Look who has the momentum now. It wasn’t improbable, but the Post Falls High girls basketball team pulled off victories in back-to-back nights that some may have thought implausible. Some, that is, except the Trojans. After knocking off second-ranked and Inland Empire League champ Coeur…
A quartet of sparrows bask in the sun on a chilly and single-digit cold morning in North Idaho. (OnLocation North Idaho/Kerri Thoreson)
About 400 passengers at the Boise Airport about noon Friday had to go through screening a second time after a California man seeking a shoe shine entered the secure area through the exit corridor, Transportation Safety Administration officials said/Idaho Statesman. More here.DFO: Hey, I've know…
Wearing traditional dresses for a symbolic wedding six-years-old Dominik, right, as groom and Tadea, left, as bride kiss as they celebrate the story of "Bird's Marriage" in a kindergarten in Panschwitz, eastern Germany, Friday, Jan. 25, 2008 The children of the Sorbs, a national German…
I hope you HBOers have noted that Editor Steve Smith and other SR editors have asked for a review of our draft ethics code. News Is A Conversation is asked for feedback here. Also, Steve has scheduled a meeting in the SR's CDA office to…
The body of Heath Ledger is removed from the Frank E. Campbell funeral home in New York, Friday. Ledger, 28, died at his Manhattan apartment on Tuesday. (AP Photol/Rick Maiman)
Smoke and flames rise after a fire broke out at the Monte Carlo hotel-casino in Las Vegas today. The fire, which was reported around 11 a.m., Friday halted gambling at the casino as it spread from the center of the building across the roof. No…
Thom George IllustrationMan, those Presidential campaigns really age people.
Item: Meridian schools sue Eagle over revenues from urban renewal: The district says it doesn't want to lose out on growth; Eagle mayor says the area may actually help the schools/Colleen LaMay, Idaho StatesmanMore Info: The state's largest school district is suing Eagle over what…
Cows graze in a field near the snow covered Lizard Butte just outside Marsing, Idaho, today. A Thursday evening snow storm dropped about two inches of snow throughout the Treasure Valley. (AP Photo/Idaho Press-Tribune, Greg Kreller)1. The Boise Airport has been evacuated due to a…
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, looks at his wife, Elizabeth, after kissing his wife and announcing his withdrawal from the Democratic presidential primary race at the International Laborers' Union Local 310 hall today in Cleveland.
How has the writers’ strike changed your television-watching habits?/Idaho Statesman. *A lot*Somewhat*Not a bit*Don't watch TV
Item: School lesson in racism irks Twin Falls parent/Associated PressMore Info: The parent of a fifth-grader at Summit Elementary in south-central Idaho says a Martin Luther King Jr. Day lesson went too far. Mike Stokes says he's considering taking his daughter out of the school…
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re: Crude language in newspapersNo fake swear words (freakin), and no real swear words (a-hole), in a headline, period. I might use either word in a quote, if necessary, but I wouldn't then go and pull it out drawing further attention to it. A man…
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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.
