In the news this evening, a Los Angeles man killed his wife, 5 kids and himself, after he lost his job here. Bill Clinton earned $6M in speaking fees last year, chiefly from foreign sources, here. The New York Times features the impact the late…
While President Barack Obama was on Capitol Hill meeting with Republicans a Uniformed Secret Service Emergency Response Team officer lets his security dog get some exercise and play in the light snow that covered the White House grounds in Washington today. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)SR's Today…
Larry Brown (right), chairman of the Lakeland School Board, and CDA School Trustee Vern Newby visited the Idaho Legislature today to lobby for money for Idaho schools. You can read Betsy Russell's Eye On Boise story here.Down economy means growth at NIC/Eye On BoiseISP reopens…
New: Coeur d'Alene police blotter summary here.Update: Matthew Fish was transported to KMC to be treated for injuries in that snowmobile crash @ 12:30 p.m. Monday @ Forest Service Roads 209 & 612. He told rescuers that he crashed in the Fernan Saddle area after…
But don't let that stop people from coming down Thursday morning at 8:30 - big doings with the Special Olympics Torch entering Idaho - the Final Leg - on the way to the games in Boise and surrounding areas. One outdoor brief ceremony with great…
A plate flies off a table set for two as Mason Hill, 8, rides down the hill at the 4th annual furniture races at the Bruce Mound Winter Sports Area near Neillsville, Wis., Saturday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Marshfield News Herald, Dan Young)1. This…
In this photo provided by the Social Security Administration, Patty Duke, now of Coeur d'Alene, reprises her teen-age roles as TV's Lane cousins to drum up enthusiasm for retiring online. As a teen-ager, Duke played the characters Patty and Cathy Lane from the hit 1960s…
... Blogmeister Ryan has increased the number of posts that are shown on the front page from 20 to 30. Ditto for the number of posts that can be made in the comments section. Can you think of any other tweaks that are needed?
"This past week there have been robin sightings nearly every day," posts KerriT/OnLocation North Idaho. "On Sunday a large flock came for a breakfast of berries. While there's no scientific evidence to back up my conclusion that even though North Idaho is in the midst…
Flemming, who is unemployed and has no family in the Silver Valley area, was charged with lewd conduct with a minor under 16-years-old and two counts of sexual battery of a minor under 16-years-old. Authorities arrested Flemming while executing a search warrant to find evidence…
If you want the best seat in the house at the Kennel for Gonzaga's Thursday night showdown against St. Marys, you may need to dig out your camping gear and find a place to pitch your tent. Students have wasted no time setting up an…
It may be the dead of winter with a snow storm heading our way, but the denizens of Priest Lake are looking ahead to summer, as this photo from Pecky Cox/As The Lake Churns, indicates.Cartoon: Not stimulated by stimulus package/David Horsey, PILawmaker wants to raise…
In this Oct. 23, 1990 file photo, author John Updike, speaks at a lecture at the Boston Public Library in Boston. Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the…
Item: Surviving Octuplets Born for Second Time Ever: Doctor: Eighth Baby Was a 'Tremendous Surprise'/ABC NewsMore Info: After she gave birth to seven babies, a California woman -- and the massive 46-person team of doctors that was assisting the birth -- thought she was done.…
In a truly bipartisan effort which the IVA wholeheartedly supports, two Republican and one Democrat lawmaker are coming together to work on legislation to provide, for the first time in Idaho law, mandatory minimum sentences for those who commit sex crimes against children. Many people…
"There's no organization in Idaho that is dedicated to the purpose of finding free market solutions and empowering individuals to take back their freedoms," Hoffman said. "We are the state's only think tank dedicated to that purpose" -- Wayne Hoffman, Idaho Freedom Foundation. More from…
I was once in the Black Hills of South Dakota and saw a family of wild burros. The baby burro, or foal I think they are called (or are baby burros called "burritos") was the cutest animal I've ever seen in the wild. It was…
10:04 a.m. Sunset Towing reports a rollover accident involving a Toyota Corolla on Millsap Loop, a half mile from Riverview. Unknown injuries.9:49 a.m. Several R/Ps report that there's a body under the I-90/McGuire Road/Post Falls overpass.9:48 a.m. It's beginning to snow again.9:33 a.m. A trucker…
Sen. Jim Hammond, R-Post Falls, asked Idaho State University President Arthur Vailas if perhaps he should consider charging differential tuition - higher for high-cost programs, perhaps, that also set students up to earn big incomes once they’ve completed them. “Perhaps we should look at some…
It took less than two hours for a jury on Friday to convict a Coeur d'Alene man of attacking a woman at her home last year. Graham Burrage, 27, (pictured) was convicted last week of sexually assaulting the woman while her three children huddled in…
"We saw a bicycler pedaling his way around the lake, we met up with folks doing some ice fishing, we saw kids playing hockey, we saw hikers and even a lady leading a horse along the road near the shoreline," Marianne Love, Slight Detour. You…
Are these economic times making it hard for you to stay happy?/Idaho StatesmanYesNoA little
It is, of course, a calculated outrage. Meaning, it was spewed by a clown in the media circus to kick a familiar sequence into motion: angry denunciation by bloggers, pundits and supporters of President Barack Obama (the "he" whose failure is hoped), followed by Rush…
Regardless of whether students are allowed to live in the same suite together, individuals who choose to engage in sex will. Through this restriction, the university is preventing students from gaining a maturity they will need when they graduate and likely will be faced with…
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.
