Jerry Jaeger News Today

Hagadone family gift to community arrives Friday

Bill Reagan deserving of lifetime achievement award.

Bill Reagan honored for fine career leading The Cd'A Resort

Duane Hagadone loved sizzle. He wanted his projects to inspire awe — a floating green on a lakeside golf course, the world’s longest boardwalk to extend the Coeur d’Alene waterfront and Black Friday fireworks.

It was THE place to go to celebrate. Cloud 9, perched seven stories above the shoreline, offering a sweeping view of Lake Coeur d’Alene, from Cougar, Casco and Kidd Island bays on the west to far beyond Tubbs Hill on the east.

For his third novel, La Quinta-based author Jerald J. Jaeger spent three years researching Russian oligarchy and the worlds diamond industry.

Steven Timothy Smith, of Ivins, is accused of shooting and killing his wife, Shawntell Smith. Two of his children who were at the home and heard the shots testified about helping their mother after she was shot. \n

Ivins man accused of shooting and killing his wife hours after she told him she planned to leave him while three of their four children, all teenagers and young adults, were at home.

In a story of survival, two men were able to walk away after their plane crashed in rural Nevada County.