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An Othello man has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for several crimes involving firearms. On Thursday, a U.S. District Court judge in Spokane handed down the term to 35-year-old Nicholas Romero-Rivera, who was also ordered to three years of supervised release following his incarceration...

Mid-Valley Hospital & Clinic in Omak will pay a penalty of $15,000 for violations related to the federal Controlled Substances Act. The fine stems from a suit brought in Eastern Washington U.S. District Court after a nurse at the small facility compromised its system for opioid management over a period of two years. ...

A Quincy man has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison after pleading guilty to child pornography charges. U.S. District Judge Thomas Rice handed down the term to 35-year-old Joseph Thomas Schmitz on October 11, after he entered a guilty plea on May 11...

A Soap Lake man has pled guilty to child pornography charges. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Washington says 48-year-old Michael Gene Rice entered guilty pleas for Production and Attempted Production of Child Pornography this month...

A former physician's assistant from Waterville has pled guilty to federal charges that he lied to the FBI. Seventy-two-year-old Eldon L. Leinweber previously owned and operated Mansfield Family Clinic in Soap Lake and provided medical services throughout North Central Washington prior to retiring in four years ago...