While other Liberty Lake residents were inside the club house drawing new growth boundaries, this couple hit the links. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review
A 26-year-old Spokane Valley man was beaten early Saturday by a group of people who followed him when he left a party after an argument.
Sheriff's deputies said the group of about four men surrounded Dorn Dunn in a parking lot in the 300 block of South Dishman-Mica Road about 5 a.m.
A man who had driven Dunn from the party hit him in the back of the head with a glass bottle, deputies said. The others joined in, punching Dunn in the face several times before he fell to the ground, deputies said.
Police have arrested a man in connection with a northeast Spokane murder and are looking for an accomplice, the brother of a teenager just sentenced to life in prison for two murders.
Irvin Fentroy III is being held without bail in the Spokane County Jail on first-degree murder charges for a killing allegedly committed during a robbery on Thursday.
Travis Comeslast, 20, also is being sought, police said Saturday.
Comeslast, who told The Spokesman-Review last summer that he was a former gang member, is probably armed and should be considered "very dangerous," police said.
The temptation to leave a handprint in wet concrete is often hard for children to pass up.
Developers of a new park in Liberty Lake's MeadowWood community are hoping children will give in to that temptation today.
As part of a dedication ceremony for the new park, developers are asking children to smack their hands down along a path of wet concrete leading to the park's play equipment.
Animal control officials on Tuesday deemed dangerous a dog that earlier this month attacked a 62-year-old Valley man and killed his dog.
Sharon L. Gardner was treated by his doctor for a bite to his right hand. Gardner's Yorkshire terrier, "Snickers," died from his wounds.
Tamela J. Dombrosky, 34, 4302 N. Silas, was charged with owning a dog with dangerous propensities, a misdemeanor, and cited for allowing her dogs to run at large.
More than 20 years after graduating from North Central High School, Mary Wissink still teases Kristi Hamilton about helping her do the dishes when they were growing up.
The 1975 graduates met when they were four years old and were inseparable through high school.
Two men were arrested on drug charges early Saturday outside a popular Spokane Valley night spot.
Sheriff's deputies said they noticed the men sitting in a car in the northwest corner of the parking lot in front of the Sports Page, 12828 E. Sprague, about 12:20 a.m.
When deputies approached the car, the two men stuffed several things under their seats, said Jeff Tower, a Sheriff's Department spokesman.
1. Dawn Malek rode her horse on the last day of classes in June of 1994. File photo
2. Friends of Dawn Malek rode to school in her memory on the last day of school at East Valley High. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review
A debate about how early in the morning is too early to use Liberty Lake is destined to be resolved at a public hearing.
The debate centers around a water ski slalom course on the lake's south end. Residents and boaters have been at odds about the noise created by early morning boaters since the course was laid about three years ago. Some also are unhappy with the course's location.
"One way or another, we're going to have a public hearing," County Commissioner Steve Hasson said.
During that hearing, residents will be allowed to voice their opinions about what hour of the day activity on the lake should begin and when it should cease. That hearing could come within the next two or three weeks, Hasson said.
1. Sheriff's Deputy John Grandinetti and his graduating DARE class at University Elementary School. Below, Deputy Dave Skogen talks to an Otis Orchards Elementary class. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review
2. Dave Skogen passed out DARE T-shirts to students on his last day.
3. Deputy John Grandinetti at his last DARE graduation. Other deputies will take over the drug education program. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review
A man convicted of arson was sentenced to two years in prison Wednesday for torching the Spokane Valley trailer he shared with his two daughters in an arson-for-profit scheme.
David W. Janson, 42, who was convicted of first-degree arson by a Superior Court jury in April, may also be forced to pay restitution to the owner of the trailer he burned, her insurance company and a neighbor.
A hearing has been set for July 1 to determine how much money - if any - Janson will pay.
Threatening to draw urban growth area boundaries with a can of spray paint, County Commissioner Steve Hasson encouraged Liberty Lake residents to come up with their own.
After giving the 50 or so people gathered at Liberty Lake Community Church Wednesday night a quick rundown of the nuances of the state's Growth Management Act, Hasson handed out maps of the lake community and told residents to start sketching.
"It seems to me you are a community and you have intimate knowledge of your neighborhoods and their needs," Hasson said.
George Orr, a Spokane Valley firefighter and former state representative, is running for the state Senate in the 4th Legislative District.
The Democrat will focus his campaign on education and protection of natural resources, he told about 25 supporters gathered Thursday at the Valley branch of the Spokane County Library.
"If you don't screw those two up, the rest of it will be OK," said the 53-year-old Orr, who is challenging Republican incumbent Bob McCaslin.
Organizers of Saturday's West Valley Family Days celebration say this year's community parade and carnival will be the biggest and best yet.
More games and new rides will see to that, they said.
"We've added quite a few things," said Debi Green, one of the organizers.
Students at a Spokane Valley middle school were sent home Monday morning after a small fire in one of the classrooms forced the school's closure.
A fire in the art classroom chased children from Mountain View Middle School, 6011 N. Chase, about 8 a.m.
Firefighters quickly dowsed the fire, but smoke still filled a few classrooms and lurked in the hallway.
Pilot Waldo G. "Skip" Magnuson walks back to his plane shortly after landing with engine problems in Bud Morrison's alfalfa field. Photo by Associated Press
A man who was robbing two people at a Spokane Valley restaurant early Saturday turned and shot into a passing car, critically injuring a teenager.
The 19-year-old shooting victim was in critical, but stable condition at Deaconess Medical Center with a gunshot wound to his neck, said sheriff's Sgt. Garry Smith. He did not release the teen's name.
The two robbery victims, 33-year-old Devon Kelley and 25-year-old Kenzie Wiese, both of Idaho, were not injured.
Travis Passey, 18, of Cheney, is the sixth and youngest Passey brother to get his Eagle Scout Award. Travis' brother, from left, are Jared, 23, Allan, 31, David, 33, Ryan, 24, and Nathan, 27. Photo by Sandra Bancroft-Billings/The Spokesman-Review
A new plan to build an east-west commuter couplet through the Spokane Valley may help the county hang onto millions of dollars in federal money.
Spokane County commissioners gave engineers the green light at a meeting Thursday to study an alternative to the long-debated South Valley Arterial.
The move should secure nearly $10 million in federal money earmarked for the commuter road, said Dennis Scott, county director of public works.
Three people were arrested Tuesday after a building at a camp near Boulder Beach was vandalized.
Richard A. Vales, 18, and two 15-year-olds, a boy and a girl, were charged with second-degree burglary.
Two men who were walking at Camp Secani told sheriff's deputies they heard glass shatter and wood break inside a building at the camp about 3 p.m.
