Amy Danner, right, a fifthgrader from Skyway Elementary, lights a candle while keynote speaker Billy Mills, left, watches on the stage of Schuler Auditorium at North Idaho College Friday morning. The candle in the center was used to light 14 candles, one for each of…
After serving in Vietnam, St. Maries resident and retired Marine Corps master sergeant Frank Werner was made the game warden at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where he learned from local residents to carve the wooden decoys he still uses on waterfowl hunts in northern Idaho.…
I was surprised to read comments made here over the three-day weekend re: Gov. Dirk Kempthorne. They were harsher than the usual pol bashing that's part and parcel with being an American. Example: "Dirk: Ignorant, aloof, and out for himself, i.e., he supports tax breaks…
Actor Ralph Archbold, second from right, portraying Benjamin Franklin, puts out electric candles on a three-tiered birthday cake made mostly of wood and plastic earlier today at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)
In Magistrate Gene Marano's courtroom today, handcuffed twentysomething inmate Jacob Nichols was cooling his heels while waiting a preliminary hearing on three charges. When Nichols' case came up, Judge Marano asked if he was in the courtroom. Nichols said he was, but his attorney wasn't.…
Issue: Another penny of sales tax for education: Teachers union pushing initiative that would raise money for salaries and other education needsDFO: We spend more that $1B for education in the state now. I have mixed emotions about this one.Question: Will Idahoans support a 6-cent…
Poll: Americans Solid on Economy, Weary of War/NewsMax; and: Zogby: Bush's Poll Numbers Dipping Again/NewsMaxQuestion: Do these polls sum up your feelings?
1. APhoto Fix: In a file photo Ruth Gallaid, from Eugene, Or., shows support for physician assisted suicide in front of the Supreme Court Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2005, in Washington. The Supreme Court this morning upheld Oregon's one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law, rejecting a Bush administration…
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
