Thomas Clouse

When defenses line up this year against the Whitworth Pirates, they have to try to run around or through a pair of brothers who simply are huge. Dalton and Kyle Cosby, of Spokane Valley, weigh more than 600 pounds combined on the hoof in their size-16 shoes.

Giants in the world of sports all reach their end somehow. Sometimes a knee gives way or they take too many concussions or teams simply lose interest. But for Spokane badminton great John “Jack” Harvey, who turns 90 today, he simply outlived the competition. Harvey has been humbling opponents with a racket and a shuttlecock (sometimes called a birdie) since he was 15. He just recently won the last two of 179 gold medals in local, national and international play at the National Senior Games in Cleveland.

The St. Scholastica Saints from Duluth, Minn., visit Whitworth at the Pine Bowl Saturday in the season opener for both teams.

Fernando Noriega leans forward into the play, barking out signals to other defensive backs as he waits for the backup Whitworth Pirates quarterback to drop back and throw to a receiver who is about to pay the price for invading his space. The 22-year-old starting safety, who grew up in the East Los Angeles suburb of El Monte, relishes every snap, every hit, every chance at his “second” senior season. The first senior season ended abruptly last year with a broken ankle in Whitworth’s second game against Whittier.

The shots that ended a standoff two years ago on the lower South Hill continue to create a wide chasm between how a grieving family and law enforcement investigators view the same evidence. Conflicting witness testimony and the trajectory of the bullets that killed James E. Rogers on Sept. 26, 2011, have convinced the family that Spokane police and Spokane County Sheriff’s investigators failed to fully investigate the fatal shooting, which occurred after a nearly two-hour standoff with police near the intersection of Seventh Avenue and Hatch Street.

The man charged with the drive-by shooting death of a Spokane man two months ago pleaded not guilty Tuesday and was given a trial date of Oct. 7.

An inmate died last night in the Spokane County Jail, prompting an investigation into both the cause and manner of death.

Encounters with things that sting are a part of living in the Inland Northwest. The searing pain of a wasp attack can make grown-ups scream, jump about and pull clothes off while swatting aimlessly.

Basketball standout Craig Ehlo, who spent 14 years in the NBA and last month resigned an assistant coaching position at Eastern Washington University, was arrested early Thursday on charges including domestic violence after firefighters found family members holding him down near a pile of burning clothes outside his rural Spokane home. Spokane County sheriff’s deputies arrested Ehlo, 51, on the felony charge of first-degree reckless burning and a separate charge of domestic violence, according to the Sheriff’s Office. He was booked into Spokane County Jail shortly after 7:30 a.m. under his given first name, Joel.

Spokane Police Officer Jeff Graves did not commit any law violations stemming from complaints from a former lover who claimed he had stalked and harassed her, prosecutors have concluded.

Local basketball star Craig Ehlo, who played in the NBA and most recently coached at Eastern Washington University, was arrested early Thursday on a domestic violence charge after firefighters encountered family members holding Ehlo down near a pile of his burning clothes.

A former Mead woman, who had turned her life around after serving years in prison for driving drunk and killing two friends in a 2003 crash, is again facing felony charges for drinking and driving. Dawn H. Vrentas, 31, of Edmonds, is being held in jail in King County after she was stopped on suspicion of speeding early Saturday morning by a Washington State Patrol trooper on Interstate 5. The trooper noticed signs of intoxication and a field test showed Vrentas had a blood alcohol content of 0.14 percent, according to court records. The legal limit for driving is 0.08 percent.