In brief: Police say man confronted girls

Coeur d’Alene police are asking for help identifying a man who confronted two children who were riding their bicycles near their home just after noon Sunday.

Two girls, 8 and 6, were playing near the northwest corner of 12th Street and Young Avenue when a male described as “older” with a thin build approached them.

The man pointed at the girls as he exited his vehicle and yelled, “Hey, you two,” Sgt. Brandon McCormick wrote in a news release. The man then said, “Let’s go” as he grabbed for the younger girl. He then chased them a short distance on Young Avenue.

The girls made it to their home, where their parents called police.

The man had a mustache, brown eyes and short brown hair. He was wearing a gray shirt and blue jeans, McCormick said. The vehicle he was driving may have been an older-model Plymouth Voyager-style minivan, McCormick said. He was last seen traveling south on 11th Street.

Anyone with information about the man is asked to call the Coeur d’Alene Police Department at (208) 769-2320.

Woman killed standing on I-90

A woman died Saturday night after being struck by a car on eastbound Interstate 90 just west of the Washington-Idaho state line.

The woman, whose name has not been released, was standing in the right lane of the freeway when she was hit by an eastbound 2008 Toyota FJ Cruiser driven by Nancy Webster, of Post Falls, the Washington State Patrol said.

Webster, 54, was not injured. The incident, which happened five miles east of Liberty Lake shortly after 10 p.m., remains under investigation, the WSP said.

Boeing 747-8 takes first flight

EVERETT – The Boeing Co.’s newest and largest passenger plane completed its first flight on Sunday, marking another milestone as the company prepares to get the long-haul jumbo jet ready for the market by the end of the year.

The 4  1/2-hour flight, which began in Everett and landed in Seattle, was the first in a months-long test program that will log more than 600 flight hours between now and the fall.

The 747-8 Intercontinental can carry up to 467 passengers with a range of about 8,000 nautical miles.