Kim Barker

A woman was killed Sunday night when a car wrapped around a tree just west of Long Lake, authorities said. Two children were trapped in the car for more than an hour. The male driver, who walked away from the accident with bumps and bruises, was being investigated for driving while intoxicated, said Dave Miller, a Washington State Patrol trooper.

A city street crew works on yet another stretch of the Ray Street hill at 14th Wednesday. Rather than filling each pothole, they simply tore up a section a lane-and-a-half wide by 65-feet long, and replaced it. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review

Daughters of the Nile share a prayer Wednesday during the group's 80th Supreme Session at the Red Lion. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review

A new summer wildfire prevention campaign aims to give firefighters some room to breathe. Washington's "Firestorm: Five Years After" campaign hopes to prevent the devastation caused by the firestorm of 1991. A series of 92 wildfires, mostly in Spokane County, burned 35,000 acres, destroyed 114 homes and killed a woman and an unborn child. Damages were estimated at $15 million.

Sheets of plywood replace windows broken out at the Peace and Justice Action League offices. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review

'Freedom to love' 1. Zack St. John, 7, right, and his grandmother Gladys Keating turned out to support the gay pride parade in Spokane on Sunday. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review 2. "Look Mommy, it's the queen of the whole show," says Clara Reid, 3, when she spots Tina Louise Sapphire Dior, who is Empress XXIV of Spokane.

A 42-year-old woman was shot several times in the chest Sunday after her estranged husband chased her in his pickup truck and ran her car off the road, according to the Spokane County Sheriff's Department. Kathy J. Johnson was hospitalized in stable condition Sunday afternoon after several hours of surgery. "They think she's going to make it," sheriff's Capt. Don Manning said.

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The state Supreme Court has reinstated well-known Spokane attorney Richard Eymann as counsel in a case that blames two power companies for several Firestorm '91 blazes. Eymann and Steven Jones of Feltman, Gebhardt, Eymann and Jones represented many victims of the fires before being disqualified almost two years ago. Spokane County Superior Court Judge Kathleen O'Connor ruled Eymann and Jones violated court rules by interviewing a consultant hired by attorneys representing Inland Power & Light and Washington Water Power Co.

Chris Isaak will headline fest.

Jazz fans cheer on their team Sunday at Jack and Dan's. Photo by Liz Kishimoto/The Spokesman-Review

In a coma for a month, Debbie Walsh was sent to a nursing home so that she could be comfortable until she died. Now she's back home enjoying life. Photo by Dan Pelle/The Spokesman-Review

After her speech, Margarethe Cammermeyer, author of "Serving in Silence," signs her book for SFCC instructor Deb Stafford. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

Dancers of the sun. Nancy and Donnie Emerson dance in the afternoon sunshine at Salsapalooza, while Cleo Slaughter, 11, left, shows her dog the SFCC campus. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review <

When the city kicked off its campaign to stop people from running red lights, Hamilton and Mission was one of the dangerous intersections topping organizers' lists. Underlining the need for the safety program, three people have been killed in Spokane by red light-running drivers in the past month - an unusually high number of fatalities. "Usually you just have fender-benders," police spokesman Dick Cottam said.

Patti Murphy enjoys a Mother's Day brunch at the Waterford with her mom, Myrtle Haines. Photo by Shawn Jacobson/The Spokesman-Review

Joanna Binkert, 17, holds her lamb at left. The Cheney teenager refused to name the lamb because she knew it would be slaughtered soon. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review

1. Cheesy costumes liven up the run Sunday as many participants apparently couldn't wait until Halloween to get goofy. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review 2. Joe Phillips, formerly the "Clock Tower Guy," changed his outfit for Bloomsday's birthday. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review

Soon, all runners will be implanted with computer chips. And they'll start surfing. These visions - and more - aren't from conspiracy theorists. They're from mainstream techno-nerds, flooding the Internet with road races and plotting to stick computer chips in the shoelaces of every runner. Like the latest tennis shoe, technology and computers are infecting races. The Boston Marathon, for its 100th anniversary this year, set up a page on the Internet and handed out computer timing chips to all runners.

After three pipe bombs in a month, Spokane may be feeling slightly shell-shocked. The city's not alone. Bombings and threats echoed across the continent Monday.

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"It's just a very comfortable, wonderful feeling" to hang on to your roots, says Stevie O'Roarke, who holds the doll she cradled when she was a little girl growing up in Atmore, Ala. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review

Linda Partoll looks at paintings during the auction Sunday at Temple Beth Shalom. Photo by Liz Kishimoto/The Spokesman-Review

Some call it "spam," and some call it junk. Others welcome any traffic in their lonely electronic mailboxes. Like meat filtered through a fan, Idaho politician Reed Simpson's stumping message went out to thousands of Internet users in the Inland Northwest last week, violating a cardinal rule on the Internet.