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News >  Spokane

Parks giving kids of every ability level a chance to play

The Discovery Playground in Spokane Valley offers something for children of all abilities. The paths – made of grass, concrete or wood chips – all are accessible for wheelchairs. There are swings and slides and climbing rocks, but also hanging chimes, fragrant plants and textured walls to provide sensory stimulation for children who have brain disorders or who are physically limited.
News >  Spokane

Brothers sentenced to probation, community service for racial harassment

Two Coeur d’Alene brothers convicted of racially harassing a Puerto Rican man in August 2009 were sentenced Monday to two years supervised probation – including 300 hours of community service each, to be completed within a year – concluding a case that has undergone two jury trials and one mistrial. If they violate the terms of their probation, William and Frank Tankovich will serve five years in prison, according to Kootenai County 1st District Judge John Luster. William Tankovich would be eligible for parole after two years; Frank Tankovich after four years.
News >  Idaho

Former deputy clerk pleads not guilty

A former Kootenai County deputy clerk accused of embezzling $139,000 from her employer over a 10-year period has pleaded not guilty to a grand theft charge.
News >  Spokane

Kootenai County sheriff won’t seek re-election

Kootenai County Sheriff Rocky Watson will not seek re-election next year and will leave office after serving a total of 17 years. Watson was sheriff for one four-year term in the late 1970s, but was not re-elected. The Post Falls native and ex-Marine was appointed sheriff in 1999 following Pierce Clegg’s retirement. Watson was then elected to a full termin 2000 and re-elected in 2004 and 2008.
News >  Idaho

Ironman-in-training is learning that he is what he eats

Tom Aylward chops red peppers, rinses baby spinach leaves and boils water for pasta. As he briefly sautés the vegetables in rosemary, garlic and olive oil, Aylward stands over the pan, stirring. “Mmmmm,” he says. “Doesn’t this look good?”
News >  Spokane

Idaho trooper interviewed about fatal shooting

An Idaho State Patrol officer was interviewed last week about an officer-involved shooting that took place a month before, according to the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department, which is overseeing the investigation. ISP Cpl. Dan Howard shot and killed Christie O’Leary Little on Feb. 7, but for weeks declined to be interviewed by investigators. Last week, however, Howard “agreed to (the interview) and contacted us,” Lt. Lee Richardson of the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department said Friday. The interview on March 8 lasted “a couple of hours,” he said.
News >  Spokane

Food training hits the spot

The lunch table at North Idaho College Children’s Center was a thriving classroom on Tuesday. At the 2-year-olds’ table, the children carefully scooped homemade chicken noodle soup into their bowls. When they wanted more, teachers reminded them to say “please.” And when they were done, they cleared their plates.
News >  Spokane

CdA, Post Falls districts hope to levy voter approval

North Idaho’s two largest school districts will ask voters on March 8 for more money to help maintain operations at basic levels following two years of state budget cuts. “Just about everything that could be labeled discretionary is now gone,” said Hazel Bauman, superintendent of the Coeur d’Alene School District, which has cut $8.9 million from its budget over the past two years. “We’re really down to people at this point.”
News >  Spokane

Fugitive couple shot by Idaho trooper were married

The man and woman an Idaho State Police trooper shot on Feb. 7 after they rammed his patrol car were married, Kootenai County records show. Christie O’Leary Little, 40, was killed when Cpl. Dan Howard fired on the Jeep Cherokee following a high-speed chase initiated after Howard pulled the car over for speeding. The marriage license shows Little was divorced and refers to her as Christie Ann O’Leary of Butte.

Couple shot by ISP trooper were married

The man and woman an Idaho State Police trooper shot on Feb. 7 after they rammed his patrol car were married, Kootenai County records show.
News >  Spokane

Public vote on McEuen unlikely

The public likely won’t be asked to vote on a plan to remake a popular park in downtown Coeur d’Alene, following rejection of the idea Tuesday by a committee that forwards agenda items to the City Council. The city’s General Services Committee – councilmen Mike Kennedy, Ron Edinger and John Bruning – decided against sending the idea to the full council for consideration. Edinger, who has been an outspoken opponent of key components of the McEuen Field plan, made a motion to forward the public vote idea to the council, but it died for lack of a second.
News >  Idaho

Public vote unlikely on McEuen Field

A public vote on a plan to remake a popular park in downtown Coeur d'Alene is unlikely following rejection of the idea Tuesday by a city committee that forwards agenda items to the City Council.
News >  Spokane

Tom Aylward has transformed himself training for Ironman

A puddle of sweat covers the concrete floor below Tom Aylward’s indoor training bike. But his trainer, Shawn Burke, doesn’t give Aylward much slack. As soon as the warm-up is complete, Aylward hits the ground for push-ups and squat thrusts, jumps laterally against a resistance band, then pulls almost 300 pounds, arm-over-arm, across the gym with a heavy rope.
News >  Spokane

Trooper

An Idaho State Police report confirms that Cpl. Dan Howard fired the shots that killed one person and injured another after two Montana fugitives rammed his patrol car on Feb. 7. Mark Marion Maykopet, 24, of Butte, was treated at Kootenai Medical Center then jailed on a $1.5 million bond. His passenger, Christie O’Leary Little, 40, also known as Christie Ann Little, was killed.
News >  Idaho

ISP corporal fired fatal shots

An Idaho State Police report confirms that Cpl. Dan Howard fired the shots that killed one person and injured another after two Montana fugitives rammed his patrol car on Feb. 7.
News >  Business

Riverstone awaits final pieces

The final public improvements could be complete within the next few months at Riverstone, a 160-acre residential and commercial project along the Spokane River in Coeur d’Alene. “We will have all of our infrastructure completed, and all of our lots will be available and ready to go with this last piece, so that feels pretty good,” said Development Manager Mike Craven, of SRM Development. “We’ll have more lots available and more choices.”
News >  Spokane

Plan for CdA’s McEuen Field has plenty of room for contention

The City of Coeur d’Alene has been wrestling for more than a dozen years over what to do with McEuen Field – 20 acres of land stretching from City Hall to the Coeur d’Alene Resort that includes a well-used parking lot and boat launch, ball fields and an entrance to hiking trails on Tubbs Hill. Consultants over the years have bemoaned the presence of a vast surface parking lot at the shore of a beautiful lake and have recommended removing it and the boat launch and adding green space and other amenities.
News >  Spokane

Remains found in burned school

Authorities have discovered human remains in the rubble of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s historic former boarding school building, which was destroyed by fire Thursday. Tribal police found the remains while investigating the fire, a news release from the tribe said Tuesday.