Crime/Public Safety

Two men were hospitalized after stabbing each other Monday night in southwest Spokane.

Iris Ramos Cruz loved doing her makeup and putting on "very fluffy lashes" and "extra long" nails, according to her sister, Valeria Ramos.

The deputy, who was in surgery Tuesday morning, had engaged in gunfire with a person.

An off-duty law enforcement officer witnessed an alleged drive-by shooting Sunday morning in north Spokane and followed the shooter’s car until deputies pulled him and his passenger over, according to the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.

Three teen girls were killed after the ex-boyfriend of one of the girls crashed into the truck in which they were riding, causing it to roll into an irrigation canal Sunday afternoon near Othello, according to Adams County Sheriff’s Office.

A judge postponed trial by a week on Monday for the woman charged with stabbing and shooting her ex-boyfriend to death over a custody battle at his Mead home in 2024.

A man and a woman who were divorced were found dead Thursday inside a home south of Juliaetta, Idaho, according to the Latah County Sheriff’s Office.

A Pullman man, his girlfriend and his father were sentenced Wednesday to federal prison after the couple fled to Mexico with the man’s toddler and the father tried to help his son avoid arrest.

A couple facing murder charges in California for the death of a 14-year-old girl were arrested in Liberty Lake last week, according to a news release from the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.

Post Falls interim Police Chief Jason Mealer does not work for the police department anymore, according to city Administrator Shelly Enderud.

Dusty Ryder was a father of four who had just gotten married and was ready to start a new life in a new home.

A 33-year-old man is accused of cheating.

Coeur d’Alene has picked a new police chief, but not without Mayor Dan Gookin lashing out at the city attorney claiming he should have authority to select the city’s top law enforcement official.

Five young men face federal firearm trafficking conspiracy charges after legally purchasing guns in Montana and then trafficking them to juvenile Spokane gang members who used them in shootings, including a homicide at a north Spokane gas station, Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels told reporters Monday at a news conference.

A 77-year-old Lind, Washington, woman was killed in a two-vehicle rollover crash Friday on U.S. Highway 395, 5 miles south of Ritzville, according to Washington State Patrol.

A Spokane man on Friday was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury convicted him of his third strike.

Police have arrested a man suspected of killing his mother in her Coeur d’Alene home last Fall. They detained him as he prepared to fly to China.

A Spokane judge on Thursday sentenced a man to 16 years in prison for setting a homeless person on fire last year, the Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office announced Thursday.