John Craig

Dave Konz and his bandanna-wearing dog. Liza Jane, helps guests do their chores. Photo by John Craig/The Spokesman-Review

1. Kevin Harris' wife, Danielle, is comforted by family and friends after her husband's surrender Thursday in Republic. A crowd of about 100 gathered to show support for the Harris family. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review 2. Jade Harris, 7, sits on the steps of his family's mobile home in Republic, Wash., and worries about his father, Kevin, who was taken into custody Thursday. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review 3. Diane Peters displays a petition to free her co-worker, Kevin Harris, after his arrest Thursday.

Gathering the bounty at Kettle Falls Artist Paul Kane, a guest of the North West fur-trading company, made this painting of the fishery at Kettle Falls. Courtesy of Royal Ontario Museum

Colville school officials wish to know if this Indian-themed sculpture by David Govedare is objectionable to the Colville Confederated Tribes. Photo by John Craig/The Spokesman-Review

The discovery of 12-year-old Cassie Emerson's body so far has provided few clues into the double homicide that claimed her and her mother. Authorities feared the girl had been kidnapped when her trailer home five miles south of Colville was destroyed by arson on June 27 and only the remains of her mother, Marlene Emerson, 29, were found.

A Newport resident is suing the city for violating his civil rights in October 1995, when a city policeman burst into his home in the middle of the night without a warrant. Former officer Ed Miller Jr. was responding to what he considered telephone harassment by Troy Dexter, according to public records.

Authorities were trying to determine Monday whether a badly decomposed body was that of a 12-year-old girl who has been missing since her mother died in a suspicious fire on June 27. Passers-by found the body Sunday within three miles of the Panorama Mobile Home Park, where the missing girl, Cassandra Emerson, lived with her mother. Marlene Emerson, 29, was found dead in the charred ruins of the trailer home a half-dozen miles south of Colville. Sheriff's deputies believe the woman was killed, and the fire may have been set intentionally. Officers said they feared the girl, known as Cassie, had been kidnapped.

A marriage not yet 3 months old ended tragically when William A. Lawrence took a shot at his wife and a Pend Oreille County sheriff's deputy shot him dead. The shooting occurred about midnight Thursday at a mobile home near Diamond Lake. Lawrence, 39, had taken his wife, Brandi, and two young children hostage with a sawed-off shotgun.

A new women's hardball team will conduct its first practice Sunday and play its first game next month against a Newport men's team. The team will play a catch-as-catch-can schedule this summer, "but next year we'll be looking at a full program," said sponsor Willy Hutchinson, owner of Land Title Co. in Newport.

1. While last-minute filming of "The Postman" continues at a futuristic cliff dwelling on the face of Boundary Dam. Photo by John Craig/The Spokesman-Review 2. Above, a movie crew member removes splotchy goop that was sprayed on a Metaline Falls house to make it appear weathered.

President Clinton authorized federal assistance Monday for property owners who suffered uninsured damage from this summer's Pend Oreille River flooding. "I'm glad to see that the president of the United States can recognize one of the smallest-population, poorest counties with assistance to those that don't have insurance," said Pend Oreille County Commission Chairman Joel Jacobsen. The assistance so far is limited to individuals and businesses, but Jacobsen said he hopes the county and other local governments also will be offered help. He said the county spent about $300,000 to help flood victims.

Dave Taylor, left, and Richard Corcoran help driver Don Super hitch a team to a stagecoach they are taking from Chesaw to Republic. Photo by John Craig/The Spokesman-Review

Convicted Friday of animal cruelty, kennel owners Swen and Jeanette Bergman lost custody of dogs seized in January. Photo by Associated Press

Defense attorneys on Thursday quoted everything from romantic poetry to the Bible in closing arguments designed to convince a judge that Jeanette and Swen Bergman aren't guilty of animal cruelty. The Bergmans each are accused of 21 misdemeanor counts of second-degree animal cruelty in connection with 240 dogs authorities found when they raided the couple's Mountain Top Kennel near Newport on Jan. 4.

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A judicial compromise may keep Joyce Tasker out of jail while she waits to find out whether she will be allowed to use the costly new dog shelter she has built in a residential area. Tasker is taking a giant gamble that Stevens County Superior Court Judge Larry Kristianson eventually will agree that her new amphitheater-style dog kennel is "the Faberge Egg of animal shelters."

Surrendering to authorities. Cheyne Kehoe is read his rights by Stevens County Sheriff Craig Thayer. Behind Kehoe are his wife, Tanna, holding their son Christopher, and Tanna's parents, Ronda and Bob Wilburn. Photo by Torsten Kjellstrand/The Spokesman-Review

Native Americans from Inchelium have scheduled a Monday night public meeting to dispute their tribal council's request for the Colville School District to quit using Indian mascots. "The tribe made a move without consulting the people," said meeting co-organizer Matt Boyd Jr., an environmental health specialist for Colville Confederated Tribes. "Everybody is pretty much against what they did."

The city of Newport and Pend Oreille County are being sued in federal court by a man who claims he was assaulted by a Newport policeman and a county jailer. James M. Durham, 20, and his father, James A. Durham, seek unspecified damages for the way the younger Durham was treated when he was booked as a juvenile on suspicion of drunken driving in the early morning hours of June 17, 1994.

With the Pend Oreille River slowly receding, county officials want flood victims to start reporting their losses so the county can build a case for federal assistance. Gov. Gary Locke declared a state of emergency on May 22, but assistance so far has been directed toward government agencies. A federal declaration could bring financial assistance to individual property owners and businesses.

Irene Schell inspects the damage to her mobile home in Riverbend Estates along the Pend Oreille River. "I'm just devastated," she said. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

The Colville School Board was rebuffed in its request to meet with the Colville Confederated Tribes' governing council to discuss a tribal request that the district change its Indian mascots. Rick Cole, Colville school superintendent, said the school board wanted to attend Thursday's tribal council meeting as a first step in honoring the tribes' request to rename various landmarks and school mascots.

Motorists overwhelmingly want relief from congestion on U.S. Highway 395 through Colville, a new survey shows. But they prefer a truck route through the industrial area on the west side of town over a bypass that would remove all highway traffic from the city.

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