A Spokane transient was arrested Wednesday for the murder of a man found beaten to death in the Dishman Hills Natural Area on Friday.Roland E. Benton, 34, was booked into Spokane County Jail about noon Wednesday – one week after he was released on a…
(AP) A Moscow man whose lawyer blamed caffeine-induced psychosis for alleged hit-and-run crashes at Washington State University in December has been acquitted by reason of insanity. Whitman County Superior Court Judge David Frazier ruled today that Daniel Noble, 31, was temporarily insane during the Dec.…
A Twisp, Wash., man will spend more than five years in prison for receiving child pornography over the Internet.Timothy J. Schmekel, 36, was sentenced to 68 months in federal prison today after a investigators found 519 images of child pornography on computers and storage devices…
The director of the Spokane Tribe's Youth Center is accused of raping a teen boy during an alcohol-fueled party in March.Rodney R. McCoy, 42, appeared in U.S. District Court Wednesday. He's being held without bail at the Spokane County Jail pending a bail hearing next…
SUPERIOR, Mont. — A 41-year-old Spokane man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for a June 2008 drunken driving crash in western Montana that killed his friend.David L. Gunning, 41, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide while under the influence. He was sentenced Tuesday…
A 21-year-old North Idaho man will spend at least two years in prison for ransacking a Boundary County vacation home last fall.Cory S. Eccles, of Eastport, threw a 5-pound rock through the window of a vacant cabin on Deep Creek Loop in November and took…
A wrongful death suit filed against a Spokane man who served 27 months in prison for the dragging death of a college student has been settled for $1 million, lawyers announced today. Jerid Sturman-Camyn, 20, died Nov. 24, 2007, after Wendell C. Sinn Jr., 46,…
Thieves recently stole a woman's purse from a car in the Indian Trial area then tried cashing stolen checks at two Spokane stores. Now Spokane police are looking for help identifying suspects caught on camera at both stores. The car prowling occurred April 27, the…
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