Sirens & Gavels Blog." /> Arrow-right Camera
The Spokesman-Review Newspaper
Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Meghann M. Cuniff

This individual is no longer an employee with The Spokesman-Review.

All Stories

News >  Spokane

Chief releases disciplinary details

In response to criticism over two recent cases of alleged misconduct by law enforcement, Spokane Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick on Monday released details of Spokane police disciplinary cases since she joined the department in September 2006.
News

Thousands turn out to race for cure

A fundraising race for breast cancer research brought more than 7,100 people to downtown Spokane Sunday morning. The turnout was the largest in the four-year history of the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure here and surprised organizers who’d prepared for about a thousand fewer people.

Motel robbed at knifepoint; reward offered

Three men robbed a west Spokane motel after forcing an employee into a back room Thursday morning, and Crime Stoppers is offering a reward for information that helps identify them.

News >  Idaho

Fire destroys a CdA home

Two North Idaho adults and three children are being assisted by the Red Cross after fire destroyed their rented mobile home and killed several pets Thursday.
News >  Spokane

Stark fires attorneys; sentencing delayed

A woman whose claims of self defense in the shooting death of her husband were rejected by a Spokane jury told a judge Thursday she was hallucinating during last month’s trial because she wasn’t taking her medication in jail and blamed her lawyers for allowing her to testify anyway.
News >  Spokane

Police find girl missing from Wal-Mart

A 14-year-old girl who left a north Spokane Wal-Mart Monday night was found today at the Spokane Valley Mall, police said. Noel A. Kaleikini's mom picked her up, according to the Spokane County Sheriff's Office. She had left the Wal-Mart on North Colton Street near Northpointe Shopping Center about 9:20 p.m. Monday and made a phone call at OZ fitness 20 minutes later, police said today. An employee at Journeys in the mall spotted Kaleikini in the store about 5:40 p.m. and called police. The girl's family had posted fliers inside the mall.
News >  Spokane

Prison could await fake paraplegic

A financial scandal hatched more than 30 years ago by a man who lied about being paralyzed ended this week with a guilty plea that could send him to prison for 20 years. James M. Sebero, 59, a former Bonner County Sheriff’s deputy, defrauded the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs of more than $1.5 million in benefits after claiming to be a paraplegic.

Murder trial set to begin Monday

A dispute that began with a beer can tossed from a car window ended the next day with the death of a Spokane man from two bullets to the chest.
News >  Idaho

Men accused of kidnapping face battery of charges

A fight over a girl led to charges against two teenagers after the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department say the pair held two men at gunpoint, then forced them to drive to Coeur d'Alene so they could buy drugs.

Car crash leads to pot, theft suspect

A north Spokane County hit-and-run crash on Feb. 13 that injured a couple led to a multiagency investigation involving drugs and stolen property, documents show.
News >  Spokane

Inmate who died part of Cold War-era shock testing

An Airway Heights Corrections Center inmate found dead earlier this month participated in Cold War-era testicular shock experiments that led to a federal lawsuit. Labeled a “psychopathic delinquent” as a teenager, George D. Taté spent most of his adult life in the Washington prison system. He was convicted on a “carnal knowledge” charge for molesting a 7-year-old girl in 1967, then for first-degree rape in 1980.
News

Former test subject dies in prison

An Airway Heights Corrections Center inmate found dead earlier this month participated in Cold War-era testicular shock experiments that led to a federal lawsuit.
News >  Spokane

State shuts down large Valley day care center

A large child care center in Spokane Valley was shut down by the state on Thursday after the owner and a parent allegedly got into a fight, which was witnessed by a child, state records show. Many parents are rallying in support of the owner.
News >  Spokane

Woman found safe, police say

Police have located Cherise Marshall, 21, and say she is safe. Marshall had been missing since leaving Cheney Saturday. She was headed to Chattaroy but never arrived.

Prosecutor alleges ‘pattern of misconduct’ at DSHS

A “pattern of misconduct” plagues the Colville office of the Department of Social and Health Services and has resulted in the wrongful removal of foster children, in one instance described in a court ruling as a “draconian solution” to a financial dispute, according to the county prosecutor.
News >  Spokane

Victim in deadly crash identified; witnesses sought

The fiery crash on Seven Mile Road Thursday night that killed a Spokane Valley man was caused by the man crossing the center line in a 2006 Jaguar and colliding with an eastbound 2004 Ford pickup, the Spokane County Sheriff's Office said today.
News >  Spokane

Stark convicted of first-degree murder

Shellye Stark was convicted this afternoon of first-degree murder in the shooting death of her estranged husband, whose bullet-riddled body was found slumped in the kitchen of their South Hill home.
News >  Spokane

‘Comb over’ comment gets juror tossed from trial

A juror was dismissed this morning from the first-degree murder trial of Shellye Stark after disclosures that he had improperly discussed the case during a social gathering last week, including comments about one of the prosecutors' apparent struggle to conceal his baldness.