Eastbound I-90 is reopened at mile marker six in Post Falls following a multiple car collision that happened at 6:15 p.m Tuesday. There were multiple injuries reported and at least one fatality has been confirmed in the crash. Police say an SUV from Great Falls…
HMOffsuite: I have been weeping for 5 days. Last Friday morning, my constant companion and best friend, Yogi (golden retreiver/pyrenees mix) couldn't get up off the floor. We rushed him to the Vet and they did sonograms and xrays to determine he had a tumor…
This drawing, released by Chester Johnson, of Taunton, shows a sketch of Jesus on the cross created by his son as part of school work, in Taunton, Mass. on today. The 8-year-old boy was sent home from school and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation…
If my calculations are correct, Huckleberries Online will reach 2 million page-views sometime late Wednesday. The blog was about 17,000 page-views short of 2 million entering today. We're sitting on 1.1 million unique views as of the minute. I wasn't sure the blog would reach…
Americans punched out more than 110 billion text messages in December 2008, double the number in the last month of 2007, as the shorthand communication becomes a popular alternative to cell phone calls. The nation's 270 million cell phone subscribers each sent out an average…
Frankie Masterson of St. Maries was holding a $200,000 Powerball ticket when she learned that her grandson was seriously injured in the fighting in Afghanistan. KTVB story here. (Idaho Lottery photo)UI has sold 2500 Humanitarian Bowl tickets/Josh Wright, SportslinkTickets on sale for NIC's foundation's Really…
Dylan Gosewehr, 2, from Indiana chases shore birds at the Indialantic beach as his family visits relatives in Melbourne, Fla., Monday. They said they were enjoying the nice winter weather here where it was to reach the mid 80s while Indiana was in the low…
5:21 p.m. Kids are throwing snowballs at vehicles from behind trees @ the corner of Ponderosa and Pinewood/Post Falls.4:31 p.m. Resident near Honeysuckle & Best reports that vehicle is driving the wrong way and doing brodies past his house.3:56 p.m. A Chevy Tahoe that was…
I did take time, however, to attend a coffee hosted by the Kootenai County Democratic Chair. Not being a Democrat I'm not sure why I was invited other than being on a lot of local Facebook friends lists and having been a strong supporter of…
Cis/From A Simple Mind just sent a new online game in which players are asked to help Tiger Woods escape his golf club-wielding wife. You can try and see what happens if you fall short here. (BTW, I scored 129)
Spencer: Wow, do the CDA police need an attitude ajustment or what! My sister in law slid her car off the road, and the officer in charge was beyond a jerk. The only damage to the car was a dent in the door where it…
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter has proclaimed that Thursday will be "Vernon J. Baker Day," in honor of the St. Maries resident who is the only living African-American Medal of Honor recipient from World War II. "I encourage Idahoans to honor this courageous citizen who is…
I wasn’t sure about going to see the new rugby film. For one thing, it’s about … rugby. Also, I still think that they should have come up with another title than “Invictus,” which - no matter how justifiable it is - simply doesn’t tumble…
In this June 2003 file photo, TV evangelists, from left: Billy Joe Daugherty; Gloria Copeland; Kenneth Copeland; Charles Green; Richard Roberts; and Lindsay Roberts lay hands on Oral Roberts, 85, during the International Charismatic Bible Ministries conference in the Mabee Center at Oral Roberts University…
Erstwhile congressional wannabe Larry Grant (pictured) caused a hubbub when he told Rocky Barker that he could win the 1st District nomination as a Republican by cobbling together a coalition of moderate Republicans and disenchanted Democrats. Grant quickly backtracked and said he was joking when…
In case you were wondering what nonsense had the OpenCDA.com crowd's shorts in a knot this week, Bill McCrory provides the answers. Seems they're all huffing about David Larsen's letter in the Coeur d'Alene Press. The money lines that has the conspiracy theorists gnashing their…
We traveled to Coeur d’Alene to do some business and Christmas shopping. As I predicted it was hideous, with that awful music being played everywhere and shoppers apparently oblivious to each other, shoving and pushing, grabbing and lining up like a bunch of idiots to…
A chase plane flies beside a Boeing Co. 787 airplane as the 787 takes off on its first flight this morning at Paine Field in Everett, Wash. Pilots Michael Carriker and Randall Neville lifted off in the big blue and white jet at about 10…
Noon: Officer reports all the Ramsey intersections from Golf Course Road northward are "sheets of ice."11:59 a.m. A vehicle has crashed through a fence off Ramsey, hitting a shed and the back of a house @ 5601 Pacific/CdA. The house's air conditioning unit is leaking.11:38…
From long ago and far away, up pops the "beloved hippy van" that was stolen 35 years ago. Allstate is the current title holder, having paid off the Insured way back when. She can't remember what she (or they) paid for it, maybe $600? I'm…
Philadelphia Phillies' Cliff Lee pitches to the New York Yankees during the fifth inning of Game 1 of the Major League Baseball World Series on Oct. 28 in New York. Lee, a Cy Young Award winner, reportedly will be traded to the Seattle Mariners shortly…
Of the Coeur d’Alene 12th-graders surveyed in 2008, nearly 23 percent had smoked pot within the past month – up 6 percentage points from the previous survey in 2006. Ninth-graders’ use also increased/Jody Lawrence-Turner, SR. More here.Monday Poll: 45 of 79 (57 percent) of the…
Shoshone Conservative: As disappointing as Otter has been in some respects, I think the only way he'll leave office before he retires is if he's caught with a dead girl or a live boy. He's ruffled a few feathers, irritated a few people, but hasn't…
Item: Student pot use rises in CdA, falls in Spokane/Jody Lawrence-Turner, SR More Info: Coeur d’Alene teens smoked more marijuana last year than they did in 2006, a contrast to a trend revealed in statistics released Monday in a federal survey about the drug and…
What is the last thing Idaho's colleges should do during a recession? How about pricing students out of the market? Or driving away quality faculty or staff? If university presidents aren't careful, they run the risk of doing both. It depends on how they handle…
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.
