An Orting man who beat his neighbor’s dog with a hatchet was sentenced Monday morning to six months in jail and ordered to pay the dog's veterinarian bills, which totaled $5,000.
Ricky Lee Knowles was sentenced to six months in jail and ordered to pay Kona’s veterinarian bills, which totaled $5,000.
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Dione Hauger said she asked for the maximum sentence because the dog was a defenseless victim and the crime was particularly brutal.
A 14-year-old Toppenish boy convicted of groping two women in separate attacks last year was sentenced Thursday to at least two years in juvenile custody.
The defendant, who was 13 at the time of the attacks, was sentenced from 104 to 130 weeks in custody after Yakima County Superior Court Judge Richard Bartheld rejected his request for out-of-custody sex offender therapy.
Deputy prosecutor Quinten Bowman said Bartheld made his ruling after two experts, including one for the defense, determined the teenager was not amenable to treatment out of custody.
Police arrested two Lewis County men in November for assaults against two different yet vulnerable victims — a puppy and a baby.
The Idaho Humane Society on Monday evening received 63 pit bull dogs from Oneida County in southeastern Idaho.
The dogs are from an apparent dog-fighting compound on a property where a triple homicide occurred Thursday near Holbrook.
The animals are in very poor condition, according to the Humane Society. The majority of the dogs are underweight and suffer from malnutrition and many of the dogs have open lacerations and extensive scarring from old wounds. Others are suffering from skin, eye and ear ailments. A few dogs have old injuries of broken bones that were left untreated.
Two news organizations on Thursday challenged a judge's decision to keep the public from learning the details of a case against a man charged with killing a 15-year-old girl.
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