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‘A man who lived with purpose and courage’: Longtime Spokane Police jailer known as force’s strongest honored 105 years after inmate killed him

Spokane Police Department Officer William Nelson was the “oldest, and by all accounts, the strongest man” in the department when a downtown jail inmate attacked and killed the 64-year-old jailer 105 years ago, according to Police Chief Kevin Hall.

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Woman charged after her 3-year-old son overdosed on fentanyl, police say

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Spokane County Veterans Services claims more than doubled to $20 million last year

Local Business

Spokane Valley builder of packaging equipment acquiring two others

National Business

Trump aides prep new tariffs on imports worth trillions for ‘Liberation Day’

Nation

Trump administration tells Amtrak CEO to resign amid talk of cuts

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World

‘Captain Canada’ takes on Trump

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Washington

‘A man who lived with purpose and courage’: Longtime Spokane Police jailer known as force’s strongest honored 105 years after inmate killed him

Idaho

Bryan Kohberger renews effort to present alibi, other suspects at Idaho murder trial

WA Government

Economic forecast projects Washington to see nearly a billion less in revenue over four years

ID Government

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signs new law to cut Medicaid expansion. Here’s what it means

Education: K-12

Spokane Public Schools to move ahead with property consolidation to save $5 million, maybe more if $200 million bond passes

Higher Education

University of Idaho’s Center fills gap after DEI closures

Health

Trump county worries Medicaid cuts could throw them back into opioid spiral

Transportation

Getting There: I-90 construction projects ahead in Idaho, Washington

Science & Tech

Boeing Starliner astronauts taking SpaceX ride home for Florida splashdown

Military

Tribes call on Pentagon to restore websites honoring Native American military service

Weather

Oregon governor declares flood emergency for southern parts of state

Columnists

Front Porch: Joann will be missed, but the happy, crafty memories will remain

History

This day in history: KKK membership was growing in Spokane; study said Spokane Valley zoo could become one of top in nation

Religion

What happens when Spokanites learn the art of everyday peacemaking? Workshop aims to find out.

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News > Spokane

Eastern Washington University, Whitman College deny allowing antisemitic activity

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

Two Eastern Washington colleges were threatened on March 10 with potential enforcement actions by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights over alleged antisemitic discrimination and harassment.

News > Washington

Pasco man arrested after SWAT standoff. He did $30,000 damage to homeless housing complex

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

A Tri-Cities man allegedly did $30,000 in damage to the Pasco Catholic Charities housing and threatened to kill police in an hours long standoff.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Idaho man sentenced to 25 years for grooming, sexually abusing 15-year-old daughter of his friend

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

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.

News > Crime/Public Safety

19-year-old arrested in Colorado in connection with 19-year-old woman’s shooting death

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

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

News > Spokane

Leftwing activist group says it reserved hundreds of seats at Rep. Baumgartner’s tumultuous town hall

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

Most of the tickets to U.S. Rep. Michael Baumgartner’s tumultuous town hall Monday night at Whitworth University were reportedly claimed by members of the Spokane branch of the left-wing activist group Indivisible.

News > WA Government

Ralph Munro, longtime WA secretary of state and champion of disability rights, dies

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

Ralph Munro, who was elected as Washington secretary of state in 1980 and served until 2001, has died, according to the current Office of the Secretary of State.

News > WA Government

Washington Attorney General employees across the state protest agency cuts, staff furloughs

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

OLYMPIA – Unionized employees of the Washington attorney general’s office staged protests at offices throughout the state Thursday over plans for a monthly furlough of state employees and cuts to the agency.

News > Crime/Public Safety

Bryan Kohberger bought a knife before University of Idaho killings, took a selfie hours later, court docs say

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

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.

News > Nation/World

‘Captain Canada’ takes on Trump

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

The premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, has lately been leading the charge against a different kind of storm that has rolled into Canada: President Donald Trump's threats to the country's economy and his desire to make it the 51st state.

News > Nation/World

With orders, investigations and innuendo, Trump and GOP aim to cripple the left

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

President Donald Trump and his allies are aggressively attacking the players and machinery that power the left, taking a series of highly partisan official actions that, if successful, will threaten to hobble Democrats' ability to compete in elections for years to come.

News > Nation/World

Israel expands Gaza ground offensive as Hamas fires rockets at Tel Aviv

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

The Israeli military expanded its ground operations across the Gaza Strip on Thursday as Hamas fired rockets at central Israel for the first time in months, in what looked increasingly like a slide back toward full-scale war.

News > Crime/Public Safety

5-acre property near Spokane Airport catches fire Thursday morning

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

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

News > Nation

Trump signs order aimed at eliminating Education Department ‘once and for all’

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

President Donald Trump on Thursday instructed Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin shutting down the agency, a task that cannot be completed without approval from Congress and sets the stage for a seismic political and legal battle over the role of the federal government in the nation's schools.

News > WA Government

Senate Democrats want to raise billions in revenue ahead of formal budget announcement

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

OLYMPIA – Senate Democrats have unveiled a plan to raise billions of dollars amid a deep budget shortfall by taxing Washington’s wealthiest residents through what is called a “financial intangibles tax,” allowing property tax increases to be set by inflation and population growth, and removing the cap on employer payroll taxes.

News > Nation

Trump administration tells Amtrak CEO to resign amid talk of cuts

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner in a statement Wednesday announced he will step down from the nation’s passenger rail company as the Trump administration targets funding for mass transit systems and other transportation initiatives across the nation.

News > National business

Tesla recalls Cybertrucks after steel trim pieces come loose

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

Tesla Inc. recalled all the Cybertrucks it produced and sold in the first 15 months it’s been on the US market over a safety issue it’s having trouble resolving.

News > National business

The electric-vehicle revolution may be on shakier ground than you think

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

Republican plans to scrap nearly all federal support for electric vehicles could kneecap the nascent industry, auto industry experts say, just when more Americans are considering buying an EV and car companies are planning big investments.

News > World

Airliner was descending fast before it flipped on landing, report finds

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

The Delta Air Lines Inc. plane that flipped over as it landed in Toronto last month was warned about its rate of descent, according to a preliminary report released Thursday by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.

News > Nation

L.A. faces $1 billion budget hole, warns of thousands of layoffs

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

Los Angeles is facing a projected deficit of nearly $1 billion in the next fiscal year as the city grapples with the aftermath of historic wildfires and a deep decline in revenue.

News > National business

Southwest cuts jobs at four more airports as belt-tightening continues

UPDATED: Thu., March 20, 2025

Southwest Airlines is cutting employees at four major airports in California and Maryland, the latest belt-tightening in the carrier’s ongoing shakeup.

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