A federal judge ruled this morning that the city of Spokane will not be on the hook if a civil suit proceeds against former Spokane Police Officer James “Jay” Olsen, who shot Shonto Pete in the head during a drunken chase in February 2007. Federal…
Although a jury last month rejected Kenneth Putnam’s sex abuse allegations against Morning Star Boys’ Ranch, the Catholic Diocese of Spokane had already paid Putnam a settlement worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.The award to Putman is among 10 such settlements totaling more than $3…
Spokane County officials say they don’t want to acquire the Pine Lodge Corrections Center at Medical Lake, and it should remain a state prison for women. State officials are considering closing the prison to save money, and have asked whether local governments want it. County…
OLYMPIA — Convicted cop-killer Lonnie Link does not warrant a lighter sentence for shooting Spokane Police Officer Brian Orchard in 1983, even though he helped federal prosecutors bring down more than two dozen members of a criminal motorcycle gang after he went to prison, a…
A metal bar sharpened into a dagger was found in an inmate's cell at Geiger Corrections Center this week.Alan M. Lloyd, 32, is accused of making the weapon out of a metal bar inside his brace, according to court documents. Guards found the item during…
Police have identified a person of interest in the New Year's Day rape of a teen girl near the Northtown Mall. Detectives obtained a DNA swab from the 21-year-old Spokane man Monday, according to a search warrant filed in Spokane County District Court. The man…
(AP) A Moscow man whose lawyer blamed caffeine-induced psychosis for alleged hit-and-run crashes at Washington State University in December has been released from a hospital and will face trial. Dan Noble, 31, (left) has been declared fit to stand trial by doctors at Eastern State…
Two men described as "hiding behind the medical marijuana law" were arrested today during a raid at a home in north Spokane. Robert P. Thompson, 24, and Eric G. Franklin, 31, had four forged medical marijuana provider forms posted near 105 marijuana plants when detectives…
David Squires had been riding his bike for years. He didn’t drive, and his 18-speed bicycle was the longtime electrician’s way of getting around Spokane. Squires, 56, (pictured with his wife, Christy, in the beginning of their 19-year relationship) was riding that bike when he…
When Ryan William Taylor showed up at a Hayden apartment Tuesday afternoon, he was there to confront the husband of his ex-wife – a man he believed had been abusing her. But Taylor, 28, (pictured above with his daughters) never left the property alive. The…
When federal agents arrived at the Truth Ministries homeless shelter last week, Director Marty McKinney was surprised to learn of a guest wanted on a $3 million rape warrant out of California. Imagine how he felt the next day when the suspect, a convicted felon…
OLYMPIA — Gov. Chris Gregoire on Wednesday signed into law a measure that makes Washington the second state in the nation to have a law granting some legal immunity to people who call to report a drug overdose.The measure, passed by the Legislature last month,…
A cross-state manhunt is underway for the suspect in a fatal shooting in Hayden today. The suspect, Chad Lee Moore, 35, (left) was last seen northbound on Government Way in a blue Toyota pickup with a white stripe, Idaho license plate K433586. He is believed…
A teenager will spend about five years in prison for a violent home invasion robbery last fall that targeted the mother of his alleged accomplice’s child. Cocaine addiction drove Darius D. Toussiant, 18, to join a group of friends in a Nov. 16 attack that…
A Spokane man accused of assaulting his infant daughter pleaded not guilty to the charge Tuesday. Daniel S. O'Brien, 23, was arrested Feb. 10 after he and his girlfriend, Jordan Calvert, brought their 2-month-old daughter, Tristan, to a Spokane hospital with bruises and fractured bones,…
A man who donned a black wig to rob two Spokane pharmacies of OxyContin last year donned a jail jumpsuit today after he was sentenced to about a year in prison. Dustin J. Rockstrom, 26, was taken into custody after pleading guilty to two counts…
BALTIMORE (AP) — Prosecutors in former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon’s perjury case are putting the spoils of their efforts on eBay.An Xbox 360 video game console seized during a raid on Dixon’s home is for sale. As of Tuesday afternoon, the highest bid was $660.…
A church pastor helped detectives identify a suspect in a robbery Monday night at a North Idaho pharmacy. Egan B. Logan IV, 39, of Twin Lakes, was arrested today on charges of robbery and possession of a controlled substance. Detectives say demanded anxiety medicine from…
A would-be customer without a prescription demanded anxiety medicine from a North Idaho pharmacy Monday night, then left money on the counter before fleeing with the drug.The man asked a pharmacist at Walgreens, 260 W. Honeysuckle Ave. in Hayden, for Adderall about 8:45 p.m., then…
Carole DeLeon, the foster mother blamed for starving Tyler DeLeon to death, gets out of prison Wednesday after serving about half of the sentence she received in a 2007 plea agreement. DeLeon, 55, has lost all parental rights of the other adopted and foster children…
Witnesses to Spokane’s only homicide this year share a common theme, police say: All were there, but all say they know nothing about the early morning shooting that left a man dead in an alley. Six weeks after John S. “Q” Williams, 38, was killed…
A main witness against a Spokane Valley man accused of running a check fraud ring agreed to cooperate with police after ending a sexual relationship with the suspect and his wife, according to court documents. The woman told police she used methamphetamine with Ronald R.…
A gunman pushed his way into an elderly man's home Sunday evening, KHQ reported today. Nicholas Lawson, 21, was arrested after a 20-minute standoff with police at Fred Megerth's Spokane home that began about 7 p.m. Lawson claimed to have been chased and asked Megerth…
A Missoula man is accused of threatening to kill a Spokane judge with the state Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals.Brian G. Corntassel, 49, appeared in Superior Court Monday on one felony charge of intimidating a judge for threats allegedly made to Judge John D. Fairley.…
A 22-year-old Spokane man will serve more than six years in prison for raping a woman more than a year ago.Brandon S. Coristine was sentenced to 78 months in prison last week after a jury of five women and seven men convicted him Jan. 19…
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