Winda Benedetti

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.

Car parts lay scattered at 10th and Harrison. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review

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

Those who work in the justice system say domestic violence is a cycle - one that often doesn't end until someone dies. In 1993, 42 percent of Idaho's homicides were related to domestic violence.

Emergency workers had an extra complication to deal with last month as they struggled to move Jon Hall into an ambulance. The Hayden Lake man weighed 455 pounds. Extra workers were called to help move the 50-year-old Hall, who became ill and died Dec. 10.

Police officials investigating the murder of an Oregon man are looking for one of the victim's acquaintances. A motorist found Ian B. Bowers' body on Interstate 90 east of Coeur d'Alene Dec. 26.