A man was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of child enticement at the parasail dock near Independence Point on Lake Coeur d’Alene after trying to lure a 10-year-old boy onto a boat, police said.

A fired Spokane Police officer awaiting trial for allegedly sexually assaulting a victim of domestic violence was arrested Wednesday on new charges after another woman reported he raped her while on duty.

Shane Goldsby, a 26-year-old inmate who killed his cellmate for sexually abusing his younger sister, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison on top of his current sentence on Tuesday.

Witnesses to a shooting were narrowly missed by bullets that flew through nearby residences, according to court documents that detail a fatal shooting in the parking lot of a restaurant on Hamilton Street and Sinto Avenue early Monday.

During a Monday press conference, Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich and community leaders announced the creation of Save, the Sheriff's Anti-Violence Effort. 

An argument that started inside Lucky’s Bar on Sprague Avenue ended in the shooting and death of Jakobe Ford on Saturday night, according to court documents.

Police arrested the suspect in a fatal shooting near the Gonzaga campus early Monday morning.

First responders in Spokane County have made increased requests to use the Spokane County Emergency Management alert systems, but glitches in the federal system that allows alerts to be geographically targeted to people’s cellphones has caused confusion. 

Ford, a graduate of Shadle Park High School, gained lots of recognition in the community as a USA Track and Field Junior Olympic triple-gold medalist and the recipient of the 2017 USATF Youth Athlete of the Year. He was the first since 1967 to win the high jump, long jump and triple jump at the Junior Olympics.

The Spokane Police Department said that new legislative changes enacted last week prevented its officers from quickly apprehending a domestic violence suspect on Wednesday.

Spokane police say a sex offender who escaped from community housing on North Lincoln Street and ditched his electronic monitoring device Saturday evening was arrested a short time later.

Investigators said Friday that slain Clark County sheriff’s Detective Jeremy Brown used force the night he was fatally shot in his vehicle as he worked undercover at The Pointe Apartments in east Vancouver.

The fire near Priest River grew on Friday and continues to have no containment as firefighters battle the blaze in extreme temperatures.

The family of an unarmed mentally ill man shot and killed by a Spokane County Sheriff’s Deputy in 2019 filed a federal civil rights law suit Thursday, alleging the department doesn’t train deputies properly on mental health calls.