Stories by Emma Epperly for the Spokesman-Review

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Woman’s Club hosts Mother’s Day weekend vintage sale, historic fashion show to help save 112-year-old club

UPDATED: Thu., May 5, 2022

Nestled behind a clothing rack full of vintage suits, Melissa Flynn tearfully fingered a vest as she added it to a display for the sale of her vintage collection to benefit the Woman’s Club of Spokane.

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Spokane Police investigating after body found in East Central neighborhood

UPDATED: Thu., May 5, 2022

A body was discovered on the side of the road in Spokane’s East Central neighborhood early Thursday morning.

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Charges dropped against man accused of killing girlfriend’s toddler

UPDATED: Thu., May 5, 2022

Prosecutors dismissed a murder charge against a 19-year-old man accused of killing his girlfriend’s toddler.

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Police: Two cars involved in shootout in north Spokane; no injuries or arrests

UPDATED: Wed., May 4, 2022

People in two cars got into a shootout Tuesday night in north Spokane, but no injuries were reported, police said.

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Man sentenced to 12 years in prison for assaulting his elderly mother in Spokane Valley

UPDATED: Wed., May 4, 2022

A 57-year-old man was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for violently assaulting his mother.

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Two men arrested in stolen RV with ‘large quantities’ of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and meth

UPDATED: Tue., May 3, 2022

Two men arrested Monday night in north Spokane were found in a stolen RV full of illicit drugs.

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‘The craziest thing that’s happened’: Spokane police respond to five reported shootings in two hours Monday night, one injured

UPDATED: Wed., May 4, 2022

Spokane police responded to five reports of shootings Monday night in less than two hours, with one woman seriously injured and a swath of neighborhood residents left unsettled.

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50 years after disaster ‘rippled through Idaho,’ the Silver Valley community remembers miners lost in Sunshine fire

UPDATED: Mon., May 2, 2022

KELLOGG – Every year on May 2, Stanley Payler stands beneath the 13-foot-tall statue of a miner commemorating his 91 co-workers who died in the Sunshine Mine disaster.

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‘It’s wonderful’: Vulture returns stronger than ever after pandemic, health scare

UPDATED: Sun., May 1, 2022

"People think of the vulture as a person but it's a well-honed group of people," Bill Robinson said, as family and friends fine tuned the 7-foot-tall costume.

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‘Something you never, ever get through’: Half a century ago in the Silver Valley, 91 Sunshine miners died in Idaho’s worst mining disaster

UPDATED: Sun., May 1, 2022

The Sunshine Mine Disaster still reverberates across North Idaho’s Silver Valley half a century after that fateful day in 1972 when 91 miners died from a fire and smoke underground.

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Basketball to Bloomsday: How a pickup basketball game turned into more than four decades of races

Sat., April 30, 2022

In the mid-1970s, three young professionals became members of the Spokane Club and started playing a pickup basketball game a few nights a week. Little did they know, the game would turn into a decadeslong connection to each other, the Spokane community and running.

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Fire at Spokane Seed silo contained

UPDATED: Fri., April 29, 2022

A fire at a Spokane Valley silo was contained early Friday .

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Two decades later, test of 13-year-old’s rape kit leads to arrest of suspect in Spokane

UPDATED: Wed., April 27, 2022

Detectives have arrested a 53-year-old after a recently tested rape kit matched him to a 2002 rape of girl who was 13 at the time

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As Spokane Public Schools discipline is scrutinized by police and FBI, its proponents say system is working

UPDATED: Thu., April 28, 2022

Seven years after outcry over disparities in punishment of disabled and minority students, Spokane Public Schools has, along with many school districts in Washington, worked to change its approach to discipline in schools.

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29-year-old arrested for shooting man at Spokane Valley apartment complex

UPDATED: Mon., April 25, 2022

Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 29-year-old man suspected in a February killing at a Spokane Valley apartment complex.

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Court documents: Attempted robbery led to West Central shooting; injured man remains hospitalized

UPDATED: Sun., April 24, 2022

An attempted robbery led to a shooting in Spokane’s West Central neighborhood Tuesday evening, according to a search warrant filed in Spokane County Superior Court.

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Man sentenced to 13 months for raping 17-year-old girl in Spokane Valley

UPDATED: Fri., April 22, 2022

A 51-year-old man was sentenced Friday to 13 months in prison for raping a 17-year-old girl last year in Spokane Valley.

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Firefighters prevent travel trailer fire from spreading to nearby homes

UPDATED: Fri., April 22, 2022

Firefighters prevented a travel trailer fire from spreading to nearby homes early Friday morning.

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Man accused of vehicular assault after injury collision on Trent

UPDATED: Fri., April 22, 2022

A 43-year-old Cheney man was cited for vehicular assault after a crash that injured two people Thursday afternoon.

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Auburn woman, 33, dies in Post Falls single-car crash

UPDATED: Fri., April 22, 2022

A woman from Western Washington died early Friday morning in a crash in Post Falls.

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Retirees surprise mailman with showing of gratitude for pandemic service

Fri., April 22, 2022

A group of residents at Avamere South Hill gathered in the entryway Thursday morning. They chatted and shared details of their week, then the mail truck pulled up.