A Wenatchee man arrested back in April for imprisoning and beating his disabled spouse was sentenced yesterday to 12 years in prison. A reported sighting of wanted murder suspect Travis Decker in the Sawtooth National Forest of Idaho has come up empty. And Search warrants served by Moses Lake Police as part of ongoing drug investigations yielded two arrests on Tuesday.

A motorist is dead after her SUV traveled off a cliff on the North Cascades Highway. Hospital leaders and local activists spoke out Tuesday against scheduled cuts to Medicaid that could force several North Central Washington medical centers to close. And a woman sustained injuries yesterday after crashing her car into a mailbox. She then allegedly overcorrected and collided with a large boulder in a nearby yard, tipping her vehicle onto its side.

Chelan County commissioners got a play-by-play Monday of the early days of the Pomas Fire, the 2,900-acre wildfire now burning in the Glacier Peak Wilderness west of Entiat. Wenatchee Mayor Mike Poirier has responded to the potential impacts that two city projects may have on EZ’s Burger Deluxe. And Chelan County courts are working to clear out criminal drug cases that have been invalidated by the Blake decision.

The hunt for accused child murderer Travis Decker heated up this weekend in a neighboring state. Wenatchee Valley firefighters were busy Independence Day evening with not one, but two brush fires in Rock Island, both ignited by fireworks. And a Yakima man is dead after his pickup truck apparently slid into an irrigation canal southeast of Ephrata.