Spokane police arrested a man this week who they suspect of throwing locally sponsored Christmas trees at Riverfront Park into the river. He is also a suspect in several other crimes committed in the last two months, police said, including a felony assault.
When family members weren’t able to reach Grant County Deputy Sheriff Jon Melvin, his fellow deputies went to his home to check on him Friday. They found he had died.
An accidental fire sparked by smoking and fueled by an oxygen tank in a Spokane Valley home created an intense fire Thursday that killed the home’s elderly resident.
The man who police say claimed to have a bomb and then lit a substantial fire at the Spokane County Democratic headquarters was after “elites” of any political party, he told investigators, according to a Spokane Police Department news release.
Together, Geiger Corrections Center in Airway Heights and Spokane County Jail recorded nine COVID-19 cases Friday. By Sunday, they had 39 cases. Tuesday, there were 73.
After a 70-year-old woman was fatally shot by a corrections officer Friday in the lobby of the Spokane County Jail, her family is left wondering if her death was necessary.
Monroe Correctional Complex in Western Washington is seeing another surge in cases, and family of inmates say self-reporting is leading to solitary confinement and those inside don't know the full scope of the infection.
Pend Oreille County Sheriff Glenn Blakeslee is well aware that residents have been left to wonder why 19-year-old Jason Fox ended up in a shallow grave on Sept. 15, his hands bound behind his back, on the grounds of a riverfront wedding venue outside of Newport.
The state prison in Shelton recorded 174 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, tripling the facility's case count in one of the steepest increases the Department of Corrections has recorded since the pandemic began.
A former guard-in-training at Airway Heights Correction Center said he was fired for wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt to work, according to a federal lawsuit.
An 18-year-old man was killed early Wednesday when police say he was accidentally shot at a northwest Spokane house party by another teen who was drinking and dancing with a loaded gun.
Minutes before her husband’s sentencing hearing began, Andrea Davis bounced the couple’s third baby on her lap. After nine years of hearings, Davis seemed to have become an expert at soothing a child.
Airway Heights Corrections Center reported 64 new COVID cases Tuesday, nearly 10 times the number of cases the facility has recorded since the start of the pandemic.