A man who tortured and killed two boys in California and Idaho has been returned to death row in federal prison. Federal prison officials say 48-year-old Joseph Edward Duncan III -- who spent more than two years in a Riverside County jail -- arrived at…
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — The Yakima City Council has voted to ban sex offenders from using city swimming pools, a move allowed under a little-used 2006 state law. City officials believe the ban approved Tuesday is a first under a Washington trespass law that allows…
A masked gunman robbed a store north of Hayden Tuesday night and specifically requested a pack of Marlboro Red cigarettes. The man entered the Alpine Country Store, 17568 North Highway 95, about 11 p.m. and forced the clerk to empty the cash register while pointing…
A Spokane police dog helped his handler arrest three burglary suspects late Monday. Arlyanne M. Ellicott, 21, fought with K-9 Maximus before Officer Paul Gorman arrested her on suspicion of burglary in the 5000 block of North Lacey Street, police said today. Gorman and Officer…
A man who shot two men in downtown Coeur d’Alene in what a grand jury ruled was self defense jail returned to on a heroin charge after a SWAT team raid in Post Falls. Adam M. Johnson, 27, was in a room with a syringe…
A Moses Lake couple who runs an financial consulting and insurance brokerage firm have been charged with failing to pay taxes. J. Scott Vrieling and his wife, Patrica Dionn Vrieling, are each charged with four misdemeanors for allegedly failing to pay taxes from 2004 through…
Appellate judges on Tuesday upheld the vehicular homicide convictions against Frederick Russell, who was convicted in 2007 of killing three Washington State University students and seriously injuring three others in a drunken crash a decade ago on the highway that connects Moscow and Pullman. However,…
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