The police scanner is reporting a head-on collision between a semi and a wrong-way driver on I90 at the Sherman Avenue exit that has closed a stretch of the freeway and the 15th Street ramp. Apparently, a driver drove the wrong way on the Sherman…
Don Sausser sez of this photo that he snapped Tuesday morning when the temperature had dipped to 1 degree: "The point of Tubbs Hill is silhouetted by morning sun illuminating lake fog on a one degree morning."
I'm about to call it a today, Merry Hucksters. It hasn't been a good day. The blog certainly didn't provide material that you've come to expect. But we muscled our way through it. You didn't see a lot of photos b/c I'm still trying to…
In this Sept. 9, 1954, file photo, Marilyn Monroe poses over the updraft of a New York subway grating while in character for the filming of "The Seven Year Itch" in New York.(AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman, file) Question: Which Marilyn Monroe film is your favorite?
5:56 p.m. Vehicle versus deer or elk @ M/P 8 on Highway 53, near Hidden Valley Road. 5:51 p.m. An SUV has gone over an embankment near Riverview and come to rest near the Spokane River. A small crowd has gathered around. 3:53 p.m. Traffic…
To paraphrase one of the more ignominious comments from the Iraq war, "We go to war with the defense secretary we have, not the one that we want." A bipartisan Senate committee recently released a torture report that highlights then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's endorsement of…
Item: CDA Tribe, Avista reach deal for hydroelectric dam on Spokane River/AP More Info: Avista will pay more than $150 million over the life of the deal to compensate the tribe and to protect the environment of the lake. The tribe owns the lower one-third…
Item: Former Idaho Sen. Jim McClure suffers stroke/Idaho Statesman More Info: Former Sen. Jim McClure, who represented Idaho in Congress for 24 years, suffered a stroke on Friday and is in the intensive care unit at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise. McClure, 83,…
When it comes to panhandling (from Lewiston Tribune) ... I give then money when I can. I don't give them a cent; they don't deserve it. I offer to pay them for work they can do for me. I trust that my regular charitable contributions…
We, ourselves, should be more accountable. When did we decide we were entitled to all the toys NOW, and pay for it later. Credit is fine for a house, a car, and small purchase to get you thru to payday. But houses, cars, (the newest…
Two weeks ago, "Christmas" was virtually absent at Costco's website and stores. But thanks to the volume of emails and complaints the c ompany received when the American Family Association exposed their holiday purge, receptionists now answer the phone at corporate headquarters with "Merry Christmas,"…
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You'll find ThomG's excellent blow-by-blow coverage of last night's CDA School Board meeting re: the text book controversy here (SR story here ): 5:03 -- Meeting just called to order. Full house, about 100 people. 5:06 -- Edie brooks just said no duplicate comments-- if…
I can see now that this is going to be a slow day at Huckleberries Online -- until I can figure out the new software bells and whistles. You have to crawl before you learn again how to walk. I'm a little frustrated. But I…
Huckleberries Online will be offline for awhile as Blogmeister Ryan and his Junior Blogmeisters switch over our online system and blogs to the much-anticipated new one. See you back here then.
Bullit Marquez/AP Photo Naked members of the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity offer red roses to students as they weave through a crowd during the fraternity's annual naked run dubbed "The Oblation Run" at the University of the Philippines, the country's premier university Tuesday at Manila's…
Sen. Michael Jorgenson (pictured), R-Hayden Lake, and Rep. Phil Hart, R-Athol, will try again with a bill that could suspend or revoke the business license of any employer who knowingly hires illegal aliens. In arguing for his bill in a recent Coeur d'Alene Press article,…
Kathy Plonka/SR “This is their Black Friday,” Janine Vichi, of Post Falls, says as she carries her packages into the post office in Post Falls on Monday. Mike Prager SR story here . *Idaho Records /Sherry Adkins, SR *Bitter cold blast here through mid-week /KREM2…
Stasia Kato/UI ArgonautQuestion: Describe a cheap but good Christmas gift that you've given or received?
Item: CDA School Board approves reading list/Alison Boggs, SRMore Info: Reversing a previously split vote, the Coeur d’Alene School Board on Monday unanimously approved the Aldous Huxley classic “Brave New World” as required reading for seniors, along with 25 total other novels for grades 6…
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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.
