In brief: One-car crash kills Chewelah woman

A 56-year-old Chewelah woman was killed Wednesday evening in a one-vehicle rollover accident on Old Chewelah Road just north of Chewelah, said interim Sheriff LaVonne Webb of Stevens County.

Danielle Garcia, 56, died at the scene of the accident about 5:30 p.m. as she was headed north on the old highway that parallels U.S. Highway 395, the sheriff said.

Mike Prager

Prescription drug dropoffs planned

Government agencies will collect expired, unused and unwanted prescription pills next weekend as part of a national campaign by the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Anyone with prescription drugs to dispose of is asked to stop by a collection site on Sept. 25 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Collection sites in every local community can be found at www.dea.gov.

Sites listed so far include Washington State University Spokane campus at 412 E. Spokane Falls Blvd., the Post Falls and Coeur d’Alene police departments and the WSU police, as well as the Ferry County Sheriff’s Office and the Colville Tribal Police at the Killer Community Center and the Inchelium Long House. A collection also will be held at the Moscow, Idaho, Farmers Market from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Meghann M. Cuniff

Woman assaulted while jogging

Coeur d’Alene police are warning women to take extra care after a jogger said she was assaulted Sunday morning.

The 29-year-old woman was jogging about 9:30 a.m. near the 6700 block of North Courcelles Parkway, on a dirt road north of the Skyway Elementary School soccer field and east of a cluster of trees, when a man pushed her down, grabbed her left shoulder and head and turned her toward him, police said Thursday.

The woman stood up and hit the man several times. He ran away when a car approached, police said. The woman scraped her knees and the palm of her hand.

The assailant is described as white, 20 to 30 years old, 6-foot-2 with an average build. He had short, dark brown hair, was unshaven and wore a yellow shirt and red running shorts.

Police don’t know if the attack was sexually motivated but “due to the aggressiveness” of the attack, they urge women to take precaution, according to a news release.

Anyone with information on the attack is asked to call Coeur d’Alene police at (208) 769-2320.

Meghann M. Cuniff