In the news this morning: UW basketball coach Lorenzo Romar says WSU hired the right man in Ken Bone here. A Pierce County woman says her husband killed her 5 children, himself to punish her here. Study: 1 in 5 4-year-olds obese here. Obama shows…
Darin Winkler holds a bottle he found March 28 in the Spokane River in Spokane. The bottle from almost a century ago held a note written on March 30, 1913, by Emmett Presnell. Story here. (AP Photo/The Spokesman-Review, Christopher Anderson) SR's Today In Photos.
Me: This reminds me of a pet peeve I have - people burning crap in their yards this time of year. We get a BEAUTIFUL day - bright, sunny, airplanes buzzing overhead, maybe a lawn mower running, kids playing - then the stink of people…
JeanieSpokane: Now it's my turn. I will be seeing my kidney specialist in a couple weeks to discuss either going on dialysis or being put on a transplant list. It is a monumental deal. It's not that I'm surprised because I have known this day…
Emma Watson, 7, does homework at home in Craigmont, Idaho on March 30, 2009. Emma was set to meet Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican in Rome as part of a Make-a-Wish request. The trip has been delayed because she became too ill to make…
Bull rider Cody Ford of Stanfeild, Oregon gets butted by Smokey after receiving a no score on his ride Saturday night in Nampa, Idaho, in the Professional Bull Rider's Nampa Invitational. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Idaho Press-Tribune, Mike Vogt)Top Cutlines:1. Cody says, “In hindsight,…
5:21 p.m. R/P reports a woman in the Garwood Elementary area has shot herself in the chest with a shotgun.4:24 p.m. R/P reports finding homemade spike strip on Ohio Match Road.4:04 p.m. An drunk female on St. Emilion Drive is threatening to kill herself.3 p.m.…
Michael Scott/CdA got beat up over a lemon slice. Seems he dropped the slice while he was at the Iron Horse with a friend around 1 in the morning Thursday -- and it hit a woman. Whose boyfriend punched Scott in the face because he…
Portland State coach Ken Bone and players celebrate a win against Montana State in an NCAA college basketball game at the Big Sky men's basketball tournament March 11 in Ogden, Utah. Portland State won 79-77. Bone has accepted the offer to replace Tony Bennett as…
Walkabout: Today I called animal control about a dead deer washed up on a beach on Tubbs Hill. They said they would call fish and game. When they got back to me they said that they weren't going to do anything about it. The exact…
One thing that didn't go over well with me was when I was standing on the dock, after we finished our training. This couple walks by, and the man is looking at the boat. The guy we are with from the Marina says that we…
"With snow-covered Rathdrum Mountain as a backdrop, golfers turned out in droves on the first sunny Sunday in April. Most North Idaho golf courses opened this week, a sure sign of Spring," Councilwoman KerriT/OnLocation North Idaho. Rise and shine, baby, gardening season is on/Bent's Beer…
Fishwife: A noticeable lack of details in the sheriff's press release. What type of medications? Criminal charges to follow? I hope this doesn't turn into a whitewash. What Idaho law prevents the sheriff from disclosing the deputies's names? Where are our intrepid SR reporters?DFO: Ah,…
Item: Most in poll back Obama outreach to Muslims while continuing to have misgivings about the religion/Washington PostMore Info: Most Americans think President Obama's pledge to "seek a new way forward" with the Muslim world is an important goal, even as nearly half hold negative…
Rathdrum Police Officer Chris Taylor took his turn at the POST (police officer standards and training) Academy jump test during physicals at Lake City High School in Coeur d'Alene on Monday. The POST Academy is the first of its kind in North Idaho. (Kathy Plonka/Spokesman-Review.)Spokane's…
A number of Kootenai County Jail personnel have been fired or discipline as a result of allegations involving inmate medications that led to an extensive internal investigation. In a news release from the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department, the investigation began when the sheriff learned of…
I was happy to see that Carrie Underwood won entertainer of the year, but I would have been happy for any of the candidates. They're all superb musicians and performers in their own way. It was especially neat for Carrie and for those of us…
People watch a salamander cross a roadway in New Haven, Vt., Sunday. They volunteered on a recent night to carry salamanders, frogs and newts across the road during their annual migration to mate. On rainy nights in early spring, roads between forests and vernal pools…
Item: Gardeners see recession as ideal time to put down roots/Shawn Vestal, SRMore Info: There’s a booming interest in gardening this recessionary spring, both here and around the country. More and more people – looking to save on food and perhaps to eat more organic,…
... (outside the new Youth Ranch Thrift Store on 4th early Saturday afternoon): "Now that they're in the new digs,everything's more expensive" -- fortysomething man in a blue-jean jacket to his female companion.
... that some conservative Kootenai County Repubs are upset at Gov. Butch Otter's nomination of KMC official Don Soltman to take Sue Thilo's seat on the state Board of Education. In fact, some might show in protest when Sen. John Goedde's Education Committee considers the…
Rep. Marge Chadderdon, R-Coeur d’Alene, says she’s got a new version of her flag bill in the works, after problems cropped up with amendments already made to the bill. Chadderdon originally sought to prohibit state or local agencies in Idaho from buying any U.S. or…
Her husband is still in temporary quarters in a trailer in the courtyard of the Russell Senate Office Building, but Vicki Risch has big plans. As Jim Risch eases into his role as the junior Republican senator from Idaho, Vicki Risch has been carving out…
The casket of Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers, of Hopewell, Va., who was killed Afghanistan on Saturday is transferred by an honor guard on Sunday in Dover Air Force Base, Del. After receiving permission from the family, Myers marks the end of the ban…
<a href ="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1519599/" >Soda pop has more baggage than many imagine -- calories, sugar & chemicals. Have you thought about cutting back on your love affair with pop?/Idaho Statesman</a> <br/> <span style="font-size:9px;" mce_style="font-size:9px;" mce_style="font-size:9px;"> (<a href ="http://www.polldaddy.com"> online polls</a>)</span>
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.
