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Woman killed in three-vehicle crash near Moscow identified

UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 13, 2026

A woman killed last week in a three-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 95 north of Moscow, Idaho, was identified by the Latah County coroner as 69-year-old Deirdre Krigbaum, of Palouse, Washington.

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Remembering the 16 people killed in 2025 in Spokane County

Sun., Jan. 11, 2026

In 2025, 16 people were killed by homicide in Spokane County. Here are the victims:

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Spokane County homicides down significantly in 2025

Sun., Jan. 11, 2026

Of the 11 homicides in Spokane city limits last year, the first one of 2025 hit Spokane Police Lt. Nate Spiering the hardest.

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Large group lines Division Street to protest ICE, Trump amid Minneapolis shooting

UPDATED: Sat., Jan. 10, 2026

Spurred by the deadly shooting of a mother of three in Minneapolis, several hundred people braved the chilly weather and lined Division Street along B.A. Clark Park holding signs that called for the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and condemned President Donald Trump’s policies.

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Washington, Idaho Republicans, Democrats share mixed reactions to Venezuelan strikes, capture

UPDATED: Sat., Jan. 3, 2026

An overnight U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife drew harsh criticism from Democrats questioning the justification and lack of notification of military action while Republicans applauded the move, referring to Maduro as a “narcoterrorist” responsible for flooding the United States with drugs.

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Spokane protesters call on government to shut down ‘endless wars,’ ‘Trump’s lies’ amid Venezuelan strikes

UPDATED: Sat., Jan. 3, 2026

About 75 people stood on the Maple Street Bridge overpass in Kendall Yards Saturday holding signs and yelling chants condemning the United States’ military strikes on Venezuelan’s capital city and the capture of the South American country’s leader.

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Court docs: Woman charged with vehicular homicide was drunkenly driving 80 mph seconds before the South Hill crash

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 2, 2026

A 39-year-old woman is back in jail after failing to appear in court for a vehicular homicide case where she is accused of driving over 80 mph on the South Hill, running a red light and slamming into a car, killing a 79-year-old woman who worked four decades for Spokane Public Schools.

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Man found in Spokane River drowned, medical examiner says

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 2, 2026

A body of a man pulled in November from the Spokane River near T.J. Meenach Bridge drowned, according to the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office Wednesday.

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Spokane Valley mobile home park fire displaces multiple families

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 2, 2026

Ten people were displaced from their homes after a Spokane Valley fire that started in a shed spread to three mobile homes.

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Suspected impaired driver crashes with son in car, then threatens witnesses with knife, police say

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 2, 2026

A 38-year-old man is accused of brandishing a knife and threatening to stab people after driving impaired and crashing with his young son in the car early in the morning on New Year’s Day, according to the Spokane Valley Police Department.

News >  Idaho

Hundreds plunge into Lake CdA for annual New Year’s Day tradition

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 1, 2026

COEUR d’ALENE – Bundled in coats, hats and gloves, hundreds of people lined Sanders Beach on New Year’s Day.

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Widower ‘disappointed’ in sentence 18-year-old received for drunken-driving crash that killed wife on South Hill

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 2, 2026

It’s been nearly six months of heartbreak and sheer difficulty since Erick Doxey’s wife of 20 years was hit and killed by a 17-year-old drunken driver on the South Hill.

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Sandpoint man dies in crash with train

UPDATED: Wed., Dec. 31, 2025

A 63-year-old Sandpoint man died after the pickup he was driving was struck by a a train Sunday north of Sandpoint, according to Idaho State Police.

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20-year-old Clayton man identified in double fatality crash near Liberty Lake

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 2, 2026

A 20-year-old Clayton, Washington, man who died Saturday in a head-on crash that also killed the driver in the other car near Liberty Lake has been identified.

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Wallace gunman ‘wasn’t a monster,’ but a traumatized veteran, friend says

UPDATED: Wed., Dec. 31, 2025

WALLACE – What’s left of the post-Christmas day tragedy in Wallace is visible outside the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office lobby: crime scene tape that barricaded the sheriff’s office after a shooting there, now frayed and collapsing onto the cold sidewalk.

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‘It’s a shock’: Wallace residents, employees recall downtown shooting that led to ‘shaking’ windows, ‘cops everywhere’ and general confusion

UPDATED: Sun., Dec. 28, 2025

It was a normal post-Christmas day in Wallace until gunshots rang out.

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38-year-old Spokane man sentenced to at least 34 years in prison for repeated sexual abuse of girl

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 26, 2025

A 38-year-old man who repeatedly raped and molested a family member in Spokane was sentenced to 34 years to life in prison.

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Three shot, including officer, before gunman killed by law enforcement in Shoshone County

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 26, 2025

A gunman on Friday shot and injured an officer and two other people near the Shoshone County Sheriff’s Office before police shot and killed him, according to Shoshone County Sheriff William Eddy.

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Teens sentenced for punching, shooting man outside Spokane apartment over vape pen

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 23, 2025

Two Spokane teenagers were sentenced to a state rehabilitation program for punching and shooting a man in the stomach after an argument over a vape pen spilled outside an apartment, according to the Spokane County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.

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CdA police find pipe bomb at man’s home; Spokane bomb squad called to neutralize it

UPDATED: Sun., Dec. 21, 2025

A former gang member on felony probation for firearms violations was arrested after police found an active pipe bomb at the 52-year-old man’s Coeur d’Alene home.

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82-year-old Idaho man dies in Latah County crash

UPDATED: Sun., Dec. 21, 2025

An 82-year-old Deary, Idaho, man died after he was thrown from the SUV he was driving Friday morning near Deary, according to Idaho State Police.

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Trio convicted of international parental kidnapping for taking toddler to Mexico

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 19, 2025

A Pullman man, his girlfriend and his father were convicted of international parental kidnapping after the couple fled to Mexico with the Pullman man’s toddler and the father tried to help his son avoid arrest.

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Security guard found guilty in CdA town hall battery case

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 18, 2025

A Coeur d’Alene jury convicted the leader of a private security team of battery for pushing a woman and removing a man from a Republican town hall in February.

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St. Maries woman dies in crash

UPDATED: Fri., Dec. 12, 2025

A 55-year-old St. Maries woman died after the car she was driving went off the road and hit a tree early Thursday morning outside the city, according to Idaho State Police.

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20-year-old man pleads guilty to killing his alleged rapist while maintaining his mom was killer

UPDATED: Thu., Dec. 11, 2025

A woman and her then-17-year-old son, both accused of murdering the son’s alleged rapist at the man’s South Hill apartment, pleaded guilty to lesser crimes and avoided prison time.