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John Stucke

John Stucke

Current Position: Asst. Managing Editor (Front Page)

John Stucke joined The Spokesman-Review in 2000. As Metro Editor, he directs local news coverage and oversees newsroom reporters. He has reported on business, health care, bankruptcy and agriculture for the paper.

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johnst@spokesman.com
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(509) 459-5419

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News >  Spokane

Protesters in Spokane denounce Trump immigration orders

Spokane protesters joined an eruption of anger and exasperation across the country as President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to stop the flow of immigrants from Muslim nations became reality with a sweeping executive order this weekend.
News >  Business

Boeing Employee Credit Union moving into Spokane market

The largest credit union in Washington state is moving into the Spokane market next month. Boeing Employees Credit Union is a million-member heavyweight with $15 billion in assets. It began in 1935 when a group of Boeing employees pooled money with the aim of making loans in the thick of the Great Depression to new workers who needed to buy tools for the job.
News >  Spokane

At child rape trial, victims take stand against physician

Dr. Craig Morgenstern led a secret life as a reckless child molester who made sex videos of himself with young boys he had drugged with prescription sedatives, federal prosecutors told jurors Monday. But the children weren’t his only victims. He betrayed neighbors. He betrayed his professional oath. And he betrayed those closest to him – assaulting the three sons of a man who years ago had Morgenstern stand beside him as his best man, witnesses told jurors Monday, the fifth day of trial.
News >  Spokane

Random discovery aided child-porn case against former VA doctor

A homeless drug user rummaging through apartment dumpsters in October 2014 found a trove of computer hard drives and DVDs that helped turn a child-rape investigation into the multi-state child pornography prosecution of former Veterans Affairs emergency doctor Craig Morgenstern. Michael Crowe, clad in lemon-yellow jail scrubs, told jurors during the third day of Morgenstern’s trial how he came upon two U-Haul moving boxes taped shut and discarded with other trash at an apartment complex just north of Francis Avenue.
News >  Spokane

Kalispel Tribe crafts deal for country club

The Kalispel Tribe is poised to buy the Spokane Country Club for more than $3 million, according to a last-minute deal reached Thursday. At least two bidders were prepared to compete for the venerable club’s course and other holdings during a scheduled bankruptcy auction.