Spokane County officials say they don’t want to acquire the Pine Lodge Corrections Center at Medical Lake, and it should remain a state prison for women. State officials are considering closing the prison to save money, and have asked whether local governments want it. County…
OLYMPIA — Convicted cop-killer Lonnie Link does not warrant a lighter sentence for shooting Spokane Police Officer Brian Orchard in 1983, even though he helped federal prosecutors bring down more than two dozen members of a criminal motorcycle gang after he went to prison, a…
A metal bar sharpened into a dagger was found in an inmate's cell at Geiger Corrections Center this week.Alan M. Lloyd, 32, is accused of making the weapon out of a metal bar inside his brace, according to court documents. Guards found the item during…
Police have identified a person of interest in the New Year's Day rape of a teen girl near the Northtown Mall. Detectives obtained a DNA swab from the 21-year-old Spokane man Monday, according to a search warrant filed in Spokane County District Court. The man…
(AP) A Moscow man whose lawyer blamed caffeine-induced psychosis for alleged hit-and-run crashes at Washington State University in December has been released from a hospital and will face trial. Dan Noble, 31, (left) has been declared fit to stand trial by doctors at Eastern State…
Two men described as "hiding behind the medical marijuana law" were arrested today during a raid at a home in north Spokane. Robert P. Thompson, 24, and Eric G. Franklin, 31, had four forged medical marijuana provider forms posted near 105 marijuana plants when detectives…
David Squires had been riding his bike for years. He didn’t drive, and his 18-speed bicycle was the longtime electrician’s way of getting around Spokane. Squires, 56, (pictured with his wife, Christy, in the beginning of their 19-year relationship) was riding that bike when he…
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