Crime/Public Safety

Police provided descriptions and photos of the two wanted men accused of shooting five people, killing 14-year-old Mario Amezcua, in a car one week ago in Moses Lake.

Mario Amezcua called his best friend at 9:11 p.m. Friday saying he and four family members were outside his Moses Lake home ready to pick him up to go to a birthday party, according to the friend’s mother. About two minutes later, a truck pulled up to the waiting Amezcua vehicle and fired multiple shots at the car.

A grass fire swept through dozens of acres west of Fairchild Air Force Base on Wednesday.

Tips from the public helped police locate and arrest a 40-year-old man accused of kidnapping his 8-year-old daughter Tuesday in Spokane Valley, according to the Spokane County Sheriff's Office.

A 14-year-old from Mattawa, Washington, was arrested Monday night at a Tri-Cities hospital in relation to a shooting that left another 14-year-old boy dead and four others injured last week in Moses Lake.

The Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office has determined that two deputies were justified in killing a man near Bigelow Gulch more than three years ago, the office said in a news release.

Shootings, assaults and threats between street gangs led up to the fatal drive-by shooting of 19-year-old Maria “Mary” Kapustin last summer at a Spokane overlook known as the “West View,” according to police in court documents.

A 14-year-old boy is dead and four others injured in a shooting Friday in Moses Lake . No arrests have been made.

Stevens County sheriff deputies shot and killed a man while attempting to carry out a felony arrest warrant Sunday in the 3300 block of state Route 25 south of Northport, Washington.

COLFAX – Troy Wilson stood before the man who murdered his daughter, trying to get him to understand how her death has gutted his family.

Tina Reynolds has seen the security camera footage that captures her son running away from his suspected killer before gunshots rang out just over a year ago in the Minnehaha Neighborhood.

A Ferry County woman was killed Wednesday by her boyfriend, who also shot and injured a sheriff’s deputy responding to the domestic violence call Wednesday night, officials said.

A judge sentenced an Idaho man to 25 years in prison this week for grooming and sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl, according to a press release from the Kootenai County Prosecutor’s Office.

Police arrested a man in Greeley, Colorado, on Tuesday in connection with the shooting death of 19-year-old Maria Kapustin last summer.

Attorneys working to present their case in the murder trial of Bryan Kohberger this summer are zeroing in on the timeframe before and after four University of Idaho students were slain in an ambitious effort to convince a judge to discard or allow certain evidence.

A 5-acre property near the Spokane International Airport caught fire on Thursday morning.

Investigators believe a 3-year-old boy overdosed on fentanyl he found on his mother’s dresser last month in Spokane Valley.

The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in finding a 78-year-old man whose family is worried about his welfare.

A federal jury has returned a guilty verdict after $7.8 million worth of illegal drugs was smuggled in backpacks and a suitcase across the Canadian border into a remote wildland area of Eastern Washington.