Shooting suspect still at large
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 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 Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
No one was hurt in a gunfire incident at Huckleberry Retirement in which a resident of elderly care facility fired a pistol at a staffer.…
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
A man convicted of shooting two Bonner County sheriff’s deputies was sentenced this week to 50 years in prison.
KREM 2 News reports that Adam …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
The Bonner County Sheriff’s Office is facing a lawsuit from the widow of a man fatally shot by deputies last year.
The Idaho Statesman reports …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The front window of The Paint Bucket in Sandpoint was shot out on last Tuesday evening, Sandpoint Police Department confirmed.
The gaping hole in the …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Two Bonner County Sheriff’s deputies who were shot while serving a warrant in Blanchard are recovering, according to a statement released by Kootenai County Sheriff’s …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
An attempted traffic stop Monday night triggered a car chase and gunfire on Bonner County Sheriff’s deputies.
Oldtown resident Patrick Allen Geaudreau, 27, is at …
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