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A 23-year-old Marine from Spokane Valley was killed this week while supporting combat operations in Afghanistan.

A boat burst into flames and sank after refueling on Hayden Lake Wednesday, with an explosion that shook nearby buildings.

On the wall just inside the doorway of Bill Connington’s northeast Spokane home is an old photo of his boys, taken when the children were 4 and 5 years old. That’s how the 49-year-old father remembers them, before they were abducted by their mother and spent more than a decade in hiding.

Fairfield is a place where Americana is the bread and butter. In this sleepy farming community, Main Street is still just that – the major strip through town where the bank, post office, community center and library sit side by side. The population hovers just beneath 500.

Margaret Ott, a Spokane music icon and internationally known pianist and teacher, died Tuesday at the age of 89. Known to most as “Margie May,” Ott was a steadfast supporter of the arts in Spokane and a major contributor to the Spokane Symphony over the years.

The sign on the front of one vintage travel trailer camped out at Riverside State Park on Saturday read: “I am fairly certain that given a cape and a nice tiara I could save the world.”

As a traveling artist, Spokane painter Melissa Cole is used to a little inclement weather. “I was in Issaquah at a show once and practically had a river running through my tent,” said Cole, who specializes in colorful paintings mostly of salmon, trout, koi and various marine animals.

As a traveling artist, Spokane painter Melissa Cole is used to a little inclement weather. “I was in Issaquah at a show once and practically had a river running through my tent,” said Cole, who specializes in colorful paintings mostly of salmon, trout, koi and various marine animals. Cole half expected to find the same river in her tent Friday as buckets of rain poured down over Spokane, drenching Coeur d’Alene Park in Browne’s Addition, where Cole and more than 120 artists are camped out for ArtFest.

A student helicopter pilot is dead after the craft he was piloting crashed Wednesday in a residential neighborhood just east of Felts Field. The small helicopter owned by the Inland Helicopters flight school appears to have lost power, leaving debris scattered over several blocks before crashing into the backyard of a home at 3730 N. Center Road about 4:30 p.m.

According to historical accounts, the Battle of Chickamauga spelled one of the most significant Union defeats in the American Civil War. Fought in northwestern Georgia in September 1863, the casualty count was the second highest in the war, following the battle at Gettysburg.

According to historical accounts, the Battle of Chickamauga spelled one of the most significant Union defeats in the American Civil War. Fought in southeastern Tennessee in September 1863, the casualty count was the second highest in the war, following the battle at Gettysburg.

Dakota Smith had no idea welding had anything to do with the Boy Scouts. “I thought it was all outdoors and stuff,” the 10-year-old from Spokane said.

Dakota Smith had no idea welding had anything to do with the Boy Scouts. “I thought it was all outdoors and stuff,” the 10-year-old from Spokane said. There was the outdoors stuff, too, as Smith and the other members of Cub Scout Pack 117 watched Cub Master David Mayfield eat a grub on behalf of his pack, as part of a survival demonstration. Grub eating and welding were but two of the more than 150 activities offered today to participants at the Centennial Camporee at the Spokane County Fair and Expo Center.

Spokane County Sheriff's deputies are asking for the public's help locating a missing 14-year-old boy with autism who walked away from a Five Mile Prairie home tonight.

Ted Chauvin wasn’t able to bike to work this week. In fact, he isn’t able to ride at all. The cyclist was on a training ride April 15 in preparation for an amateur road race when he was hit by a car along Cheney-Plaza Road.

In January, Angela Simpson was planning a Mother’s Day surrounded by eight children. Instead, the Spokane mom wakes up this morning to nine: Emarc, 18, Ezekial, 15, Mackenzie, 14, Elvanie, 13, Dane 9, Christelle, 8, Eckahelo, 8, Kobe, 7, and baby Lucy, 2, and not necessarily in that order.