Six children were taken into protective custody in Bonner County today as detectives arrested three people for manufacturing methamphetamine. Priest River residents Leuis Mark Blood, 44; Brandon N. Crump, 33; and Shauna L. Crump, 32, also face charges of injury to a child, according to…
An unemployed Spokane father was arrested on suspicion of selling drugs after police found cocaine in his car during a traffic stop. Thomas J. Boring's 7-year-old son was with him in his gray Ford pickup when a Spokane County sheriff's deputy stopped the vehicle near…
The recently disbarred lawyer who defended North Idaho attorney Edgar Steele at his murder-for-hire trial says he acted ineffectively because he was distracted by his own legal problems. Robert McAllister said his thinking process during Steele's trial in Boise, which ended with his conviction on…
An elderly Spokane Valley woman lost nearly $1,500 this year to a con man who claimed she'd won a new car. The Spokane Valley Police Department is reminding people to talk with their elderly parents about phone, mail and email scams after the 84-year-old woman's…
A couple arrested for attempted murder in Airway Heights last week will instead be charged with assault. Elijah J. Boxley, 33, appeared in Spokane County Superior Court Wednesday on a first-degree assault charge while his girlfriend, Molly E. Foote, 38, alias McBride, appeared on a…
A self-described militia leader will spend a year and a day in prison for making grenades that he said were to fight off a communist invasion. Kenneth B. Kimbley Jr., 60, was given an exceptionally low sentence this week in U.S. District Court in Coeur…
WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) — Wenatchee police have contacted a gang that appeared to be the target of a fire that killed two children and warned it not to retaliate. Sgt. John Kruse says the gang was told retaliation would be very detrimental to solving the…
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