Thomas Clouse

The triple-murder trial of Donna R. Perry entered the realm of surreal Friday as a mentally-ill jailhouse snitch claimed that Perry took credit for as many as 30 killings and tried in prison to convert the snitch into an her apprentice assassin.

Donna R. Perry, dressed in jail garb, sat at the end of an interview table with a cold soda. In the 2012 video, Perry ran her fingers through her long, graying hair and waited for what would become a 2

Coeur d’Alene physician Stanley Toelle was sentenced Tuesday to one month in federal prison after previously pleading guilty to misleading tax collectors about his tax returns for 2012 and 2013.

Attorneys have spent a week questioning retired police detectives, reviewing lost evidence and recounting raids that netted guns not connected to the killings of three women in 1990. But on Tuesday, prosecutors finally brought the fingerprint and DNA evidence that is the crux of the serial killer case against a transgender woman.

Court records seeking to charge a Spokane attorney, who resigned Sunday as the president of the Washington State Bar Association, indicate that two separate law firms believe that Robin Haynes improperly used company funds for everything from travel to a gym membership and even political donations.

Spokane attorney Robin Haynes resigned Sunday as the president of the Washington State Bar Association a day before a search warrant was filed seeking to charge her with three counts of second-degree theft.

An attorney representing the family of a man killed in 2013 by sheriff’s deputies outside a South Hill gym will ask a jury this week to hold the two officers civilly responsible for what she argues was excessive force resulting in the man’s death.

A federal judge this week dismissed a medical malpractice suit filed by the children of a Navy veteran who died in 2014 from bleeding on the brain after he was discharged from Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center.

A defense attorney opened the triple-murder trial Friday of his transgender client by ripping the case brought by Spokane County prosecutors, saying their evidence only shows that 65-year-old Donna R. Perry had frequent contacts with prostitutes some 27 years ago.

A federal judge in Spokane has been asked to turn over evidence needed to determine a legal dispute in Poland regarding whether laws were broken when that country allowed the CIA to operate a black site where enemy combatants were tortured.

The daughter of a Spokane Valley woman believes the cause of her mother’s 2016 death is a clear as the plastic used to wrap her battered body before it was dumped on the side of a road near Cataldo, Idaho. But the investigation into 46-year-old Cindy Lou Zeppenfeld Bergan’s death stalled in April 2016 after Spokane County Medical Examiner Dr. John Howard determined that Bergan died from a probable heart attack and listed the manner of death as “natural.”

Spokane Police detectives are investigating a contractor who provides security for the Department of Homeland Security, who is suspected of flashing his badge, then knocking a woman unconscious and raping her in her North Spokane apartment last week.

Superior Court Judge Michael Price on Tuesday agreed with an attorney representing Fairways Golf Course and issued an order demanding the city of Spokane restore water service “forthwith” to the course amid an ongoing dispute over the cost of water rates and unpaid bills from last season.

Donna R. Perry strode into the courtroom Monday with long graying hair and ill-fitting clothes. The 65-year-old woman, who was Douglas R. Perry before a 2000 gender reassignment surgery, had none of the normal cadre of jailers who usually secure the appearance of a suspected serial killer.

The city of Spokane shut off the water Tuesday to the Fairways Golf Course in the middle of a years-long dispute regarding unpaid bills and a brewing legal fight over how the city charges for water to customers outside the city limits.

Some 79 years after he fell off a fishing boat and sank into obscurity, World War I veteran Henry Hartman finally had funeral services Thursday with full military honors in front of five generations of his family, most of whom he never got to meet.

Five Indian nationals trudged through knee-deep snow last February and illegally crossed the Canadian border north of Oroville to enter the United States because they feared proposed travel bans proposed by President Donald Trump would keep them from pursuing their dreams, attorneys said.

A former Veterans Administration police detective said he was ordered off his investigation last year after he began probing links between the suspicious deaths of Brenda Thurman and Dr. John Marshall, who died six days apart in January 2016.

While a tunnel collapse over nuclear material at Hanford Nuclear Reservation made international news, it did little to shake a town full of residents who played a part in the intriguing, and sometimes troubling, living history of “Nuketown, USA.”

A federal judge in Spokane on Friday plowed through legal arguments over secret CIA records to clear a path forward for the civil trial against two psychologists who helped develop the government’s interrogation techniques used against the detainees in the war on terror.

Monsters are imaginary creatures that lurk in the dark, just out of sight. But Dan W. Streetman, according to an Assistant U.S. Attorney, became a real life “bogeyman.”

A former fugitive from Florida, who lived nearly 17 years under an assumed name in a hamlet north of Sandpoint, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felon in possession of firearms.