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Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. The trial date for the teen driver accused of vehicular homicide in the deaths of two girls in Spokane Valley has been pushed to October, one year since the fatal crash.

SPOKANE, Wash.- A Spokane International Airport police officer is in the Spokane County Jail facing charges of rape of a child in the 3rd degree, incest in the first degree, and depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

The Spokane County Library District regularly adds new books from just about every genre of fiction and nonfiction it is possible to imagine to its Digital Downloads collections.

UPDATE: SPOKANE, Wash- KHQ confirmed new information on a murder-suicide in Spokane that took place Tuesday morning.

The Spokane County Prosecutor's Office is pursing incest and child rape charges against an Airport Police officer.

The International Hot Rod Associationa and IRG Sports + Entertainmenta are excited to announce that Spokane County Raceway, located in Airway Heights, Washington just outside of Spokane, has become IHRA's newest member track and IHRA's first on the West Coast, effective 2015.

KHQ.COM - In a one week period from July 1st through July 6th, the Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service has taken in 89 dogs and 145 cats - a total of 234 animals.

The Washington attorney general's office says food handler certificates issued through the eFoodhandlers website are not valid in the state.

The Spokane City Council on Monday took ancestral veneration one step further in saluting the undead - that is, about 1,600 jobs that the zombie television series "Z Nation" brought to the city.

Spokane area law enforcement officers said they had no changes in the works on Monday to prepare for recreational pot officially going on sale on Tuesday.

Safety improvements were finally complete at a dangerous intersection in the Spokane Valley in July.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. A 29-year-old man was arrested early Monday after reports he entered a home, possibly while armed, and raped a woman.

Thurston County residents will start receiving their voters' pamphlets this week for the Aug. 5 primary election.

The following incidents and arrests were among those reported by the Liberty Lake Police Department from May 19 to June 23. The report is listed in chronological order.

The recipients are: Chanoa Marx from Barker High School, who will attend Evergreen State College; Melaney Lamb from Freeman High School, who will attend Carrington College; Megan Jennen from You have viewed 20 free articles or blogs allowed within a 30-day period.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. The city of Rockford has received an $11,500 grant from the Department of Ecology to purchase a new chipper.

American Cancer Society Discovery Shop - Volunteers are needed for the Discovery Shop, 805 W. Garland Ave., for help with a number of duties.

Employment, Education and Training - For Spokane County residents who have been laid off from work or have low income; provided through Work Source Spokane.

The Spokane Valley Fire Department and Spokane County Fire District 8 now have an automatic aid agreement, meaning the closest crew will respond to an incident, no matter which side of the boundary it's on.

Will Berger, 34, died of oxygen deprivation sustained in the confrontation with Spokane County Sheriff’s deputies Shawn Audie and Steve Paynter.