Kip Hill

Knowing his 6-foot-5-inch frame might block views of the momentous scene unfolding in Washington, D.C.’s, St. Matthews Cathedral on Nov. 25, 1963, Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Henry Buller positioned himself carefully. “I … stood directly under the TV cameras on the left side so I wouldn’t be in anybody’s way and still be directly behind my section to assist everyone,” Buller wrote to his mother three weeks later.

COLVILLE – A Stevens County judge was asked Wednesday to decide whether the shackled 11-year-old boy seated before him, convicted of conspiring to murder a female classmate, posed a threat to society or was a victim of its failures. Ordering a sentence of more than four years, Judge Allen Nielson said releasing him would be a disservice to the community, rocked by the revelation in February that two Fort Colville Elementary students had smuggled weapons into the school with what police said was an intent to kill.

A dozen immigation reform activists were taken into custody today outside of U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers office in downtown Spokane. They were booked into jail on charges of obstructing traffic, a city offense, Wednesday afternoon, police said.

Two Gonzaga University students disciplined for pointing a pistol at a man they suspected of attempting to force his way into their school-owned housing have sparked a national debate pitting gun rights against private property rights. Seniors Erik Fagan and Daniel McIntosh say they were protecting themselves in their off-campus apartment with weapons assured them by the Second Amendment. But the apartment complex is owned by Gonzaga, which – like many universities – has chosen to prohibit firearms on its campus and in its buildings.

Two Gonzaga University students disciplined for possessing a gun they used to scare off a man they suspected of attempting to force his way into their school-owned housing have sparked a national debate pitting gun rights against private property rights.

A California DVD mogul who promised to build a high-tech production facility in downtown Spokane, drawing the support of local business and political leaders, is being investigated by federal authorities who suspect him of bilking investors out of millions of dollars. FBI agents raided the offices of BlueStar Technologies, a Blu-ray manufacturing business headquartered in former low-income housing along First Avenue, earlier this week, according to newly unsealed documents in U.S. District Court. Agents were looking for evidence that executive Erick Hansen deceived investors nationwide by fibbing about contracts he’d secured and using their money to pay for gambling debts, lavish trips to exotic locales and court-ordered restitution for earlier business dealings gone bad, the documents say.

Firefighters are mopping up a second-floor blaze at a Spokane Valley duplex this morning.