Mike Prager

A fiery crash that began with a carjacking Friday killed a woman who had a history of car theft. The woman’s boyfriend was arrested Friday night.

The second suspect in a carjacking this morning that led to the death of a woman has been identified as Michael L. Olson, 30. He is wanted for first-degree robbery and first-degree assault, according to the Spokane County Sheriff's Office.

Spokane Preservation Advocates, an organization that has fought to save historic buildings over the years, is branching out this month to preserve mature street trees. Members are concerned that Spokane city policies are encouraging small trees along city streets at the expense of big ones.

Neighbors near the site where a Little League group dreams of building two ballparks say the plan is more like a nightmare. Residents worry traffic, noise, parking and vandalism problems would accompany the ballparks, proposed at the Northside Landfill property at Indian Trail and in Glenrose Prairie in southeast Spokane.

Spokane Transit Authority bus driver Gabe Fernos can maneuver a 40-foot city bus with the best of them. Fernos last month placed fourth in a national “Roadeo” competition testing the skills of the country’s best drivers – a contest that involves precise handling over a challenging series of curves and turns marked with orange cones and tennis balls.

A series of funnel clouds spotted in northern Lincoln County during an intense thunderstorm last Saturday have been classified as the lowest level of tornadoes by the National Weather Service. Four funnel clouds formed along a boundary line between colder Canadian air that moved from northeast to southwest across the region and a milder air circulation moving from south to north. The line where the two air masses met, or the convergence area, triggered the funnel clouds, according to the weather service.