A 60 year old Wester Ross man who had four drink driving convictions was spared a jail sentence after running up his fifth.
An oncoming car had to take evasive action as she drifted on to the wrong carriageway.
Neighbours helped disarm and restrain the attacker.
An Ullapool businesswoman and her husband abused their Polish neighbours who they resented after they moved in next door to their Dingwall home.
Stewart admitted culpable and reckless conduct and was placed on acommunity payback order with one year of social work supervision.
A 26-year-old Easter Ross man was congratulated by a sheriff for becoming a father just days earlier - and then banned from driving for a year.
‘The individual he chose to pick a fight with was an expert in Thai kickboxing and he came off worst.’
Scotland’s richest man has been accused of greenwashing after his private jet firm made more than 1100 trips despite his environmental aims.
Defence agent said: ‘Alcohol had been taken in vast quantities. She is remorseful and no longer consumes alcohol.’
An Easter Ross man and his friend who were in their cars on the A9 north were caught speeding at 104mph in a 60mph section of the road.
A Wester Ross woman who threatened her former partner, claiming she had a gun, has had sentence deferred at Inverness Sheriff Court.
Ryan MacDonald (31) committed the offences - which included three charges of rape - in the Sutherland, Inverness and Aberdeen areas.
A Sheriff wondered what to do with the drunken sailor who appeared before him to admit his fifth domestic offence against the same woman.
A paedophile who said the child he repeatedly raped initiated sex with him has been jailed for 10 years.
Police who discovered a Tain man covered in blood were subjected to threats and insults with one officer getting spat at in the face.
A short drive for food landed a Ross-shire care assistant in trouble with the police because he was more than five times the legal drink drive limit.
The case was deferred for good behaviour until December 12.
An Easter Ross man with a massive cache of bestiality videos has been banned from owning or keeping animals for three years.
Attackers locked up after “violent and appalling” acts.
He also kicked a hole in a wall at the property in North Kessock.