Crime/Public Safety

The Whitman County Prosecutor’s Office declined to charge a 20-year-old Washington State University student who was shot at by a campus police officer after prosecutors say the student tried to “induce the police to kill him” last month in Pullman.

An explosive device was chucked onto the front porch of the Satanic Temple in Salem, Mass., earning the ire of the city’s mayor, who dubbed it a “terrorist attack.” Nobody was inside the house of worship when the device landed outside the front door Monday morning around 4:15 a.m., Salem police said in a news release. And while the device failed to fully detonate, a part of the building was ...

A fire at an eight-unit apartment complex on the South Hill displaced 10 residents and sent a man to the hospital with “moderate smoke inhalation and light burns,” according to a Spokane Fire Department news release.

Like countless students, Alexander Mercurio spent his time during COVID browsing online.

Federal agents over the weekend arrested a Coeur d'Alene teen accused of conspiring to attack local churches in support of the terror group ISIS. 

Everyone knows someone who has been impacted by sexual violence, local experts say.

At the piano tucked into the corner of her cozy dining room, Christine Horst looks up at the altar of art above her before taking a deep breath and beginning her song.

Spokane County Sheriff’s Office deputies are asking for the public’s help finding 62-year-old Robert B. Abbott.

A 26-year-old Ohio man was sentenced to 6½ years in prison for a drunken-driving crash that killed 36-year-old Matthew Mischenko nearly four years ago in Spokane Valley.

A Coeur d’Alene orthopedic surgeon faces several child sex and voyeurism charges after video footage from a bathroom hidden camera was found at his medical office.

An 18-year-old Coeur d’Alene man is accused of shooting and injuring a person Friday night just outside the Coeur d’Alene city limits.

A judge sentenced a 23-year-old man Friday to 65 years behind bars for a “deliberate attack” on law enforcement that left a Spokane police officer wounded.

The three Spokane County Sheriff’s Office deputies who fired their weapons, killing a suspected child rapist after a standoff with him near Deer Park, have been identified.

An argument turned into a shooting and left a man wounded Thursday night at a South Hill parking lot.

The two officers who the Spokane Police Department say returned fire after an uncooperative man fired a gun at the scene of an arson fire Sunday have been identified as officers Brandon Roy and Andrew Willis.

Coeur d’Alene Police said Wednesday a racial slur was clearly audible in at least one audio recording from late last month when members of the University of Utah women’s basketball program reported harassment downtown.

The man who was shot and killed by Spokane County Sheriff’s Office deputies after a standoff Friday night near Deer Park was arrested five years ago after another standoff with law enforcement.

The Washington State University Police Department officer who shot at a 20-year-old student last week has been identified.