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Jay Daniel Doty stated in his plea that he possessed the hallucinogenic drug DMT with the purpose of sending it to members of the Santo Daime church.

His body is currently with the Chelan County Coroner’s Office.

The Eastmont School District will ask voters to pass a $185 million bond package in the November election.  The money would be used to construct new classrooms and a maintenance facility as well as make repairs and upgrades to existing buildings.  ...

Total home sales are up slightly from a year ago as well as the last month

A Rock Island man is getting a sentence of five days in jail along with a year's probation after admitting to making video of women while they used his bathroom. Prosecutors dropped two counts of first-degree voyeurism while leaving one count in place for the plea deal of 35-year-old Martin Ruiz Jr...

A man's dead from a Wednesday afternoon crash on State Route 28 south of East Wenatchee. Troopers say 34-year-old Sheldon Tubbs was driving a car that left the roadway to the right before overcorrecting and swerving across the centerline to hit the side of an oncoming pickup truck ...

About 700 Rock Island residences lost power Thursday morning for about 15 minutes after a train hit a semi-truck near Rock Island Dam. Douglas County Sheriff Kevin Morris says a semi-truck and trailer was leaving the Dam across the tracks ...

Douglas County deputies responded to a domestic dispute in the 10 Block of Garden Avenue in Rock Island early Sunday, September 29 morning at 12:15 a.m. There were threats with a handgun by sliding the handgun slide back and the victim fled the scene...

A fire overtook a Rock Island home on Monday night and caused a family of seven to be displaced from their home. "Units from Douglas County Fire District  2 and Chelan County Fire District 1 responded to a room and contents fire in a single story, single family residence wood framed structure," said Kurt Blanchard, Douglas County Fire Marshal. ...

A Rock Island home was completely destroyed by fire Wednesday morning. Douglas County Fire District 2 Chief Dave Baker said the home was on Saunders Avenue. "It was an older home, as far as I could see, that had a metal roof on top. Metal roofs make it really hard to get to the seat of the fire and by then it was up in the attic...