Nicole Hensley

The author of books describing children in sexual situations is on the run from authorities after skipping a sentencing hearing in Spokane federal court Tuesday. Daniel L. Camp, 33, was scheduled for sentencing on charges of sharing and possessing images of child pornography, but he failed to appear. Camp pleaded guilty to those charges last year.

Many in Spokane pounded the pavement Tuesday trying to overcome tough emotions spawned by Monday’s bombing at the Boston Marathon. Nearly 50 runners found comfort together at the “Joy of Running Together” sculpture at Riverfront Park on Tuesday evening, memorializing those injured by two blasts near the marathon’s finish line and the three who died.

Authorities are looking for a man who is on the lam after he didn’t show for sentencing in Spokane on a federal child pornography conviction.

Gusty winds did not stop gutsy young soccer players from kicking off their spring season Saturday morning. The chilled weather kept hundreds of boys and girls on many different fields running and kicking up grass at the Southside Sports Complex along Regal Street near 46th Avenue.

Two more suspects in a May 30 assault on a Washington State University instructor were taken into custody today.

No booze, bars or taverns – that’s what a judge told a Washington State University senior when he released him Thursday pending a first-degree assault charge in an attack on a WSU instructor. Joshua W. Nantz, 23, spent the night in jail after he was arrested by Pullman police detectives Wednesday night in connection with his alleged involvement in the brutal attack on David Warner, an instructor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies.

A thief and drug user with 39 arrests has earned the ire of Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich. Mark W. Bush has been jailed again, this time accused of possessing 11 ounces of meth, and Knezovich wants federal prosecutors to pursue charges and a stiff prison sentence.

A fading tattoo on Cynthia Macandrew’s chest says David. The heart was inked for David J. Andrews, 66, a man she met at 18, married and with whom she had a child. Macandrew cried Tuesday as she talked about David, later Reena, a transgender woman who is suspected of shooting and killing a transgender man before committing suicide. Reena Andrews’ body was found Saturday at the Rosebrook Inn, a former motel converted to apartments at 304 W. First St. in Cheney. A man returning movies to an apartment unit there found two people dead: One was Andrews, and the other the unit’s tenant, Erin M. Bailey, 46.

The tall Ponderosa pines of Riverside State Park were an outdoor sanctuary for a group ride to the first Easter on horseback service at the park Sunday. Organizer Teresa York and her horse, River, were ready at about 10 a.m. to lead the group of about 20 horses and riders and another 10 people on foot. With her boots tight in the stirrups and River dancing in anticipation, this was her chance to combine her favorite things: horses and worship.