In the news this evening: Barack Obama gave the Queen of England and iPod here. One of Obama's campaign promises on taxes has gone up in smoke here. The US has dropped its corruption case against now-former Alaska U.S. senator Ted Stevens here. Snow is…
The CAT scan of Emerson de Oliveira Abreu, a man who came to the hospital with a spear stuck in his head after a diving accident, is shown on a monitor at the Adao Pereira Nunes state hospital in Duque de Caxias, Brazil, Wednesday. After…
The wonderful North Idaho spring weather has kept me inside today, and I have started a project. I have donned my hat and whip and decided to go on a bit of an archeological field trip ... in my bedroom. The rare artifact I am…
A dark, dark day occurred several weeks ago. My computer crashed and I was left stranded without a google lifeline. It was not until these last few weeks that I have realized how dependent I have become on the internet and my computer. I attempted…
Shannon Kisselman braved Tuesday's cold weather during a walk in downtown Coeur d'Alene today. (Kathy Plonka/Spokesman-Review). Report: Few turns down Arizona coaching job/KREM2Otter proposes budget compromise/Eye On BoiseHouse OKs open meeting law revision/Eye On BoiseSenate OKs much-amended F&G fee increase bill/Eye On BoiseSpokesman.com Blogs: Fortunate…
Christopher Dawes tosses an office phone during the Unemployment Olympics in New York, Tuesday. The lighthearted competition was only open to the unemployed, and included a such games as 'Pin the Blame on the Boss' and 'Office Telephone Toss'. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Seth…
5:23 p.m. A 30YO driver is on the ground after crashing into a tree on the I90/15th Street/CdA off-ramp.4:59 p.m. EMTs are responding to a possible hip displacement problem in Skippers parking lot.4:50 p.m. A woman @ Hauser Lake Road & Paddlewheel initially complained that…
The Spokesman-Review has been dwindling for years, slashing its size and page count and cutting its newsroom staff by almost half. But Spokane’s (former?) paper of record suffered what must be one of its most painful cuts yet last week, with the announcement that investigative…
We've always been fans of common sense, so warnings reminding Washington drivers that they must remove their snow tires by today even though there's plenty of snow on the ground seemed silly. Heavy snow fell in the Cascades over the weekend, and the rolling roads…
A 45YO homeless man has admitted to setting 20 to 25 small "smudging" fires on Tubbs Hill since last summer, including some over the weekend. A resident who saw him set one of the recent fires provided a detailed description to fire investigators. Earlier today,…
Granati/OrangeFrog76 snapped this one with his cell phone, believe it or not. He writes: "Better lighting makes all the difference with my cell phone camera. Another hdr built from a single 2 megapixel shot ... "GROWING OLDER: Just eight days ago, I had my seventy-fist…
Will Atkinson, 6, left, tries to tackle his sister Caroline, 7, as they watch Washington NCAA college football practice Tuesday at Husky Stadium in Seattle. Tuesday was the first day of spring practice for Washington, and under new coach Steve Sarkisian, practices are now open…
So who are the primary stumblebums in the fiasco the search for a new University of Idaho president has become? Are they the hired headhunters at Korn/Ferry International, who apparently failed to present the appointed search committee with candidates who wanted the job and the…
I was at a party at my sister-in-law's house a few years ago, gobbling up hors d'oeuvres like a wolf at a lamb-shank cook-off. "Good stuff," I mumbled during bites. My wife pulled me aside. "You know those canapes are made with hummus, don't you?"…
Huckleberries hears ... that Lake Coeur d'Alene residents are hopping mad this morning after enduring the outdoor lights of Duane Hagadone's 30,000sf mega-mansion on Casco Bay. Terri Porcarelli, of West Lakeshore Drive told Huckleberries this morning that the new Hagadone mansion needs "serious lampshades." She…
Montana Highway Patrol Col. Michael Tooley hands Trooper Mike Haynes' widow, Tawny, an American flag during the graveside service at Glacier Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Kalispell, Mont. Next to her are Haynes' mother, sitting third right, Melody, and his father John, sitting second right. In…
Milene Pontarollo from France shows a spring mounted high heel shoe her husband Philippe invented at the International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva, Switzerland, today. 710 exhibitors from around the world present around 1,000 products at the 37th International Exhibition of Inventions, which runs from…
Today a lighthearted April Fool’s Day story appeared in the Cd’A Press written under the fictitious name of “April Fuhl” stated that the Council had turned Tubbs Hill into a dog park. While most who have read the story understand it to be a joke,…
Rep. Walt Minnick, the rookie Democrat from Idaho, says he's rejecting earmarks in the upcoming FY 2010 budget -- the first member of his party to do so (we think). Minnick -- former Nixon administration Republican who once shared an office with G. Gordon Liddy…
My name is Allan Cawl, I have lived in Boise less than two weeks, and I am pleased to announce this will be the last edition of Boise Weekly. I am aware this news may come as a disappointment, even a shock, to many readers,…
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In the Coeur d'Alene Press today, staff writer April Fuhl wrote the newspaper's traditional faux story to celebrate April Fool's Day. In this instance, the anonymous scribe contended that the "Cur d'Alene City Council" voted unanimously to make Tubbs Hill "a full-fledged dog park --…
In this photo provided by Nicki Christiansen and the Raptor Education Group, Inc., Marge Gibson, executive director of the Raptor Education Group, Inc., holds a sandhill crane,that was captured in central Wisconsin with an arrow through her body in Antigo, Wis. She treated the crane…
The point here is Michelle Obama wants a garden and I know something about gardens. The First Lady of the house in which I was raised was big on `em. She had it in her head that gardens were a great way to teach young…
Eight years after House Democrats opened their caucuses – while majority Republican caucuses remained closed – they held a closed caucus Tuesday on fuel taxes, barring Idaho Statesman reporter Dan Popkey from entry. The Dems had asked for a five-minute recess during the fuel tax…
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.
