Scott Maben

An E. coli outbreak linked to a North Idaho sprouts producer may not be over yet.

An Arizona man wounded in a gunbattle early Sunday with police in Kootenai County has been charged with one felony count of eluding a police officer. His bail is set at $1 million. No charges have been filed related to the shootout at a freeway overpass in Post Falls.

An Arizona man wounded in a gun battle Sunday with police in Kootenai County has been charged with one felony count of eluding a police officer. His bond is set at $1 million.

Twelve police officers from four agencies exchanged gunfire with an armed driver early Sunday in Post Falls after the man fled a traffic stop in Coeur d’Alene, investigators said Monday. Marcus A. Rael, 24, of Glendale, Arizona, was shot and taken to Kootenai Health, where he was in stable condition Monday.

Twelve police officers from four agencies exchanged gunfire with an armed driver early Sunday in Post Falls after the man fled a traffic stop in Coeur d’Alene, investigators said today.

A mobile technology entrepreneur in Coeur d’Alene had an expensive pair of glasses go missing from his car recently. Nick Smoot told police he believes a thief took a briefcase from his Audi early last Saturday. In addition to a Macbook Pro, the leather case contained an orange Google Glass, the $1,500 computer eyewear that hit the market this spring.

Federal inspectors found numerous sanitation problems at a North Idaho sprouts grower linked to a recent E. coli outbreak. U.S. Food and Drug Administration inspections in the past three weeks found rusty and corroded watering systems and corroded implements used in growing and harvesting sprouts at Evergreen Fresh Sprouts LLC of Moyie Springs, according to a report released this week.

When the helmsman of the USS Enterprise likes your invention, you know you’re on the road to success. George Takei, who portrayed Sulu on “Star Trek” and has more than 8 million followers on social media, plugged a North Idaho couple’s idea for transforming roads, sidewalks and parking lots into solar surfaces. The next day, Scott and Julie Brusaw saw their crowdfunding campaign pass the $1 million goal.

A Coeur d’Alene woman who was hospitalized with an E. coli infection earlier this month has sued a North Idaho sprouts producer and the restaurant she says served her the food that made her sick. Honey Sayler, 33, filed suit Tuesday against Evergreen Fresh Sprouts, of Moyie Springs, and the Jimmy John’s restaurant in Hayden.

Washington and Idaho health officials are warning consumers not to eat raw clover sprouts from an Idaho producer after the sprouts were linked to seven confirmed and three probable cases of E. coli illnesses in the region.

Three-term Kootenai County Commissioner Todd Tondee was trailing by a wide margin to challenger Marc Eberlein in early returns in Tuesday’s Republican primary election.

Three-term Kootenai County Commissioner Todd Tondee was trailing by a wide margin to challenger Marc Eberlein in early returns that included only absentee ballots in Tuesday’s Republican primary election. Tondee, who owns a Post Falls car lot, had 34 percent of the vote, according to the first batch of results released just after 10 p.m., an hour behind schedule. Eberlein, the founder of a Post Falls cabinetry manufacturer, had about 54 percent of the vote. A third candidate, real estate agent Tim Herzog, claimed just 12 percent of the vote.

The Coeur d’Alene Resort will dodge a costly penalty after one of its bars was hit with a second state liquor law violation in just over a year. Splash, a resort sports bar at Sherman Avenue and Second Street, was cited by the Idaho State Police for serving a minor in early May.