TACOMA — The Pierce County Sheriff's Office has agreed to pay $1.25 million to a man who was shot in the knee by a deputy during a SWAT team raid at a residence in Bonney Lake.

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Authorities say a police officer in Vancouver shot a man during a disturbance call at a home on Thanksgiving.

Spokane Valley’s new assistant police chief comes with a background of service in the Air Force, a focus on domestic violence and sexual assault and five years as Mayor of Airway Heights.

The pedestrian hit and killed in Browne’s Addition earlier this month has been identified as Nicholas Demming, 40, by the Spokane County Medical Examiner.

Officer Dan Cole, who was hired by the department in 1986, was placed on paid administrative leave in January after city information technology staff reviewed his computer use in December, according to records requested by The Spokesman-Review. His computer log showed visits to pornography and prostitution websites while on- and off-duty.

Police suspect a woman who believed a non-existent neighbor in a vacant apartment was coughing at her used a chainsaw to cut through the wall Tuesday.

A 39-year-old man was sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree promoting prostitution.

Two people were injured after a shooting Wednesday night at the Centennial Hotel in downtown Spokane. 

After witnessing a traffic violation, officers say they attempted to pull over a vehicle in Spokane’s Logan neighborhood Saturday afternoon, only for the driver to flee the scene with his girlfriend and a child in the car. A short time later, the driver allegedly crashed into an elderly woman’s vehicle, causing her car to crash into an STA bus.

Bullets flew across Division Street on Monday night when motorists exchanged gunfire in north Spokane.

Spokane police are investigating a drive-by shooting in the Chief Garry Park neighborhood on Sunday that left one man with a gunshot wound.