Zelda Krup: I'm swerving off the road (figuratively speaking). KREM just aired a portion of the 911 call of the Mead, WA, woman's call to 911 while being stabbed to death. The day this happened, I included a paragraph in my blog post on HBO…
Julia Lang sticks her tongue out to taste the falling snow in Houston on Friday. National Weather Service meteorologist Charles Roeseler says it's the earliest snow in Houston's history. Snow is rare for the nation's fourth largest city. In the past 15 years, it has…
For those keeping score at home, Huckleberries Online topped 1.9 million page-views for the year on Thursday. This blog now has approximately 94,000 page-views to go to hit the magic number of 2 million for the year. Which should be doable. As always, thanks for…
I write this letter to the editor hoping that it will reach the eyes of whichever authority has jurisdiction over the traffic signals at the 95-Prairie intersection. Surely I am not the only one who thinks this issue needs addressing. It has to do with…
You can see the cutlines for these all-league teams from North Idaho by holding your cursor over the photos by SR photographers as they rotate.Ailing Stennett names temporary sub/Betsy Russell, Eye On BoiseTribe pushes for Indian Health Care Act/Coeur d'Alene Indian TribeSpeaker Denney wants session…
Niyal Patel, not pictured, carries a cutout of President Barack Obama, in Schnecksville, Pa., this morning, where the president is scheduled to make remarks at Lehigh Carbon Community College. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)Top Cutlines:1. To make a dramatic entrance into the town hall meeting, President Obama…
Coeur d'Alene resident Haitham Joudeh woke to a call from the Coeur d'Alene Police Department on Friday morning telling him of the racist graffiti that was painted on his truck sometime after midnight. He talked about the incident that happened on the corner of Third…
Kathy Plonka/SR provides another view of the serious accident this morning in Post Falls. See AM Scanner Traffic link below for a KXLY photo from Eric Loney and more of the story.4:29 p.m. 3-vehicle crash w/multiple passengers is completely blocking 3rd & Locust. One driver…
Seattle's Amanda Knox, whose trial on accusations that she murdered her roommate riveted the public on both sides of the Atlantic, has been found guilty. The decision by the jury of six laymen and two judges came after midnight Friday in a courtroom in this…
In her latest newsletter, which was posted today at OpenCDA.com, Mary Souza opines that the Jim Brannon's lawsuit could serve to clean up Idaho election laws. But she didn't stop there. She then dredges up "the most famous local story" (of questionable residency, involving --…
After the president's address on Afghanistan Tuesday night at the West Point Academy, Chris Matthews opined that the cadets had no reaction to Obama's speech and that, in truth, Obama had found himself in the "enemy camp." Matthews has since apologized for his comment. As…
It was a letter to the editor in the Coeur d’Alene Press Wednesday 2 December 2009 that really got me riled. Where the writer admitted to wanting to go downtown and spend money freely until seeing something posted that said, “Happy Holidays.” And proceeded to…
Five miles west of Paul, there are still some traces left of Camp Rupert, a World War II German prisoner of war camp that held up to 3,300 POWs and administrated a network of satellite camps stretching from Sidney, Mont., to Wilder. But not just…
We’ve all wished we could go back and live moments over. Especially high school. Wouldn’t you love to go back and say the things that you should have said, either to that bully in sixth period, to your autocratic home-room teacher or that girl in…
Oregon's LaGarrette Blount (9) scores on Oregon State in the second half during their NCAA college football game Thursday in Eugene, Ore. Oregon defeated Oregon State 37-33 to win the Pac-10 title and go on to play in the Rose Bowl. Blount, as you may…
OrangeTV: Mary Souza ... (asserts) repeatedly that approximately 10 different commenters are all Thom George under different names, thereby attempting to out anonymous posters, one of the most non-ethical, sleazy things one can do in an online forum. Naturally, the supposed moderator doesn't seem to…
Erik Loney/KXLY e-mailed this photo from the 9:13 a.m. crash scene in Post Falls. You can read his story here.11:54 a.m. Resident of Cordillera/Worley reports a neighbor has told him that a man in a dark-blue Chevy Blazer is cutting wood w/o authorization on his…
Top 10 reasons why the CDA Press online is more fun to read than Mad Magazine:1. Actual headline: “Tough Toenails Tended”.2. Two words: Fish Tips.3. The story about the D Street “beauty” and her burst boobie, especially the line “”Because she was drunk, short, and…
The fears on both sides of the coin proved overblown. The FWP set a quota of 75 wolves. Some skeptics (myself included) said hunters would have minimal success at harvesting so many of these far-ranging predators in the diverse landscape of western Montana. Others predicted…
Idaho public health officials have decided to open up the H1N1 swine flu vaccine to everyone under age 65 immediately, including healthy adults. This after vaccines through the season thus far have been limited to specific high-risk groups; the flu strain has contributed to the…
Protesters wave signs outside a barricade at a local bookstore in Norman, Okla., where former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is signing copies of her book, "Going Rogue," Thursday. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) Thursday Poll: 83 of 98 (85 percent) respondents said they haven't had a speeding…
In an interview with conservative talk show host Rusty Humphries, Sarah Palin was asked whether she would make an issue about President Obama's birth certificate if she ran for president in 2012. Said Palin: "I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue.…
Responding to a conspiracy theorist that compares Councilman Mike Kennedy to a Chicago machine politician (where do they find these guys?), Mary Souza of OpenCDA.com is seeking doughnations for Jim Brannon's court challenge to the Coeur d'Alene elections. Writes Mary: "Anyone can donate by going…
I lived through the ‘70s, so I’m familiar with blaxploitation. You know, “Shaft,” “Superfly,” “Cleopatra Jones,” “Foxy Brown,” “Sweet Sweetbacks Baadassss Song” and so many more. And all of them, in one way or another, were lampooned in “Black Dynamite,” which I saw tonight at…
Coeur d’Alene High School 10th-grader Lauren Pinney, 15, gets some shooting tips from Dave McClave, co-owner of the Case42 video production company, at Forest Cemetery in Coeur d’Alene on Thursday. Alison Boggs' story here. (Kathy Plonka/SR)Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SRSnow, freezing drizzle falling in region/Mike Prager,…
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.
