Will Campbell

When people think of Vietnamese culture, Thuy Nguyen wants more to come to mind than just the food. That was the aim of Saturday’s Vietnamese Heritage Day at the Genesis Convention Center in Spokane.

The pressure was on Landon Weitzel, 7, as he kneeled at the edge of a wrestling mat at the Spokane Arena, which was crowded with spectators.

The suspect in an East Upriver Drive homicide refused to appear before a judge on Friday, according to a Spokane County District Court manager, but is likely to make an appearance Monday.

A refrigerator of wine at the Rocket Market on the South Hill caught fire Friday after the cooling unit overheated. The wine was undamaged.

The suspect in Wednesday night’s car chase

Five puppies adopted at the Northwest Pet Expo on Saturday were diagnosed this week with the contagious, sometimes deadly canine parvovirus. None have died.

Spokane County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a man on charges of allegedly murdering his girlfriend. He reportedly barricaded himself inside an apartment and refused to leave. Her body was discovered Wednesday after deputies forced their way inside the home.

Spokane detectives say a recently arrested 34-time felon used fake tattoos that threw them off in their investigation of a 2018 carjacking and kidnapping.

With about two minutes left in the game, all the students in Gonzaga’s Cataldo Hall stood up as they watched their men’s basketball team fall to Texas Tech, knocking the No. 1 seed out of the NCAA Tournament’s West Region.

More than 3,500 people, including exhibitors, flooded the fairgrounds Saturday to celebrate, advertise and showcase all things pets, including a “Smooch booth” and “Kitty City” during the second annual Northwest Pet Expo at the Spokane County Fair and Expo Center.

A man who walked away from jail work crew this month was nearly caught by police on Sunday when he led police on a brief chase in a stolen Subaru WRX and then fled on foot.

Store manager David Cannon at first didn’t think much of the 22-year-old man with a hoodie who walked into Country Homes Power in Spokane Valley and brandished a knife on Thursday. Instead, Cannon pulled out his own knife.

The trial of a gang member accused of assaulting a 2-year-old girl in 2016 continued Thursday in Spokane Superior Court, as a forensic pathologist testified that the injuries the girl suffered were clearly the result of a fall.

Spokane received its first meningitis diagnosis of the year, but officials say the risk of it spreading is low.

A man arrested after a high-speed car chase through Spokane County on Wednesday night is wanted in Pasco on suspicion that he shot his ex-girlfriend’s boyfriend.

Speeds reached 128 mph as a driver in a pickup truck led law enforcement on a chase Wednesday night on U.S. Highway 2 that started in Spokane Valley and ended west of Davenport, according to Washington State Patrol spokesman Jeff Sevigney.

A string of thefts at a north Spokane mobile home park is prompting Crime Stoppers to offer a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect.

Spokane native and NASA astronaut Anne McClain said she made the recommendation to swap her out of what would have been the first all-female spacewalk in history. “Leaders must make tough calls, and I am fortunate to work with a team who trusts my judgement,” she tweeted Wednesday in regard to the spacewalk scheduled for Friday outside the International Space Station. “We must never accept a risk that can instead be mitigated. Safety of the crew and execution of the mission come first.”