5:16 p.m. A panic alarm has sounded at Stateline Showgirls.
5:05 p.m. A CDA mother reports her 13YO son is out of control.
4:01 p.m. A young man with his cap on backward is loitering on a bench in front of the library and won’t leave.
3:13 p.m. A power line is down and sparking @ 1808 Northwest Blvd.
3:08 p.m. An elderly man with mental problems attacked workers in his group home and left, saying he wanted to go home. He was seen entering a house nearby.
1:40 p.m. R/P reports that a male is threatening employees of Auto Credit, 120 Seltice Way.
12:58 p.m. The panic alarm @ the state liquor store, 4010 E. Seltice Way, has gone off.
12:33 p.m. a chocolate Lab mix with a turquoise collar is jumping into the R/Ps property in the 700 block of West Miles/Hayden.
12:30 p.m. A dog is injured after being hit by a car @ 7th & Homestead.
10:53 a.m. A frightened woman called from a pay phone to say that someone has kicked her front door in.
10:52 a.m. R/P wants to see a CPD Blue re: a wild-cat problem in her neighborhood.
10:48 a.m. 2 R/Ps report that a red passenger car with 3 kids in it is traveling 100 mph w/b on I-90 @ Northwest Boulevard.
8:58 a.m. A 71YO female with health problems who lives in a mobile home park off Yorkshire is unresponsive and not breathing.
8:52 a.m. A construction worker on Arrow Point Drive refuses to move his pickup from a handicap parking spot.
8:42 a.m. A 10YO girl is complaining of a head bump and injured back after falling on the playground at John Brown Elementary/Rathdrum
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
Duffer on February 23 at 5:11 p.m.
4:01 p.m. A young man with his cap on backward is loitering on a bench in front of the library and won’t leave.
I thought that was the purpose of benches on public property! Duh! R/P must not have liked the backwards cap. Call the SWAT Team!