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Human remains found in Idaho coming to Spokane for autopsy

UPDATED: Fri., June 8, 2018

Authorities on Friday finished digging up human remains that were discovered Thursday morning at a roadway construction site in Kingston, Idaho.

News >  Spokane

Detectives seeking to identify man who stabbed teen at Colbert middle school

UPDATED: Thu., June 7, 2018

Spokane County sheriff’s detectives are asking for help identifying a man who stabbed a teenage boy at a middle school in Colbert last month.

News >  Spokane

Human remains found during road construction near Kingston, Idaho

UPDATED: Thu., June 7, 2018

Human remains were discovered Thursday morning at a roadway construction site near Kingston, Idaho, authorities said.

News >  Spokane

Families reeling after three men hang themselves with bedsheets in Spokane County Jail during past year

UPDATED: Thu., June 7, 2018

In the past 12 months, three men have died after hanging themselves with bedsheets in the Spokane County Jail. Their families believe warning signs were missed or not taken seriously enough.

News >  Spokane

Burglars cause $15,000 in damage to snag frozen chicken from Spokane restaurant

UPDATED: Fri., June 1, 2018

Unless there’s a black market for frozen chicken, a pair of burglars must have been hungry when they rammed a pickup truck into a walk-in freezer and stole $200 worth of poultry in north Spokane.

News >  Education

SFCC officials determine student newspapers covering Pitcher scandal weren’t stolen

Thu., May 31, 2018

Campus security officials at Spokane Falls Community College determined hundreds of copies of the student newspaper were not stolen in early April, as student journalists suspected.

News >  Spokane

With 3.1 million insects and counting, WSU collection gets a boost from alumnus’ estate

UPDATED: Wed., May 30, 2018

To be a farmer, a forester or even a climate scientist, it can help to know a thing or two about insects, like what they eat, where they thrive, which ones pollinate and which ones spread disease. “I would argue that entomology is one of the most basic sciences that we need to understand,” said Rich Zack, a longtime entomology professor at Washington State University.

News >  Spokane

Remembering great-uncle who served in WWI, Spokane teacher reminds students ‘freedom comes at a cost’

UPDATED: Mon., May 28, 2018

Brian Huseland showed up to a Memorial Day ceremony at Spokane’s Fairmount Memorial Park holding a framed portrait of his great uncle, Theodore Fournier, who enlisted in the U.S. Army as a Minnesota teenager in 1916.

News >  Spokane

Spokane residents gather to honor those who gave the last full measure to secure our freedoms

Mon., May 28, 2018

One veteran recalled a missile attack aboard the USS Stark in 1987; another recalled being in a tank crew in combat against the Iraqi Army during Desert Storm. Together, they wove a story of both service and sacrifice as hundreds gathered at Fairmount Memorial Park to honor our nation’s war dead.

News >  Spokane

Berry Go Round entertains young riders in Riverfront Park

UPDATED: Mon., May 28, 2018

On Monday afternoon, when Bonnie Verduzco’s two young granddaughters climbed down from the Looff Carousel in Riverfront Park, they darted almost immediately to the next attraction, chanting, “Let’s go on the strawberries!”

News >  Washington

Man accused of trespassing at Sprague cemetery says he was landscaping to honor the dead

Sun., May 27, 2018

Lakeview Cemetery near Sprague, Washington, is home to graves long forgotten and overlooked, like the one for an infant named Lillian, who died in 1896, and the one for a soldier named William, who died in the bloodiest battle of World War I. Tom Pelley, a volunteer, was cited for trespassing Friday morning while mowing overgrown foliage in the cemetery.

News >  Idaho

Man responsible for racist propaganda in Sandpoint now targeting Sen. Feinstein

UPDATED: Fri., May 25, 2018

A Sandpoint man known for blanketing his city with racist, anti-Semitic propaganda appears to be responsible for a flurry of robocalls targeting U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California and urging residents of that state to “relocate to North Idaho, where very white is very right.”

News >  Education

WSU’s Daily Evergreen named among top student newspapers in the country

UPDATED: Tue., May 22, 2018

The Daily Evergreen at Washington State University was named among the top three student-run daily newspapers in the country, and three Evergreen reporters won national honors for their aggressive coverage of university budget cuts.

News >  Spokane

Woman accused of tying up, robbing her ex-boyfriend’s grandma in Spokane Valley

UPDATED: Mon., May 21, 2018

Authorities say a 22-year-old woman tied up and robbed her ex-boyfriend’s grandmother inside the victim’s home in Spokane Valley.

News >  Spokane

Suspect in fatal hit-and-run in north Spokane back in jail on DUI charge

UPDATED: Mon., May 21, 2018

A Spokane man accused of hitting a woman with his truck and leaving her to die in November was arrested again last week on suspicion of driving under the influence.

News >  Spokane

Finance manager at Spokane County Jail terminated following investigation

Sat., May 19, 2018

The finance manager at the Spokane County Jail was let go from his job last month following an internal investigation.

News >  Spokane

Planting begins at Duncan Garden in Spokane’s Manito Park

Thu., May 17, 2018

It takes a lot of plants to fill the 3-acre garden on the South Hill. About 32,000, according to city parks officials.

News >  Spokane

Settling in as SCC president, Kevin Brockbank focuses on building region’s workforce

UPDATED: Tue., May 15, 2018

Kevin Brockbank already knows what it’s like to be president of Spokane Community College. He’s been doing it for the better part of a year, since his predecessor resigned in July 2017. Now Brockbank is committed to the job for the long run, having beat two other finalists who emerged from a nationwide search to lead one of the biggest two-year schools in the state.

News >  Spokane

During tense meeting, Stratton says allegations of a ‘sexual predator’ are not within City Council’s purview

Mon., May 14, 2018

Spokane City Councilwoman Karen Stratton capped Monday evening’s council meeting with a blunt message, saying she is “tired and increasingly resentful” of accusations that some council members don’t support women or victims of sexual violence.

News >  Spokane

Knezovich critic changes legal name to DumpOzzie Dot Com ahead of campaign for sheriff’s office

UPDATED: Fri., May 11, 2018

Scott Maclay, a frequent critic of Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich, has legally changed his name to DumpOzzie Dot Com and said he plans to run against Knezovich in this year’s election.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Man arrested after car chase, crash and break-in at north Spokane residence

UPDATED: Fri., May 11, 2018

A 37-year-old man was arrested Thursday night after a brief car chase through north Spokane, a crash that sent another driver to the hospital and a break-in at a residence, according to the Washington State Patrol.

News >  Nation

Gonzaga trustee leads company building Trump’s border wall in New Mexico

Fri., May 11, 2018

A longtime Gonzaga University trustee who has made substantial donations for campus projects also leads a major construction company that’s contracted to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

News >  Education

Two finalists but no winner in SFCC’s presidential search; decision postponed a year

UPDATED: Wed., May 9, 2018

After a year of rapid leadership turnover, officials have passed over two candidates for president of Spokane Falls Community College and postponed the selection process by another year.

News >  Education

Former student sues WSU over handling of racist incident in 2015 at Phi Delta Theta fraternity

UPDATED: Wed., May 9, 2018

Dominique Stewart, who is black, says she was humiliated on the night of Feb. 21, 2015, while she was waiting for a friend in front of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house. During a party that produced multiple witnesses, a white member of the fraternity allegedly shouted racist and misogynistic slurs before slamming a door in Stewart’s face.

News >  Spokane

Number of Bloomsday finishers shrinks for seventh straight year, lowest since 1985

UPDATED: Mon., May 7, 2018

Preliminary estimates showed 38,187 people crossed the Bloomsday finish line on Sunday, marking the seventh straight year that participation has declined. That figure, which is subject to change because of counting errors and potential disqualifications, would represent a 32 percent decline from the 56,156 people who finished the Bloomsday course in 1996, the all-time high.