Today is the 175th day of 2009. There are 190 days left in the year. On this day in history: In 1509, 500 years ago, Henry VIII was crowned king of England. Rock musician Jeff Beck is 65. Today is UFO day (in honor of…
At the Kootenai County Farmers Market in downtown Coeur d'Alene, Ashley Fotsch, 16, left, and Maddy Barnes by some gourmet artisan bread from Paul Lash of Pasty Depot this afternoon. The event continues until 7 o'clock. (Colin Mulvany/SR)SR Today In PhotosQuestion: What do you usually…
Merge into the left lane, because everybody else is.Get irritated by the people flying by in the right lane, while wishing you were doing the same thing.Get even more irritated at the people who let them in.Let someone in from the right lane.Realize there really…
In a field of wild flowers near Hayden a honeybee gathers nectar from a daisy Wednesday. (Colin Mulvany/SR)Poll: Minnick viewed more favorably than Otter/Eye On BoiseDrivers sue Spokane, 18 other Washington cities re: traffic camera fines/SRInmates owe Kootenai County $2.2M/KREMBonner Humane Society to close doors/Bonner…
Belarusian neo-pagans jump over a bonfire celebrating the summer solstice near the town of Orsha, 200 km (125 miles) northeast of Minsk, Belarus, late Tuesday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)Top Cutlines:1. Unabashedly brown-nosing, Taryn and Bent jump at the chance to retrieve a…
5:21 p.m. PFPD Blue advises that 2 girls are waving @ traffic from the I-90/McGuire Road overpass and not doing anything else (in case dispatch gets calls).4:45 p.m. Someone dropped a poodle out of a vehicle @ Wilbur & Pinegrove/Hayden.4:37 p.m. Union Pacific reports that…
Jessica Lynn Waldvogel, has been located and is no longer of interest to the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department. Waldvogel was found in good health traveling through Hardin Montana by the Big Horn County Sheriff’s Department/Lt. Lee Richardson, KCSD.
You can find out which restaurant offers the best fish & chips in the area, according to OrangeTV/Get Out! North Idaho here.Berries/Tumblewords7 Wonders of JBelle's world/Notes from The 'Kan EWA14,291 days/Synaptic DisunionIncognito/Slight DetourSecrets can change your life for worse/Midnight MarauderMore belowQuestion: Which place do you…
A plan to pave the Montana side of the Gold Center Road is dead in the water. It wasn’t sensitive fish spawning beds along the route that killed the $12 million Little Joe project, which was funded almost a decade ago and had been on…
In this January 2007 file photo, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford takes the oath of office for a second term with his wife Jenny and sons, from the left; Marshall III; Landon; Bolton and Blake, during inaugural ceremonies at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. Now,…
OrangeTV: I've been to People's Park exactly once, about 15 years ago. I had rented a tux for a wedding the night before and my friend Grace had a fun idea. She got completely dressed up in a formal gown and went all the way…
Rob Berger pulled off the near impossible on Sunday, and that's not a reference to the 14.5 hours he spent on the Ironman course in adverse conditions. Rob, a 2001 Lake City HS grad, completed his MBA at Boston College in May after an undergrad…
Item: NIC subject of scolding: School violated academic freedom by letting part-timer go, AAUP says/Alison Boggs, SRMore Info: The case of a North Idaho College instructor who wasn’t reappointed after a student accused her of bashing Republicans prompted a national organization to censure the Coeur…
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Jamie McCarthy, right, of Somers pumps his fist as he walks through downtown Kalispell during a Gay Pride parade put on by the Montana Pride Network on Saturday in Kalispell, Mont. (AP Photo/Daily Inter Lake, Nate Chute)Horsey: So much for theocracy/Seattle P-IEx-Boise State basketballer guilty…
For a few summers, it was like I moved every day. Now, I can't stand the thought of my one move this year. While in college, my job during the warm months was as a laborer for a Mayflower moving franchise in Western Washington. We…
11:52 a.m. Dead deer in the w/b lane of travel on I-90 @ MP 34 (near High 3 overpass).11:45 a.m. Possible illegal burn of a slash pile off I-90 @ M/P 17, east of CdA.11:16 a.m. A foul odor is coming from a garage of…
... that the father of the man accused in that recent machete attack in Spokane was involved in the dispute over Sanders Beach -- in a weird way 10 years after he died. Remember? Douglas W. Harmon's father, E. Glenn Harmon, died in 1994 but…
If you've been concerned or impatient about the investigations of Boise's three recent cycling fatalities, take a close read of today's paper. Patrick Orr's story and Police Chief Mike Masterson's Reader's View take a good step back from the heat of the moment. The fact…
Nick Jonas of The Jonas Brother, right, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington this morning before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Type 1 Diabetes Research. He is joined by, from left, actress Mary Tyler Moore; Dr. Griffin Rodgers, Director of…
Item: Men charged with lewd conduct in sting operation/KREMMore Info: More than a half dozen men are charged with lewd conduct in more than one Spokane park. Police say the men engaged in criminal sexual activity in broad daylight. An undercover police sting in People’s…
Item: Flexing their muscles or following protocol? Downtown bike cops draw concern from citizen; police tell different story/Tom Hasslinger, PressMore Info: Gianotti snapped the picture because he had firsthand experience dealing with what he felt were too many officers for one minor infraction. A couple…
Item: Pot establishing medicinal niche: Marijuana dispensaries’ legal status remain in limbo/John Stucke, SRMore Info: Now that marijuana can be legally used to ease patients’ pain, dispensaries are opening in Spokane to provide it. And regardless of whether such stores are what Washington voters and…
Jerry Harmon, the surface general supervisor for the Kensington Mine, receives a hug from Rep. Cathy Munoz, R-Juneau, during a lunchtime rally on the steps of the Capitol in Juneau, Alaska, on Monday, after the Supreme Court upheld the government's decision to issue permits to…
Raymond Pert: I have examined all the photographs that have been posted of the BeerBQ fest. I do not believe Kerri's presentation of s'mores swayed the judges. I have, however, concluded that Kerri was wearing intimidating camo and that her choice of fashion frightened the…
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.
