Deer Park News

Details of secret lives spilled across a Spokane courtroom Wednesday as jurors in the murder trial of a Deer Park man heard intimate tales of suitors trying to set up dates with the victim - the ex-wife of the accused.

Detectives who investigated the 2010 killing of Deer Park resident Chanin Starbuck took to the stand at Clay Starbuck's murder trial Monday.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. Clay D. Starbuck is either a calculated, cold-blooded killer who desecrated the body of his ex-wife or the victim of investigators who stopped looking for the real killer, according to opening arguments in his murder trial Thursday.

DEER PARK, Wash The trial for Clay Starbuck, 48, is now underway at the Spokane County Courthouse, beginning with jury selection.

After several warm days in a row, the carpenter ants think it is summer, so they hatched all at once instead of gradually over time.