Authorities warn against scam calls
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
The Bonner County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents to be wary of calls claiming to be from one of its deputies.
According to a sheriff’s …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
The Bonner County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents to be wary of calls claiming to be from one of its deputies.
According to a sheriff’s …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
A manhunt in Sagle Saturday morning that prompted a Nixle alert ended without locating the man in question.
Around 10 a.m. a Bonner County Sheriff’s …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
A cougar was spotted in Sandpoint on Thursday morning. Local resident Casey Calhoun said she spotted the mountain lion near her home on Poplar St. …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
The Bonner County Sheriff’s Office is on the hunt for a suspect or suspects in the suspicious death of Clark Fork resident George Gerald Andres, …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
A Bonner County man was fatally shot by Bonner County Sheriff’s Office deputies this week after the officers tried to serve him a felony arrest …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
A Washington man is accused of murder after a cab driver was found stabbed to death Monday.
Puyallup, Wash., resident Jacob Coleman, 19, is in …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
When it comes to crime, we traditionally rely on law enforcement’s reactive response after a crime has been committed. With the “Community Force” neighborhood watch …
Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
An 11-year-old boy died Tuesday in a drowning incident at the Morton Slough boat launch on the Pend Oreille River.
A 911 call around 4 …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Local law enforcement are still in search of a Sandpoint man who went missing last week.
Despite following up on several leads and pinging his …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Editor’s note: As a brief respite from our tales of Old Sandpoint and its fight to curb prostitution after the turn of the century, this …
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