North Idaho Briefs January 11, 2013

IHOP to offer free pancakes Feb. 5

COEUR d'ALENE - IHOP will once again invite guests to enjoy free pancakes during National Pancake Day on Feb. 5.

The restaurant chain hopes to raise $3 million as the first national fundraising campaign to kick off the 2013 fundraising year for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.

During National Pancake Day, more than 1,500 IHOP restaurants across the country will invite guests to enjoy a free stack of IHOP's signature buttermilk pancakes from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Guests will be encouraged to donate to the local Children's Miracle Network Hospital or other local charities.

All proceeds will help local charities provide equipment, procedures and critical care for sick and injured children.

This will mark the eighth year that IHOP has held National Pancake Day, which to date has raised more than $10 million dollars for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and other local charities.

In 2012 alone, IHOP raised more than $3 million for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and other charities.

IHOP in Coeur d'Alene is at 2301 N. Fourth St.

Texas man faces charge in crash

SANDPOINT - A Texas man is charged with vehicular manslaughter in connection with a deadly crash on U.S. Highway 95 last year.

Zachary Brandon Henager is being prosecuted at the misdemeanor level. He's accused driving imprudently on the snow-covered highway, either by traveling at a rate of speed that was too fast for conditions, being inattentive or having unsafe tires.

Henager, a 24-year-old who now lives in Moody, Texas, is scheduled to make an initial appearance in Bonner County Magistrate Court on Jan. 25. He is free own his own recognizance while the case is pending.

The charge against Henager arose from a Jan. 21, 2012, crash in Cocolalla.

Idaho State Police said Henager was southbound when he lost control of the Mazda coupe he was driving, crossed into the northbound lane and crashed head-on into a tractor-trailer.

The northbound semi went out of control and crashed into a southbound semi driven by James Mady, a 49-year-old from Creswell, Ore.

Mady was fatally injured in the collision, state police said.

Henager and the driver of the northbound semi, Richard Walston, 58, of Colville, Wash., were seriously injured in the crashes.