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Updated 1 day, 3 hours ago

MLSD hiring 7 elementary assistant principals, financially unrelated to classroom staffing

MOSES LAKE — Moses Lake School District is moving to add assistant principals at seven of its largest elementary s…

Updated 6 years, 9 months ago
Separating fact from fiction: A look at The Old Hotel Art Gallery murder

OTHELLO — Each town has its stories. Some are true; some are not. There are events that happened, but the truth is shrouded in a thick layer of mystery. Did it…

Updated 6 years, 9 months ago
Case not closed Two bombs in 10 hours Two families still wondering why 11 years later

MOSES LAKE — It was a day like any other on Aug. 1, 2008 when Bill Walker’s extended family came to Moses Lake for a baby shower planned for the next day.

Updated 6 years, 9 months ago
Moses Lake man goes fishin' with country music star

ALASKA — Moses Lake resident Rick Graser has seen and experienced a lot in his life. Having being drafted 214th overall in 1978 by the Seattle Mariners and spe…

Updated 6 years, 9 months ago
Felon busted in Moses Lake

Was allegedly in possession of over a pound of drugs

Updated 6 years, 9 months ago
Of 15 defendants in sweeping drug raid case, one remains free

MOSES LAKE — After a mid-July region-wide drug raid conducted by numerous federal, state and local agencies, 15 people were arrested on suspicion of criminal c…

Updated 6 years, 9 months ago
Armed burglar stopped by Army vet gets three years

By EMRY DINMAN

Updated 6 years, 9 months ago
Fire burns up wheat field

Blaze was sparked by pickup truck

Updated 6 years, 10 months ago
Suspect starts fire in Quincy Elementary School Tuesday morning

QUINCY — The Quincy Police Department is looking for information that may lead to an arrest of a young male suspect who set a fire in the Ancient Lakes Element…

Updated 6 years, 10 months ago
13 Arrested in major gang-related drug raid

By EMRY DINMAN

Updated 6 years, 10 months ago
Powerline Fire smolders Monday, scorched 7,800 acres

MATTAWA — The scene of the Powerline Fire, which sparked Sunday afternoon near Mattawa and burned 7,800 acres, had largely settled by Monday afternoon, with th…

Updated 6 years, 10 months ago
Registered nursing assistant has license suspended for alleged theft

MOSES LAKE — The credential of a Moses Lake registered nurse assistant has been suspended for three years following allegations of theft.

Updated 6 years, 10 months ago
Welding accident destroys residential workshop

MOSES LAKE — A workshop attached to a home on the 5400 block of Mae Valley Road was destroyed in a fire caused by a welding accident late Tuesday morning, acco…

Updated 6 years, 10 months ago
ML man arrested for third time while awaiting trial for overdose homicide

MOSES LAKE — A Moses Lake man previously facing charges in connection with the 2018 opioid overdose death of an inmate at the Grant County Jail was arrested Su…

Updated 6 years, 10 months ago
Bond denied for suspects in murder of man with Moses Lake ties

COPIAH COUNTY, Miss. — Bond has been denied for four capital murder suspects who are implicated in the brutal slaying of a man who has deep ties to the Moses L…