A tirade of abuse was directed at police when they were called to a Dornoch housing estate to deal with a possible disturbance.
The court heard it was not a one-way offence.
Hamish Towler was due to go on trial today following the death of John Birrell.
A man convicted of historic child abuse has been jailed for 18 months.
An unlicensed and uninsured teenager committed seven road traffic offences in two weeks including one of driving dangerously at over 100mph on the A9.
A Dingwall man was over five times the legal drink drive limit when he drove a short distance to buy more alcohol from a local store.
A support worker defrauded a college for young adults with additional needs of over £1600 by failing to carry out work for which he had invoiced.
The man turned up twice with the weapon before police were called.
Police were called to deal with a drunk man who caused a disturbance at a Dingwall property
An Easter Ross sex predator has been locked up for 18 months after conviction earlier this year.
The man accused of murdering Renee MacRae and their son Andrew confessed to killing her to his handyman – and then retracted it immediately.
A Ross-shire driver who started to overtake a lorry in the path of an oncoming vehicle was fined £200 at Wick Sheriff Court on Wednesday.
Christopher Andrews (27), Abbotshaven, was the subject of a a non-harassment order preventing him from contacting the woman.
A JURY convicted a Ross-shire teenager of a stabbing after their numbers were depleted due to ill health and Covid.
A SHERIFF told a Ross-shire man with five previous convictions for domestic abuse he was close to being jailed after another similar offence.
FIRE-STARTER admits causing Findhorn Foundation blaze.
A FIRST offender who overdosed on cannabis assaulted two security staff at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness where he was being treated.
AN explosion which badly damaged a Dingwall house was caused by the occupants growing cannabis.
AN executive with a firm involved in the manufacture of a Covid vaccine kept his driving licence despite speeding at almost twice the limit in Ross.
TWO new faces are appearing on the bench at a key Highland court which opened earlier this year.
