Spokane attorney Rachelle E. Anderson will replace James Triplet as court commissioner for Spokane County Superior Court.Anderson, a 1994 graduate of Eastern Washington University and a 1997 graduate of Gonzaga University School of Law, will start in her new post on Dec. 10, according to…
A Spokane County Jail deputy recently fractured his hand during a scuffle with an inmate.Deputy John Madsen said property crime suspect Casey A. Beck, 21, hit him "for no apparent reason," according to court documents. Madsen then hit Beck in the head and fractured his…
A baby sitter accused of killing a 3-year-old Post Falls boy will be charged with involuntary manslaughter, a judge ruled this week. Kootenai County prosecutors had sought to charge Amanda L. Skogen, 26, with first-degree murder, punishable by up to life in prison or the…
A Spokane store clerk recently deterred a knife-wielding robber by simply refusing to give him anything. The suspect, Jonas J. Henry, is in jail on assault and attempted robbery charges after a clerk at Qwik Stop, 3021 E. Wellesley Ave., said Henry threatened him with…
A teenager already targeted by Crime Stoppers was arrested Wednesday night after a Spokane County sheriff's deputy followed his footprints through snowy north Spokane County woods. Anthony Deshon Fuerte, 18, was reported to have broken an acquaintance's car window and threatened to kill him while…
A jury recently cleared a Spokane man of an assault allegation stemming from an altercation with a Spokane police officer last fall. Tvar L. Jackson, 30, acknowledged he was "acting like a jerk," said his public defender, Kevin Griffin. "But police are trained to deal…
Breaking up may be hard to do, but a Deer Park man is facing substantial time in prison for the way investigators say he ended the relationship with his wife: by trying to throw her new lover off the Wandermere Bridge. Trial started Wednesday for…
The Spokane County deputy prosecutor who didn’t file a felony drunken driving charge against a man with a history of dangerous crashes said she’s not sure she has enough evidence to make the charge stick. James L. Crabtree, 49, appeared in court Tuesday and was…
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