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MEDICAL LAKE — Travelers using State Route 902 will experience detours and delays due to railroad crossing replacement. The closure will begin at 5 p.m., Wednesday, June 23, until 5 p.m., Friday, June 25. Contractor crews working for the Washington State Department of Transportation will close State Route 902 at North Staley Street to the east and North Lefevre Street to the west. Once closed, crews will begin removing the existing asphalt and railroad ties around the railroad crossing. Once the new railroad ties have been p...
SPOKANE -- The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning for Central and Eastern Washington as well as North Idaho as temperatures are predicted to climb into triple digits beginning this weekend. The warning runs from Friday afternoon, June 25, through Tuesday evening, June 29. Dangerously hot conditions are forecast, with highs in the 90s to near 100 on Friday, 97 -- 107 Saturday and 100 -- 112 Sunday through Tuesday. Mild overnight lows will range from...
Sally Sue (Graff) Tibbitts July 28, 1939 – June 10, 2021 Sally Sue (Graff) Tibbitts died peacefully in her sleep on June 10, 2021 from dementia. She was born on July 28, 1939 in Union Gap, Wash., an only child of John Graff and Sue (Borseth) Graff. Sally graduated from Yakima High School and Washington State University with a degree in Physical Education. She married Thorne Tibbitts, from Spanaway, Wash., whom she met at WSU and they were happily married for over 62 years. She...
CHENEY -- Police and Fire Department personnel are currently onsite of a rollover accident near Oak and North 5th streets. Roads in the area have been blocked off. This is a developing story, with more information to follow when available. UPDATE 11:25 a.m. -- Cheney Police Department Capt. Nate Conley said the accident was a low-speed, T-bone collision at an uncontrolled intersection. The vehicle that rolled "barely" did so onto its side. No injuries were...
There’s a lot of talk about endangered species. But the most important endangered species in America, may not be a plant or a wild animal. The most endangered species may actually be in your home, a friend’s home or next door. The endangered species I’m talking about is the American Dad. This coming Sunday is Father’s Day, the one day set aside each year to honor the American Dad. Honoring and thanking the fathers in your life should be your highest priority this weekend...
WEST PLAINS — An adult male was killed in a one-car accident last Thursday evening, June 10, near South Thomas Mallon Road. According to a Spokane County Sheriff’s Office release, emergency personnel responded to a report of a vehicle that had left the roadway and crashed through a backyard fence of a residence on the 9100 block of West Sugar Street. Initial information indicated the vehicle, a 2018 Tesla, was northbound on South Thomas Mallon Road at a high rate of speed as it approached the intersection with Hallett Roa...
Amy Louise Blount March 1, 1951 – May 10, 2021 Amy Louise Blount was born March 1st, 1951 in Minneapolis, Minn. to Les & Margaret Gittins. She passed away May 10, 2021 at the Cheney Care Center, God's good angels came to receive & relieve her of her decades-long chronic and nightmarish pain. There were many trips to emergency rooms, intensive care, and week-long stays at Spokane hospitals. Before and during all of this she had ascended to a very high level of great i...
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