Crime/Public Safety

A man who shot an elderly couple to death in their farmhouse bedroom in January 1997 was resentenced last week to 46 years in prison.

Two people were injured in a crash on Interstate 90 Tuesday, according to Washington State Patrol Sgt. Greg Riddell.

Two men broke into a closed fast food chain restaurant on Francis Avenue, stole roughly $100 worth of food and were arrested about 20 minutes later on Sunday, deputies said.

A Spokane Valley woman was arrested after attempting to impale her neighbor with a 2-foot “centurion-style sword” as he walked his daughters from their apartment to school Friday morning, deputies said.

It was one of Shawn Yim’s co-workers who flagged down police in the early hours Saturday about the wanted man sleeping in the back of the bus in downtown Seattle.

Liberty Lake police shot a male after he intentionally drove into other vehicles Saturday in Otis Orchards, according to the Liberty Lake Police Department.

The Spokane hockey community will wrap its arms this weekend around a family that lost a 5-year-old girl in a car crash one month ago in North Idaho.

A 73-year-old Colville man accused of killing a Stevens County woman and her young daughter in 1997 will be held in jail without bail after a prosecutor said the man has a prior murder conviction in Oregon and would be at risk to flee and harm witnesses if released.

A Coeur d’Alene Resort employee wearing a snowman costume was interviewed for a potential battery charge, and a teenage girl was treated and released for a head injury as a result of an accidental fall.

A decorated Christmas tree with presents underneath was engulfed in flames in about a minute Thursday afternoon in Spokane Valley.

A 14-year-old girl whose family reported her as a runaway last week was located safe, according to the Spokane Valley Police Department.

New tests on DNA collected from a cigarette butt and the inside of a Chevy Blazer helped investigators unravel a grisly 1997 double slaying of a Stevens County mother and her daughter.

Two men who died after a tree fell on a box truck Wednesday morning on U.S. Highway 2 near Sunset Frontage Road have been identified.

From staff reports

The Spokane County Medical Examiner on Wednesday identified the man who died in a tanker explosion on Interstate 90 near Four Lakes.

A stabbing that led to a SWAT standoff Saturday on the lower South Hill started with a dispute over a blanket, according to court documents.

The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office found a 65-year-old woman, who was last seen Saturday by her loved ones, dead Wednesday in the area of her property on Cougar Gulch Road, according to Lt. Jeff Howard.

Two people were killed Wednesday morning after a tree fell across all lanes of U.S. Highway 2, striking a box truck near Airport Road in Spokane.