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News >  Spokane

Homeless shelter Family Promise moving into Cassano’s Grocery building

Thu., Oct. 11, 2018

Family Promise homeless shelter moving into Italian grocery story Cassano’s amid plans to open as winter weather arrives in Spokane.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Man loses hand and suffers other serious injuries after homemade bomb explodes in north Spokane County

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 9, 2018

A man was seriously injured Monday evening in an explosion while attempting to make a bomb, say Spokane County Sheriff’s deputies.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Washington state has nearly 6,500 untested sexual assault kits sitting in storage. The state AG says 1,340 of them are from Spokane County.

Sun., Oct. 7, 2018

Of the nearly 6,500 sexual assault kits collecting dust in law-enforcement storage facilities across the state, Spokane County lays claim to 20 percent, according to an inventory sheet released by the office of Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson.

News >  Spokane

County judge candidates meet questions from Spokane Bar Association

Fri., Oct. 5, 2018

Four candidates hoping to fill two county judge positions faced Spokane County Bar Association members Friday afternoon at the organization’s first forum of the 2018 election season.

News >  Spokane

Body recovered Friday morning from the Spokane River near Peaceful Valley

Fri., Oct. 5, 2018

A boater discovered a body Friday morning in the Spokane River.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Man critically injured when hit by car on Division Street

Fri., Oct. 5, 2018

A man is critically injured after Spokane police say he attempted to cross a section of Division Street that is illegal for pedestrians to traverse.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Early morning house fire injures two firefighters and left a dozen people displaced

UPDATED: Fri., Oct. 5, 2018

At about 2:15 a.m., Spokane firefighters arrived to the home at 111 E. Sinto Ave. as heavy smoke and flames poured from the building. Tenants would later tell firefighters they believed the fire started on the home’s porch, where they smelled the heavy odor of gasoline, which they theorized spurred the fire’s quick movement.

News >  Spokane

Spokane Valley firefighters extinguish chimney fire at barbecue restaurant

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 3, 2018

Spokane Valley firefighters extinguished a small fire burning in Longhorn BBQ Tuesday evening.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Fire destroys multiple mobile homes in Okanogan County’s Elmer City

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 3, 2018

A fire tore through a mobile home park in Okanogan County’s Elmer City on Tuesday, destroying several homes and displacing multiple families.

News >  Spokane

Protesters inflate Baby Trump balloon outside Spokane campaign fundraiser featuring Mike Pence

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 3, 2018

It was Vice President Mike Pence who visited Spokane on Tuesday. But the focus of protesters outside his campaign fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers was his boss.

News >  Spokane

Frontier Behavioral Health will start expanded crisis hotline

Mon., Oct. 1, 2018

Frontier Behavioral Health – Eastern Washington’s largest mental health provider based in Spokane – is expanding their toll-free crisis line to include services for several surrounding counties.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

One still hospitalized after single-engine plane crash near Cheney Saturday

UPDATED: Mon., Oct. 1, 2018

One man is still in the hospital after a small single-engine airplane crashed near Cheney on Saturday morning.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Court records: Woman claiming to be Satan admits to shooting man near Colfax

UPDATED: Mon., Oct. 1, 2018

A man who was discovered dead Friday in Whitman County has been identified as 55-year-old Kenneth L. Allen of Coeur d’Alene.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Co-defendant emerges as new witness in Bret Snow murder trial

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 28, 2018

The murder trial of Cheryl Sutton, one of four suspects Spokane County Sheriff’s deputies believe were involved in the 2015 torturing and slaying of Bret Snow, was delayed Friday as prosecutors announced a co-defendant had suddenly come forward as a witness.

News >  WA Government

Washington Supreme Court candidates Nathan Choi, Steve Gonzalez debate Kavanaugh, campaign finance

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 27, 2018

In their first public forum for Washington Supreme Court – a forum that at times delved into the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh – Justice Steve Gonzalez and his challenger, Nathan Choi, answered a series of questions from Spokane voters, including how justices can address prison overcrowding, and whether judges at all levels should be elected.

News >  Local Government

Randy Brandt, Patrick Johnson face off for district court judge seat

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 28, 2018

Two candidates vying to become Spokane County District Court’s newest judge are on their way to the general election after escaping a close race in the primary.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

One injured in rollover collision at Market and Euclid

UPDATED: Wed., Sept. 26, 2018

One person was hospitalized after a two car collision at Market Street and Euclid Avenue.

News >  Spokane

Downtown Spokane businesses may seek more lights and video cameras to fight crime

UPDATED: Tue., Sept. 25, 2018

In an effort to curtail petty property crimes such as larceny, vandalism and loitering, the city’s Business Improvement District is asking downtown business owners whether they’re interested in installing more lighting and cameras in the city’s core.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Crews battled wildfires along I-90 on the West Plains

UPDATED: Mon., Sept. 24, 2018

County fire crews are battling at least two brush fires along Interstate 90, near Medical Lake and Cheney.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Police arrest woman suspected of setting fire to her Spokane apartment

UPDATED: Tue., Sept. 25, 2018

Two units in a historic apartment building near downtown Spokane were damaged by flames Monday morning. Police arrested a woman on suspicion of arson following the fire that neighbors say began in her unit.

News >  Spokane

Fish, facepainting and Ford replicas delight Valleyfest-goers on Saturday

UPDATED: Sat., Sept. 22, 2018

Hundreds flocked to this year’s Valleyfest on Saturday at the CenterPlace Regional Event Center and Maribeau Point Park in Spokane Valley.

News >  Spokane

Graduates of Deaconess Hospital’s nursing school gather one last time to remember bygone era of medical education

UPDATED: Sat., Sept. 22, 2018

Though the school shuttered in 1980, many of its graduates remain in the health care field. Dozens showed up Saturday at the hospital one last time to say farewell to the place that kicked off their careers.

News >  Nation

Spokane sexual assault survivors join national #WhyIDidntReport

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 21, 2018

There can be many reasons why survivors of sexual assault don’t report: shame, guilt, embarrassment, denial or disgust. Not to mention fear – of losing a job, friends, colleagues, privacy, even one’s life. That’s why, experts say, about 7 out of 10 people who experience sexual assault never report it, according to Justice Department statistics.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Body cam footage shows suspect fired on officers before he was shot

UPDATED: Wed., Sept. 19, 2018

The last seconds of James C. Danforth’s life, captured on Spokane police body camera footage and 911 recordings last November in Hillyard, were released to the public Wednesday morning. Danforth, one of five people fatally shot by officers last year, was the only one who fired a weapon at police before he was killed.

News >  Spokane

97 new U.S. citizens from 39 countries sworn in at Spokane Valley’s CenterPlace

UPDATED: Tue., Sept. 18, 2018

Almost 100 migrants became naturalized U.S. citizens Monday morning at the CenterPlace event center in Spokane Valley.