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Police in Grant County are looking for two men that were captured on surveillance video stealing liquor from a grocery store in Ephrata. Ephrata Police Chief Erik Koch says the theft, which occurred Thursday (July 18) at around 4:45 p.m. at the Safeway store in the 1100 block of Basin Street Southwest, went undetected by store employees...

Ephrata Police say a 40-year-old woman was flown to a hospital with a broken arm and other injuries while a 14-year-old girl was taken to a local hospital.

A man is facing burglary charges after a theft near Moses Lake last Friday. Grant County Sheriff's Office spokesperson, Kyle Foreman, says the case began just before midnight, when deputies were called to the report of a suspicious person. "While a deputy was en route to the scene, he came across 24-year-old Angel Lara of Othello, who was walking near the 500 block of Young Road...

A cougar, first spotted around 9:20 Tuesday morning, jumped over fences and ran down side streets in Ephrata before being cornered in a home. Ephrata Police Captain Erik Koch said law enforcement canvassed the area in an effort to find the big cat and eventually they got a call from a homeowner ...

A Ephrata man assaulted two Ephrata police officers in June and is now sentenced to almost five years in prison. Our news partner, iFiberone, reported that Wayne Symmonds, 56, was sentenced 57.25 months in prison after a June incident.  Ephrata police responded to a trespassing in progress at a Conoco gas station where he had already trespassed from the business. Sym...

UPDATE-- Authorities have released few details this morning on the investigation of a shooting in Ephrata Tuesday night in which one person was hospitalized.  City Administrator Wes Crago said reports of multiple shots were received at the MACC (911) Dispatch Center at 6:27pm from  the Short Stop gas station located at 1154 Basin Street SW and Tienda Mexicana Veracruz Restaurant,1240 Basin Street