Crime/Public Safety

Garett Lawson donned his suit Thursday afternoon and walked into the Spokane County Courthouse beaming with pride.

A single-vehicle crash caused a lengthy traffic jam after occupants of the disabled car abandoned the vehicle Friday night on eastbound Interstate 90 in Spokane.

The Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office found three undercover detectives who shot and injured a man during a standoff in Moran Prairie last year were justified in their actions.

An 18-year-old accused of shooting a man outside a 7-Eleven gas station earlier this year in downtown Spokane is now accused of an unprovoked attack that left an 83-year-old man with significant injuries, according to Spokane police.

Law enforcement is seeking help locating an 83-year-old man with dementia, according to the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.

Investigators for years have believed that Chad and Lori Vallow Daybell conspired to kill two of her children, along with Chad Daybell’s first wife. The lengthy criminal case is one step closer to ending after an Ada County jury convicted 52-year-old Chad Daybell for the murders Thursday.

A 71-year-old convicted rapist was arrested Tuesday for trying to lure a child into his van, according to the Spokane Police Department.

A group of Coeur d’Alene Tribal School students on a field trip to a downtown Coeur d’Alene park say they were racially harassed by a group of men last week who told them to “go back” to the reservation as they imitated feathers behind their heads and laughed.

Spokane police arrested a 13-year-old they say shot a teen last month at the Center Court Apartments in north Spokane.

The newest employee of Spokane County Fire District 4 in north Spokane County has fur, four paws and loves to sniff out the scent of gasoline and other accelerants at fire scenes.

Law enforcement from across Idaho and Washington arrested a man on Tuesday who was released mistakenly from the Kootenai County Jail.

Deputies arrested a 17-year-old boy for running through a stop sign and colliding with a Kia Soul and a parked Ford Focus in North Spokane.

A North Idaho jury awarded a drag performer more than $1 million in damages last week after finding a local conservative blogger defamed him.

Residents were displaced and a dog died from an apartment fire Saturday afternoon in Spokane Valley.

The Washington State Attorney General’s Office is working with local police to investigate the disappearance of Indigenous teen Kit Nelson-Mora, who went missing from north-central Washington over two years ago at age 16.

The missing and murdered Indigenous people crisis is personal for Bree Black Horse. And, as of earlier this year, professional.

A motorcyclist who died in a crash Tuesday afternoon in Hillyard was identified as 38-year-old Jayme Scamolla, according to the Spokane County Medical Examiner’s Office.

There is no indication what led a man to empty his handgun into a loving father and husband on his way to work Thursday morning in the Garland District.

A motorcyclist died after crashing Tuesday afternoon in the Hillyard Neighborhood.