Carl Riegert of Smithson Towing perches atop a tipped state highway department snowplow Friday morning on I-90 in Coeur d'Alene. Driver Rob Grytness ditched his rig to avoid hitting a small truck on the icy road. Photo by Sandra Bancroft-Billings/The Spokesman-Review
The holidays are almost over and the Christmas tree sitting in the living room looks like it's on its last limb.
But those wilting Christmas trees have life in them yet.
Kootenai County sheriff's deputies and detectives investigate the site where the body of Richard T. Smith was found Thursday morning at The Coeur d'Alene Resort golf course. Photo by Sandra Bancroft-Billings/The Spokesman-Review
The puck stopped where? Brandon Brown, right, and friends fish for a lost hockey puck under a boat dock frozen in 4 to 6 inches of ice Wednesday at Alpine Shores, near the northwest tip of Liberty Lake. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review
When firefighter Gary Mobbs executed his first ice rescue Wednesday, the victim - who nearly drowned in the frigid water of Hauser Lake - didn't even stop to say thanks.
Instead, he just took off running.
Maddie Weller is not one to mince words when it comes to saying what she thinks about her birthday.
"It's crummy," she said, just one day after turning 10.
Pamela Allister hopes to use her experiences of having a loved one in prison to start a support group for others in similar situations. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review
AmeriCorps volunteer Cynthia Langlitz is teaching a class on how to decorate outdoor trees with edible treats for animals. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
Joyce West works her morning crossword puzzle while she waits for workers to come and remove a tree from the roof of her Honeysuckle Bedach home at Hayden Lake. Strong winds Tuesday night brought down the big pine. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review
Mementoes of George Stroisch hang behind Stan Stroisch, his mother, Catherine Stroisch and her granddaughter, Crystal. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review
Trish Graisy was 15 years old when her world turned gruesome.
It was November 1973 and Trish's big sister, Rita, and her sister's husband, Ron Marcussen, had disappeared.
The Coeur d'Alene Police Department's CARE team will be patrolling Third Street in Coeur d'Alene today as part of a weekly traffic enforcement effort.
From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today they will cruise the area from Interstate 90 to Sherman Avenue on Third Street looking for speed violations, improper lane changes and other driving violations, said Officer Randy Miller.
Law and disorder:
1. Spirit Lake residents Kayla Fergeson, 5, John Erdahl and Curt Miller protest the firing of Chief Jeff Alexander outside the police office Friday. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
2. Bob Knapp
Kootenai County Jail officials say Steven G. Brown was the worst inmate they ever had.
He was violent, threatened to kill them, bit himself until he bled and smeared feces over jail walls, they say.
James Primmer, right, and the Lakeland Santa Songsters sound their way down Lakeside Avenue during Friday's Sixth Annual Festival of Lights Christmas Parade in Coeur d'Alene. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review
A 25-year-old man was in critical condition Friday after his car was hit by a train in downtown Rathdrum.
Brian L. Wilson of Rathdrum was being treated in Kootenai Medical Center's intensive care unit after undergoing surgery for his injuries.
Idaho State Police Cpl. Larry McGill inspects the Sunshine Express truck that overturned near the Rose Lake exit. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review
When Michelle Wagner heard the first loud pop, she thought something in her refrigerator had exploded.
But a short time later, she found a bullet lodged in her cabinet door and two bullets in her kitchen wall.
Twenty-two years and two days after Ron Marcussen's mysterious disappearance, sheriff's officials finally closed their investigation.
The Kootenai County Sheriff's Department announced Tuesday that they believe George E. Stroisch shot and killed Marcussen, who vanished along with his wife in 1973.
The deep booming noise rattled Edward Rousar's windows and shook his walls.
At first he thought a pipe in his home had burst, then he thought a massive explosion had rocked his hometown. Outside, his neighbors shuffled onto their front porches and peeked out their windows to stare at the night sky.
Residents of North Idaho, Eastern Washington and Montana flooded area emergency centers with calls Thursday after a loud boom had echoed through the evening air.
Residents from Sandpoint to Spirit Lake, Idaho, reported hearing a boom and feeling buildings shake, emergency dispatchers said.
