Airport corridor closes until November
Some air travelers may have trouble finding their way around Spokane International Airport in the coming days.
Starting Saturday, passengers will have to walk through an enclosed corridor to reach security screening in the main terminal.
The corridor that used to take travelers to security and A/B concourse gates will be closed until November as part of an $8 million project to update the terminal and add restaurants and shops.
The main terminal bathrooms will also be closed. Passengers and friends and family can still use restrooms near the rental car desks and by the C concourse.
– Amy Cannata
Spokane Valley
Two arrested after golf course damaged
Two people were found in the middle of the night with clubs in their hands at Painted Hills Golf Course after several greens were damaged and a security guard saw people hitting balls at the clubhouse, Spokane Valley police said.
Just before midnight Saturday, the guard noticed people on the course and called the owner, who later told police that $700 in damage had been done to the grass.
The owner and a police officer hopped on a golf cart and searched the course where they found Lindsay L. Davis and Ned Blakesley, both 21. They were arrested and booked into jail on felony second-degree malicious mischief charges.
According to court documents, Davis told police the pair had been hitting balls with a larger group that fled in a vehicle.
Two nights earlier, Painted Hills reported $5,000 in similar vandalism caused by people driving on the par-3 course, divoting greens and damaging a clubhouse, said police spokesman Sgt. Dave Reagan.
– Peter Barnes
Deer Park
Woman injured in fire dies at hospital
An 87-year-old Deer Park woman who was injured last week in a mobile home fire died at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, hospital officials said Wednesday.
Margaret Kramer suffered burns and smoke inhalation, officials said.
The blaze erupted about 10:50 p.m. Aug. 16 at 4803 E. Deer Park-Milan Road, said Spokane County Fire District 4 public information officer Pat Humphries. The fire started in a bedroom, but the cause remains under investigation.
The fire destroyed the mobile home.
– Jody Lawrence-Turner
Northport, Wash.
2 killed, 2 injured in head-on collision
Two people were killed and two injured Tuesday night in a head-on crash on state Route 25 near Northport, Wash.
Brian J. Jarvis, 28, and Thomas E. Hoffman, 39, both of Northport, died at the scene, according to Washington State Patrol. Misty D. Kimrey, 31, of Colville, and Jeffery L. Stoddard, 20, of Northport, were taken to hospitals, police said.
The crash occurred in the northbound lane about 6 p.m. when Jarvis’ 1990 Oldsmobile, which was heading south, collided with Hoffman’s 1978 Chevy pickup, which was heading north, police said.
– Staff reports