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COLBERT – The Lind-Ritzville Broncos brought home five medals and a third-place team finish from the Crusader Classic at Northwest Christian on Saturday, Jan. 13. Gabe Smith and Brock Tracy both won gold medals, while Octavio Parades Martinez won silver. Waylon Rosman and Carson Kubik each captured bronze. The tournament didn't report girls results, but Emmy Klewin won her weight class, as well. The medalists lifted the Broncos to a third-place team finish with 114.5 p...
CHEWELAH – The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys split in games last week, edging Jenkins on Jan. 13, but falling to Northwest Christian on Jan. 12. The Broncos (8-8, 5-5 in league) edged the Jenkins Cougars, 43-40 in a Northeast 2B matchup. Individual statistics weren’t reported for the game, but Broncos putting points on the board included Jerod Harder, Zach Klein, Damon Schilling, Joey Duff, Blake Earle, Bridger Moore, Brock Kinch, Lance Williamson and Shawn Steinberger. Against the Crusaders, the Bronco boys rallied in the four...
CHEWELAH – The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague girls routed Jenkins, 72-49, on Saturday, Jan. 13. The local girls (8-5 overall, 5-3 in league), opened the game by dominating the first half, outscoring Jenkins (6-9, 2-8 in league) by 7 points in the first quarter and 6 in the second. The Broncos held an 18-11 lead after one quarter and a 41-28 lead at the half. The Broncos put the game away in the third, outscoring the Cougars, 18-8, to expand the margin to 59-36. With Lind-Ritzville rotating players in off the bench, the Broncos a...
COLBERT – A St. John-Endicott finished fourth Saturday, Jan. 13, at the Crusader Classic at Northwest Christian. Steven Campbell finished fourth at 175 pounds. Campbell is one of only two grapplers for the Eagles – the other is Cameron Mathia at 113. Campbell opened with a bye and then a loss by pin to Reed Widman of Liberty in 3:47. In the wrestlebacks, he received a bye, then pinned Talen Kent of Kettle Falls in 1:59 and Mason Watt Shilwin of East Valley (Spokane Valley in...
OLYMPIA – Eight Kitsap County residents have filed a lawsuit to try to remove former President Donald Trump from the March 12 primary election ballot. The lawsuit (Kitsap County Superior Court case No. 24-2- 00075-18) was filed in both Kitsap and Thurston counties on Wednesday, Jan. 10, records show. A hearing on the matter has been set for Tuesday, Jan. 16, in Kitsap County Superior Court. The lawsuit alleges Trump, a Republican, is ineligible to be on the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. C...
RITZVILLE - The Broncos boys basketball team had a good opening quarter, but just couldn't keep pace with the Royal Knights during a nonleague matchup Friday, Dec. 29. The Knights won, 81-54. The Knights took an 18-15 first quarter lead and grew the margin from there. By halftime, visiting Royal had a 38-31 lead. The Knights sealed the win with an explosive third quarter, outscoring the local Lind-Ritzville/Sprague (7-5, 4-2 in league) boys 26-10 to take a 64-41 lead. The...
SPOKANE - Local boys were unable to land anyone on the podium at the M2 Mallet wrestling tournament Dec. 23. The Broncos scored a total of 16.0 team points in the tournament that featured 25 teams, many from much larger schools. Moscow, Idaho, won the team title with 213.5 points. Wrestling at 120 pounds, Waylon Rosman had the best showing for the Broncos, with two wins. He opened the tournament with a bye and then pinned Sawyer Sullivan of Mount Spokane in 2:35. In his...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Biden Administration and environmental activists formalized an agreement Dec. 14 on plans to manage and improve salmon populations on the Snake River. A “memorandum of understanding” was filed with U.S. District Court in an attempt to curtail lawsuits over salmon and efforts by environmental activists to breach the four Lower Snake River dams. The agreement was formally announced Thursday, Dec. 14, by the Biden Administration, more than two weeks after a leaked document was released to the public by 5t...
The Christmas tree is decorated. The gifts are wrapped. There may not be snow outside, yet, but it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. And I, for one, am looking forward to our family traditions. Every family has its own traditions; our starts with cutting down a tree, something we did a week or two ago. With the tree up and the lights already on, we’ve moved onto music and movies. Oh, the Christmas movies … Break out the classics – “It’s a Wonderful Life,” “Mir...
RITZVILLE – The Broncos girls basketball team dropped two games last week, falling to Liberty, 51-41, on Dec. 12, and then to Colfax, 57-40, on Dec. 16. Against Colfax, Brynn McGaughy dominated the court for the Broncos. The 6-foot-2 junior post scored 14 points to lead the Bulldogs. Colfax (3-3, 2-0 in league) teammate, junior 5-foot-7 Brenna Gilchrist, added 11 points. Bronco sophomore Zoe Galbreath led all scorers with 23 points. Colfax set the tone early taking a 12-10 lea...
RITZVILLE – The visiting Colfax Bulldogs were too much for the Bronco boys to handle Saturday, Dec. 16, during a Northeast 2B league basketball matchup. The Bulldogs tamed the Broncos, 71-36. Adrik Jenkin led all scorers with 21 points for the undefeated Bulldogs (6-0, 2-0 in league). With 14 points, freshman Joey Duff led the Broncos (6-2, 3-2 in league). The Colfax team featured two familiar Lind-Ritzville faces – Ledger Kelly, a 6-foot-2 sophomore guard, and Jayce Kel...
DAVENPORT – Bronco wrestler Octavio Paredes Martinez brought home a gold medal Saturday from the Gorilla Invitational. Wrestling at 113 pounds, he was the only individual champion for the Broncos, which finished third as a team. Northwest Christian (Colbert) won the team award with 137 points, followed by Kittitas with 127 and Lind-Ritzville/Sprague with 110. Rounding out the Top five were Davenport with 97 points and Selkirk with 94. In individual results, Martinez opened t...
RITZVILLE – An Ephrata woman is facing multiple charges in connection with an attempted theft. Tianna Gene Marie Trumble, 19, of Ephrata was arrested Dec. 6 in the 1100 block of North Rand Lane and she was found hiding in a vehicle on the property. She was arrested for residential burglary, first-degree criminal trespass and second-degree vehicle prowl. Deputies were called to the property about 11:30 a.m. for an unknown person on the property, records show, noting they c...
RITZVILLE – An Arizona woman was killed Dec. 5 when her tractor trailer overturned at the intersection of North Paha-Packard and North DeWald Roads. Paula Christine Hopper, 57, of Mesa, Ariz., was pronounced dead at the scene. The Adams County Sheriff’s Office provided few details on the fatality, noting the cause of the crash is still under investigation. “Next of kin has been notified,” the Sheriff’s Office reported. The Washington State Patrol and Adams County Fire District No. 1 assisted at the scene....
SPANGLE – The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague Broncos wrestling team finished 12th overall in the Brice Williams Invite on Saturday, Dec. 9, at Liberty High School. The Broncos scored 70.5 team points; Mount Spokane won the team title with 113 points, followed by Liberty (Spangle) with 111. The Broncos placed three wrestlers in the finals – Gabriel Smith at 215 pounds and Octavio Paredes Martinez at 113. Emilia Klewin made the finals at girls 155. Smith brought home the only gold med...
ASOTIN – The Lind-Ritzville/Sprague boys basketball team remained undefeated last week after topping Medical Lake, Upper Columbia Academy and Asotin. The Broncos doubled up on the Medical Lake Cardinals, 70-37, on Dec. 5, then followed up with a 52-37 win over Upper Columbia on Dec. 7. On Dec. 9, the Broncos (5-0) then topped Asotin, 76-68. This week, the Broncos were scheduled to host Liberty (Spangle) on Tuesday, Dec. 12 and Colfax on Friday, Dec. 16. Against Medical Lake, the Broncos scored often, taking an 18-6 lead at t...
RITZVILLE – The Broncos girls basketball team lost a hard-fought game to Medical Lake on Dec. 5, but rebounded to dominate the Lions on Dec. 7. The Medical Lake Cardinals won handed the Lind-Ritzville/Sprague girls their first loss, 60-49, on Tuesday, Dec. 5. But the local girls crushed the Upper Columbia Academy Lions, 58-13, on Dec. 7. Against Medical Lake, the Cardinals’ Charde Luat scored 33 points to lead all scorers. Despite Luat’s performance, the Broncos were never really out of the game. The Cardinals led 14-10 after...
SPOKANE VALLEY – A Lind-Ritzville wrestler won her weight class Thursday night, Dec. 7, at the East Valley Girls Wrestle-In league event. Emilia Klewin pinned both of her opponents in the 154-163 pound weight class to win her division. Klewin opened the girls-only league meet by pinning Isabell Leyve of Mary Walker (Springdale) in 2:17. In the match for first place in her class, she pinned Bella Doucette of Rogers (Spokane) in 53 seconds. The event was the first league m...
WASHINGTON D.C. - The Biden and Inslee administrations have been colluding secretly with extremist environmental groups and four tribal governments on plans to breach dams on the Snake and Columbia Rivers. A "confidential mediation document - not for distribution" on their dam-breaching efforts was leaked to Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers last week, and then to the media Wednesday, Nov. 29. McMorris Rodgers, R-Spokane, represents Eastern Washington's 5th Congressional District,...
PASCO – Bailiffs serving in courtrooms in Franklin and Benton Counties will no longer be armed after Dec. 1. Instead, deputies from their respective sheriff’s offices will provide armed security. Franklin County Sheriff Jim D. Raymond announced the change last week, noting that since neither he nor Benton County Sheriff Tom Croskrey commissioned bailiffs, the courts decided to turn over responsibility to their counties’ law enforcement agencies. For decades, bailiffs in both counties received special commissions from their...
Aren’t you sick and tired of hearing Gov. Jay Inslee and his ilk routinely blame Columbia and Snake River dams for the decline in Puget Sound salmon and orca populations? Despite voluminous information to the contrary, Inslee, Sen. Patty Murray and other extremist environmental politicians continue to push a narrative on salmon decline that is patently false. There should be penalties for being so disingenuous. While there isn’t a penalty for false statements made to app...
TYLER – A lost hunter was located Nov. 14, about eight hours after he became lost in the fog along the Columbia Plateau State Park Trail. The hunter – whose name, age and hometown the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office has yet to release – called for help on his cell phone at about 5:20 p.m., records show. He was later located cold and tired, but otherwise uninjured, in the Ballinger Lake area, south and east of the South Mullinix-South Harmony Road intersection, records show. According to the report, the hunter called emergen...
SPRAGUE – Drugs and/or alcohol were factors in two unrelated crashes that left one person dead and three injured Saturday and Sunday. At about 12:28 p.m. Saturday, a driver was injured and his passenger killed when their vehicle overturned in the median of Interstate 90. Then on Monday morning, a wrong-way driver caused a head-on crash near Milepost 240; two people were injured. The Washington State Patrol listed alcohol or drugs as factors in both crashes. In the Saturday c...
OTHELLO – A local man was arrested after allegedly exploiting an 11-year-old girl sexually. Andres Burgos-Silva, 23, of Othello, is facing charges of sexual exploitation of a minor, second-degree extortion, communication with a minor for immoral purposes, first-degree dealing in depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, first-degree possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and first degree attempted possession of depictions o...
HATTON – Four candidates ran unopposed for town offices in the Nov. 7 general election. So far, none of the candidates received a majority of the votes, thanks to a write-in insurgency. As of Monday afternoon, Nov. 13, Rhea Isaac had 14 votes in her bid for mayor; a write-in candidate had 14. That race was mirrored across the board with Barbara Pence receiving 14 votes for council position No. 2, Eric Rawson for Position No. 4 and Linda Anderson for Position No. 5, and write-in candidates matching them. The candidates, h...