman is back in jail after failing to appear in court for a vehicular homicide case where she is accused of driving over 80 mph on the South Hill, running a red light and slamming into a car, killing a 79-year-old woman who worked four decades for Spokane Public Schools.

A body of a man pulled in November from the Spokane River near T.J. Meenach Bridge drowned, according to the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office Wednesday.

Ten people were displaced from their homes after a Spokane Valley fire that started in a shed spread to three mobile homes.

A 38-year-old man is accused of brandishing a knife and threatening to stab people after driving impaired and crashing with his young son in the car early in the morning on New Year’s Day, according to the Spokane Valley Police Department.

It’s been nearly six months of heartbreak and sheer difficulty since Erick Doxey’s wife of 20 years was hit and killed by a 17-year-old drunken driver on the South Hill.

A 63-year-old Sandpoint man died after the pickup he was driving was struck by a a train Sunday north of Sandpoint, according to Idaho State Police.

A 20-year-old Clayton, Washington, man who died Saturday in a head-on crash that also killed the driver in the other car near Liberty Lake has been identified.

WALLACE – What’s left of the post-Christmas day tragedy in Wallace is visible outside the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office lobby: crime scene tape that barricaded the sheriff’s office after a shooting there, now frayed and collapsing onto the cold sidewalk.

Some unnamed recipients will soon receive the transplanted liver and kidneys from a double killing suspect from Spokane. 

Downtown Spokane’s Abraham Lincoln statue has been vandalized again.

A head-on collision Saturday afternoon on state Route 290 north of Liberty Lake resulted in the deaths of two people, according to a Washington State Patrol news release.

It was a normal post-Christmas day in Wallace until gunshots rang out.

A 38-year-old man who repeatedly raped and molested a family member in Spokane was sentenced to 34 years to life in prison.

After remaining mum for months about a new contract for the regional immigrant detention center in Tacoma, the Trump administration has posted a notice that appears to offer a first look at the facility’s future operations.

A gunman on Friday shot and injured an officer and two other people near the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office before police shot and killed him, according to Shoshone County Sheriff William Eddy.

A traffic light pole near downtown Spokane was broken in half after a truck crashed into it Thursday afternoon.

The Bellingham man accused of shooting two National Guard members, one fatally, in Washington, D.C. in November may face the death penalty, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced Tuesday. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, was arrested Nov. 27 in connection to a double-shooting the day prior. He was charged with multiple felonies, including first-degree murder, in a D.C. ...