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‘Gave everything to serve’: Community remembers beloved teacher, missionary, friend Community mourns loss of well-loved teacher By Elly Cosgrove | April 19, 2021 at 11:22 PM EDT - Updated April 19 at 11:52 PM WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Many in the community — and even around the world — are mourning the loss of a beloved teacher, missionary and friend. Jessica Embry died Sunday afternoon while trying to save children caught in a rip current at Kure Beach. The town’s police department says Embry helped save the children, but ran into trouble in the water. People on...

A fter the death of George Floyd last year sparked international outcry and spurred a mass protest movement, the Spokane Regional Law and Justice Council could have been perfectly situated to deliver quick reform. After all, the mission of the Law and Justice Council — an intergovernmental committee composed of local representatives from politics, law enforcement, the legal system and other community stakeholders — is to reimagine criminal justice in Spokane. Instead, some of the group's members say, the council was mired in stalemate and dysfunction. That was also ...

S udanese refugee Michael Bacuth's brother and sister-in-law were shot and killed in 2013, victims of the kind of violence that Bacuth came to Spokane to escape. But his niece survived, turning up in an Egyptian refugee camp five years later. Ever since Bacuth has been focused on one mission: Rescue his niece. "I need to bring her here because she's a little girl," Bacuth says. "Nobody is with her. That's why I need help. ... We're waiting for anybody to help us." During the refugee-restricted years of the Trump administration, bringing his orphaned niece to America was nearly impossi...

Young Kwak photo Inlander would involve making Riverfront Park part of a lifesized treasure hunt. A s we begin to see the light at the end of the pandemic, what could we do (or at least start) this year to make the Inland Northwest more fun, more livable, more just, more practical, more successful, more hopeful? That's the unnecessarily wordy question we put to some of our favorite local thinkers. Their responses, amassed together in the fol...

Daniel Walters photo Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward says the idea of bringing Breean Beggs (right) to the negotiating table came from the police union. S pokane Mayor Nadine Woodward remembers seeing the police officers’ faces in June when the Spokane City Council struck down their proposed contract with a unanimous 7-0 vote. “The officers were watching that count happen as I was speaking to ...