Will Campbell

Collisions Tuesday afternoon involving multiple cars and a semitruck on eastbound Interstate 90 near the Latah Creek Bridge caused multiple injuries.

Kevin Schmeider sponsored the team through his hardwood flooring business, which he started after he and his wife climbed their way out of homelessness and drug addiction.

A $1 million donation from MultiCare to Hoopfest is expected to fund the construction of two and a half basketball courts in Riverfront Park near the north bank of the Spokane River.

Angel M. Garton appeared in Spokane County Superior Court on Friday, and her bond was set at $1,000. She faces two counts of second-degree arson.

The victim of Thursday night’s stabbing in north Spokane said he was confronting his neighbor over stolen marijuana when he was attacked, according to court records.

A dispute between two neighbors on Thursday in north Spokane led to a stabbing, sending one man to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Police responded to the reported stabbing at about 7 p.m. at 4723 N. Monroe St. and found the victim bleeding in the front of the house, Spokane police Officer Matthew Cowles said. Both the victim and the suspect are men in their 20s, he said, but did not name the men.

A man accused of killing his wife by lacing her ice cream with a lethal dose of his pain medication in October will appear in court next week after prosecutors dropped earlier charges then refiled them this month.

Police did not find a suspect in a reported shooting in the Grandview-Thorpe neighborhood, a small cluster of homes in the city’s southwest corner. No one was hurt.

A secretary with the Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office resigned this month amid a criminal investigation that alleges she illegally recorded her co-workers discussing sensitive information multiple times.

After police booked a woman into jail on suspicion of driving with a suspended license Wednesday, she was released, but shortly after she crashed her car into a truck and fled on foot. No one was hurt.

The brunt of a large thunderstorm passed south of Spokane on Wednesday, but the city caught some rain showers and winds.

The Northwest Passages Book Club at the Montvale Event Center on Tuesday night featured author Peter Heller in front of a crowd of about 175 people. Interviewed by Spokesman-Review Editor Rob Curley, Heller dived into the origin stories of his books, including “The River.”

Two women have asked a neighbor in a Spokane Valley mobile home park to remove a toy they believe is racist from the front of his garage. The man said the toy, a depiction of a black man hanging by string from the front of a garage door, isn’t meant to be racially insensitive but a chew toy for his dog.

Supporters and protesters turned out once again Saturday at a public reading for children hosted by drag queens. Police were present, but no arrests were made before or after the 2 p.m. event that drew similar numbers to last week’s controversial program at the South Hill library branch.

Spokane radio personality J.J. Hemingway, who always referred to himself on his show as “your Spokane radio pal,” died Monday. He was 65. Contemporary Christian radio station Shine 104.9 announced Hemingway’s death on its Facebook page Wednesday, writing that he died at Providence Holy Family Hospital in Spokane after he fell ill. His cause of death was cardiac arrest due to complications with blood-sugar level, said Darin Patzer, station manager for Shine 104.9.

A Spokane County Sheriff’s deputy’s squad car was involved in one of two crashes that occurred after a stolen car was pulled over on Interstate 90 near the Havana Street exit on Wednesday afternoon.

The woman who drowned Tuesday afternoon at the Centennial Hotel in downtown Spokane was 74-year-old Marla Willeen Leander, the Spokane County Medical Examiner said Wednesday.

A woman was found floating unconscious in the outdoor pool of the Centennial Hotel in downtown Spokane on Tuesday afternoon, police say.

The seventh annual Dad’s Day Dash brought out the runners – and walkers – for a chance to bond with family and exercise at Manito Park on Sunday.

When he was 7, Mark Watson remembers his eyes glued to the window of his first airplane ride. “I couldn’t believe what was happening,” he said.

The Spokane Public Library on the South Hill hosted a Drag Queen Story Hour on Saturday for about 50 children and their families, but dozens of children were turned away because the reading room filled up.