Through the windows of her business, Brenda Hochhalter can watch the parade of accidents along Appleway.
"There sure are a lot of fender benders," Hochhalter said as a knot of cars and trucks whisked by her business, 3-D Office Systems.
A halfmillion dollars is headed to North Idaho and it's wearing a police badge.
Thousands of dollars in federal money was granted Wednesday to the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department, Post Falls Police Department and Spirit Lake Police Department to hire new "community policing" officers.
A teenager with a penchant for calling a phone sex line is responsible for the costly charges that have appeared on numerous North Idaho phone bills, GTE officials said Monday.
The 17-year-old boy, who lives in the Spirit Lake area, charged $15,000 worth of 900 phone line calls to about 50 Hayden-area residents, said GTE and Kootenai County sheriff's officials.
Post Falls police investigators Dick Halligan, right, and Harlan Fritzsche enjoy their new, roomier working quarters. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review
Post Falls Art Council board member Meg Elyard views the opening exhibit of "Art from the Heart and Other Places," compiled by local victims of domestic violence. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review
A 54-year-old man accused of raping a prostitute at his mother-in-law's cabin is now facing two felony charges.
The Kootenai County prosecutor's office filed charges of rape and interstate trafficking in prostitution against John P. Dempster of Spokane.
Domestic violence protection orders are meant to protect victims of abuse.
But police and victims say the orders often do more to frustrate than to protect.
Mike Griffin figures God saved him from drowning 15 years ago so he could do the same for another man.
In a daring rescue last February, the 42-year-old postal worker pulled a snowmobiler from the icy waters of North Idaho's Twin Lakes.
Patrick McFadden will be walking in his father's footsteps when he takes over as the new Benewah County magistrate next month.
The St. Maries attorney was chosen for the judge's position Tuesday - a position his father, Richard McFadden, held before him.
"I think my interest in a career in the judiciary was formed when my dad had the job and I was going to law school and watching him," Patrick McFadden said Tuesday. "I always thought I would like to become a judge one day."
Authorities are looking into a report that a Beauty Bay woman charged with fatally shooting her husband last month had shot him before.
James Caba Sr., 59, of Beauty Bay, died Dec. 15 from a gunshot wound to the chest. His widow, Darlene Caba, now stands charged with second-degree murder in his death.
A man accused of beating his roommate to death last weekend has a history of committing violent crimes, police say.
Kootenai County prosecutors charged James N. Moen, 28, with felony aggravated battery and with being a "persistent violator."
Mark Jones' landlord didn't realize the 46-year-old man was bleeding to death as they sat talking for two hours Saturday night.
"He acted so calm and casual about it," said Louie Box, assistant manager of the State Motel.
Mark Jones' landlord didn't realize the 46-year-old man was bleeding to death as they sat talking for two hours Saturday night.
"He acted so calm and casual about it," said Louie Box, assistant manager of the State Motel. "There were no cuts, no bruises."
A Beauty Bay woman accused of shooting and killing her husband was charged with second-degree murder Friday.
Kootenai County sheriff's deputies arrested Darlene Caba on Friday afternoon, more than a month after James Caba Sr.'s death on Dec. 15.
A man who claimed he rescued a woman from three rapists a month ago merely faked the incident to impress his girlfriend, Post Falls Police said Tuesday.
Robert Stephen Levan also faked his own kidnapping, Spokane Sheriff's officials said.
"As it turned out, he lied from start to finish," said Post Falls Police Sgt. Dick Halligan.
Lynn Hopkins thought she'd made it impossible to call "sleazy phone sex lines" from her telephone.
More than a year ago she asked GTE to install a 900 block on her phone - a feature designed to prevent calls to the costly numbers.
Officer Jason MacNeil figures he's clamped the cuffs on more than 150 drunken drivers.
But on Monday night the dangers of drunken driving took on a personal meaning for the 29-year-old Coeur d'Alene officer.
Jeannette Rollins sorts mail for her daily route amid the stacks of boxes and carts that have no other place to go. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review
Red-faced and giggling with embarrassment, a 14-year-old boy described having sex with his uncle's girlfriend, while his uncle joined in.
On Monday, the teen's 13-year-old brother quietly told a judge that he too had sex with the woman while his uncle stood nearby.
Prosecutors filed several felony charges Monday against the two Spokane men accused of leading North Idaho officers on a half-hour high speed chase.
The Kootenai County prosecutor filed grand theft auto and eluding charges Monday against James Pilcher, 20, and James Taie, 28. Taie also was charged with aggravated assault. The two are accused of leading officers on a chase Saturday that reached speeds of 100 mph.
Sheriff's deputies arrested two Spokane men Saturday after the pair led them on a half-hour, high-speed chase that sometimes topped 100 mph.
Officers from three agencies chased James P. Taie and James E. Pilcher after they allegedly stole a pickup truck from a Hayden home.
Kootenai County Prosecutor Bill Douglas, left, and former domestic violence victim P.J. Miller, right, listen as Holladay Sanderson, acting director of the Women's Center, discusses legislation to expand the use of protection orders. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
