‘First dog I’ve pet in 21 years’
Don Paradis hugs a friend in 2001 after being released from custody at the Kootenai County Courthouse.
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Former Death Row inmate Don Paradis receives a warm welcome in 2001 from a Yellow Labrador Retriever named Buddy.
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Don Paradis’s mug shot. In 2018, he pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated battery and use of a firearm in the commission of a crime.
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Private Enterprise Party candidates are identified by The Press in 1951 as, from left, Mrs. W.B. McCartney, Mrs. Wayne Thorton, Irene Green, Martha Hatch Hanson and Mrs. George Braden.
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Assistant coach Steve Caires, left, congratulates coach Jim Clements after a Coeur d’Alene High victory in the 1985 state playoffs.
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Kootenai County Property Owners Association board members load boxes of signatures to qualify the One Percent Initiative for the 1996 state ballot. They are, from left, Dee Lawless, Lee Knowles and Alice and Ron Rankin.
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In 2021, Bill Greenwood, Coeur d’Alene parks and recreation director, left, re-dedicates the city’s skate park in honor of Woody McEvers, right.
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Owner Mark Richeson loads Harry Truman, his stubborn mule, into a truck before the 1956 opening of his Markshire Club in Coeur d’Alene.
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Debbie Shour of Coeur d’Alene, left, helps Trish Hildebrand sign a get-well card for wounded President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
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Don Paradis wanted to do something normal after escaping execution three times during his 21 years as an Idaho prisoner — 14 years on Death Row.
So, he asked a friend for permission to pet his Yellow Labrador Retriever, named Buddy.
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