A teenager who burned a homeless man in a dispute over beer money received a plea for leniency from an unusual source today. Peter H. Krueger, the man John C. Palmer badly burned in May, urged a Spokane County Superior Court judge to go easy…
The snores started a few minutes into the court hearing. She was there to support Peter Krueger, the man badly burned by John C. Palmer, but Krueger grew upset when the woman wouldn't wake up and left court without her. So she kept sleeping, eliciting…
WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — The Walla Walla Police Department can keep $401,000 officers found in a vacant house. Walla Walla Superior Court Judge Donald Schacht ruled Thursday that it be forfeited as drug money and a man who claimed it is not the rightful…
A Spokane County Jail deputy accused of attacking his wife last month was arrested again after police say he violated a court order. Jeffrey S. Leavey, 40, (right) was booked into jail just after noon today. He was arrested at his lawyer's office after his…
A 20-year-old former Post Falls church volunteer accused of raping teen girls is back in jail on new charges. Jordan C. Vernon was arrested Tuesday on three counts of felony rape of a minor. He's in Kootenai County Jail on $100,000 bail. Vernon faces five…
The classic architecture of the Spokane County Courthouse rises above the fog covering downtown Spokane Wednesday in a photo by Christopher Anderson. Today's happenings at the courthouse include a trial for a 22-year-old man accused of second-degree rape, jury selection for the Morning Star Boys'…
A mental patient threw his sandal at King County Superior Court judge Palmer Robinson, hitting the judge in the mouth but causing minimal injury.Three bailiffs subdued the attacker, who was identified by The Associated Press as 22-year-old Abdi Abukar of Seattle.Find the AP story by…
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