Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman, APAda County Prosecutor Greg Bower talks to the media today in Boise after the conviction of Wesley Tuttle, 55, for the death of 14-year-old Lisa Chambers in 1982. Tuttle (who remained shackled throughout the proceeding, below) pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in…
Item: What's the real point in a bathing suit contest?/Tri-City HeraldMore Info: Is a scholarship pageant really the right place for a swimwear competition? No. There, we said it. Dacia Ramirez brought that question to many breakfast tables and coffee shops in the Mid-Columbia when…
SR Photo FileIt has been nearly 20 years since the first 1,200-pound, steel horse was bolted into place, and the project, “Grandfather Cuts Loose the Ponies,” is only half finished. State officials have had trouble finding the money to complete it. The 15 galloping horses…
Here’s a surprising development: The Idaho Election Campaign Fund, for which Idahoans have checked boxes on their state tax returns since 1975 if they want to donate a dollar to a political party of their choice or to a general political campaign fund, this year…
Bill Sali has done it again. The congressman from Idaho's 1st District joined the small minority of members who recently voted against giving the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco products. That means if Sali had his way, the agency with authority…
Courtesy: LaRocco For Senate campaignAbove, you'll see the LaRocco for Senate TV commercial that debuted today. What do you think of it?DFO: If anyone has access to similar YouTube commercials for other U.S. Senate and House candidates, please send them to HBO Central.
Dan Pelle/SRGlenn Anderson listens to other inmates discussing issues for the Right Living program at the Airway Heights Corrections Center. The program is basically instituting a community lifestyle within the cement walls by forcing inmates to abide by community structure including work ethics, education, honesty,…
*The first edition of Trish Gannon's new River Journal mag just landed in the mail. It looks like all the regular writers are there -- Trish, Sandy compton, Marianne Love, Ernie Hawks, etc. -- as well as some newbies. I like the new slogan, "Because…
Much has been made about Obama's youth, and I've joked about how much I love to hear that, being just nine days older than he is. In 1908, an American man could expect to live just 49.5 years. Had they lived a century ago, Barack…
Steve: Does anyone know when the 9th St Bridge will re-open?? Wasn't it supposed to be the end of July??DFO: Aug. 18, according to Barbara Babic of the Idaho Department of Transportation.
Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman was injured in a car accident late Sunday night and is in a hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Kathy Stringer said Freeman, 71, is in serious condition. The hospital is about 90 miles north of the accident scene…
Now it seems there is a movement afoot to pay reparation to the descendants of slaves. Of course it is being politicized since Obama is opposed to it. According to an AP article he feels the best reparation that can be made is providing good…
But for all the worldwide jokes about Craig, I never fully realized until recently how totally newsworthy Idaho's senator had become. People had been coming up to me here and there around town asking if I knew where to find Obama buttons. So I was…
AP File PhotoIn this 1970 file photo, author Alexander Solzhenitsyn speaks to reporters in Stockholm, Sweden, after collecting the 1970 Nobel Prize in literature. Russian news agencies report that Solzhenitsyn died late Sunday. Story here.Question: Have you read any of Solzhenitsyn's works?
Originally posted 11:27 p.m. FridayItem: Ex-UI researcher faces deportation/Shawn Vestal, SR.More Info: Katarzyna Dziewanowska grew up in the "gray communist life" of Poland. But it was in America where she found a truly nightmarish experience with a bureaucracy. After nearly 14 years as a researcher…
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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.
