Thomas Clouse

Three Spokane-area mothers are haunted by missing person reports, cause-of-death rulings and unsolved crimes. They are three mothers bonded by pain.

The Washington Department of Heath has launched an investigation into the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office following a complaint filed earlier this month by someone seeking a review of a series of recent cause-of-death rulings.

The Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory is expected to run tests next week on the gun that killed Brenda Thurman in Spokane Valley.

The former Pasco police officer charged with killing a Spokane prostitute in 1986 had his trial date moved from May 8 to October 2.

The Kalispel Tribe of Indians has filed a suit in federal court seeking an immediate halt to the construction of the casino being built in Airway Heights by the Spokane Tribe of Indians under the legal argument that the new casino will cause the Kalispels “significant harm.”

The contractor who bulldozed the road through city parkland along High Drive Bluff provided documents Friday that his attorney says show he obtained a permit on Jan. 20 from the city of Spokane for tree removal as part of the project to build a three-hole golf course near The Creek at Qualchan.

The contractor who illegally bulldozed a road through the middle of forested park land on High Drive Bluff told Spokane city officials he was working for Avista Utilities but instead had a verbal agreement to do the work for an organization pushing to build a new three-hole golf course.

Shadow, the service dog, got her day in court. Her handler, 60-year-old veteran Danny Ralph, was found not guilty Wednesday on a charge of disorderly conduct stemming from his takedown arrest last July after he refused to take Shadow away from Mann-Grandstaff Medical VA Medical Center in Spokane.

Former Marine Danny Ralph didn’t get an apology from Veterans Affairs after a federal officer slammed him and his 8-pound service dog to the ground last summer during a visit to the VA medical center. Instead, left with an injured shoulder and a wounded dog, federal prosecutors charged Ralph with a crime.

The aging veterans sit in camp chairs inside a pop-up awning with makeshift blue-tarp walls. A propane heater makes it liveable as the Army, Navy and Air Force veterans began their eighth month of a low-intensity protest against Veterans Administration officials.

The children of a Spokane Valley woman filed a wrongful death lawsuit against their adoptive father for killing their mother in January 2016.

On a cold day last December, Charlie Monroe was preparing to leave Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center when he noticed a man staring at him.

The crowd stood in the house that the Zags built Monday and stared at big screens. They pulled at their hair with strained looks as their larger-than-life heroes tried one last time to topple the enemy Tar Heels for the national championship. But Nigel Williams-Goss’ 3-point shot attempt missed and the energy inside the McCarthey Athletic Center deflated with an icy thud.

Moments before the Gonzaga basketball team put its finishing touches on its historic 77-73 win over South Carolina on Saturday, a sea of young faces and flailing arms jumped to the Zags’ trademark tune. “WE ARE GU” they screamed as the floor of the John J. Hemmingson Center shook.

Shortly after Gonzaga’s history 77-73 win over South Carolina, some rowdy fans set two couches ablaze in the alley north of the 800 block of East Sinto Avenue.

Ana Fortson-Kemmerer learned the hard way after her 2006 crash that she was not in “good hands.” The Spokane Valley woman, who had for years paid her monthly insurance premiums on time, ended up locking horns with her own insurance company, Allstate, after it low-balled the payouts for the crash that Fortson-Kemmerer didn’t cause.

Six months after extending his contract for one more year, the Spokane Chiefs on Thursday parted ways with Don Nachbaur, who guided the junior hockey team to more wins than any other coach in franchise history.

A man with a Southern accent and an odd name, Jubal Burke, moved to North Idaho some 17 years ago and embedded himself into the Elmira community. But that simple life unraveled in September when federal agents raided the farm and unmasked Burke: His name is Eric L. Corbett, a 45-year-old Georgian who was convicted of felony witness tampering in Florida and then vanished after he walked out of a federal prison in Mississippi in April 2000.

The attorneys for former Spokane psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen argued this week that the Trump Administration’s decision to keep some records secret in the name of national security has hindered their ability to defend against a civil suit filed by the ACLU.

A unusual dispute between investigators, prosecutors and the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s office regarding the findings of a 2012 autopsy has allowed a man linked to two Spokane killings to remain uncharged, records show.

Longtime Ferris football coach and teacher Jim Sharkey has been suspended with pay for the past six weeks as school officials investigate claims that he exposed himself to players at a “Leadership Camp” last summer and then lied to cover it up.

Thursday was the last day on the job for Deputy Spokane County Prosecutor Joe Kuhlman, who resigned. But nobody is saying why.

Spokane cardiologist Dr. Romeo Pavlic agreed Tuesday to pay $300,000 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging he over billed Medicaid and Medicare for tests he did not perform on developmentally disabled patients at Lakeland Village in Medical Lake.