5:50 p.m. Male bicyclist is unhurt after being hit by a green van @ H95 & H53.5:09 p.m. Grass fire @ 1851 Blanchard Cut-across Road.4:31 p.m. A motorist is either unconscious or sleeping in red Prius on e/b offramp @ I-90 & H95, causing a…
Carl Probyn, 60, stepfather of Jaycee Lee Dugard who went missing in 1991, reacts while watching a televised news conference of his stepdaughter at his home in Orange, Calif., Thursday. Dugard, who was snatched from a bus stop as an 11-year-old child in 1991 turned…
Huckleberries Online has learned that Post Falls Mayor Clay Larkin has filed for re-election, along with incumbent council members Ron Jacobson (Seat No. 2), Joe Bodman (Seat No. 4), and Linda Wilhelm (Seat No. 6). The only non-incumbent to file is Steve DeGon of West…
Huckleberries Online has learned that incumbent Woody McEvers filed his candidacy papers for re-election earlier today. In 2005, McEvers defeated Steven Fox for Council Seat No. 4, 3,211 to 1,926. Fox, I believe, then went on to almost unseat state Sen. John Goedde in a…
Another the title "Penny Wise and Pound Foolish," Linda Cook circulated the following e-mail to presumably local Republican women (the names were deleted from the e-mail copy I received), calling on them to contribute money to City Council wannabe Jim Brannon and oust incumbent Mike…
At Orangefrog76, Granati has posted this photo, labeled: "M is for praying mantis."Don't pass health care because of Kennedy/Dogwalk MusingsPresident Obama, tear down that wall/Simple MindMarginalia/Gathering Around The TableMy blue heaven/Skookum PhotographyCar trouble on a country road/Slight DetourLife Lines/TumblewordsMore below
Fired ITD Director Pam Lowe says in her wrongful-firing tort claim that she was ousted just as she prepared to cut back or eliminate a multimillion-dollar contract with a politically well-connected firm, after strong pressure from the governor’s office not to do it. But the…
A second alleged victim of assault on Washington State University’s Pullman campus has recanted her story. The incident, which allegedly had occurred Aug. 19 on Terrell Mall near Library Road, did not occur, WSU police said. On Tuesday, a WSU student recanted after telling police…
Antoine le Menestrel, of France, climbs a building as part of the events to celebrate the Year of France in Brazil, in Brasilia, Tuesday. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)Question: Are you afraid of heights?
Cats will always eat you in the end. I dearly hope my Uncle Bob was dead before learning that lesson - before Clancy, his cat companion of many years, turned on him after he fell and cracked his head on the tub. Like a Mogul…
I had the TV on the other night and decided I wanted to get a feel for how the great health care debate was moving along, so I did a little channel surfing. First I came across Keith Olbermann, who said that a poll conducted…
A pink-- or humpback-- salmon caught by Vladimir Veliovski of Pacific flops on the beach before he can get his hands on it. About fifty fishermen were catching pink salmon from shore and pier at Dash Point Park, Federal Way, Wash. (Peter Haley/Tacoma News Tribune)Missoula…
We just got home from trying to drop off our middle child at Washington State University to start college. Rob is a National Merit Scholarship finalist, and had been repeatedly told by people in the WSU Scholarship and Financial Aid Offices that the National Merit…
Don Sausser, HBO's Eye On Sherman Avenue, reports via camera that the flag at Independence Point has been lowered to half staff in memory of the late U.S. Sen. Teddy Kennedy.
11:55 a.m. Keith on Royal Drive/Post Falls reports that a neighbor kid is shooting holes in his house w/a pellet gun.11:42 a.m. A semi is stalled in the n/b lane of Spokane Street/Post Falls.11:33 a.m. R/P reports that a barefoot man who's now s/b on…
OfCoffee: The POTUS has ordered flags at half mast across the country to honor Kennedy. Many on this blog agree with that. When Larry Craig passes away, I assume that they will agree that the POTUS should order flags at half mast for Larry? Kennedy's…
Marianne Love e-mails news that Dean Miller, the former Idaho Falls Post Register editor and bureau chief of the now-defunct SR Sandpoint office, has taken a job in New York. Here's Dean's report from his Facebook page: "Now that they've given me a key to…
Democrats are a strange bunch. ... We’re not usually very effective in our political campaigns and we waste tremendous amounts of passion and energy chasing these side issues instead of going for the prize with a single minded focus. We call each other out, in…
President Barack Obama, second from left, pauses on his bike ride with his family and friends including Sasha Obama, 8, right, while on vacation on Martha's Vineyard on Lobsterville Beach in Aquinnah, Mass., this morning.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Question: Can you have quality time with your children…
Mayor: Sandi Bloem, 4,211; Joseph Kunka 1,318Council Seat #2: Mike Kennedy, 2,726; Dan Yake, 1,507; Mary Souza,1,343Council Seat #4: Woody McEvers, 3,211; Steven Foxx, 1,926Council Seat #6: Deanna Goodlander, 2,897; Susan Snedaker, 2,398Registered Voters: 19,765; Election Day Registration, 70; Votes Cast: 5,576; Voter Turnout: 28%
Seat No. 1:Ron Edinger: 2,626 (53.75%)Dan Gookin: 2,260 (46.25%)Seat No. 2Jim Brannon 1,865 (38.63%)A.J. (Al) Hassell III 2,067 (42.81%)Chris Patterson 467 (9.67%)Jerry Weaver 429 (8.89%)Seat 5Joe Kunka 225 (4.68%)Susan P. Snedaker 1,443 (29.99%)Anita L. Banta 438 (9.10%)John W. Bruning 2,331 (48.45%)Wayne Frisbie, Sr. 374 (7.77%)DFO:…
Huckleberries has learned that Joe Kunka has filed his candidacy papers for Coeur d'Alene mayor this morning. Kunka, who ran an unsuccessful long-shot campaign against incumbent Mayor Sandi Bloem four years ago, is one of three individuals who have said they are going to run…
After an audience member shouted a question about "Obama tags" during a discussion on wolves, Rammell responded, "The Obama tags? We'd buy some of those." Rammell, a veterinarian and former elk rancher from Idaho Falls, said his comment was a joke and he would never…
I don’t know if I ran into the water under my own power or if I was just carried along by the mass of bodies around me. I dove in when I could and started to swim. Well, I tried to swim. I’ve never been…
he Kootenai County commissioners unanimously approved the new fiscal year budget with a 3 percent tax hike Wednesday night, in spite of objections from members of the public. "We take this very seriously -- we understand the situation people are in, we're in the same…
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