Thomas Clouse

Longtime Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Harrington will serve as the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington after Mike Ormsby was asked last Friday to resign by President Donald Trump’s administration.

New U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked 46 U.S. attorneys throughout the country to tender their resignations, including U.S. Attorney Mike Ormsby of the Eastern District of Washington.

The Trump Administration will keep secret scores of records pertaining to the government’s relationship between the CIA and two former Spokane psychologists who were the architects of controversial torture techniques used against terrorism suspects.

In just two years, foreign athletes, like 6’9” senior Stephane Manzi from Rwanda, have helped transform Genesis Preparatory Academy in Post Falls into a basketball powerhouse that has won a state title and raised some questions as well.

Longtime public defender John Adams has announced that he will retire later this week.

Across from my cabin in Stevens County this past weekend, I spotted a bedded deer. The find sparked a two-day drama that included my greatest hopes, starkest fears and the realities of nature during a harsh winter.

Federal regulators accuse a pair of Spokane business leaders of secretly transferring $3 million from a trust fund set up to lower health insurance costs for 800 local businesses to enrich their own company.

Former Washington State University football player Robert Barber, whose summertime melee and subsequent expulsion led to calls for the university to review its student conduct policy, now faces a felony assault charge.

The Spokane physicians who filed a $191 million bankruptcy painted a chaotic self portrait Thursday of a couple mostly clueless about their own personal finances, let alone the complex workings of their now-failed medical companies that served thousands of patients.

Federal prosecutors in Idaho have added two new felony charges against a Coeur d’Alene physician charged with funneling money into the drug distribution ring that was operated by his wife, a Las Vegas stripper.

The U.S. Department of Justice agreed Wednesday to pay $225,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a female former prosecutor in what her attorney said was one of the largest settlements ever by that agency to settle a gender discrimination claim.

News of the $191 million bankruptcy filed by a pair of Spokane physicians lit up social media Tuesday as scores of former patients and clients traded stories of their business dealings with Dr. Debra Ravasia’s medical practices.

A federal judge gave a hard deadline Monday for U.S. government attorneys to decide whether they will keep some records secret about the relationship between the CIA and two psychologists from Spokane hired to develop interrogation techniques for the war on terror.

Two Spokane physicians, a husband and wife, have filed a $191 million personal bankruptcy that lists about 8,000 patients, clients and dozens of insurance companies that may be owed money.

A federal judge appears to be growing weary of continued delays in the complex legal battle by three men who claim they were victims of torture that was designed, and sometimes carried out, by two former psychologists from Spokane.

The suspected shooter, who is among five men charged with what the Grant County Sheriff has called an execution-style killing, appeared in court on Monday and pleaded not guilty.

An undocumented immigrant charged in the execution-style killing of a Grant County woman – found shot to death last December with a cardboard sign attached to her back with a knife – will have a trial date set next week.

By the end of this week, Washington’s multimillion-dollar recreational marijuana industry may be targeted for federal crackdown.

A jury on Wednesday handed convicted rapist Terrance Laramie another chance at freedom, ruling that he no longer meets the definition of a sexually violent predator and thus should not be confined.

A convicted rapist who broke the rules of his prison release by having a consensual sexual relationship with a woman he’d met at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings could spend the rest of his life in custody. Or he could go free. It’s up to a Spokane jury. Prosecutors say Terrance Laramie, 54, is dangerous, suffering from an anti-social personality disorder that makes him likely to attack again. He has four rape-related convictions, including those from decades ago when he raped a 15-year-old girl while holding a fork to her neck; and another case when he raped a 17-year-old girl he found walking home from school.