Scott Maben

After 16 years of collecting garbage in Coeur d’Alene, Waste Management has lost its contract with the city. The City Council on Tuesday night voted 5-1 to award a new contract for garbage and recycling collection to Coeur d’Alene Garbage Service, the lowest of three bidders.

A Coeur d’Alene sex offender faces as much as 55 years in prison for an assault on a coworker last fall. Jason A. Edwards, 45, who worked at the Coeur d’Alene Press, pleaded guilty Monday morning to first-degree attempted kidnapping, battery with intent to commit a serious felony and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

The Idaho State Police is trying to learn how a 19-year-old Sandpoint man was seriously injured and left in a roadway early Monday morning. Jordan T. Williams was found unresponsive in the southbound lane of Boyer Avenue at the intersection of Mountain View Drive in Sandpoint at 12:41 a.m.

A Coeur d’Alene sex offender accused of assaulting and trying to kidnap a woman he worked with last fall may plead guilty next week. Jason A. Edwards, 45, who worked at the Coeur d’Alene Press, had pleaded not guilty to attempted first-degree kidnapping, battery with intent to commit a serious felony and aggravated assault in the Nov. 1 incident outside the newspaper’s downtown office.

Jamie Pendleton, who sparked controversy with his “Date Grape Kool-Aid” drink at his downtown Spokane bar and violated federal trademark law for using Gonzaga University’s bulldog mascot in bar promotions, has admitted using a Post Falls man’s debit card to steal almost $1,000. Pendleton, 42, pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony grand theft. He will be sentenced May 24 in 1st District Court for Idaho.

Former members of a luxury golf club on Lake Coeur d’Alene have lost a class-action lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in membership refunds after the club was surrendered to a Spokane-based bank in 2010. The plaintiffs sued Washington Trust Bank and subsidiary West Sprague Avenue Holdings LLC, arguing that they were entitled to almost $29 million in club initiation fees paid to The Club at Black Rock LLC. They also sought $15 million in interest and other damages.

Loren Michelle Toelle, the wife of Coeur d’Alene gastroenterologist Stanley Alvin Toelle, pleaded not guilty to felony drug distribution in federal court Thursday. Her son, Sean Lee Jackson, pleaded not guilty to related drug charges at the same hearing in Coeur d’Alene. Both are in federal custody, and both were appointed public defenders.

A Coeur d’Alene long-haul truck driver pleaded guilty Wednesday to molesting seven boys between the ages of 8 and 14. Kevin Gerard Sloniker faces a prison term of up to seven consecutive life sentences when he is sentenced July 13.

Three North Idaho school districts hope voters of all stripes head to the polls Tuesday, the day Republicans in the state hold their presidential primary. All three districts have a lot riding on Tuesday’s ballot, with school funding measures that account for 20 to 40 percent of their operating budgets. But with such high interest in the presidential race, voter turnout will be heavily conservative for the tax measures.