Grant County News

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE GRANT COUNTY HEALTH DEPT: MOSES LAKE, Wash. - The Grant County Health District received lab confirmation from two specimens submitted to the Washington State Public Health Lab.

Edilberto Raymundo-Manuel, of Bremerton, was driving on Road S Southwest around 5:30 a.m., when his Honda Accord crossed the center line and struck Jesus Chavez’s Dodge Stratus, according to the sheriff’s office.

Joshua M. Zarbook, 23, of Kennewick and Randy D. Triplett, 36, of Othello, ran from Grant County Sheriff deputies after they tried to burglarize a home in Moses Lake, according to the sheriff’s office.

Javier M. Benavides, 36, of Moses Lake, was driving a 1993 Honda Civic north on the highway about 2:25 p.m. when he left the road to the right, overcorrected and crossed the center line, hitting a 2001 Lexus RX300 in the southbound lane, according to the Washington State Patrol.

Grant County Sheriff Tom Jones has asked the Washington State Patrol to conduct an investigation into an M4 rifle missing from the Grant County Sheriff's Office.

Grant County authorities said Jonathan Jones, 28, wrecked hit motorcycle around 5:30 p.m. near 22nd Avenue Northeast, east of Patton Boulevard.

A Hillyard Grocery employee had a bottle of wine broken over his head Thursday evening as he attempted to stop a shoplifter.

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE GRANT COUNTY HEALTH DIST./MOSES LAKE, Wash. - Moses Lake School District and the Grant County Health District are investigating reports of a large number of students and staff experiencing symptoms of fever, nausea, diarrhea and vomiting.

Most doctors never gave Tyler Dullanty a chance. Thank goodness one doctor in St.

According to Moses Lake police reports, officers were called about 9 a.m. Sunday to a residence on the 600 block of West Crest Drive for a verbal domestic dispute.

Health District leaders reported a spike in whooping cough cases on Tuesday. Doctors have seen an increase in whooping cough, pertussis, cases in the past 25 days.

Grant County continues to improve when it comes to gang activity in the county. In the past three years the numbers have improved annually.

A Havre High School student who learned the Heimlich maneuver as a Boy Scout, and even teaches it to younger Scouts, recently saved the life of a fellow student who was choking at lunch.

Grant County Deputy Prosecutor Tyson Hill, 33, of Moses Lake, was selected as the newest district court judge by a review committee comprised of fellow district court judge Janis Whitener-Moberg, county prosecutor Angus Lee, county human resources director Tammie Hechler, county clerk Kimberly Allen, former Moses Lake Police Chief Dean Mitchell, ... (more)

Our recent warm weather will give way to milder temperatures and clouds the next few days according to the National Weather Service.

MOSES LAKE, Wash. Quincy Police and the Grant County Sheriff's Office are seeking information from citizens who may have unknowingly fallen victim to a man posing as a Vivant burglar and fire alarm salesman now jailed on suspicion of residential burglary.

If you just realized that the opening of the lowland lakes is happening this weekend and you haven't made reservations for a camping or RV spot, there is still hope.

Two people are in jail and four children in protective custody after Grant County's Interagency Narcotics Enforcement Team busted a marijuana growing and sales operation in Quincy yesterday.

A proposal by a dozen Washington groups calls for the test site to be headquartered at Grant County International Airport in Moses Lake.

The 41-year-old Kennewick attorney will replace Judge Craig Matheson, who is retiring April 30 after serving for 26 years.