<p>SHAWN GUST/Press The publisher's retirement coupled with financial difficulty has prompted the closure of North Idaho's Rathdrum Star.</p>
June 18, 2012
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June 18, 2012 7:45 a.m.
Former newspaper owner, publisher dies
Tom Burnett, who founded the Rathdrum Star weekly newspaper before it closed in December due to his retirement, died at his home on Friday night, acquaintances said. He was 70.