Thomas Clouse

Two shooting incidents this week injured three police officers in Sandpoint and Coeur d’Alene. Here is a list some of other shootings that injured members of law enforcement in the area.

A felony forgery charge has been dismissed against the former spokesman of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe in a case in which someone forged the signature of Spokane County Superior Court Judge Maryann Moreno on his behalf.

The Coeur d’Alene police officer who was shot Tuesday during a traffic stop that erupted into gunfire was released from the hospital on Friday.

Spokane County sheriff’s detectives have begun investigating the death of an inmate who was discovered early Thursday morning alone in a Spokane County Jail cell.

Inspired by the powerful messages from the students who survived the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, a Spokane eighth grader started handing out permission slips to about 200 fellow students at Sacajawea Middle School.

A Coeur d’Alene police officer was shot Tuesday night during a traffic stop by a man with a felony arrest warrant. Officers returned gunfire and killed the suspect.

The heads of two of Spokane’s largest teachers organizations said Friday that they personally do not believe handing out guns to teachers will stop future shooting rampages.

As the national debate rages about how to respond to last week’s school shooting in Florida, several organizations, baseball teams and a local Christian school are caught in the middle of the uproar caused by previously -planned raffles to sell the model of firearm used in a string of recent fatal shootings.

Governor Jay Inslee announced Tuesday that he has selected Spokane Municipal Court Judge Michelle “Shelley” Szambelan to replace Superior Court Judge Linda Tompkins, who recently announced her retirement.

The lawyer representing a Pomeroy rancher at the center of legal dispute with the federal government has joined forces with one of the nation’s top rancher-rights advocates, who could soon become President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Federal Bureau of Land Management.

The massacre that killed 17 people in Florida, as well as other recent school killings, reopens emotional wounds for officials and victims who continue to cope with the fatal shooting last September at Freeman High School.

The local office of Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit Thursday in Spokane that is seeking to have a federal judge stop the Trump Administration from cutting the grants that fund the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program.

Spokane Public Schools kept up its 40-year winning streak alive as voters approved its latest levy request to pay for personnel and sports activities. The levy request was passing with 72.6 percent of the vote after Tuesday night’s count. It required just more than 50 percent to pass.

Voters sided with school officials trying to keep up with growth in north Spokane and agreed gave the Mead School District another $114 million for a new middle school, elementary school and football stadium.

Spokane Valley voters have decided to build a new high school.

Walter “Sonny” Riley sat in the saddle Thursday as his 12-year-old gelding, Oly, shifted his weight in a pliable combination of hay, mud and cow droppings. After pushing a herd of last year’s calves inside a waiting trailer, Riley readily shared his views of allegations brought by the government that his ranch has trespassed and profited from an odd-shaped piece of publicly-owned ground sandwiched between railroad tracks and his ranch, located just north of the Snake River near Central Ferry.

As city and school officials study building a downtown stadium for football games, two other local school districts are asking voters to take matters into their own hands.

At 79, Delano Lewis displayed the moves Monday of a man several years his junior as he danced to drums provided by the Cooper Drummers & Dancers at an assembly held in his honor at Shaw Middle School.

Coeur d’Alene Public Schools announced Monday that its five trustees have decided to hire Steven Cook to serve as superintendent overseeing the school district’s 10,800 students.

The Brigham Young Cougars came to Spokane last February and erased the Gonzaga men’s basketball team’s shot at a perfect record as the Bulldogs eventually advanced, and fell, in the National Championship game.

The State of Washington believes there is no sense in crying over spilled milk, even if that chocolate milk instead turned out to be commercial-grade sanitizer and water.

The daughter of a prominent Spokane County prosecutor was charged Monday with threatening to bomb and kill co-workers at a Spokane day care.