Crime/Public Safety

A driver died Monday morning after hitting a tree on the South Hill.

A 25-year-old Missoula, Montana, woman was killed after she was thrown from a passenger seat of a SUV that overturned Saturday afternoon in Cataldo, according to Idaho State Police.

The driver of a pickup struck and killed a pedestrian before turning around and driving the other direction late Friday afternoon on U.S. Highway 95 in Plummer, according to Idaho State Police.

A 29-year-old man is suspected of driving impaired when he struck and killed a woman crossing the road Friday night in Spokane Valley, according to the Spokane Valley Police Department.

A 33-year-old man who shot 30-year-old Dylan McCorkle in the head outside his Logan Neighborhood home was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison, according to the Spokane County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.

A 62-year-old Spokane man who delivered fentanyl to a retired Spokane firefighter, who then overdosed and died, was sentenced to 2½ years in prison.

A firework or similar explosive was tossed from a vehicle into a crowd, severely injuring a man on a sidewalk last weekend in downtown Spokane.

When Lisa Anselmo’s father called her in 1997 to say her mother had been killed and abandoned on the fringes of downtown Spokane, she slammed her phone down and began to weep.

One of Spokane’s first law enforcement leaders led the notorious “Magnificent Seven” posse in killing and capturing members of the James-Younger gang nearly 150 years ago in Minnesota.

After 28 years of no answers, DNA has helped solve the cold-case homicide of a floral designer and mother of two who was raped, bludgeoned to death and left face down in a Spokane alley in 1997.

A 41-year-old Coeur d’Alene man who filmed himself raping his partner multiple times was sentenced to at least 20 years in prison, according to the Kootenai County Prosecutor’s Office.

Spokane olice arrested a Halloween-masked man suspected of robbing two businesses with a shotgun last week.

Spokane Police and the City Council have agreed after public outcry to scrap the purchase of two portable high-range speakers, informally known as “sound cannons” for their piercing noises that can cascade over large protests and mass demonstrations.

A 29-year-old intoxicated man used an excavator to destroy a newly built home early Tuesday morning, according to the Post Falls Police Department.

Gina Griese will miss quick weekend getaways with her husband, Mike Griese, who she called the “best provider” and a man with a contagious laugh.

A judge sentenced a woman who shot a man out of fear in July to eight years in prison, according to a news release from the Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office.

Two pedestrians were struck and killed by drivers in two separate incidents Thursday night in northeast Spokane.

Much of Ferry County woke up without electricity Friday morning after a Bonneville Power Administration line broke on the west side of Sherman Pass, Steve VanSlyke, general manager of Ferry County Public Utility District said.

A 55-year-old convicted killer was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole after his latest violent Spokane attack marked his third strike.