A Nespelem man accused of spitting in a Spokane police officer's face while drunk was back in court today after a judge deemed him too intoxicated to proceed with a hearing last week. Jack Vincent, a.k.a. Turner, who turned 40 on Monday, was "incredibly inebriated"…
Scott Shupe and other medical marijuana dispensary supporters are protesting outside the Spokane County Courthouse right now. They'll be there until at least 4 p.m., when Judge Tari Eitzen is to sentence Shupe, 56, on three felony drug charges. A jury convicted him last month…
OLYMPIA – Rules for growing, processing and selling medical marijuana passed the Washington state House of Representatives after heated debate Monday on whether the proposed law has enough safeguards to prevent sales to children. Read the rest of Jim Camden's story here. The bill passed…
Police are looking for a driver who lost as much as 100 gallons of diesel fuel on a busy Spokane Valley road this morning. Fuel began spilling from a vehicle in the southbound lanes of 2400 North Sullivan Road just before 9:25 a.m. The trail…
A teenager involved in a shooting at Hoopfest last summer will stand trial this week for an unrelated stabbing outside Club Uno in 2009. Jury selection began Monday in the trial of Adam Doe, 19, who is charged with first-degree assault for an October 2009…
A 47-year-old Cheney man is accused of burglary after his 25-year-old female neighbor said he’d repeatedly threatened to “chop her head off” before bursting into her apartment and trying to pull her shirt off. The extreme case of a bad neighbor occurred Sunday in a…
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — A judge has found a Yakima defense lawyer guilty of stealing phone services from the Yakima County Jail. Visiting Judge Brian Altman found Kimberly Grijalva guilty Monday of second-degree theft, saying he believed the lawyer knew her free phone privileges were…
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