No charges will be filed against a Spokane man arrested on suspicion of driving the getaway truck in an OxyContin robbery at a North Side Walgreens last week.Although David L. Ratener, 55, was driving the truck, he passed two lie detector tests that showed he…
Edgar J. Steele, the lawyer who represented the Aryan Nations, is due in U.S. District Court in Coeur d'Alene at 3:30 p.m. today on a felony charge of using interstate commerce to commission murder for hire. Steele was arrested Friday at his Sagle home, accused…
A Spokane couple who described themselves to police as successful gamblers are accused of stealing nearly $540,000 from a Spokane rental agency. George L. and Kathy A. Bagwell pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree theft today. The couple had worked for real estate…
DRAPER, Utah (AP) — A state parole board today unanimously denied clemency to a condemned Utah man scheduled to be executed by firing squad. Curt Garner, chairman of the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole, said the board determined that the jury's verdict imposing a…
A North Idaho attorney who defended the Aryan Nations and its founder, Richard Butler, is scheduled to appear in federal court today on charges he arranged to have his wife and mother-in-law killed. Edgar J. Steele, 64, (left, in 2001) was arrested Friday at his…
A Spokane man busted in a federal marijuana sting and looking at a prison sentence had one request: He wanted to go to Disneyland. He got his wish. Scott Nicholas Cassell, 29, left over the weekend for Southern California, two weeks before a judge will…
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Federal authorities say 23 people have been arrested in Washington as part of a national crackdown on Mexican drug trafficking organizations operating in the U.S. The dragnet included at least one arrest in Eastern Washington near Yakima. Agents arrested the 23…
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