The Lilac Festival Royal Court and Spokane Mayor David Condon are among a group that is traveling to Spokane's Sister City in Ireland for a scenic tour. They will be joined by other Lilac Festival representatives as well as the President of the Spokane-Limerick Sister City Society.

Limerick and Spokane have been Sister Cities since 1990. Limerick is one of four Sister City partnerships, Spokane is also partnered with Nishinomiya, Japan; Jecheon, South Korea; and Jilin, China. The partnerships enable the cities to share their cultures and create bonds with Spokane.

This most recent delegation to Limerick left Spokane with a grand send off at the Spokane International Airport on Friday morning.

The suspected gunman in a fatal drive-by shooting in North Spokane ditched his getaway car and may now be trying to find another way to get out of town.

Detectives say the shooting suspect, 19-year-old Issiah Schauman, gunned down his victim, Fabian McBride, at Rhodes and Atlantic, one block west of Division Street, after the pair had briefly argued in the street.

Investigators were staking out his car, a late model Chrysler New Yorker, hoping Schauman would come back for it. They were aided in the search for the vehicle when witnesses spotted the vehicle leaving the shooting scene.

"It was a dark blue Chrysler New Yorker," witness John Hamilton said moments after the shooting.

Nearby residents even wrote down the license plate number and that aided detectives in finding the car on East Sanson, a few blocks from where Schauman used to live. Detectives took the car under surveillance but gave up when it was reported the vehicle had been located. The car was impounded; officers have not found a murder weapon so they consider Schauman armed and dangerous.

Meanwhile, at the shooting scene a memorial has gone up for McBride.

With road construction happening all over Spokane, drivers will be excited to hear that work on the Monroe Street Bridge will be completed a few days early. The bridge will be open in time for Friday's morning commute.

The bridge has been closed since June 3rd to work on stormwater management from city streets within the Kendall Yards development. The project will redirect stormwater that currently drains untreated into the Spokane River.

Now, that water will be directed into a retention tank and pumped into a treatment area located in Olmsted Green, a new park being built in Kendall Yards. The stormwater will be filtered and percolated back into the ground. The project is part of the new Integrated Clean Water Plan the city is developing.