Clay Brock and Michele Purkey, a Spokane couple struck by vehicles on Division Street, were remembered by friends and acquaintances at Blessings Under the Bridge’s weekly meal Thursday night. Purkey was killed in the incident; Brock remains in intensive care.
The helicopter crash in rural Garfield County that left one dead and two injured happened on the crew’s first day contracting with the Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The feature’s change in elevation isn’t unique to Spokane, according to the designer. The city is still conducting a review into what led to a 63-year-old woman, described by family as an experienced skater, to fall and fatally injure her head on the ice late last week.
Lorae Sims died doing what she loved. Growing up in a small town in central Saskatchewan Province in Canada, her brother Arley Roemer said being able to navigate the ice on a pair of blades was a rite of passage. And Sims was a natural.
In keeping with tradition, thousands more than expected flocked to downtown Spokane Sunday to cap off a weekend that saw women march in record numbers across the United States.
From the moment Emily Blumenauer met her court-appointed public defender, she knew something was off. There was the arm scratching, the forgetfulness, the shiny glaze on her eyes that suggested she was “not all there.” Looking back, she said the signs were obvious.
Love – for life, for babies – was the most common motto for the hundreds of pro-life marchers who descended upon downtown Spokane Saturday morning for the annual Walk for Life Northwest.
A year after the Women’s March brought an estimated 8,000 people to downtown Spokane following President Donald Trump’s inauguration, organizers expect a smaller, less politically charged affair this time.
A Level 3 sex offender accused of raping a Spokane Valley gas station worker is alleged to have done so two days after getting released from Chelan County Jail.