We've reached the dog days of summer in pretty good shape. Huckleberries Online attracted almost 200,000 page-views in July -- thanks to CindyH doing such a fine job filling in for me during the last week of the month. That would play out to almost…
A newly born male Masai Girraffe, right, is tended to by his brother Jack, left, and father Kiva Monday at the Houston City Zoo in Houston. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Nick de la Torre)SR's Today In Photos
Brandon: So you'd rather cut back classes in the music department? Cut the pay of professors? The marching band did a pretty good job the years I was there, and no knock against them, but I can tell you that the students really didn't go…
Item: 'Police Chief: I support the actions of my officers'/KHQMore Info: Both lawsuits occurred in the summer of 2008. The first involves a traffic stop in which now 20-year-old Natalie Reighard claims she was sexually and physically assaulted during a weapons search, performed by Officer…
In this July 29 photo released by the Idaho Department of Fish and Wildlife shows Michelle V. Larsen-Williams, of Pingree, Idaho holding the record rainbow trout she caught on the Snake River upstream of the American Falls Reservoir, in eastern Idaho. The fish was 34…
5:21 p.m. Police are looking for a juvenile who may have started a 20-foot fire behind Westwood Saloon/Rathdrum.5:18 p.m. Howard Johnson's reports vehicle-vs-building crash @ Riverbend.4:35 p.m. Drunken motorcyclist on a Harley-Davidson insulted a motorist at a stoplight on H95, north of Appleway.3:56 p.m. Grass…
This undated photo released by the National Park Service shows a tour helicopter damaged after striking a bird while returning from the Grand Canyon and making an emergency landing in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, in Arizona. The pilot, 25-year-old David Supe, of Henderson,…
Col. Jerry Russell, chief of the Idaho State Police, just presented stats to lawmakers in response to questions last month about the ISP’s staffing. When compared to the six surrounding states - Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Washington, and Oregon - Idaho ranks dead last for…
The other day, I tagged along with a friend to the Grand Opening of the new CAT (with tractors) dealership in Hayden ... The best thing about it - everything was free. Well, not everything. The tractors cost money. But there were free CAT caps,…
Item: 'Bro' sign angers Obama supporters in Bitterroot Valley town/Ravalli RepublicMore Info: Parading with Bitterroot Valley Republican groups in her Hummer, Cathy Kulonis said she was exercising her First Amendment rights Saturday when she hoisted a sign reading “No Mo Bro” during Creamery Picnic festivities…
"There are no shortage of beautiful boats on North Idaho waters and this classic wooden beauty was a vision at sunset," posts Councilwoman KerriT/OnLocation North Idaho. "Coming into the dock at the Cedars Floating Restaurant at the convergence of Lake Coeur d'Alene and the Spokane…
I am just not a bug person. I know, I know – every living creature has their place and purpose. And spiders should be placed outside where they came from. But there are a couple bugs that defy all logic. What are they good for,…
These two are enough to give women in politics a bad name! I had hoped for better when Pelosi became Speaker of the House and had no hope what-so-ever when Palin became the Republican Vice Presidential nominee. It seems not thinking before speaking knows no…
An ambulance carrying the victim of a shooting waits outside the Walmart on the West End of Billings, Mont. after a man shot a co-worker inside the store on Monday. The suspect was arrested nearby and the victim was taken to a local hospital. Story…
11:59 a.m. R/P reports suspicious person @ 8th & Homestead.11:57 a.m. A rollover is blocking traffic @ H41 & Spirit Lake Cut-Across.10:38 a.m. Firefighters are responding to a fire alarm in the day-care area of North Idaho College. Dispatchers are unable to contact anyone to…
Joan Clay, left and Lori Newswanger, right, hold up signs as they wait in line for the start of U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter's Town Hall meeting at the Lebanon branch of the Harrisburg Area Community College Tuesday in Lebanon, Pa. (AP Photo/Bradley C Bower)Question: Which…
A favorite philosophical question often asked is, “Why does your average teacher earn a little more than one percent of what Alex Rodriguez does in a year?” There’s a simple market-based explanation for this. Alex Rodriguez can play the game of baseball like few other…
Actors, Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson and Kurt Russel attend a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees Saturday in New York. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)Top Cutlines:1. Former Minor-leaguer Kurt Russell is stumped as to why Boston…
On Sunday morning before church, I decided to take care of a hornet's nest in our plastic dog house (with a removal top). I figured the hornets would be docile that early in the morning. I figured wrong. As soon as I pulled the top…
Rural residents of the Palouse probably breathed a collective sigh of relief recently when they found out their local post offices would remain open. That's a good thing for those who still relish the visit to the smaller post offices, which serve as social focal…
Bee researcher Beth Kahkonen holds a queen bee taken from one of the research hives at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. The bee is marked with a number to identify it and it's genetic origin. The program tries to continually improve the quality of…
In this Nov. 7, 2006, file photo, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dances with his mother-in-law Eunice Kennedy Shriver after giving his acceptance speech, Tuesday, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Shriver, JFK's sister and Special Olympics founder, has died at age 88. Story here. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill,…
Three men were cited for misdemeanors over the weekend after Coeur d’Alene residents found racists fliers in their yards. Paul R. Mullet, 36, and Kevin B. McGurre, 27, were ticketed for littering Saturday after police say they admitted to distributing fliers advertising the Aryan Nations…
Since commercial truck drivers and Asotin County Family Aquatic Center employees submit to random drug testing, county commissioners say some of Asotin County Sheriff Ken Bancroft's employees should as well. "I will continue in my opposition to any random urinalysis of any member of the…
Item: Eastern silences Eagles marching band/Jody Lawrence-Turner, SRMore Info: When the Eagles fight song rings out at EWU football games this fall, it’ll come from loudspeakers or maybe hired musicians – not the student marching band. The Eastern Washington University band, made up of 100-plus…
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.
