Halloween gunfire that killed a man trying to break up a fight in downtown Spokane will send the triggerman to prison for at least 24 years in a plea deal approved recently in Spokane County Superior Court. Jonathan H. Espinoza, 26, faces up to 32…
Two Kalispell, Mont., men have been arrested for a gunpoint robbery at a North Idaho grocery store last fall. The suspects, Philip Paul-Richard Luedcke, 22 (right), and Nathan Wayne Hunt, 19, are accused of robbing the Super 1 Foods in Hayden early Oct. 17. Detectives…
Okanogan County detectives are still looking for a gunman they say killed a father in front of his two children on Friday. Javier Ramirez-Cardenas, 30, of Okanogan, (left) is accused of fatally shooting Jose Antonio Padilla-Campos, 34, in Campos' home at Johnny Appleseed Orchards off…
The trial of young man accused of a grisly double murder has been postponed. Jury selection in the trial Justin W. Crenshaw, 22, is now set to begin on June 28 - more than two years after investigators say he stabbed Sarah A. Clark and…
A man who helped rob a pharmacy last fall, then threatened a witness, will spend about 11 months in jail. William E. Higgins, 22, pleaded guilty last week to conspiracy to commit first-degree armed burglary and received 11.25 months in jail and 12 months probation.…
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