An "unintended" voice mail left on an arson victim's cell phone helped identify suspects in a Spokane Valley house fire last week. The home's renter, Pavel Aleksandrov, said he received what appeared to be an unintentional voice mail on July 23 in which he could…
An ongoing neighbor dispute has resulted in a rare hate-crime charge against a 49-year-old Spokane man who police say targeted a man because of his race. Page Lloyd Wrencher was charged with malicious harassment - Washington's hate-crime law - after his downstairs neighbor at 2303…
A suspected drunken driver caused a brief power outage in Spokane Valley this morning after he struck a power pole and three parked cars. Nathaniel Lewis, 26, was speeding westbound on 8th Avenue when he lost control in the 12900 block about 3:12 a.m. and…
Three women have reported being grabbed by a man on a bicycle near Upriver Drive, according to the Spokane County Sheriff's Office. Last week, a woman jogging on the Centennial Trail said a man passing by on a dark mountain bike grabbed her bottom as…
Cole Strandberg is led back to the Spokane County Jail on Feb. 14. Cole K. Strandberg has pleaded guilty to killing a Spokane woman with a crossbow in 2008. Defense attorney Chris Bugbee has acknowledged in past hearings that Strandberg killed 22-year-old Jennifer Bergeron on…
Two 17-year-old hitchhikers attacked a 66-year-old North Idaho woman who stopped to help them last weekend in Bonner County, authorities say. Suspects Joseph J. Martin, of Denver, (left) and Marshall O. Dittrich, (bottom right) of Danville, Calif., had run away from a youth explorations program…
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