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CALABASAS, CALIF. — Former National Basketball Association legend Kobe Bryant, along with four others, including his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, died Sunday morning in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles, multiple media sources have confirmed. There were no survivors. Members of the Medical Lake High School girl’s basketball team were able to meet the basketball icon when they traveled to Cashmere on Jan. 11 for non-league games against the Bulldogs. Bryant had attended the...
MEDICAL LAKE - After much anticipation from local and regional customers, Lefevre Street Bakery and Cafe reopened today, Jan. 24, after a six-month hiatus that saw the business change hands. The doors officially opened at 6:30 a.m., and according to new owner Victoria Shoemaker, business was "brisk" as a steady stream of customers came and went. Alan Colvin and Michael Davis were eating and enjoying a cup of coffee for what they termed a "safety meeting," something they did...
MEDICAL LAKE — Two things about the Cardinal boys basketball team: they can take time to warm up and they like to keep spectators in suspense right up to the last second — literally. Such was the case in yet another clutch, 51-50 win in Friday’s home game against Freeman (3-2, 9-4). The team was coming off an upset 65-52 loss against Newport on Tuesday, Jan. 14, and the bad taste must have lingered as the start against the Scotties wasn’t a pretty one as the Cardinals allowed...
MEDIAL LAKE - Cardinal wrestlers gave the Riverside Rams a pounding before heading to the Crusader Classic at Northwest Christian High School where they took fifth in a field of 22 regional teams on Saturday. "About like I thought it would be," head coach Matt Leenhouts said of the 54-27 shellacking Cardinal wrestlers gave to the Rams. It was pin-city on the Cardinals home spotlight on Thursday, Jan. 16, with six of the 12 matches resulting in Card pins, along with one 10-4...
MEDICAL LAKE — The Lady Cards have won one and lost a couple in the past week, extending their record to 4-1 in the Northeast A League and 4-9 overall. The Cards earned their win the old fashioned way when they traveled to Newport on Wednesday, Jan. 14, beating the Grizzlies (1-5, 6-8) in a 58-39 blowout. “It wasn’t really a surprise,” head coach Kyle Lundberg said. “They were able to play four quarters, and that was huge for us.” Four quarters has been Lundberg’s...
CHENEY — The Blackhawks were only able to keep the Golden Feather Trophy one year before the Cardinal’s took it back at the 10th annual Golden Feather Spirit Games at Eastern Washington University’s Reese Court last Saturday evening. Medical Lake’s boys basketball team (4-1, 11-2) balanced out the Cardinal girls’ loss with a signature last second 53-50 finish over the Blackhawks (1-3, 2-9) in the non-league game in which both teams traded the lead multiple times. The Cardi...
SPOKANE COUNTY — Spokane County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a burglar caught sleeping in a spare bedroom, then linked the suspect to two other nearby burglaries, according to a press release. On Sunday, Jan. 19, Deputy Ryan Truman responded to a 12:15 p.m. report of a stranger asleep in the caller’s rural residence on the 7200 block of W. Griffin Rd. Arriving, Truman found a set of footprints in the snow on the driveway leading to the home and immediately recognized the size...
CASHMERE — Like a tsunami, the Medical Lake boy’s basketball team continues to roll relentlessly over competitors, even if they take extra quarters to do it. That was the case when the Cardinals traveled west to take on the Cashmere Bulldogs — who they may very well see again in the post-season — in a 55-50 overtime win. “It was just a fun high school basketball game to be a part of,” head coach Jordan Starr said. “It was great basketball.” He classified the game as one in...
CASHMERE — It was a good news, bad news trip to Cashmere on Saturday for the Lady Cardinals basketball team. The bad news first: the Cardinals traveled seven hours round-trip to Cashmere on Saturday, Jan. 11, after Friday’s winter storm, only to take a 63-27 beating from the top-ranked Bulldogs, led by powerhouse senior phenom Hailey Van Lith. The good news was the team got a chance to meet former National Basketball Association pro Kobe Bryant, who attended the game to wat...
MEDICAL LAKE — Cardinal head wrestling coach Matt Leenhouts, coming off a hard-fought, close loss against Cheney at the Scabland Scuffle the day before, bragged that he worked his team harder than anyone else. “We’ve got Colville tomorrow,” he said as his wrestlers made their way out of the Cheney gymnasium. “It’s going to show tomorrow.” And show it did, in the Cardinal’s 42-33 defeat of Colville, their first dual win against the Indians in over decade — since 2009 to be...
CHENEY —Blackhawk wrestlers hosted this years Scabland Scuffle dual in the annual West Plains grapple, just barely beating the Cardinals in a close 41-33 struggle under the spotlight on Wednesday, Jan. 8. It was a hotly contested effort by wrestlers from both teams, with scoring going down to the final match. “That’s a pretty fun day of wrestling,” Cheney head coach Jason Connor said after the meet, adding of the Cardinals, “they came to compete. They came out and punched u...
SPOKANE COUNTY — The occupants of a home in West Terrace avoided what could have been a more catastrophic fire after placing a precautionary call to emergency services early Friday morning, Jan. 10. The occupants on the 7700 block of Blackberry Street just southeast of the Interstate 90, Medical Lake interchange, dialed 911 after suspecting a fire in their bathroom fan, according to Spokane County Fire District 3 Division Chief Dustin Flock. A fire attack crew was d...
MEDICAL LAKE — Opponents of the Spokane Gun Club’s proposed shooting range north of the city are getting their day in court on Friday. A suit filed in Spokane Superior Court by members of the Whitehead family, many of whom live adjacent to the gun range, proposed to be built between West McFarlane and Thorpe roads and just west of Brooks Road, contend that Spokane County misapplied a county code requiring approval of at least 50 percent of property owners lift the no-...
MEDICAL LAKE — The City Council got to work at its first meeting of the new decade with some newly elected members, and approving a slew of contracts and a tax credit resolution for future consideration. The biggest issue on the council’s agenda was the approval of a non-binding resolution of intent related to a tax credit earmarked specifically for affordable and supportive housing assistance. The credit is the outcome of a 2019 legislative bill created to address the issue o...
CHENEY — A Cheney family were displaced from their home after a New Year’s Eve fire made their rental home uninhabitable. Medical Lake Middle School special education teacher Ben Hill and his three children weren’t home when a passerby noticed the fire and dialed 911 between 6:30 – 7 p.m., according to Cheney Fire Department’s Lt. Tim Steiner, the incident commander on the blaze on the 400 block of North 6th Street. Firefighters from Cheney and Spokane County Fire District 3 w...
Editor's note: Original media sources reported the fire was located in the city of Cheney. The fire was actually 5-6 miles northeast in West Terrace. SPOKANE COUNTY — The occupants of a home in the West Terrace neighborhood avoided what could have been a more catastrophic fire after placing a precautionary call to emergency services early Friday morning. The occupants on the 7700 block of Blackberry Street just southeast of the Interstate 90, Medical Lake interchange, d...
CHENEY - Blackhawk wrestlers wrangled their way to a third-place team finish at their own Blackhawk Invitational on Saturday with a 181.0 overall team score, giving up the second-place slot to Lakeside by half a point. That half-point head coach Jason Connor blamed on a "mental mistake" that cost the team a point - and second place. Junior Dylan Straley took first on a major decision in the 145 weight class to improve his 17-1 record, while Ashton Geiger won his fifth-place...
CHATTAROY — The Medical Lake girl’s basketball crew took out Riverside in a decisive 49-40 Northeast A road victory on Friday, Jan. 3, ending a two-game losing skid. The good news is the two loses were non-league and over the holiday break, allowing the Cardinals to remain at the top of the NEA with a 3-0 league record. “Four quarters of play,” was the mantra from head coach Kyle Lundberg just before the game. He got three, and that was enough. Medical Lake came out strong...
CHATTAROY — The Medical Lake boy’s basketball team continued its domination and extended its winning streak going into mid-season in a confident 72-43 win against the Riverside Rams (1-1, 4-6) on Friday, Jan. 3. “It was a big-league win,” a clearly happy head coach Jordan Starr said after the game. “We saw they had a couple of big guys that couldn’t match up with our speed, athleticism and shooting so we just spaced it out and let them play.” The plan going in, Starr said be...
AIRWAY HEIGHTS — Thieves who assaulted a man on Monday, Dec. 30, came up short after the victim was only able to produce a $1.50. The assailants may not be living free much longer, according to police officials. “We’ve gotten quite a few tips and have some a pretty solid leads,” Officer Erin Johnson said on Friday afternoon. “Detectives will be following-up as soon as they can.” According to Johnson, the victim had just gotten off a bus on the 1200 block of South Hayford Roa...
MEDICAL LAKE — After seven months without baking so much as a single biscuit, the Lefevre Street Bakery and Café will once again be opening its doors for business by the end of January. New owner Victoria Shoemaker said diehard patrons will notice few changes as she plans to keep intact the business brand, menu options and hours previously established by the former owners. Shoemaker, who said she’d been in the food industry for “many years,” announced on social media on Satur...
MEDICAL LAKE — After seven months without baking so much as a single biscuit, the Lefevre Street Bakery and Café will once again be opening its doors for business by the end of January. New owner Victoria Shoemaker said diehard patrons will notice few changes as she plans to keep intact the business brand, menu options and hours previously established by the former owners. Shoemaker, who said she’d been in the food industry for “many years,” announced on social media on Satur...
SPOKANE COUNTY — Homeowners in the West Plains neighborhoods of West Terrace Heights and Crystal Meadows received an early Christmas present when Spokane County Hearing Examiner David W. Hubert sent a proposed high-density development back to the drawing board for additional work. Hubert found the Aero Road Planned Unit Development (PUD) Preliminary Plat, a 5.14-acre plat on the southwest corner of Aero and Fruitvale roads that proposes to subdivide into 35 lots with 68 d...
MEDICAL LAKE — The City Council held their final meeting of the decade on Tuesday, Dec. 17, passing two fee resolutions for the following year, authorizing a letter of support and approving an interlocal agreement, and wishing a two councilmembers farewell. The council agreed to write a letter of support for a proposal to name State Route 902 the “Gold Star Memorial Highway,” at the written request of Rudy Lopez, director of the Washington State Veterans Cemetery and membe...
