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Fire crews in Adams County were busy containing a brush fire on Tuesday afternoon. The blaze ignited at around 12:30 p.m. near Ritzville in the vicinity of Schrag Road just off Interstate-90 (I-90) and State Route 21 (SR-21), and blackened well over 1,000 acres of farm- and rangeland before being fully corralled...

Two people are in jail and two are still at large in connection with a string of stolen vehicle recoveries that police in Adams County are calling "interconnected". On Tuesday afternoon, deputies with the Adams County Sheriff's Office responded to a car accident and discovered one of the involved vehicles had been reported stolen out of Ritzville...

An Adams County man is in jail after police say he was found in possession of stolen property related to several recent burglaries. Deputies with the Adams County Sheriff's Office and officers with the Ritzville Police Department executed search warrants at two separate locations in Ritzville this week, in the 100 block of West 6th Street and the 600 block of West Broadway Avenue, where they locat

An Adams County man is behind bars after allegedly tampering with the odometers of several vehicles prior to selling them. The Adams County Sheriff's Office says they arrested Reynaldo Valdez Garza, Jr. this week after a months-long investigation. ...

Police in Adams County are looking for a man who is wanted for eluding and obstructing law enforcement. The Adams County Sheriff's Office responded to a report of a suspicious person at North Batum Road and East Rosenoff Road late Wednesday afternoon where they discovered Daniel Wayne Gill of Ritzville, who appeared to have been driving with a suspended license...

Two men and a woman are in jail in the wake of two separate crimes in Lind on Thursday. Deputies with the Adams County Sheriff's Office first arrested 36-year-old Ashley L. Hendrickson of Lind on suspicion of auto theft after a car that had been reported stolen was found on her property...

An Adams County man is in jail after police say he caused damage to multiple properties while driving drunk in an off-road vehicle. The Adams County Sheriff's Office says it happened Sunday at around 3 a.m. when deputies attempted to pull over a side-by-side that was driving erratically through multiple neighborhoods in Othello...

A Portland, Oregon man is in jail after police say he led them on a high-speed pursuit through parts of Western Adams County on Sunday afternoon. The incident began on U.S. Highway 395 (U.S. 395) near Lind at around 12:20 p.m. when deputies with the Adams County Sheriff's Office attempted to stop a sedan with no license plates and called the Washington State Patrol (WSP) for assistance after the d

An Othello man will serve over six years in prison after being convicted on drug dealing charges. Fifty-two-year-old Jaime Alberta Garza was sentenced to 78 months to be followed by five years of supervised release by Judge Thomas O. Rice in Spokane's U...

An Ephrata woman is in jail after police say she was found trespassing and prowling at a property in rural Adams County. Nineteen-year-old Tianna Gene Marie Trumble was arrested in the 1100 block of North Rand Lane near Schrag about 30 miles west of Ritzville at just before noon on Wednesday (Dec...