ARTICLES BY DAVID COLE STAFF WRITER

Jury hears more about slain brother

COEUR d'ALENE — Jurors in teenager Eldon Samuel III's double-murder trial learned just a little more Friday about Jonathan Samuel, the brother who was 11 months younger, autistic and brutally shot and chopped with a machete on March 24, 2014.

BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 9 YEARS AGO

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CHS Ball Kids program highlights best parts of school sports

COEUR d'ALENE — It's easy sometimes to lose sight of the value of team sports in schools.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

County gun ordinance tabled

COEUR d’ALENE — The Kootenai County commissioners tabled a proposed ordinance that is being pushed by the local Republican central committee seeking to prevent federal infringement on the right to keep and bear arms.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

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Malek mulls run for secretary of state

COEUR d’ALENE — State Rep. Luke Malek is considering the job of Idaho Secretary of State.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Dad disrupts murder trial

COEUR d’ALENE — The murder trial of a 29-year-old St. Maries man accused of deliberately shooting to death his girlfriend was halted temporarily this morning by an emotional outburst by the victim’s father.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Paper to confirm mystery blogger Tuesday

COEUR d’ALENE — North Idaho Republican political campaign worker Linda Cook says she is “almostinnocentbystander,” the anonymous online commenter on the Spokesman-Review website who allegedly defamed Kootenai County Republican leader Tina Jacobson.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Judge orders rehab in Bayview racial incident

COEUR d’ALENE — A 29-year-old white man who made racist comments to a black man —then got punched out cold — was sentenced by the court Friday.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 12 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Woman duped by Nick

Police report says he made off with her car, cell phone and debit card

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

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Flood forecasts receding

COEUR d'ALENE - The Coeur d'Alene River at Cataldo is expected to crest this morning nearly three-quarters of a foot below flood stage.

COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Judge rejects Steele's $1M bond request for husband

COEUR d’ALENE — Cyndi Steele offered to put up virtually everything she owns as collateral to secure her husband Edgar J. Steele’s bond pending his trial next month.

BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Murder charge added in Bayview attack

Police reports indicate that 31-year-old Bayview resident Larry W. Cragun allegedly entered his next-door neighbors’ mobile home with both a large kitchen knife and hammer, aiming for and landing multiple blows to their heads.

BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Mom accused of child abuse

COEUR d’ALENE — A 26-year-old Coeur d’Alene woman was arrested Sunday on two counts of felony injury to a child after police found her two children living in filthy, unhealthy conditions in Coeur d’Alene.

BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO