Man attacked at North Side gas station
Spokane County sheriff’s deputies were searching Tuesday night for two people who attacked a man and left him with a stab wound in his chest.
The 36-year-old victim phoned for help about 8 p.m. Tuesday after he was assaulted at the Exxon station parking lot at Freya Street and Francis Avenue, said Lt. Earl Howerton.
Although he was bleeding profusely when medics arrived, the victim was expected to be released from Deaconess Medical Center Tuesday night, Howerton said.
“Apparently, it did not penetrate to cause life-threatening injuries,” Howerton said.
The victim told investigators that he was attacked by two people whom he knows and that one of them stabbed him.
Names of the suspects and victim were not released at the scene. Howerton said deputies found the suspects’ getaway vehicle on Bismark Avenue, but the men remained at large.
Thanksgiving service location changed
The location of Thursday’s Interfaith Thanksgiving Service has been changed to St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 316 E. 24th Ave. on Spokane’s South Hill. The event, which had been planned for Temple Beth Shalom, starts at 10 a.m.
The Rev. Martin Wells, bishop of the Eastern Washington/Idaho Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, will be the speaker.
The service is an opportunity for participants to share cultural Thanksgiving stories while collecting food and funds for hunger relief.
For more information, call the Interfaith Council of the Inland Northwest at 329-1409.
15-year-old convicted in teacher’s death
Kennewick A 15-year-old boy was convicted of murder Tuesday for stabbing a football coach to death during a 2004 robbery attempt.
Jordan Castillo was also convicted by a Benton County Superior Court jury of attempted theft in the death of King Robert “Bob” Mars, 44.
Castillo could face up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced.
Mars, a Kiona-Benton High School assistant football coach, was killed Sept. 4, 2004.
Wanted sexual predator arrested near Hayden
A violent sexual predator, wanted for failing to notify authorities that he changed his address, was arrested Saturday.
Ricky Lee Milks, 39, was arrested not far from his last known address on Hudlow Road, north of Hayden.
He was convicted in Kootenai County for sex abuse of a minor under age 16 in 1990.
Waste explosion at Idaho lab raises concerns
Idaho Falls Work has been halted in an excavation pit at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho after a 55-gallon drum of hazardous waste exploded and started a small fire.
No one was hurt in the explosion and no contamination spread outside a containment structure where drums of recently excavated waste were being stored, officials said. The explosion occurred Monday at the highly secure compound northwest of Idaho Falls, but CH2M-WG Idaho, the U.S. Department of Energy contractor responsible for the Idaho Cleanup Project, did not announce the accident until Tuesday.
Officials said some of the material being excavated from the waste burial site known as “Pit 4” may catch fire when it’s exposed to air.
“We don’t quite yet know what the cause of this incident was, but we suspect it had something to do with the waste that was in the drum,” said Amy Lientz of CH2M-WG Idaho.