This undated handout photo provided by the journal Science shows Gibson, a Great Dane, right, and Zoie, a Chihuahua in Grass Valley, Calif. Gibson, the California dog dubbed the tallest in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records, died last Friday after a…
You ought to put Joker back in the cooler simply for making that ignorant comment re marching bands..which by the way are MAJOR league.If you've ever seen a great one you'd know from which I speak.Addy Hatch: EWU has relented. The marching band will be…
Unfounded though they may be, it's been said by some who have deep-seated fears of a government takeover of health care, that if members of Congress had some "skin in the game," they would write a better bill. Meaning, supposedly, that if Congress had to…
Dave Luebke, owner of Dave's Comics holds a photo of the Number One Archie Comic Book that he is selling at his shop in Richmond, Va. When comic book store owner Dave Luebke heard that after 67 years, the carrot-topped everyman of the comic world,…
Item: SpokAnimal offers training for young pet lovers: Program teaches lessons on animal care, nutrition/Cindy Hval, SR Washington Voices. More Info: To say that 10-year-old Emily Najar likes animals might be an understatement. “I’ve got 16 pets,” the Stevens Elementary student said. “Eight kittens, two…
What Minnick didn't say is how he'd bring the deficits under control. Doing so means abandoning the notion of cutting taxes without reducing spending and just hoping for the best. Almost half the current deficits trace back to Bush's 2001 tax cuts, which lowered the…
A family from North Dakota loads their belongings into their truck after their camper was sheared off by the railroad underpass on N. 21st Street between Montana Avenue and Minnesota Avenue in Billings, Mont., on Tuesday. No one was injured in the accident, and the…
Jay Baldwin/NICHE tells Huckleberries that Education Corridor fans will have their "socks blown off" this afternoon, if they attend a presentation by the Mayors' Institute on City Design architects and planners. "This is the culmination of the 3-day event sponsored through a grant by the…
Bayview resident Jessica Haddon took a video from inside a vehicle parked at the Bayview fire station during the height of the 2nd storm front tonight with dime size hail pounding the windshield. (Herb provides the video here and his account of the storm here.)…
11:57 a.m. Man wants officers to remove a re-po man from his property in 2300 block of Hayden View/Hayden Lake.11:28 a.m. Kootenai Electric Cooperative has restored power to about 1,600 residents in the Post Falls/Hauser Lake area was recently restored. The outage was caused when…
Bozeman folks will camp out all night to get into a Harry Potter film, an Elton John concert, a ‘Cat-Griz game, a popular kindergarten class or a restaurant offering free chicken wings. So it should come as no surprise that people would be willing to…
I forgot to properly thank Cindy for the terrific job she did filling in for me while I was on vacation. I can think of no better ways of doing so than by providing a little eye candy. Here's San Diego Chargers center Nick Hardwick…
What in the sacred name of John Philip Sousa is going on inside the shallowed halls of my alma mater, Eastern Washington University? Bean counters have decided to save $30,000 by dropping the student marching band program. This is such a sour note. I know.…
You can find almost anything you're looking for at Wal-Mart and in Post Falls that apparently includes a wife after a Coeur d'Alene couple got engaged inside the Supercenter on Mullan Road. A marriage proposal doesn't always have to be about finding the most romantic…
Washington State football coach Paul Wulff returned to Rogers Field for Cougar practice Wednesday after completing a NCAA mandated three-day suspension. Story here.Showers, thunderstorms keep going/Mike Prager, SRBonner County police blotter/SRVA doctors protest 'crisis'/Kevin Graman, SRField burning continues on tribe land/Alecia Warren, PressDelinquent property hits…
The "Dirty Dozen Puddle Jumpers" geese, which belong to Paul Messerschmidt from Modale, Iowa, waddle past spectators in the Iowa State Fair Parade in Des Moines, Iowa on Wednesday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Andrea Melendez/The Register)Top Cutlines:1. AFLAC organizes Health Care Town Hall protesters;…
The city of Coeur d'Alene wants to increase its property tax revenue by 2 percent, even though this year's budget will be lower than last year's. Residents will have their say on the matter Sept. 1 during a public hearing. The requested jump is 1…
Overall, 47% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. That’s the lowest level of total approval yet recorded. The President’s ratings first fell below 50% just a few weeks ago on July 25. Fifty-two percent (52%) now disapprove. Rasmussen Poll…
Item: Minnick tells liberal Idaho Demos why he's moderate/Dan Popkey, Idaho StatesmanMore Info: Minnick ventured to Boise's North End and Blaine County to assuage Democrats who bitterly complain about his opposition to major parts of the Democratic agenda, including health care, climate change and the…
Item: Marvel Comics marks 70th anniversary/Bill Buley, Coeur d'Alene PressMore Info: First came the Human Torch, an android superhero melting his way through a wall on the cover of Marvel Comics in October 1939. Inside those pages, readers were introduced to Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner…
Sometimes, I wonder if I should post the Wild Card sooner in the day, for busy people like Beth Bollinger, who have links to post but have to be somewhere else by the time 10:30 (usual Wild Card post time) rolls around. For Beth's sake,…
President Barack Obama presents the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Chita Rivera, who, as a Puerto Rican-American, broke barriers as an actress, singer and dancer to become a Broadway star in West Side Story and was the first Hispanic woman to receive a Kennedy…
Fill in the blank ... everything is my father's fault ... or my mother's fault. Which is what you hear young adults and some times mid-life adults say. The truth of the matter is ... everything that happens to you between the ages of 0…
Left to right: Itsy Johnson, Tillie Torpey, and Destiny Allen load school supplies into backpacks Wednesday morning at the Rosecreek Longhouse in Worley. Story here.Corridor Design Meeting Thursday: The Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD) architects and planners will present to the public their recommendations…
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.
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