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OTHELLO – An illegal alien who shot and killed his son here using a firearm stolen from Spokane Valley has been sentenced in U.S. District Court. Felipe Tapia-Perez, 29, of Othello, was sentenced to 168 months in federal prison by U.S. District Court Senior Judge William Fremming Nielsen on June 14 in Spokane. The sentence stems from conviction of possession of a stolen firearm and unlawful alien possession of a firearm, records show. He will serve the sentence concurrently with a first-degree manslaughter conviction in A...
Sprint boat racing brought high speed action to Webb's Slough in St. John on Saturday. Thousands turned out for the high-speed action to see who would take the checkered flag and who would crash. Pictured, one of the Jolly Rogers entries flips on an island in the race course. For more on sprint boat racing, see Page 10...
RITZVILLE — Lind-Ritzville Middle School is getting funding as a boost for its new Farm to Table class. AgWest Farm Credit has awarded a $3,500 grant to the middle school for the new class on food and farming. The grant will go toward equipment and supplies for the elective class. Other elective classes in the cycle include photojournalism, drama and wildlife. During the spring 2023 quarter, middle school officials asked students what would interest them most for new elective classes for next fall. “Almost unanimously, (th...
LIND – A Mercer Island native working as a nurse practitioner at Hometown Family Medicine never imagined life in a rural community. Lauren Phillips, 29, now of Lind, recently accepted the job at the health care center, 210 W. Main Ave., after graduating with a doctorate in 2022 in nursing from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. Born and raised on Mercer Island, Phillips didn't anticipate living and working in rural Adams County. "It was a drastic change from living in a Se...
BENGE - A former Adams County resident has written a book about childhood on a Macall-area sheep ranch in the late 1930s. Richard W. Etulain, 84, a professor emeritus at University of New Mexico, has released his new book, "Boyhood Among the Woolies: Growing up on a Basque Sheep Ranch." The history professor's book is about his childhood growing up in the scablands – his family homestead was in the Macall area. Born in Wapato in 1938, Etulain was brought home to a "isolated a...
Sheriff’s Log RITZVILLE – The Adams County Sheriff’s Office responded to the following calls for service from June 7-17: June 7 Medical call in the 300 block of East Salem Avenue, Washtucna. Drug overdose in the 600 block of South Drury Lane, Ritzville. Abandoned vehicle in the 2100 block of West Moon Road, Othello June 8 Shed door open in the 800 block of South State Highway 24, Othello. Suspicious vehicle in the area of North State Highway 21 and Lind-Warden Road, Lind. Issue with neighbor’s cats reported in the 800 blo...