Three people were arrested after a police chase, which included a near head-on crash, led officers to the Airway Heights Wal-Mart.The incident began about 11:45 a.m. Thursday when a resident in the 500 block of North Martin in Medical Lake said his 2002 Ford Ranger…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Forty years after Jim Morrison was convicted of exposing himself at a wild Miami concert, this is the end: Florida's Clemency Board, egged on by departing Gov. Charlie Crist, pardoned The Doors' long-dead singer Thursday.Some people who were at the Miami…
A Spokane woman wanted on a robbery charge was named a dangerous fugitive by Crime Stoppers a week after her public defender filed paperwork objecting to her arrest warrant. Monica R. "Boo" Sanders, 33, pleaded not guilty to first-degree robbery Thursday and had her warrant…
A Deer Park man was arrested early today after a deputy who stopped to help him with his broken down truck found $1,200 and nearly two ounces of marijuana in the vehicle. Trevor L. Weger, 30, was with his Toyota pickup at Highway 395 and…
Two Spokane police officers chased down and arrested a wanted man who was armed with a sawed-off shotgun this week.Officers Jeff McCollough and Terry Preuninger learned James D. Bacon, 23, (pictured) wanted for a felony drug violation and a Department of Corrections violation, was at…
UPDATE: Downs was denied parole and must wait 10 years for her next hearing. The Oregonian reports she still maintained her innocence at the videoconference hearing today in Salem.SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Convicted Oregon child killer Diane Downs says she won't participate in a parole…
Two Spokane officers who fatally shot at a 34-year-old man outside a Hillyard bar on Saturday have been identified as Cpl. Zac Storment and Officer Chris Douville. Storment and Douville (lefto to right) shot at Jeremy Groom as he was pointing a gun at another…
A Deer Park man was acquitted Thursday of allegations that he’d kidnapped his wife and her new lover and tried to throw them off a bridge. A jury of seven men and five women found David E. Epley (pictured) not guilty of two counts of…
A jury today convicted a Spokane woman of three counts of vehicular assault for a crash that injured three police detectives last summer. Tonia S. Vansant, 38, faces 33 to 43 months in prison when she’s sentenced Jan. 6, said Deputy Prosecutor Mary Ann Brady.…
Her stepdaughter’s children were her top priority, and Tina Crone devoted herself to their care. She took them in, eventually won custody and sought counseling to help the two accept the traumatic loss of their mother, Becky Brosnan, who was beaten to death by her…
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