An 81-year-old woman remained in intensive care Wednesday after she was savagely beaten in her Coeur d'Alene home.
Richard Nielsen found his mother-in-law collapsed in her living room Tuesday, the walls and ceiling splattered with blood, according to a Coeur d'Alene police report.
All spruced up. Jack Schwab with Tidyman's in Coeur d'Alene has been selling Christmas trees since Thanksgiving for the early birds getting into the spirit. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review
Kelly Sullivan adorns the top of the tree, while Sandy Gookin adjusts the lights for the 1996 Festival of Trees at The Coeur d'Alene Resort. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review
Dozens of searchers continued to comb the Shoshone County woods Monday, desperately trying to find a 54-year-old man who has been missing for four days and five nights.
But with 4 to 6 inches of new snow expected to blanket the area by this morning, the odds of finding the man alive grew increasingly bleak.
"The longer the search goes, the less chance you have for survival," said Lt. Skip Rapp, a veteran searcher with the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department.
More than a dozen searchers spent all day Friday combing Shoshone County's back roads looking for a missing hunter from Pinehurst.
As a storm front rolled into North Idaho, rescue workers grew increasingly concerned about George C. Saunders. The 54-year-old hunter suffers from hip and back problems, said Shoshone County sheriff's Deputy Nelson Morris.
A Coeur d'Alene woman is suing her father's nursing home, accusing the business of neglecting the 91-year-old man and causing his death.
Anna Marie Halpern says her father waited six hours with an injured spine before employees at Coeur d'Alene Convalescent Center identified the problem and took him to the hospital.
To the dismay of Kootenai County officials, the state announced Tuesday that it will not build a work camp for young criminals in Hayden.
Instead, the juvenile center will be built in Lewiston, according to a news release sent out late Tuesday afternoon by the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections.
Up in smoke. Smoldering ruins are all that remain Monday of Don Pischner's home on a hilltop above Lake Coeur d'Alene. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
"These three Gruff brothers are innocent victims of an entrapment scheme . . ." begins defense attorney Jeff Marfice in his opening statement. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
The helicopter rumors are flying again.
Only this time, it's not black helicopters, it's police helicopters.
Whispers that Sheriff Pierce Clegg secretly bought three helicopters have been filtering through the grapevine for months. And now, these mysterious whirly-birds have made their way into the political fray.
The attorney for a Post Falls man accused of gunning down his ex-girlfriend is asking Kootenai County to pay more than $14,000 for his defense.
John Adams, Kootenai County chief public defender, wants the county to pay for a university study showing that criminals in more populated Idaho counties are more likely to face the death penalty than criminals in less populated counties.
It was two days before what would have been Darlene King's 40th birthday, and her husband was on the witness stand testifying against her accused killer.
Bob King told a jury Wednesday how he'd gone searching for his missing wife in the dark, on snow and ice-covered roads, only to find she'd been killed in a head-on collision.
They have been neighbors, co-workers, and, for 17 years, good friends.
But now, Pierce Clegg and Karl Thompson are rivals. Each is vying to become the Kootenai County sheriff.
Six North Idaho judges will try to keep their office this election, but the only people they'll run against will be themselves.
Magistrate judges handle divorce cases, juvenile justice, misdemeanor crimes, traffic infractions, small claims and the preliminary stages of felony cases.
An Athol firefighter will spend 88 days in jail for driving his 13-ton fire truck into the side of a pickup, then leaving an injured man behind.
Volunteer firefighter James G. Jeffrey, 59, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident.
Six North Idaho judges will try to keep their offices this election, but the only person they'll run against will be themselves.
Magistrate judges handle divorce cases, juvenile justice, misdemeanor crimes, traffic infractions, small claims and the preliminary stages of felony cases.
