The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a fatality accident that occurred in the area of W. Rockford Bay Road and W. Spyglass Lane in the Rockford Bay area of Kootenai County. Emergency personnel first got the call of an SUV that had struck a…
Jeffrey D. Allred/Deseret News, APSnow College's Regan Buck is face masked by Butler's Deandre Howard In the Top of the Mountains Bowl football game Saturday in Sandy, Utah. SR's World In Snapshots
Item: McDonald's same-store sales jump in November: McDonald's global same-store sales rise 7.7 percent in November, US sales rise 4.5 percent/AP More Info: Consumers hungry for cheap meals boosted worldwide sales at McDonald's Corp.'s established locations by 7.7 percent in November, more proof of how…
Courtesy: Slight DetourSandy Compton, Boots Reynolds, Marianne Love, and Patrick F. McManus cuttin' up at Vanderford's Books in Sandpoint. Marianne tells you all about it here.*Old Spokane parking meters a hit w/shoppers/SR*Boise State to face TCU in Poinsettia Bowl/KTVB*Conde Nast: Sun Valley No. 6 ski…
... North Idaho has one more representative than Ada-Canyon counties on the powerful Joint Finance & Appropriations Committee, including Sen. Shawn Keough, R-Sandpoint, the vice chairman. Others from the north on the budget committee are: Sen. Joyce Broadsword, Sen. Jim Hammond, Rep. Frank Henderson, and…
Inland Empire League (girls)1. Coeur d'Alene2. Post Falls3. Lewiston4. Lake City5. Moscow6. SandpointThe rest of Greg's picksQuestion: When did you last see a high school basketball game?
Lost in all the Top and Bottom 10 lists that come out in December of each year are those films that weren’t necessarily either but that, nevertheless, disappointed us. On the Web site www.spout.com, Karina Longworth comes up with a list of the top five…
While Idaho mostly seemed to confirm its political status quo, the party shift in the national election brings some bright spots for Idaho Democrats. In addition to the scads of other federal appointments, Obama also determines the federal justice positions, including who will be Idaho's…
I was just explaining to (son) Adam why (6-month-old) Julianna can't have stuffed animals to sleep with. That it's not safe for her yet. To the boy who has no less than 20 stuffed animals in his bed, that made no sense. He said, 'Where…
Item: Liberals concerned, angry by Obama Cabinet picks, policy choices/PoliticoMore Info: Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices. Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal…
For the first time, I wrote out a check to the Kootenai County treasurer to pay the first half of my property taxes. In the past, my mortgage company has taken care of this unhappy deed. But I paid off the mortgage two months ago…
Our National Parks are basically sanctuaries for the wildlife that call them home. They are also a sanctuary for the millions of people who visit them. The biggest danger one should face is from ones own stupidity for hassling the animals. Tired, unruly children can…
Jerry Larson/Waco Tribune Herald, APAir Bus, a Dutch Warmblood sport horse, reaches over his stall Sunday and removes a ribbon his rider won at the Texas Hunter Jumper Association's Thanksgiving Show held at the Heart of Texas Coliseum in Waco, Texas. You write the cutline.)1.…
Where would Bill O'Reilly be without people like Dan Barker, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation? Barker used the presence of a Christmas Nativity scene in Washington's state Capitol to rub visitors' noses in his own scoffing at belief in God. His group installed…
For the second straight year, Idaho Gov. Butch Otter is pushing for a boost in the gasoline tax and vehicle registration fees to address the road maintenance backlog. Since no better ideas have emerged, the Legislature ought to move forward before the state falls into…
John Froschauer/AP Photo Adam Lee adjusts the balloon sculptures he made that in the likeness of Wash. Gov. Chris Gregoire wearing boxing gloves before a rally organized to oppose a sign posted in the state capitol building in Olympia, Wash. on Sunday. Next to the…
Item: Judge's ruling legalizes assisted suicide in Montana/APMore Info: McCarter ruled that mentally competent, terminally ill Montanans have a right to obtain medications that can be self-administered to bring about a peaceful death if they find their suffering unbearable. The ruling says physicians can prescribe…
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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.
