Eight years ago, longtime Spokane cab driver Jack Gordon felt the passenger in the back seat press a gun barrel to his right temple. Gordon agreed to hand over the money in his pocket but extended his hand only a few inches before the gun…
A chronic drunken driving suspect was arrested on new drug charges early today. A warrant already had been issued for James L. Crabtree after he was caught driving on July 3, which violates his release conditions on drug and DUI charges from his last arrest…
A drug robbery suspect who failed to report for electronic home monitoring pending trial now has a warrant out for his arrest. Crime Stoppers is offering a reward for tips that lead to the arrest of Bradford C. Thayer, 20, (right) who is charged with…
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) — A mistrial has been declared in a Kitsap County drug case after a juror was overheard expressing a desire to punch prominent Seattle defense attorney John Henry Browne in the nose. The Kitsap Sun reports that Browne, whose high-profile clients…
UPDATE: The jail was downgraded to emergency status as of 3 p.m. with the population dropping below 620. That means staff will book all charges in the general bail order and will book and release all other gross misdemeanors and misdemeanors. It was a busy…
A Spokane man who triggered a weeks-long federal manhunt and a wild police chase in Montana is going back to federal prison. Anthony E. Burke, 23, was sentenced to a year in prison last week for escaping from a halfway house last spring. After he…
A Coeur d’Alene police officer saved a family of four from a structure fire early Friday. The police department received a report of a structure fire about 4:33 a.m., according to a news release. Officer Gus Wessel was the first to arrive at the fire…
A self-proclaimed skinhead was knocked unconscious by a black man after threatening to stab him last weekend in Bayview, Idaho, officials said Friday. Daren Christopher Abbey, 28, was booked into jail on malicious harassment charge after being treated at a hospital for facial fractures, according…
Three Bhutanese refugees found dead in the Spokane River drowned in their submerged vehicle, officials said today. Krishna Dhital, 21; Dilli Ram Bhattarai, 28; both of Tukwila, and Bhattarai’s cousin, 17-year-old Krishna Dhakal, of Spokane (above, left to right), were missing for nearly a month…
An Army veteran will spend just over three years in prison for permanently injuring to two Veterans Affairs nurses during a 2009 attack. James P. Scott, 43, apologized to the two nurses at his sentencing in U.S. District Court Thursday, saying he could not remember…
A federal building that houses the Seattle Military Processing Center is seen June 23 in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) SEATTLE (AP) — The two men charged with planning to attack a Seattle military recruiting station have pleaded not guilty. An indictment released by the U.S.…
The flattened and preserved reptile is at the center of possible legal action against three Michigan men charged with its theft and subsequent display on a Ford pickup at a nearby mud-bogging party HOWELL, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say three intoxicated men stole a 14-foot…
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan jail inmate says he's being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment because he can't have pornography. In a handwritten lawsuit, 21-year-old Kyle Richards claims his civil rights are being violated at the Macomb County Jail. Richards says denying…
A north Spokane bicyclist struck by a hit-and-run driver on North Division Street last month died from injuries suffered in the accident, an autopsy showed. Dennis Widener, 66, died after a blood clot traveled to his lungs from deep within his body, the Spokane County…
By MICHAEL GRACZYK,Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas executed a Mexican citizen Thursday for the rape-slaying of a teenager after he and the White House pleaded in vain for a Supreme Court stay, saying he was denied help from his home country that could…
Krishna Dhakal and his family braved death to flee from Bhutan to Nepal to escape harsh cultural persecution and human rights abuses. He spent most of his life in refugee camps in Nepal, and resettled in Spokane two years ago seeking a better life. Tragically,…
CHEHALIS, Wash. (AP) — The Lewis County coroner has scheduled an inquest in October in Chehalis to answer questions about the 1998 shooting death of former Washington State Trooper Ronda Reynolds, a Cheney High School graduate, at her home in Toledo. Coroner Warren McLeod says…
A beer theft at a north Spokane grocery store led to a felony robbery arrest for a 19-year-old man accused of fighting with a store clerk. Cole Matthew Kendall and a friend were trying to steal beer from Safeway at 902 W. Francis Ave. when…
A South Hill sandwich shop was robbed at gunpoint Wednesday night. A man walked into Subway, 3014 E. 29th Ave., at 8:40 p.m. and demanded money from the store clerk. He displayed what appeared to be a handgun and left with an undisclosed amount of…
A man prohibited from possessing firearms was arrested with a gun in a Spokane cemetery last weekend after confessing his love to a baby and asking if he could be her "Uncle Bob," police say. The child's mother was at the Fairmount Cemetery, 5200 W.…
A north Spokane man who was injured in June by a hit-and-run driver died of a heart attack Wednesday Dennis Widener was struck while out exercising on his bicycle at Division Street and Garland Avenue about 5:45 a.m. on June 23. He was hospitalized at…
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A Snohomish County judge ruled Wednesday that documents containing Spokane County sex offender Byron Scherf's alleged confession to the killing of a Monroe corrections officer are public records and should not be sealed. Washington law favors public access, Judge Thomas Wynne…
A Spokane man released from prison in March is accused of kidnapping his girlfriend and threatening to kill her. Duane L. Comeslast, 32, is charged with felony kidnapping, harassment and car theft after his girlfriend told police he forced her into her Jeep Cherokee at…
The investigators who rescued a 105-year-old woman in late May from a squalid Kettle Falls, Wash., home are now looking into whether the woman’s care provider was also improperly using her money. Stevens County sheriff’s Detective James Caruso said he and other deputies on Tuesday…
The second trial of a Spokane stockbroker accused of killing a woman in a crash two years ago has been postponed until Nov. 14. Jury selection was set to begin Tuesday in the vehicular homicide trial of Jon Strine, but his lawyer, Carl Oreskovich, has…
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