A 13-year-old Washington boy died after suffering traumatic injuries from a boat propeller while wakeboarding with family on Lake Coeur d'Alene Tuesday. The boy's grandfather, Marvin Markham, 70, of Spokane Valley, was operating a 1997, 21-foot inboard Maxium boat with Leisha Konrad, 39, of Spokane,…
OrangeTV/Remember The RoxyIn the latest offerings at Remember The Roxy, OrangeTV publishes a photo that many old-timers will remember -- the old Coeur d'Alene Junior High building. Which also was the high school building. Later, a community center. By the time I got here in…
Handshake Productions deserve a handshake indeed, or at least a high-five for bringing us a ton of live music every summer for many moons now. These are the folks who always put together the concerts at Cd'a and Hayden City Parks, Riverstone concert series, and…
Clay Lomneth/Reno Gazette-Journal, APMichael Bolanda lays down in the parking lot of a flooded gas station in the Stead area of Reno, Nev. as friend Chance Barnes rides by on his bike Monday. Heavy rain from fast-moving thunderstorms caused flash flooding Monday in Stead, knocking…
... Or would you release the Hounds of Inappropriateness to hunt down David Horsey of the Seattle P-I? (Yes, this is a satire of a controversy over a satire. Thought I should explain that upfront, so people wouldn't get upset for not getting it.)From: A…
Confessed serial killer Joseph Duncan has been transferred to the Federal Detention Center in Sea-Tac, Washington. According to court records and the federal inmate locator, Duncan is now being housed at the Federal Detention Center at Sea-Tac and was transferred there TuesdayKXLY. More here. Hat…
The Coeur d’Alene Multiple Listing Service recorded the average home sold for $226,423 during the first half of the year, a 5 percent decrease. The median declined 4 percent, reflecting drops in sales at both ends of the price spectrum. The greatest percentage of sales…
AP File PhotoIn a in Nov. 1975 file photo, actor Jack Nicholson is shown in a scene from the movie "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest". Oregon State Hospital, the mental institution where the 1975 movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was filmed, is…
"It's a very attractive area, whether for a down-shifting boomer looking to slow down or for a person who wants to raise a family," (Newgeography.com executive editor Joel) Kotkin said, adding that the region's housing prices are also appealingly moderate. "Taxes are relatively low --…
A semi-truck carrying construction material rolled and is blocking traffic traveling east and west on Highway 53. Authorities are working to clear this mess on Highway 53 in north Idaho. Traffic is currently being diverted onto old Highway 95/KREM2. More here. ISP report below.
Summer is pretty much the Season of Tragic Unintended Consequences anyway. Not only bears and bees but fireworks, ATV's, drunken boat operators, logging trucks with bad brakes, forgotten cases of dynamite and blasting caps left near abandoned silver mines off North Idaho hiking trails, mower…
Don Soltman, an executive at the Kootenai Medical Canter in Coeur d'Alene, is a Republican who supports Mr. Minnick. "Socially, I can support him much easier than I can support Bill Sali," he said. Mr. Soltman said that while he typically votes Republican, he finds…
J. Bart Rayniak/SRChris Hosmer looks at a picture on her camera that she took of her husband Rick, right, and Andy Dunau, executive director of nonprofit Spokane River Forum, Saturday. Rick is the creative director of the graphic arts firm Klundt-Hosmer, and is doing illustrations…
The so-called King of Spam is being sentenced in Seattle, and it's difficult to think of a punishment that's too harsh. Robert Soloway, 28, is thought to have sent billions of spam e-mails over the course of his wretched career. Chances are, you've had some…
Which generation is the whiniest?/Idaho Statesman *The Greatest Generation*Baby boomers*Gen Xers*Gen Yers*Not sure
Item: Spanking story goes national: Father didn't think coming forward 'was going to get this big'/Tom Greene, Coeur d'Alene PressMore Info: With national "Fox News" and "Inside Edition" calling, the husband of the mom accused of injury to child at the Fourth of July parade…
Paul Delaney, River City River RunnersMindy Boes of EPIC Adventures from Eastern Washington Univerisity guides a paddle raft through the Devils Toe Nail Epic on the Lower Spokane River Sunday, July 13, 2008. The float was part of a 7-leg trip organized by the Spokane…
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