Here's one to cross off your list of upcoming spectacles: the Timothy "Stoney Boy" Lucious attempted-murder trial. Lucious, who faces life in prison under the three-strikes law, recently backed out on a plan to act as his own attorney after representing himself for about two…
BLUFF CITY, Tenn. (AP) — After a Tennessee police department let its website expire, the site was snatched up by a new owner — a man who uses it to gripe about traffic cameras that issue speeding tickets.Computer network designer Brian McCrary says he discovered…
The Geiger Corrections Center will soon become an interim version of the treatment-focused “community corrections center” that is to be part of a jail-construction bond measure next April. Although Geiger will be available for overflow from the Spokane County Jail, its new mission will be…
A woman who sold Memorial Day flowers stolen from Catholic cemeteries told Spokane police she didn't know the items were stolen. The woman, who has not been arrested, said she got the flower pots from a relative, police said today. But police determined the flowers…
A murder defendant facing life in prison asked a judge today to let him undergo a test in which he gets drunk and experts analyze how violent he becomes. Superior Court Judge Tari Eitzen declined Justin W. Crenshaw's request and ordered him to take the…
Opening statements are set for this afternoon in the trial of a man accused of raping a woman in a Fairchild Air Force Base interrogation room. Michael W. Fassbender, 32, is charged with three counts of aggravated first-degree rape and one count of second-degree assault…
Another day, another level 3 sex offender registers as a transient in Spokane County. For the fourth time since May 27, the Spokane County Sheriff's Office has announced that a sex offender considered likely to reoffend will be living a transient lifestyle. The latest is…
A stabbing in Spokane Valley injured a man and led to a raid at a suspect's apartment last week, but police say they aren't pursuing the investigation because the victim isn't cooperating. "The truth of the matter is we have victims who want us to…
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, long the prime suspect in U.S. teen Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba, has confessed to killing a young woman in his Lima hotel room last week, a police spokesman said. Police Col. Abel Gamarra, head…
With a jury pool waiting in another room, a federal judge Monday postponed the criminal trial against Karl F. Thompson Jr. after prosecutors announced their intention to appeal his ruling that barred evidence showing Otto Zehm had not committed a crime before Thompson confronted him.…
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