EAST WENATCHEE — Two 12-year-old boys were arrested Thursday for allegedly bringing an airsoft gun and a knife to Sterling Intermediate School earlier this week.
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WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee School Board will move its meetings online after receiving a “credible threat” against board members, the school district announced.
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PLAIN — The body of a 25-year-old Snohomish County woman was found Tuesday in a remote section of Stevens Pass.
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Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — Authorities are searching for a 35-year-old man they believe tried to give a 13-year-old student a phone.
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Despite the problems of tribal authorities and limitations on their courts, many former U.S. attorneys believe the tribal justice system would be the most effective in dealing with crimes, such as child sexual abuse.
WATERVILLE — A Snohomish man found guilty of a 2013 murder in Sun Cove will have his prison term reduced by five years because his attorney neglected to factor the defendant’s ADHD diagnosis at trial and during sentencing.
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OLYMPIA — The state Attorney General’s Office has been asked to define unclear terms in recently enacted police reform legislation.
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WENATCHEE — The Washington Sheriff’s Association is requesting a special legislative session to clarify “confusing” language in recently enacted police reform laws.
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Reporter
OKANOGAN — The Okanogan County prosecutor has dropped a manslaughter charge against a Chelan woman in the death of her husband but the woman’s lawyer says new charges are possible.
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Reporter
The convicted child rapist emerged from the tree line without warning, walked quickly past the elders who feared him and entered the Navajo home, where his 15-year-old daughter was feeding her pet rabbits.
EAST WENATCHEE — Douglas County Commissioner Kyle Steinburg pleaded guilty Wednesday to negligent driving following a DUI arrest in June.
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WENATCHEE — The state Department of Corrections is considering two possible locations for a work release facility in Wenatchee.
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MALOTT — Authorities say a 22-year-old Bridgeport man drowned Friday while fleeing Okanogan County deputies.
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WENATCHEE — Chelan County prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for a Seattle man suspected in a shooting and robbery at a Wenatchee home.
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WENATCHEE — Two men involved in a December homicide in Wenatchee were sentenced to prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to manslaughter.
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BREWSTER — A Douglas County Sheriff’s Office deputy is charged with driving under the influence after he allegedly crashed an all-terrain vehicle in Brewster while drunk.
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EAST WENATCHEE — East Wenatchee police are looking for a teen boy who displayed a knife Friday at Eastmont Community Park, 255 N. Georgia Ave.
Oscar Rodriguez
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Updated, 9:30 a.m. Saturday
WENATCHEE — On July 24, a yellow school bus belonging to Osprey Rafting was stolen in Leavenworth. Deputies from Chelan and Douglas counties attempted to stop the bus in their respective jurisdictions but each ended their pursuits after about 10 minutes.
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WENATCHEE — The owner of Veterans Warehouse Thrift Store was sentenced to 75 days in jail for sexually assaulting a woman in his store.
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WENATCHEE — Police are searching for suspects involved in a non-fatal shooting Tuesday evening in Wenatchee.
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WATERVILLE — The investigation into a 2020 fatal police shooting near East Wenatchee is complete and on Friday a prosecutor said that Thomas M. Mathes III was aiming a gun at two people when he was shot by a Douglas County deputy.
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Reporter
OLYMPIA — Almost all of the state’s county sheriffs have signed a statement reaffirming their oaths to the U.S. and state constitutions, in particular the right to bear arms.
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WENATCHEE — Julius Ceballos pleaded not guilty Monday to a pair of murder charges in the death of an 18-year-old Waterville woman.
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WENATCHEE — A fire that may have been started by fireworks damaged 12 condos Sunday night. One person has been arrested.
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WENATCHEE — The Chelan County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has filed a second murder charge against Julius Ceballos, the alleged killer of 18-year-old Hannia “Paulina” Mosqueda Rodriguez.
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Reporter
WENATCHEE — Police have identified the two men found dead Saturday of gunshot wounds as 32-year-old brothers Austin and Jacob Jones of Wenatchee.
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EAST WENATCHEE — Prosecutors have now filed charges against five people in a case stemming from the assault of a 15-year-old boy and subsequent shooting of a 24-year-old man last month in East Wenatchee.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — The owner of four dogs that badly wounded a jogger in 2020 has pleaded guilty to owning dangerous dogs. Prosecutors are asking he be ordered to pay nearly $53,000 in restitution to cover the victim’s medical bills.
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Reporter
EPHRATA — A Grant County inmate remains out of custody after escaping from the Grant County Jail Sunday afternoon.
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WENATCHEE — An unidentified male was found dead Sunday along the Columbia River in Wenatchee.
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EAST WENATCHEE — Douglas County Commissioner Kyle Steinburg has no intentions of resigning following his DUI arrest two weeks ago, his lawyer says.
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WENATCHEE — Bail was set at $2 million on Wednesday for a man charged with murdering an 18-year-old Waterville woman and then disposing of her body in the Wenatchee foothills.
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Reporter
WENATCHEE — On the day that would’ve been her 20th birthday, authorities arrested a 21-year-old Wenatchee man in connection with the death of Hannia “Paulina” Mosqueda Rodríguez.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Entering his new role as a Chelan County Superior Court judge, Robert Jourdan wants to help.
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Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — Two men are suspected of burglarizing and damaging a pair of East Wenatchee churches.
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WENATCHEE — A Yakima woman charged with killing three people in a 2020 crash on Blewett Pass pleaded not guilty Monday.
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Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — Douglas County Commissioner Kyle Steinburg was arrested on suspicion of DUI early Tuesday morning in a McDonald’s drive-thru.
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CHELAN — An Ephrata man tried to steal a fire district’s pickup while crews worked to put out his burning car alongside Highway 97.
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LEAVENWORTH — One person was hospitalized Sunday evening following a single-car rollover on Blewett Pass.
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EAST WENATCHEE — Prosecutors have charged a Wenatchee man with attempted murder and assault after he allegedly fired shots into a vehicle Saturday, striking a person in the leg.
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SOAP LAKE — An Ephrata man died Wednesday in a single-vehicle rollover collision near Soap Lake.
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WENATCHEE — Authorities are seeking information related to a dog attack Monday in Wenatchee.
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WENATCHEE — Demonstrators on Sunday called for justice for the Waterville woman found dead more than a year ago in Wenatchee’s Horse Lake Reserve.
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WENATCHEE — Public defender Robert Jourdan will be the next Chelan County Superior Court judge.
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Reporter
WENATCHEE — A 44-year-old Yakima woman has been charged with vehicular homicide in connection to a fatal collision last year on Blewett Pass.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
EAST WENATCHEE — A 24-year-old East Wenatchee man was shot in the leg Saturday in what police suspect was a gang-related incident.
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Reporter
WENATCHEE — Attorney Robert Sealby has been sworn in as the new Chelan County prosecuting attorney.
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WENATCHEE — The former director of a Lake Wenatchee camp who pleaded guilty to assault and voyeurism has been ordered to have no contact with his two victims for five years.
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