5:53 p.m. Vehicle has crashed into median on I-90 @ M/P31 (Fourth of July pass), partly blocking roadway.
5:29 p.m. Triple-A tow service tells a local driver who needs help that there are 9 to 10 motorists ahead of him -- and he'll have to wait about 2 hours.
5:04 - 5:18 p.m. A large van has crashed into a guardrail on H95 @ M/P 408 (near Setters). 2 vehicles have crashed on S-curve of H41 & Coeur d'Alene/Rathdrum. A single vehicle has crashed on I-90 @ M/P 18 (east of Sherman Avenue exit).
4:45 p.m. 2-vehicle crash is blocking busy s/b H95 @ Haycraft, just north of Appleway. Also, non-injury accident at Kathleen & Ramsey.
4:41 p.m. Caller reports seeing pickup slide off into trees @ H95 & Corbin Hill.
4:28 p.m. CPD Blues are checking out fraud report @ Capones/CdA.
4:14 p.m. Patrol officers are working on 3 slideoffs along upper Ramsey Road. Officer reports that Ramsey, from Lancaster to H54 (Athol) is too icy for travel.
4:05 p.m. A male in a homicidal mood is at Dirne Clinic threatening to kill someone.
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3:54 p.m. A vehicle attempting to pass a snowplow on H3 has gone over an embankment, about 6 miles south of St. Maries.
3:53 p.m. Circle H bar in Tensed reports a 4-wheel driver is pulling kids & dodging traffic on H95.
3:23 p.m. UPS truck has slide off road & needs tow @ Aqua & Franklin/CdA.
3:16 p.m.
Stop sign @ Strahorn & Drawbridge/Hayden was broken off as
emergency workers pulled a bus full of children from spot it'd gotten
stuck during a slideoff.
3:15 p.m. A male with a backpack is walking along H95, south of Prairie/CdA.
2:46 p.m. A school bus full of children is stuck after sliding off road @ Strahorn & Drawbridge/Hayden.
2:41 p.m.
Vehicles are parked along both sides of road near "Y" at Upper Hayden
Lake & Hayden Lake roads, creating impassable situation.
2:27 p.m.
Caller reports that the female driver of a 1993 van headed east on
Seltice Way after leaving the UPS store may be drunk. Woman smelled of
liquor & swore.
2:03 p.m. A disabled vehicle is a traffic hazard @ Atlas & Kathleen/CdA.
1:29 p.m. CPD Blue has trespassed Curtis from Coeur d'Alene Resort.
1:28 p.m.
A female on foot is afraid to move because a neighbor's pitbull has
jumped its fence and is growling at her, @ 10th & Norlyn/CdA.
1:18 p.m. Budget Motel on Lakeside/CdA reports unconscious person on premises.
1:06 p.m. A disorderly person is reported in 100 block of S. 2nd (Coeur d'Alene Resort).
12:46 p.m. Kelly reports she sold a trailer to a male who has quit making payments.
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.
