Friday, December 19, 2025

ARTICLES BY KATHLENE KOLTS

A gun crime, not a hate crime

COEUR d’ALENE — A former California resident who stood trial for conspiracy to commit a hate crime this spring in Kootenai County was sentenced up to nine years in prison for possessing a firearm.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Carlson sentenced to 27 months on cocaine charge

COEUR d’ALENE — A federal judge sentenced a once prominent community figure and local school booster to 27 months in prison for possessing cocaine.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Judge orders builder to pay victims $120K

COEUR d'ALENE - A one-time Coeur d'Alene area builder arrested in 2008 for felony grand theft by deception after taking money for contracting jobs and skipping the work was ordered to pay his victims back in full on Wednesday.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Time to get Comp Plan done

On Wednesday I read two articles in the Coeur d'Alene Press with wide-eyed incredulity. Apparently County Commissioners Currie and Piazza have decided to cast all modicum of the truth to the wind and express their opinions and "concerns" about the proposed 2008 Comprehensive Plan. These politicians now enter an arena …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

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