12+ hour, 26+ min ago  (151+ words) Bonner County Daily Bee Daily Bee accepting letters for deployed soldiers Local veterans kick off a recent Sandpoint High School Bulldogs football game. The quartet of flag bearers present the flags before the home Sandpoint football games at War Memorial…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (186+ words) The engine room of one of the U. S. Navy's newest fast attack submarines, the USS Idaho, will be named for former Idaho Governor and U. S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne." U. S. Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, announced the naming in a press release…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago  (174+ words) On May 9, 1945, Hermann Goering, commander in chief of the Luftwaffe, president of the Reichstag, head of the Gestapo and Hitler's designated successor, was taken prisoner by the U. S. 7th Army in Bavaria, Germany. Goering was an early member of the Nazi Party…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (543+ words) Donald Zahn was 22 when he set foot on the grounds of Camp Toccoa, Ga. Zahn, who had enlisted in the Army paratroopers in 1942, had arrived for training " one of the original "Toccoa Men." A member of the 101st Airborne's H Company…...