Crime/Public Safety

A 15-year-old convicted felon believed to be connected to a gas station burglary and shooting this month in Deer Park was arrested Tuesday after running from deputies trying to search the teen’s home, according to the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.

A 50-year-old man charged with lewd conduct with a minor and who fled to Eastern Europe was brought back to North Idaho by authorities to face the charge, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.

An Ada County judge has ordered a probe into leaked information to media about the ongoing murder case of four University of Idaho students.

A man attacked a woman with a knife and then fatally stabbed a man before another man shot and killed the knife-wielding suspect in self-defense Tuesday at a South Hill apartment complex, according to the Spokane Police Department.

A bicyclist trying to cross State Route 231 Tuesday 1 mile south of Ford, Washington, was hit and killed by a driver, according to Washington State Patrol.

The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in finding a 16-year-old girl who was last seen Monday in downtown Spokane.

A fight involving multiple people left two dead Tuesday at an apartment building in Spokane’s Lincoln Heights Neighborhood, according to the Spokane Police Department.

A motorcyclist was killed and another was seriously injured in two separate crashes Monday afternoon in north Spokane.

A 67-year-old man died in an all-terrain vehicle crash near Moon Pass, Idaho, according to the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office.

A new executive order signed by President Donald Trump appears to loosen ropes on police accountability and potentially attempt to intervene in local law enforcement policy – but the order is so vague, it’s leaving those in police circles unsure what it really means.

A 34-year-old woman accused of starting a fire Wednesday that spread to several properties in a north Spokane neighborhood told police the fire was accidental.

A man was stabbed in the arm Friday morning near Riverfront Park, and police are looking for a suspect.

A man found dead earlier this week in a brown 1988 Winnebago motorhome near a fast food restaurant parking lot appeared to have been shot, according to search warrant documents filed Thursday in Spokane County Superior Court.

Law enforcement on Thursday arrested a woman suspected of setting fire to a north Spokane property that caused damage to the surrounding area.

Spokane Valley police detectives are investigating the death of a man found inside a parked RV Tuesday as a homicide.

Federal agents have broken up a major drug ring with 21 suspects facing charges and the seizure of enough fentanyl to kill a sold-out Spokane Arena twice over.

A Thursday morning house fire on the South Hill injured one man and killed a dog, the Spokane Fire Department said in a news release.

On Wednesday evening, a jury found Samson Allen guilty on charges of resisting arrest and obstructing justice during a police encounter last June that culminated in the arresting officer pressing his knee to the young Meridian man’s neck.

A fire believed to have been intentionally set in an alley spread to multiple properties, burning a home and several outbuildings Wednesday afternoon in a north Spokane neighborhood, according to the Spokane Fire Department.