The losing candidate in a Coeur d’Alene City Council race filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the outcome, naming all council members as defendants, along with the mayor, the city clerk, and Kootenai County’s clerk and elections manager/Alison Boggs, SR. More here. And: Copy of Brannon…
Seattle police cordon off an area where the manhunt for Maurice Clemmons ended Tuesday. The man, suspected in the slaying four Lakewood police officers, was killed by a lone patrolman investigating a stolen car early Tuesday. Seattle Times story here. (AP Photo/Peter Haley / The…
SReporter Alison Boggs: "Just for the record, Jim Brannon did call me back last night in a timely fashion and left a message. I was on the phone with his attorney at the time, then with Dan English, etc., so I didn't have time before…
Unfortunately, the shadow of sore losers threatened to dampen the celebration as a lawsuit was filed late Monday afternoon, challenging the election itself, apparently without a request for a recount. In my opinion, with a five vote margin, the loser to Kennedy could have and…
Item: Mike Huckabee defends freeing convict wanted in Washington police shootings: His commutation of Maurice Clemmons may hurt the former Arkansas governor's political aspirations/Los Angeles TimesMore Info: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee broke his silence Monday and defended his decision to support freedom for a…
President Barack Obama ... is slated to deliver a prime-time address on Tuesday night in which he'll lay out his plans for the American war in Afghanistan. ... But the administration may also face an unforeseen enemy as it lays out its long-awaited plans. And…
Students walk by the boarded-up windows of the University of Idaho Bookstore Monday. The bookstore was broken into Wednesday night and an undiclosed amount of electronics were stolen from the technology department. Moscow police are searching for two male suspects in the theft. Story here.…
Maurice Clemmons, the suspect wanted in the slaying of four Lakewood police officers, was shot and killed by a Seattle police officer in South Seattle early this morning. Clemmons, who was armed with a handgun taken from one of the officers he is accused of…
Bent: You know if it really was Jim Brannon “doing this,” you wouldn't know it. In fact, I wonder if Jim Brannon is still alive. It's reminds me of a bad Weekend at Bernie's movie. All I ever hear from this guy comes from the…
Jim Brannon is challenging Coeur d'Alene's Nov. 3 election, alleging that inadmissible ballots were counted in his five-vote loss to Seat 2 City Council incumbent Mike Kennedy. If the challenge is successful, a judge will decide what happens next. Represented by attorney Starr Kelso, of…
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.