Scary stories from the Reader staff
The Hound of the Hagavilles
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Growing up in the hinterlands of Bonner County, there was no reason to lean into decorating the front of our …
The Hound of the Hagavilles
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Growing up in the hinterlands of Bonner County, there was no reason to lean into decorating the front of our …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The rock beaches along the eastern shores of Lake Pend Oreille are an idyllic place today. With the Green Monarch Mountains rising more than 3,000 …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Bonner County District Court Judge Barbara Buchanan granted another continuance Dec. 16 in the case of Judith Carpenter, the Coeur d’Alene woman accused of murdering …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Sandpoint Police arrested a suspect in a 30-year Sandpoint cold case thanks to the power of DNA evidence.
Law enforcement arrested William R. Acosta at …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
A suspect in the death of Robert Cameron Hegseth Wohali faces charges of second-degree murder.
Michael Ryan McDermott, 47, was indicted this week for alleged …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Sandpoint officials have released the identification of a suspect in the 2018 Meandering Moose shooting.
Fabian Rebeterano, 40, is suspected in the Aug. 6 shooting …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
A man is dead of a gunshot wound and a suspect is still at large following an altercation at the Meandering Moose on Monday night.…
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The Bonner County Sheriff’s Office has made an arrest in the 2004 cold case murder of a 34-year-old Priest River mother of three.
Christine Lott …
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, …
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