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.
Don Houser stood over Angie LaSarte's body.
"Oh my God, I accidentally shot her," he screamed, as the mother of four lay bleeding on the ground. In his right hand, he still gripped the silver .22-caliber handgun he had shot her with.
After a long day of interviews, sheriff's investigators said late Tuesday they have no suspects and no motive in the fatal shooting of a newspaper deliveryman.
Gary Loesch, a 56-year-old father of two, died early Monday morning while delivering The Spokesman-Review newspaper to homes in the Post Falls area.
"It is a pretty big mystery," said Kootenai County Sheriff's Capt. Ben Wolfinger. "We don't have any great suspects at this time or obvious motives to work with."
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2. Ron Thompson, who opened HomeScenes, an upscale furniture store in Hayden, found himself in a building adjacent to a sewage pumping station, which is just outside his window. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
More than a year after the state Court of Appeals released him from prison, Jehn Wood is behind bars again for the death of a toddler. After six hours of deliberations Thursday, a jury found the 34-year-old Fernwood, Idaho, man guilty of felony injury to a child.
It wasn't the first time.
A rupture in a pipeline sent natural gas spewing into the evening air Thursday and shut down a mile of state Highway 41 for more than two hours.
The Washington Water Power Co. pipeline broke open about 5 p.m. near Highway 41 and Nagle Road south of Rathdrum.
A Coeur d'Alene man became the third person to be charged with a crime for participating in a pyramid scheme that swept through Kootenai County in April 1994.
Dan Edwards, 25, was charged Wednesday with participating in an illegal money-making scheme that eventually involved more than 400 people in North Idaho and Eastern Washington.
For the third time in recent months racial slurs have shown up in graffiti scrawled in Kootenai County.
"KKK," "Hitler is a stud" and "White Power" were among the phrases spray-painted on the Post Falls water tower sometime between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning.
Seven months after a wheelchair-bound man was run down by a truck and left lying in the road, a Coeur d'Alene man has been charged in connection with the crime.
On Friday, Coeur d'Alene prosecutors charged Terry G. Calvert, 43, with failure to give immediate notice of an injury accident, a misdemeanor crime.
