Gonzaga's Steven Gray (32) drives against Loyola Marymount's LaRon Armstead (24) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Spokane, Wash., Thursday. Gray led the Zags with 23 points -- 21 in the second half -- to help Gonzaga clinch its 9th…
In the news this evening, The Dow closes at a bear market low here. New York Times stock now cost less than Sunday paper here. Racism row over chimp cartoon sparks debate here. A new study shows that the proximity to fast-food restaurants is linked…
In this photo provided by the Tiger Woods family, Tiger Woods kisses his son Charlie in a family photo taken Tuesday in Orlando, Fla. (Dom Furore/Woods family via Getty Images/AP Photo)SR Today In Photos
Like yesterday. I got home, and I wanted to veg out a bit before I headed back to KMS for a meeting and then the Tostado Feed. The last two final episodes of "Gilmore Girls" were in the DVD player, so I watched them. The…
Apparently this is becoming a huge, growing (no pun intended) problem in the area. Yes, naked hiking. I found it hard to believe. I mean, try wandering nude around here in the mountains and your family jewels would be covered in mosquito bites faster than…
Patricia Lopez, a worker at STT Sports Lettering Co. in Seattle, sews Ken Griffey Jr.'s name onto a MLB baseball jersey Thursday in Seattle. The Mariners announced late Wednesday that Griffey, who played with the team from 1989 to 1999, would be returning to Seattle…
A raccoon with its head stuck in a peanut butter jar is seen on top of a tree in Medway, Ohio Wednesday. A resident used a saw to cut down the tree limb and another man caught the animal. Two employees from Varmint Guard helped…
6:06 p.m. Rock slide @ M/P 92 partially blocking Highway 97 (around Lake CDA)6:03 p.m. The deer kill this evening is at M/P 427 (Cougar Gulch). The dead deer is laying partially in the road.4;11 p.m. A woman reports that her estranged boyfriend is trying…
Rep. Jim Clark, R-Hayden Lake, proposed legislation today that would ban repeat drunk drivers or those who drive drunk at far above the legal limit from buying or possessing alcohol, for anywhere from five years to life. “Have you ever read in the paper about…
Recently named Idaho’s “Optometrist of the Year,” by the Idaho Optometric Physician’s Association, Marossy was nominated and selected by her peers. She is the youngest and the only female to receive the award for distinguished professional and community service. Optometrists in Idaho are primary health…
Granati/OrangeFrog76 gets up close and personal with the brushes at a local car wash.The Disparities: My friend Oliver Lemke and his brothers Julian and Harrison (all from Coeur d'Alene) are the three members of the indie pop band "The Disparities." I was a groomsman in…
This No Kissing sign was unveiled at Warrington Bank Quay railway station in Warrington, England Monday in a bid to cut delays. The sign has been placed at the drop off point, because departing passengers and drivers block access to the station with their vehicles…
New restaurant scoop! Local eyes are moist with joy, or at least mine are, with the news that former Henry's owner/architect Joe Chapman is returning to the Coeur d'Alene restaurant scene soon when Grumpy's opens for business in the former Bambino's location in midtown Cd'A,…
All it takes is a masked man walking into a store with a gun. In that instant, your life really does flash before you. It happened at Queen Anne's Bartell drugstore at First Avenue North, early last Thursday around 2:45 a.m., as Seattle slept. About…
A model reacts backstage before her appearance on the runway at the fall 2009 collection of Erin Fetherston during Fashion Week in Bryant Park Sunday in New York. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)Question: When did you last have a bad hair day?
Post Register Publisher Roger Plothow fired Executive Editor Dean Miller on Wednesday, citing a desire "to change the direction of the paper a little bit." A veteran of three decades in Idaho journalism, Miller began his career at the Twin Falls Times-News. He moved to…
Tim Byrd with Coeur d'Alene Resort landscaping department uses a power washer to remove ice and oils from the sidewalk Wednesday, near the resort in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Recent mild weather has allowed for some clean up from winter conditions. (AP Photo/Coeur d'Alene Press, Shawn…
Should I tell you what's happening to me today? It's embarrassing. But I will also serve a higher purpose by letting you know that I'm fasting -- nothing but juices, broths, Jello, coffee, etc. -- in preparation for a colonoscopy early Friday afternoon. I've gone…
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper looks on as President Barack Obama waves to the media after signing the guest book upon his arrival on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Thursday. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Tom Hanson)Question: What do you know about Canada?
Senate Judiciary Chairman Denton Darrington, R-Declo, told the Joint Finance-Appropriations committee this morning, “I think there is a limit to how far we ought to go with our prison beds being in private hands.” Even big prison states like Texas are at about 35 percent…
What to do if you're a Republican politician on a Wednesday night, when two big events are in town? Do you listen to newly minted Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele? Or do you take in the Boise State-Idaho basketball game? To see how Senate…
Attorney General Eric Holder, in a speech to Justice Department employees, said the United States is a nation of cowards on matters of race and that most Americans avoid discussing awkward racial issues. That begs me to question if such is the reason Roland Burris…
Boise State's Curt Cunningham, center, fouls Idaho's Kashif Watson during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday in Boise. (AP Photo/The Idaho Statesman, Joe Jaszewski)Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SRIdaho Veneer makes more layoffs/Brian Walker, CDA PressGirls state basketball begins today/Greg Lee, SRGas prices…
Item: Obama unveils mortgage relief plan to good media reviews/U.S. News & World ReportMore Info: To extensive and largely favorable media coverage, President Obama yesterday outlined his housing relief plan at a high school in Mesa, Arizona. The story led all three network newscasts last…
Item: CdA district plans Kindercenter: School in Hayden Lake aims to ease crowding/Sara Leaming, SRMore Info: Amanda Crowder showed up at Ramsey Elementary School on Wednesday night admittedly “a little freaked out.” Like the parents of about 300 incoming kindergarten students in the Coeur d’Alene…
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.
