Jurors convicted a North Idaho man of conspiracy to commit disturbing the peace, a misdemeanor, in the first hate-crime case to go to trial in Coeur d’Alene in recent years. The jury hung on two counts against the man’s brothers. Ira G. Tankovich, 48, (left)…
A Spokane County Sheriff’s deputy faces a one-year driver’s license suspension after refusing to take sobriety tests during an off-duty drunken driving arrest early Friday.Darin Schaum, a 12-year veteran, appeared to be racing or confronting another motorist while driving his personal Dodge pickup about 1:30…
A woman arrested in a gunpoint OxyContin robbery at Spokane pharmacy last fall pleaded guilty today. Ariel A. Arrieta, 21, (right) faces about 20 to 30 months in prison when she's sentenced in August for conspiracy to commit first-degree robbery, said her lawyer, Chris Phelps.…
A juror caused a mistrial in a recent Stevens County drug case after he used a cell phone to look up legal information.Betty Torres will be retried after a judge granted her lawyer's mistrial motion last week because a juror accessed the Internet from his…
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