Crime/Public Safety

Every four years, the entirety of the Spokane County Superior Court bench is up for election.

Nahziyien Gordon, also known by friends and family as "Jo," was "the sweetest kid" who loved to skateboard, according to his family.

A body was discovered Friday in the Spokane River near Nine Mile Falls.

Two men connected to the killing of 40-year-old Deshaun Crawford last year inside a Spokane Valley home received credit for time served and were released from jail.

A man who went missing in March has been identified as the person whose body was found last week next to the dam in Riverfront Park .

A Newport man who struck and killed a 3-year-old girl and injured the girl’s younger brother and grandmother with his truck in 2022 in North Idaho received a 10-year prison sentence.

A 19-year-old man was sentenced last week to 4½ years in prison for a robbery and drive-by shooting that occurred within nine days of each other last summer in Millwood and Spokane, respectively.

A man shot by police following a drive-by shooting near Shadle Park High School was arrested Friday after escaping from a treatment facility.

The man who crashed into the Spokane River on May 2 and died has been identified as Douglas Hanson, 67.

Conflict between a Spokane Municipal Court judge and the city’s public defender’s office grew more contentious last week as attorneys alleged Judge Gloria Ochoa-Bruck made false statements to the public and has an inability – or perhaps an unwillingness – to follow courtroom norms that help low-level criminal defendants resolve their cases.

The boy who jumped off a Riverfront Park bridge and drowned Wednesday night was a Yasuhara Middle School student, according to Spokane Public Schools.

A boy died Wednesday night after he and three other teens jumped off the orange pedestrian bridge at Riverfront Park in downtown Spokane.

A 44-year-old man was sentenced to six years in prison for assaulting his ex-girlfriend and shooting her friend this winter in Spokane.

A road rage shooting involving a pellet or BB gun Wednesday on the South Hill left a person with minor injuries and landed a 30-year-old man in jail.

The family of a Deer Park murder victim rallied together Wednesday to see his killer sentenced to life in prison without parole.

When Farah Taylor was growing up in her father’s lakeside house, she and her brother would force their dad to watch “dive competitions” off the dock for hours until the sun went down. He never complained.

A 34-year-old Rathdrum man will spend at least two years in prison for killing his 19-year-old cousin in a car crash last summer.

A Moses Lake police officer was shot and injured this weekend while responding to a domestic disturbance call, a news release from the Moses Lake Police Department said.

Coeur d’Alene city attorneys have declined to charge an 18-year-old suspected of yelling intimidating racial slurs at the University of Utah women’s basketball team that marred their experience playing in March Madness in Spokane.