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News >  Spokane

Dozens more sick horses seized from Airway Heights ranch

A scrawny, starving foal tucked its nose under its mother’s bloated belly Friday afternoon, sniffing for milk that isn’t there. The mother, a black mare with protruding ribs, is likely pregnant with another foal she’s too unhealthy to birth, veterinarian Doug Honken said.
News >  Spokane

Washington given A grade for combating human trafficking

An international organization announced Tuesday that Washington state received an A grade for its laws combating child sex crimes and human trafficking. Shared Hope International, a Vancouver, Wash.-based organization dedicated to stopping sex trafficking worldwide, gave Washington the rating after the Legislature unanimously passed more aggressive human trafficking laws this year. The ranking is an improvement from last year’s B grade.
News >  Spokane

Cache Cave geocaching store opens in Spokane

For avid geocacher Lisa Breitenfeldt, the jump from hobbyist to businesswoman all began in a tiny basement. Now, eight years later, Breitenfeldt is busy greeting customers and friends at her warehouse and store front, the Cache Cave.
News >  Spokane

Driver arrested after crash near Cheney injures son

Washington State Patrol troopers arrested a driver suspected of vehicular assault after a two-car collision that critically injured the man’s 8-year-old son about a mile north of Cheney on Saturday afternoon. Both drivers were also taken to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, according to WSP Sgt. Kris Schweigert. About 4 p.m., a driver, whose son was in the back seat, crossed over the centerline in a no-passing zone on state Route 904, a two-lane road, and struck an oncoming car driven by a woman who was alone in the car, Schweigert said.
News >  Spokane

Gonzaga University to rethink stance on student gun ownership

In the wake of public outcry over two Gonzaga University students facing expulsion after they chased an aggressive intruder from their home at gunpoint, the university announced Saturday that it will re-examine its weapons policy. Seniors Erik Fagan and Daniel McIntosh face suspension and possible expulsion after they were found in violation of the school’s policy prohibiting weapons in university-owned housing. McIntosh chased a man demanding money from the doorstep of their Logan Neighborhood apartment Oct. 24.
News >  Spokane

Gonzaga considers re-examination of weapons policy

In the wake of public outcry over two Gonzaga University students facing expulsion after they chased an aggressive intruder from their home at gunpoint, the university announced that it will re-examine its weapons policy.
News >  Spokane

Gonzaga students deter break-in with gun, which university seizes

When a Gonzaga University student chased a belligerent homeless man from his front door at gunpoint, he and his roommate didn’t imagine the incident might result in their expulsion. But seniors Erik Fagan and Daniel McIntosh may both be kicked out of school after they were found in violation of the school’s weapons policy, which prohibits students from having guns in any university-owned building. The students live in student housing at 207 E. Sinto Ave., apartments owned by the university even though they’re considered to be off campus.
News >  Spokane

‘Frequent fliers’ rack up criminal convictions, frustrating officials

Fred W. Nolan Jr. presses one finger after another against a window at the Spokane County Jail. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Day, his birthday: five days he spent on the outside this past year. It’s the first time he remembers being a free man for every milestone that’s part of a seven-month stretch out of jail, the longest run of freedom he has had in 22 years.
News >  Spokane

SpoCode seeks ways to access, use government data

To the untrained eye, the code on Mark Simonds’ computer is a foreign language. There are parts Simonds doesn’t entirely understand himself. He points to a pre-programmed section he snagged online, designed to geolocate a person from their cellphone.
News >  Spokane

Capitol Christmas tree felled in Colville National Forest

USK, Wash. – The rest of America is just starting to think about the holiday season, but it’s been Christmas all year in Jen Knutson’s house. As the U.S. Forest Service’s Capitol Christmas tree coordinator, Knutson was on hand Friday along with hundreds of spectators for a tree-cutting ceremony in the Colville National Forest. The Capitol Christmas tree, an 88-foot-tall Engelmann spruce, will tour Washington state and then make its way to Washington, D.C., where it will be decorated and lit on the National Mall.
News >  Spokane

Texting while walking puts teens at risk

It’s a typical afternoon scene at Lewis and Clark High School: Teenagers pour out of the doors as the final bell rings, stuff headphones in their ears, shoot off a quick text message or make a phone call. Emily Nelson, 16, crossed West Fourth Avenue on Wednesday, glancing at her phone as she did.
News >  Spokane

Charges recommended in 1990 Spokane prostitute killings

It’s been 23 years since the bodies of three Spokane prostitutes were found shot to death near the Spokane River. But on Thursday, the Spokane Police Department and the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office called the cold cases solved. Detectives recommended three charges of first-degree murder against 61-year-old Donna Perry to the Spokane County prosecuting attorney’s office Thursday, according to a news release.
News >  Spokane

Enthusiasm for costumes, games overwhelms IV lines at children’s hospital Halloween

For a few hours on Halloween, Joshua Summers was like any other toddler: hobbling in a baggy cow costume, a wide grin on his face as he played a game with his mother, Marla. It was a few hours of normalcy for 3-year-old Joshua and his mom, a distraction from the medicine, the doctors and the stress. Joshua is in treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia and has been in and out of Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital since May.
News >  Spokane

Teen driver in crash that killed two girls under investigation

The driver of a car that crashed into a tree Oct. 5, killing two University High School girls, had his license for one day. Preston Maher, 16, is now under investigation for vehicular homicide, according to the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office. Josie Freier, 16, and McKenzie Mott, 15, died in the accident at South Bates Road and East Ponderosa Drive in Spokane Valley.
News >  Spokane

Girl’s wish for heart-shaped tree park becomes reality in Spokane

After plenty of pestering by a precocious 9-year-old, there’s a new grove of freshly planted trees in a north Spokane park. Holly VanVoorhis was 7 when she asked her dad, landscape architect and Park Board member Ken VanVoorhis, if she could help him design a park. He let his daughter tinker in his drafting software until she’d designed a heart-shaped tree park.
News >  Spokane

Lesbian couple from Macklemore show attends Ephrata High dance

As the final notes of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ “Same Love” died in the Spokane Arena on Wednesday night, a high school senior pulled her girlfriend onto the stage. “I knew I liked girls since I was the age of 4, but you were the first girl I ever fell in love with,” Ephrata High School senior McKyna Jacobson told Chelsie Price before asking her to Saturday’s homecoming dance. The two were the first openly gay couple ever to attend the dance.
News >  Spokane

France’s Legion of Honor awarded to World War II veteran

Clarence E. Grimes doesn’t think much of the dozen awards he’s received for his military service. The 92-year-old retired Air Force major is humble about the newest medal pinned to his chest – a decoration that took about two years of work in two countries to get there.
News >  Spokane

Details about half-brother’s death reveal rocky bond

Court documents reveal a strained relationship between two half-brothers that left one dead and the other behind bars. Ryan R. Ames, 22, was arrested Tuesday night on charges of second-degree murder after he allegedly shot and killed his half-brother, David McCarthy, outside the Ames’ home on the 12000 block of East 31st Avenue. Spokane County sheriff’s deputies responded to the scene after Ames called 911.
News >  Spokane

Quilts of Valor crafts quilts for veterans

Six red, white and blue quilts hang from the walls of a small room at the Spokane County Fair and Expo Center. Some are patterned with stars and stripes, others with soaring eagles. These are called Quilts of Valor, and at the end of this weekend’s Washington State Quilters-Spokane Chapter 35th Annual Quilt Show, four will be sent home with local veterans.
News >  Spokane

Woman, two children hit by car; one killed, two seriously injured

A woman and two young children were badly injured when they were hit by a car on North Monroe Street on Friday evening. The woman and children were crossing Monroe at about 6:30 p.m. Friday when they were struck by a white station wagon, said Sgt. Lydia Taylor of the Spokane Police Department. The woman and one of the children were taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. The other child had serious injuries.