I'm becoming increasingly aware that there's hundreds of stories behind the short items that appear in Scanner Traffic. An unattended death leaves behind families. A trailer fire in Athol is dealt with quickly. But it wipes out a family's possessions. This week, two items hit…
The investigation involving former Lake City Development Corp. Chairman Charlie Nipp isn't over . Nipp, through his attorney, has requested copies of all correspondence between Sen. Mike Jorgenson, his constituents and the Idaho attorney general's office prior to the criminal investigation on the former chairman.…
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John G. Roberts, Jr., right, answers a question from Jordan Reich, left, back to camera, 20, of Gig Harbor, Wash. after speaking at the Sherman J. Bellwood Memorial Lecture Series at the Student Union Building ballroom at…
... (spotted by Steve Sibulsky in the KMC parking lot): "God bless our troops; especially our snipers."
Item: Girl’s abuser gets 10-year sentence: Kyra Wine lost feet as result of injuries/Ralph Bartholdt, St. Maries Gazette RecordMore Info: Blackened, dead flesh on toddler Kyra Wine’s hand and feet and black patches of scalp were among the injuries police saw during a welfare check…
Cis: When my son's were in their teens, I put the curse on them. I told them I wished for them to have 5 sons like themselves, so they would know what it was like to raise them. And that I felt sorry for their…
Christie Wood: Warning … my comments will percieved as kissing up. I do not care. …The truth is she is the best leader the City has had in my 19 years of employment. Mayor Bloem embraces and models the core values of strong leadership. From…
Liz: I have returned to the classroom a couple of times in my adulthood. As an evangelical Christian, what I have found is this: if you are respectful that others do have a right to believe something else, then you are for the most part…
OrangeTV: I'm slowly piecing together an article about a big Rock Music Festival that brought 15,000 naked, stoned hippies and innocent bystanders together in Farragut Park on July 2-5, 1971. It was billed as the “Universal Life Church Picnic” but was, by all reports, incredibly…
So what doomed this iconic Seattle fish wrap? The Seattle P-I's ultra-left-wing columnist Joel Connelly unintentionally and unknowingly sideswiped the answer when he used his column to ask this ironic question: Once the P-I shuts down its presses, "who will speak truth to power?" I…
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.
