In the news this evening, Ferris High boys' basketball coach Don Van Lierop has been cleared of sex abuse charges by Spokane police here. Congress has extended jobless benefits to laid-off workers here. The Dow shed another 445 points today here. And I'm going to…
"If the current HBO crowd is the "Laugh In" cast, who is who?" asks JoeB. "Is Cindy or Kendra Goldie? Who's the 'very interesting' Nazi observer? I can't even remember all of their names, and I bet some of our younger fans can't even remember…
re: introducing Shawn Vestal's terrific new blog, Everyday Economy: This is no time to be skipping the fine print on any agreement you have with a bank. Credit card terms are changing. Checking account fees are going up. And the changes are very hard to…
4:27 p.m. CDA woman wants to see an officer re: her teen son testing positive for drugs.4:16 p.m. Officer reports that there's still hunters in the forest, and it's starting to snow on Fernan Saddle. However, the road into Fernan Saddle is still passable.3:15 p.m.…
I've seen many beautiful people, and beautiful . I've stood at the edge of the Rift Valley in East Africa, and taken in the vastness of the plane below. I've stood on Kilimanjaro and watched the sun rise in the east over the Indian Ocean.…
Courtesy: Orangefrog76At Orangefrog76, Granati provides this photograph and another of the graffiti vandalism that has hit the 40 BNSF railroad cars, parked between the old DeArmond Mill site and Riverstone.*Golden Goose/Tumblewords*Beauty/Synaptic Disunion*'Boston Legal' episode made me think/Silver Valley Girl*Bless your heart, Betty/Slight Detour*An interesting Monday/Still…
Item: Idaho soldier claims duct tape title/APMore Info: An Idaho soldier stationed in Iraq has won $5,000 and a year's supply of duct tape after using the adhesive to fix the brake system on a military vehicle. Joshua Roach entered a contest the Henkel Corp.…
Item: Richland teen scratches off 'graduation' from 'bucket list'/Laura Katy Zaichlin, Tri-City HeraldMore Info: Liz Evett was met by nearly 650 cheering peers, relatives and teachers as she was wheeled into the auditorium wearing a purple cap and gown. "When we came in the auditorium…
"Sure," I replied. I mean, how hard could it be? You take the iron thingie and hit the white ball into a tiny hole. Not exactly like running a 40-yard touchdown while being chased by 300-pound linebacker. "Have you ever played before?" Gardner asked. He…
As heavy equipment moves into Sandpoint to build a highway bypass that will separate the resort community from its waterfront, here is a prediction whose value is probably limited to a point of future interest: Sandpoint will live to regret this move. This prediction does…
The Great American Smokeout traditionally takes place on the third Thursday in November. The concept dates from the early '70s when Lynn Smith, publisher of the Monticello Times of Minnesota, announced the first observance and called it "D Day." The idea caught on in state…
Amy Sancetta/APTwo dogs, happy to be wearing their own fur coats, wait for their owner while tied outside a fur store which is going out of business in Chagrin Falls, Ohio on Wednesday. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines1. When asked how the economy projections were…
Well, it looks like ol' Jack Frost will soon be nipping at us like a pack of aggressive panhandlers in the downtown Spokane business core. Yes, winter is on the way. And just like each and every year, the entire region is likely to experience…
Lee McKenzie Wood’s son, Mark McKenzie, was murdered in the house at Wolf Lodge Bay in a 2005 attack that also killed his fiancée, Brenda Matthews Groene, and her 13-year-old son Slade. “I want the house torn down,” Wood said. “It’s just eating me alive…
Item: Witnesses describe 2006 Kathleen Avenue crash scene: Defendants face 15 years in prison if convicted/Tom Greene, CDA PressMore Info: Eric Harris, a wastewater management truck driver, was westbound on Kathleen Avenue at the time of the accident. Harris said he has been a truck…
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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.
