A Spokane County man faces about a year in prison after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography found during a raid at his trailer triggered by a New Hampshire detective last fall. Michael C. “Craig” McGuire, 56, sent child pornography to a Keene, N.H., detective…
Two Spokane residents charged in the ice-pick slaying of a pregnant woman near Tonasket last year face life in prison if convicted by an Okanogan County jury this month. Tansy Fae-Arwen Mathis, 30 (right), and David Eugene Richards, 34 (left), are accused of killing 25-year-old…
Someone or something raided a mama duck’s nest in downtown Spokane on Friday and made off with four of her six eggs. Several tulips that had sheltered the duck in a planter in front of the Lincoln Building were ripped from the flower bed and…
Sentencing for a former Coeur d'Alene insurance agent who bought a kilo of cocaine in an undercover federal drug investigation has been postponed. Jerald S. "Jerry" Carlson originally was to be sentenced Thursday, but a judge approved lawyer James Siebe's request to move the hearing…
A donation account has been created to help a father who’s reuniting with his sons after more than a decade. A reader who wishes to remain an anonymous set up the account for Bill Connington. Connington’s ex-wife, Jill D. Haugen, is accused of taking the…
Closing arguments are expected today in the trial of three brothers accused of harassing a Coeur d'Alene men man because of his ethnicity. The prosecution and defense rested Thursday in the trial of Ira G. Tankovich, 48, Frank J. Tankovich, 46, and William M. Tankovich,…
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