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SATURDAY, JAN. 17, 2009

Oxycontin Addiction Floors CDA Lawyer 

Item: Oxycontin addiction can touch anyone/Meghann Cuniff, SR More Info: A Coeur d’Alene attorney reportedly recruited a client to help him feed his prescription pill addiction, paying for the man to travel to California monthly to fetch hundreds of OxyContin pills. It went on for…

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WND Poll: Prez Term Limits 16 

What do you think of repealing the Constitution's term limits on presidents?WorldNetDaily1. It's a great idea - Obama's going to need more than 8 years to bring the change we need2. The 22nd Amendment should be repealed - term limits are repugnant to the people's…

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Wild Card/Saturday -- 1/17/08 15 

In the news this morning, the Obama Cabinet seems to be headed for quick approval here. Circuit City is closing its remaining 567 stores in this country, putting 34,000 employees out of work here. Divers are looking for both engine of "miracle" plane in Hudson…

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ORG XMIT: WARB107 San Francisco's Blake Wallace makes a pass against Gonzaga's Josh Heytvelt in the first half of their NCAA college basketball game in Spokane, Wash. Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Rajah Bose) (Rajah Bose / The Spokesman-Review)

Zags, Cougs Win, Vandals Lose

San Francisco's Blake Wallace makes a pass against Gonzaga's Josh Heytvelt in the first half of their NCAA college basketball game in Spokane, Wash. Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009. Gonzaga won the game easily 85-51. ESPN game story and boxscore here. (AP Photo/Rajah Bose)Washington State 74,…

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Avista Estimates Jack Up Power Bills 13 

Item: Avista customers hit with whopping January power bills/Shawn Vestal, SRMore here: A lot of people got a shock in the mail over the past couple of days: a whopping power bill. January’s bills are typically among the year’s highest, and this year’s came loaded…

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Still Dressed In Winter White

"We haven't seen new snowfall in North Idaho for the past several days," posts Councilwoman KerriT/OnLocation North Idaho, "but the fog combined with freezing temperatures has decorated the pine trees on the Rathdrum Prairie in winter white."

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OTV: 40ish Stripper Teases Karaoke Nite 16 

The crowd was vivacious as Billy and Sue sang the final hoots and hollers of another rousing rendition of their trademark tune “Dixieland Delight.” The hunched figure shuffled out to the middle of the dance floor and blurted out to anyone listening something along the…

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RTR: NIC Opens In 1933 13 

At Remember The Roxy, OrangeTV reminds us of the men and women with vision in the depths of the Great Depression who knew the importance of higher education for the Coeur d'Alene area. I wonder if there were misguided individuals who opposed the creation of…

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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.