Chad Sokol

Firefighters were called at about 4:30 a.m. to the home in the 1100 block of East Broad Avenue, in the Nevada Heights neighborhood, according to a news release from the Spokane Fire Department.

Kim’s works include the nearly 6,000-piece ceiling mosaic in the Peacock Room Lounge at the Historic Davenport Hotel, which draws the attention of any visitor who stops in for a drink.

The debt relief comes from a settlement between the Empire Health Foundation and Community Health Systems, which owned the Spokane-area hospitals from 2008 to 2017. On average, those benefiting from the settlement will have roughly $2,800 in debt wiped from their credit reports.

Central Valley officials did not reveal the contents of the threat but stressed that the lockdown and evacuation measures were only precautionary. At East Valley, a message found in a boys’ restroom warned, “11-25-19 Don’t come to school. Don’t gotta believe me.”

In lawsuits brought by the county prosecutor, the commissioners – Wes McCart, Don Dashiell and Steve Parker – are accused of misspending more than $121,000 from a public fund dedicated to fighting homelessness.

Two anti-abortion activists demonstrated at Eastern Washington University on Wednesday afternoon, about two weeks after a similar appearance prompted a counterprotest involving hundreds of students. In the evening, the same two men joined hundreds of other anti-abortion activists for the latest meeting of “The Church at Planned Parenthood,” a crowd that included state Rep. Matt Shea. Police and a small group of counterprotesters were also present.

A judge will decide Thursday whether the commissioners erred by authorizing the county to cover their legal expenses. In lawsuits started by the county prosecutor, the commissioners are accused of misspending more than $121,000 from a public fund dedicated to fighting homelessness.

In a statement Monday, WSU President Kirk Schulz said the school “placed an interim loss-of-recognition status” on the Alpha Tau Omega house following the Nov. 12 death of Samuel Martinez.

The Office of Corrections Ombuds, which opened last year to provide independent oversight of the DOC, recently released its first comprehensive annual report urging the agency to improve medical and mental health care, food quality, family visitation and programs that rehabilitate prisoners and prepare them to reenter society.

Spokane police have arrested a 46-year-old man for the third time this year, adding to a lengthy rap sheet that already includes 26 felony convictions.

EWU is continuing to pursue campuswide budget cuts while raising money for a new football stadium and routing funds into student-athlete scholarships, frustrating some faculty members. President Mary Cullinan, meanwhile, says the university is collecting donations for all kinds of projects and programs.

“An additional serious concern related to the background of one of the nonprofit’s corporate officers has been raised to the city,” the city said Friday.

As students shouted and crowded around Bruce Wakeman and the other preachers, EWU police worried the demonstrations would turn violent and called in backup from the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office and the Spokane and Cheney police departments.

The treasurer of a nonprofit that recently won a $740,000 city contract to operate a warming shelter for homeless people in Spokane spent time in federal prison after pleading guilty to mail fraud in 2013.

“There should be nothing off the record” in an internal investigation, the police ombudsman said. “Thankfully we don’t have these kinds of cases a lot. But when we do, it seems critical to have all of these things happen aboveboard.”

The Spokane Police Department on Wednesday released graphic body camera footage of a February incident in which an officer shouted “I will f***ing kill you” and “I’m going to put a bullet in your brain” before hoisting a police dog into the cab of a pickup truck to subdue a man.

Spokane police arrested a 24-year-old woman after she allegedly shot two women in the downtown bar district Saturday night, minutes after officers finished responding to an unrelated shooting at Borracho Tacos & Tequileria.

Kyle Treece, who worked in the prosecutor’s office for 13 years, was fired on Oct. 18. Earlier this month, Superior Court Judge Tony Hazel found Treece in contempt and fined him $500 for “disrespect, rude interruption, insolence towards the tribunal and a refusal to follow (the) court’s lawful instructions.”

James C. Gates shot and killed 51-year-old Mark Leland in December 2018. Leland had been married to Gates’ daughter, Michele, who killed two children while she was a juvenile in Portland in 1978 and 1980.

Sgt. Terry Preuninger, a police spokesman, said the department learned of the allegation on Wednesday and asked the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office to investigate.

After 15 years of deliberations, the U.S. Forest Service announced Tuesday it has approved a management plan for the Colville National Forest that creates about 61,000 acres of new protected wilderness area – significantly less than environmentalists had hoped for.