Bonners Ferry Herald

January 19, 2023 1 a.m.

Local man leads slow speed chase, facing charges

A local man led four law enforcement vehicles on a slow-speed chase, crisscrossing and parading through town earlier this month, and by the end, ended with charges of driving under the influence, attempting to elude police, possession of marijuana and the driver being tased.

January 19, 2023 1 a.m.

Boundary County’s first baby of 2023

Mckinzie Lucille Pestarino, born through a home water birth on Jan. 12 at 1:26 p.m., is the first baby born in Boundary County this year.

January 19, 2023 1 a.m.

Boundary County Calendar - Jan. 19-26, 2023

Community events and meetings across Boundary County for the coming week.

January 19, 2023 1 a.m.

Blanche Studer, 89

Blanche Antoinette (Larson) Studer passed away January 15, 2023, in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.

January 19, 2023 1 a.m.

Oma Louise Sanders, 81

Oma Louise Sanders, 81, passed away on December 26, 2022, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s.

January 19, 2023 1 a.m.

Boundary County Court Records - Jan. 19, 2023

Information on local cases in Boundary County

January 19, 2023 midnight

Legals for January, 19 2023

January 18, 2023 3:15 p.m.

Backwoods Brawl competition coming soon

Bonners Ferry and Timberlake High Schools are set to compete in a soon-to-be annual spirit competition — the Backwoods Brawl — on Jan. 27 in Spirit Lake.

January 18, 2023 1:06 a.m.

Herndon sponsors bill to remove gender considerations from public projects

A bill that would allow contractors in Idaho to disregard a federal executive order barring discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity for certain projects was introduced in the Senate State Affairs Committee on Monday morning.

January 17, 2023 1:08 a.m.

Committee advances bill to change legal definition of abortion

Panel declines to advance bill that sought to remove rape, incest defenses from abortion ban

The Senate State Affairs Committee voted to introduce one of two abortion-related bills sponsored by Sen. Scott Herndon, R-Sagle, that would change Idaho’s legal definition of abortion in what Herndon said was an attempt to address concerns from medical professionals around ectopic pregnancies and other certain medical circumstances. Herndon’s bill to remove the rape and incest affirmative defenses under the state’s abortion ban failed to advance to a print hearing.

January 16, 2023 4 p.m.

Cd’A Airport could see commercial flights

Community members gathered Thursday night at the Stancraft Jet Center to learn about the possibility of a commercial terminal at the Coeur d’Alene Airport. The informational meeting was hosted by Stancraft and Avports, an airport operations management company based in Virginia, which has proposed the development of a commercial use passenger terminal.

January 16, 2023 4 p.m.

A white sedan: How police tracked slayings suspect

Authorities say a key piece of evidence in the case of four University of Idaho students stabbed to death in November turned out to be surveillance footage showing a white sedan driving past the victims' home. According to a police affidavit unsealed Thursday, the car drove past three times before the stabbings early on Nov. 13 and was recorded speeding away afterwards. Investigators said they later tracked the car — and eventually, DNA evidence — to Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old graduate student in criminology at Washington State University, just across the state border. Kohberger made an initial appearance in an Idaho courtroom Thursday after being extradited from Pennsylvania, where he was arrested last week.