A 23-year-old man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a high school student he knew in a Western Washington University dorm in May 2020 was sentenced to one year in jail in Whatcom County ...

Vanags’ first scheduled trial was postponed in 2020 due to the pandemic, and his second trial in Whatcom County Superior Court ended with a deadlocked jury in 2022. Current jurors have not been ...

Lawrence Scott Cauthorn, 56, was sentenced to six months in jail with credit for time served, followed by a lifetime in ...

This is Vanags’ second trial in Whatcom County Superior Court, with the first one ending in a hung jury in 2022. Members of the current jury were not told that the proceedings were a retrial.

A mistrial was called after the jury failed to come to a unanimous decision about whether Alexander Vanags was guilty of second-degree murder.

However, no precedent exists for new residential metering requirements resulting from a water rights adjudication in Washington, explained Ecology’s adjudication manager Robin McPherson, who confirmed ...

A Bellingham, Washington, man was sentenced to 30 months in prison Tuesday in Whatcom County Superior Court for charges related to the exchange of explicit content with a 15-year-old Ocean Springs ...

Former Bellingham Police Cpl. Brooks Owen Laughlin, right, was sentenced to eight years in prison on Dec. 12, 2018, in Whatcom County Superior Court.