Stevens County News

A 10-year-old boy who plotted to attack a classmate at Fort Colville Elementary School has been sentenced to 3 to 5 years in a juvenile detention facility.

A 10-year-old Washington state boy was sentenced on Wednesday to up to 5 1/2 years in a juvenile detention facility for his role in a foiled plot to rape and kill a girl at his school and harm other children.

Saying there were aggravating factors proven against a 10-year-old boy who plotted to attack a classmate at Fort Colville Elementary School, Judge Allen Nielson sentenced the boy to 3-5 years in custody Wednesday in Colville.

Appellate judges overturned a $70,000 sanction imposed against a Spokane attorney who had volunteered his time to try to stop an Oklahoma collection agency from harassing a Stevens County couple over an $843 debt.

Spokane police officers arrested a man suspected of shooting another man in the head at a Browne's Addition apartment building Tuesday night.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. Chewelah, Wash., voters have agreed to annex their city library into the Stevens County Rural Library District.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. Six people were injured in the Monday night chain-reaction crash started by a car driven by a 15-year-old boy in Stevens County.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. Emergency crews are untangling a multiple-car accident along Highway 291 near the Spokane and Stevens county line.

The attorney for an 11-year-old Colville boy accused of plotting to rape and kill a classmate filed a motion today to have the boy's competency evaluated.

A Colville pre-teen accused of plotting to kill a classmate earlier this year will undergo a mental evaluation before his criminal proceedings continue.