Brian Coddington

1. Kate McCaslin took her campaign to the Liberty Lake Fourth of July parade. Photos by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review 2. Steve Hasson's 1967 VW bus makes a great vehicle for hauling campaign signs. 3. Don Manning and his son drop off election signs in Millwood.

Krystal Ruddach received a replacement tricycle from Don North, who had bought it several years ago and didn't use it. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

A Spokane Valley man named on six Grant County felony warrants was arrested Tuesday after he was stopped for a traffic violation. Wade Lee Phillips, 27, was booked into the Spokane County Jail on the warrants, which include charges of burglary and robbery. The warrants carry bonds totaling $30,000.

Two teenagers were arrested early Tuesday after several cars were burglarized during a Spokane Valley crime spree. So far, sheriff's deputies have linked the teens to nine car break-ins near the 900 block of North Ella Road, said Lt. David Wiyrick.

Journal News Publishing Co., the parent company of the Spokane Valley News, on Wednesday bought The Valley Herald. Journal News Publishing plans to merge the two newspapers later this month and produce a weekly paper known as the Spokane Valley News-Herald, publisher Bill Ifft said.

A Rockford man accused of shooting his cousin last weekend was ordered held on $15,000 bail Tuesday during his first appearance in District Court. James Donald McElfish, 60, was arrested early Saturday and booked into the Spokane County Jail for first-degree assault.

A teenager who reported being shot at last week spotted the suspected shooter early Saturday at a Spokane Valley fast food restaurant. Sheriff's deputies arrested David Duane Primm, 21, at the Taco Bell at Sprague and University. Primm, who gave 12707 E. Fourth as his address, was booked into the Spokane County Jail for first-degree reckless endangerment.

Krystal Ruddach kept her tricycle in the front yard so that she could get to it easily. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

Bigelow Gulch Road between Argonne and Forker received a new tar-gravel-tar top coat this week. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

Sheriff's deputies arrested two men early Tuesday after more than $3,000 worth of boating equipment was stolen from behind a Spokane Valley house. Michael T. Walls, 27, and Wendell A. Walls, 31, were booked into the Spokane County Jail for first-degree theft, a felony. The brothers, who both gave a 12002 E. Fourth address, were being held Thursday in lieu of $5,000 bail.

Lifetime Chester resident Sally Gerimonte remembers the spring of 1950, when what is now Painted Hills Golf Course was completely under water. Gerimonte, 61, also recalls spring runoff flooding the road leading to the original Chester Elementary. "We used to have to walk through water to get to school," she said.

A 24-year-old man narrowly escaped serious injury Wednesday night when he was robbed at knifepoint while waiting in his car at a drive-through pharmacy in the Spokane Valley. Two men who had been standing next to a Dumpster near the drive-up window at Walgreens Rxpress, 12200 E. Sprague, robbed the man while he waited behind several other cars to pull up to the window.

Flashy cars and trucks, and a 50s dance contest drew hundreds of Spokane area youths to the Spokane Interstate Fairgrounds Saturday as part of the fifth annual Cops 'n Kids night. Each blew a clean breathalyzer test to get into the show, which was aimed at giving teenagers and local law enforcement officers a chance to mix on a social level.

1. Davin Rose received more than 100 stitches in his scalp. He was released from Deaconess Medical Center Friday. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review 2. On the last day of his hospital stay Thursday, Davin Rose is kept company by his mother, Robin, and sister, Elisha. He is expected to make a full recovery. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

Vandals smashed more than 40 landing lights early Wednesday at Felts Field. A maintenance supervisor found 18 Federal Aviation Administration approach lights and 21 blue taxi lights had been smashed, said a police spokesman.

Josh Talley and the boys from "Silva" belt out a tune about raw meat in the fourth annual "Battle of the Bands" competition in Riverfront Park on Saturday. Photo by Dan Pelle/The Spokesman-Review

A shooting in north Spokane early Saturday sent a woman to the hospital and her ex-husband to jail. Patricia G. Busby, 38, was shot three times with a handgun at the house she rents at 2104 E. Rich.

Emily, 3, Aaron, 7, and Bob Willrich love spending time in their rose garden. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

1. An actor portraying a bomber lights the fuse of a pipe bomb at the Planned Parenthood building. Above left, photographer Kevin O'Brien shoots the action during the bombing scene. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review 2. Below, the "bombers" dash off to the bank after bombing the Planned Parenthood building on Pines Road. Right, the reenactment attracted dozens of interested neighbors who watched from a safe distance. Photos by Steve Thompson 3. Actor Patrick Treadway peers from a van. 4. Spokane County Sheriff's Deputy Roger Knight keeps people away from the still-smoking Planned Parenthood building.

A 36-year-old man was awakened by an intruder early Sunday and beaten at his west Spokane Valley home. Sheriff's deputies arrested Frank E. Dunphy, 23, for the attack a few minutes later. Dunphy, who was found nearby, matched the description of the intruder given by the victim, deputies said.

A dog that once tried to bite an animal control officer attacked a 60-year-old meter reader Wednesday morning in the Spokane Valley. John Riley, a Modern Electric Water Co. employee, received several stitches at Valley Hospital and Medical Center to close a gash in his left forearm. Riley told animal control officers the collie attacked him about 9 a.m. in the driveway at 1508 N. Oberlin.

Irene Gardner drove an old, blue police sedan confidently, weaving through a row of orange traffic cones. It was only her third turn, and already the Sheriff's Community Oriented Policing Effort volunteer was making her way flawlessly through the course Thursday at the Spokane Interstate Fairgrounds. Gardner wasn't rushing, and she wasn't hitting anything.

Spokane County commissioners announced this week that the county was awarded $7.5 million for the protection of the Spokane Valley's major source of drinking water. The state Department of Ecology money will help pay for sewer installations throughout the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie aquifer area, said Chad Hutson, county spokesman. About 30,000 septic tanks are to be removed. The funds are part of a 20-year, $100 million grant Department of Ecology awarded to Spokane County and the city of Spokane, Hutson said.

Vandals did more than $1,000 in damage and stole four golf carts when they broke into Painted Hills Golf Course last week. At least two people, and as many as four, cut through the chain link fence surrounding a golf cart storage area at the course early Wednesday, sheriff's detectives said. Five carts were taken from the area. One was found damaged about 100 yards away. The other four were recovered Thursday in the woods nearby. They also had been wrecked.