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• Students, volunteers fill fraction of need for free legal aid

  November 14, 2010 in City on Page A1 The sagging local economy has flooded local courts with people in financial trouble who can’t pay for what could help them most: an attorney to guide them. Only a few … 8

• Mask-wearing inmate sparks his attorney’s swine flu fears

  October 6, 2009 in City on Page A1 Mitchell A. Hardin’s attorney wanted nothing to do with him. Set to enter a plea on a residential burglary charge in Spokane County Superior Court last week, the 21-year-old inmate … 2

• Judge affirms Wash. lethal injection method

  July 10, 2009 in City OLYMPIA — A judge has affirmed Washington state’s procedures for executing prisoners by lethal injection, turning aside complaints that condemned inmates could be partially conscious when fatal drugs flow into … 1

• Man gets 7 years in killing

    July 2, 2009 in City on Page A7 Benjamin R. Howard, 24, pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree manslaughter in connection with the June 3, 2008, stabbing death of Kenneth P. Jordan. Howard received a sentence of about seven …

• Appeals court rejects Seattle street artist rules

  June 25, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A2 Just in time for the summer tourist throngs, mimes, musicians and balloon-animal shapers have been newly empowered to bring their entertainments and tip jars to public parks. In a ruling …

• Lawsuit brought against peeper

  June 4, 2009 in City on Page A7 A couple who owns a downtown condominium has sued the former federal security guard who pleaded guilty last year to using security cameras in the U.S. Courthouse complex to watch …

• Lawsuit dismissed against Extendicare

  May 1, 2009 in City on Page A5 A federal lawsuit alleging consumer fraud against a national company operating homes for the elderly in Washington has been dismissed. Extendicare Homes Inc. operates 16 nursing homes in the state, …

• In brief: Sales tax extension to go on August ballot

  April 8, 2009 in City on Page A5 Spokane County voters will be asked to extend a one-tenth of 1 percent sales tax for criminal justice programs in the August primary rather than in May. County commissioners, who …

• American Lung Association settles with Northwest branch

  March 27, 2009 in City on Page A14 SEATTLE – The American Lung Association has settled an eight-month legal dispute with its Seattle-based Northwest chapter and is getting back the $3.2 million regional headquarters the chapter had given …

• Rapist gets 50-year sentence

  March 26, 2009 in City on Page A8 A federal judge in Spokane imposed a 50-year prison sentence Wednesday on a former Benton County reserve sheriff’s deputy who raped his daughter and posted videos of the abuse online …

• Court upholds state’s waste authority

  March 11, 2009 in City on Page A6 Washington state has authority to regulate mixed hazardous and transuranic wastes buried at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. The decision upholds an …

• New trial ordered in reservation killing

  February 27, 2009 in City on Page A6 U.S. District Court Judge Edward Shea, reversing a decision he made last May, ordered a new trial Thursday for Norman “Griz” Ford, convicted in a 2006 home-invasion slaying on the …

• Suspect’s boyfriend calls case unjust

  February 26, 2009 in City on Page A5 A murder defendant’s boyfriend has amplified his criticism of the Spokane Police Department’s case over the past month, saying it has harassed him and his family in Orange County and … 1

• Man who allegedly targeted elderly arraigned

  February 20, 2009 in City, Region Even after detectives say she was ripped off of more than $7,000, a Yakima woman told them she was still satisfied with the vacuum cleaner she bought from a convicted … 5

• Court: Woman not required to repay benefits

    February 4, 2009 in Business Stephanie Monroe learned this week she doesn’t have to repay Washington state about $7,000 in unemployment benefits.

• County hopes to reduce number of judges

  January 27, 2009 in City on Page A7 For Spokane County District Court, eight apparently is enough. The city of Spokane defected from District Court at the beginning of the year, taking some of the caseload with it, …

• Man says pair robbed woman to set her straight

  January 16, 2009 in City on Page A5 They thought of themselves as antidrug avengers. Prosecutors think they’re crooks. A Spokane Superior Court jury this week is hearing the unusual tale of Brad M. Self and Sean E. … 1

• Suit against Tidyman’s executives tossed

  January 14, 2009 in City on Page A8 A federal judge dealt former Tidyman’s grocery workers a stinging defeat, dismissing their lawsuit seeking recovery of lost retirement savings. The Spokane-based grocery was an employee-owned business with about 1,300 …

• Tidyman’s workers recoup some savings

  January 8, 2009 in City on Page A8 Former Tidyman’s grocery workers have recouped a fraction of their retirement savings by settling part of their lawsuit against executives. The $575,000 settlement – to be paid by insurers – …

• Court reverses ruling on planning area

  January 7, 2009 in City on Page A7 The Washington Court of Appeals on Tuesday reversed an earlier decision in a legal fight between the city of Spokane and Spokane County over whether state law requires the two …

• Judge rules against Lung Association chapter

  January 6, 2009 in City on Page A6 SEATTLE – A judge has essentially put the Northwest chapter of the American Lung Association out of business after the chapter got into hot water for giving its Seattle headquarters …

• Idaho court rules for parental rights

  December 29, 2008 in Idaho An Idaho court went too far when it imposed a no-contact order on an offender that banned him from contacting any minor, including his own two young children, the Idaho …

• Judge sides with same-sex parents

  December 28, 2008 in Nation/World on Page A7 A same-sex couple in California has won a federal court ruling that their adopted son’s Louisiana birth certificate must bear the names of both adoptive fathers. The facts are so …

• Women convicted on monkey smuggling-related charges

  December 8, 2008 in City A 29-year-old Spokane woman and her mother were convicted today by a U.S. District Court jury of federal charges related to smuggling a monkey into the United States.