A former Washington legislative candidate and convicted conman will spend five years in prison for scheme that bilked a Coeur d’Alene woman out of her high-end riverside home and drew the wrath of a federal judge. “I think the bottom line in all reality is…
A man who tried to blow up his wife with a homemade bomb will spend 25 years in federal prison, a judge ruled today in Coeur d'Alene. Levi Wayne Mendenhall, 31, transported the device from Omak, Wash., to his estranged wife's home in Kamiah, Idaho,…
A man was arrested with a gun in the Newman Lake area Saturday after threatening two people, officials said. Edwin J. Valenzuela, 59, told deputies two men attacked him and punched him in his recently installed pacemaker, so he displayed his gun. But the victims,…
A 49-year-old Spokane man is to spend six months in jail for mistreating his elderly mother. Scott Patrick Morris' mother, Patricia Morris, who has Alzheimer's disease, suffered from ulcers on her heels and ankles as well as bruising around her eyes, ears and arms when…
A Spokane man wanted by Crime Stoppers after skipping the last part of his robbery and assault trial case was arrested recently after shots were fired at a neighbor trying to stop a burglary. Larry A. Powell, 54, is now awaiting sentencing and arraignment for…
A man killed in a single-car rollover crash Saturday southeast of Cheney has been identified as Eric Henager, 24. Detectives have not determined who was driving the 2005 Subaru Outback in which Henager was found dead at 2:22 a.m. on Cheney-Spangle Road, just south of…
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