Crime/Public Safety

A Spokane man who was acquitted of shooting two people in the head after a bar fight was awarded around $85,000 on Thursday for wages he lost while incarcerated.

A 33-year-old woman who murdered her father as he returned to his Spokane home from Hawaii was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison.

Spokane Valley Police are investigating a 55-year-old man suspected of yelling profanities and ethnic slurs at his neighbors, including telling them to “go back to their country,” and banging on their shared apartment wall Thursday.

Troopers with the Idaho State Police are leaving for similar, better-paying jobs in Washington.

Post Falls Police Capt. Mark Brantl is leading the police department while interim Police Chief Jason Mealer, a candidate for the permanent chief position, is “out of the office,” according to Deputy City Administrator Warren Wilson.

More than $1,000 in merchandise and property was stolen from the Vintage Print + Neon store in the historic Boulevard Building Thursday morning.

An 18-year-old woman accused of ripping a Trump flag away from a man and the 32-year-old man who police say jumped on a detective trying to arrest the teen Saturday at a “No Kings” protest near downtown Spokane made their first appearances Tuesday in Spokane County Superior Court.

A 51-year-old man with ties to a right-wing American militia group pleaded guilty on Monday to felony harassment after threatening in graphic detail to kill a man and his family in June.

Five more people are being held in the Benton County jail after the largest ever Tri-Cities drug bust by federal agents early this month. Initially, Amador Sanchez was arrested and booked into jail. Court records now show that Sergio Sanchez, Eliodoro Tapia, Nika Eloisa Salazar, Cassaundra Rachel Pollard and Alma Rosa Sanchez also have been arrested in the federal case. All six suspects are ...

The Coco Café in downtown Spokane will be closed for the weekend following a Friday morning burglary.

A teenager is accused of shooting and killing a father of four who stepped away from his porch to help a young woman he and a friend were following over the weekend in north Spokane.

A 57-year-old man who doused another man with gasoline and set him on fire last year in downtown Spokane was found guilty by a jury Wednesday.

A former Riverside Elementary School paraeducator and high school coach will spend 30 years in prison for recording himself engaging in sex acts with underage boys, sending the videos to other children, downloading child pornography and trading sex acts for vapes.

A judge on Monday found Mead School District liable in a hazing lawsuit where one of its high school football players was pinned down by his teammates and assaulted with a massage gun while other players yelled, cheered and recorded the incident with their cellphones.

Shoshone County commissioners appointed on Tuesday a former Los Angeles Police Department officer and combat veteran to lead the sheriff’s department.

Jefferson Fernando Cando Llano left a laundromat in Browne’s Addition on March 8 and headed for his car.

A man was shot in the legs after an argument Monday in Otis Orchards, and no arrests have been made.

No one has been arrested in a northeast Spokane shooting that left one dead and another injured Sunday.

The cause of an explosion that killed two people at a remote north-central Idaho gas station nearly two years ago was determined to be accidental, but fire investigators found numerous code violations, poor conditions and “gross negligence” may have contributed to the tragedy.