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• Huckleberries: Mayor Bloem’s departure a win for hard-liners

  April 28, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B10 Now, we all know what Mayor Sandi Bloem meant at the annual Human Rights Banquet on Monday when she said she’d return to the feast in 2014, but maybe not … 3

• Huckleberries: Breakthrough for common good – imagine that

  January 13, 2013 in City, Idaho on Page B3 ’Tis nice that warring elected officials in the Coeur d’Alene area could come together, as in times past, to do the right thing for the common good. The tentative deal …

• Kootenai County sheriff’s home burglarized by copper thieves

  October 19, 2012 in City on Page A1 Someone copped the top cop’s copper in Kootenai County. Sheriff Rocky Watson is the victim of a property crime after discovering copper wire and copper plumbing were stolen earlier this … 5

• Kootenai County sheriff’s lakefront home burgled

  October 18, 2012 in Idaho Someone copped the top cop’s copper in Kootenai County. 14

• Six vie for the job of sheriff

  May 3, 2012 in City on Page A5 There’s a new sheriff coming to town. Voters in Kootenai County are electing the first new top law enforcer in 13 years because Sheriff Rocky Watson is retiring. Three Republicans …

• Kootenai County sheriff candidates

  May 3, 2012 in Idaho on Page A7 John Green AGE: Not given

• Huckleberries: Rough landing for Green project

  February 5, 2012 in City on Page B10 Developer Harry Green had big plans when he bought the old Louisiana Pacific mill site on the Spokane River back when. The 33-acre Post Falls Landing project was to become …

• Kootenai County sheriff to retire

  March 21, 2011 in Idaho Kootenai County Sheriff Rocky Watson will not seek re-election next year and will leave office after serving a total of 17 years. 1

• Sheriff’s office warns of phony sweepstakes calls

  October 24, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page B1 The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department is warning people of a telephone scam targeting area residents.

• Sheriff seeks to sue Kootenai County, wants it to pay legal expenses

  August 15, 2010 in Idaho on Page B7 The Kootenai County sheriff wants the county to pay the legal expenses for the Sheriff’s Department in a lawsuit he wants to file against the county.

• Medication thefts prompt jail firings

  April 7, 2009 in City on Page A5 Stolen inmate medications led to the firing of three employees at the Kootenai County Jail in an investigation that began more than a year ago, Sheriff Rocky Watson said Monday. …

• Jail employees disciplined after investigation

  April 6, 2009 in Idaho Stolen inmate medications led to the firing of three employees at the Kootenai County Jail in an investigation that began more than a year ago, authorities said. Eight other employees … 5

• Sentence offers relief from grief

  August 28, 2008 in City on Page A1 Before 2005, Wolf Lodge Bay was a place to eat a steak, watch ospreys hunt fish in Lake Coeur d’Alene or find an easy campsite. Now it’s also the site …