With news today that the Pentagon has no plans to repeal the don't ask-don't tell policy for gay service members, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow interviewed decorated Air Force pilot Lt. Colonel Victor Fehrenbach who is being discharged under that policy. As stated in this first public…
In the business section today, the CdA Press reports that Village at Riverstone will have a closeout auctin for 36 condominiums June 14. Prices begin at $180,000 to $490,000 on quality condos that previously were priced at $329,000 to $899,900, with square footage ranging from…
Young visitors pose in front of an illusionary art work of a gorilla with its mouth wide open that is drawn at the corner of an exhibition room at the Trick Art Museum at the foot of Mount Takao on the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan,…
That got Jones thinking. What his friend did is what people have been doing for millennia: pointing out the richest man in town. Sometimes people just want to know out of curiosity; other times it's because they think such proximity to wealth might present an…
Item: PETA's Minnie Mouse in a bikini protests mouse glue traps in Spokane Valley/KREMMore Info: Protestors from the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) were set up outside the Spokane Valley Lowe's Tuesday protesting glue traps used to catch mice. A woman…
Incumbent Brooks edges Purtee by 7 votes to retain seat/Maureen Dolan, CdA Press; and: Challengers unseat incumbents in Post Falls, Lakeland and St. Maries/Brian Walker, CdA PressQuestion: How do you read these results? Were voters in a "throw-the-bums-out" mood? Did the last-minute flap involving yard…
According to a new national survey by GMAC Insurance, Idaho drivers are tied (with Wisconsin) for best in the nation in their driving knowledge - performance on the written test for a driver’s license. This isn’t new drivers; it’s existing ones. The annual survey polled…
Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SRCdA school incumbents retain seats/Maureen Dolan, CdA PressPost Falls, Lakeland, St. Maries incumbents unseated/Brian Walker, CdA PressBrinnon denied shorter prison sentence/Tom Hasslinger, CdA PressSpokane man becomes oldest to climb Everest/KHQMoscow dedicates shooting range to fallen officer/KXLY
This image provided by ABC-TV shows from left: Melissa Rycroft, Tony Dovolani, Shawn Johnson, Mark Ballas, Cheryl Burke and Gilles Marini on Dancing with the Stars Monday. Shawn Johnson, the 17-year-old gymnast, was named "Dancing With the Stars" champion Tuesday during the season finale of…
In the HBO Poll Tuesday, incumbents Edie Brooks and Bill Hemenway had an easier time against challengers than they did at the Coeur d'Alene School District polls. Of 111 votes cast, Brooks captured 47 and Hemenway 41 to show they were easily preferred here over…
RE: Nampa 'sexter' could face chargesAliasjax: Explain to her that exposing her breasts is not the worst thing in the world. In fact, only in America and a very few other prudish countries are a woman's breasts that big of a deal. Then maybe send…
Sisyphus: I think Dave is getting filled with contentment after the honeymoon from chasing so many of the vocal ones away. At least before he would interact once in while. Now he just comes in, kicks up some posts, leans back in his chair and…
ME: I don't like going to cemeteries. My Sister is in the one in Post Falls and I've only been a couple of times. It so happens that my Mom was MAD at my Sister and I last year because she wanted to go to…
Dan Of The County: If those numbers are right (639 in Zone 1 and 422 in Zone 3) the astounding number would be the turn out. I believe the number of registered voters for the whole district is about 37,000. With five trustee zones the…
Unofficially, Ray Gun reports that incumbent Edie Brooks nipped challenger James Purtee by 7 votes in the hotly contested Zone 1 trustee election and incumbent Bill Hemenway defeated challenger Terri Seymour by 40 votes in Zone 3. OpenCdA.com reports the totals as 323 to 316…
On this day in history: In 1536, Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest. In 1999, "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" was released in the U.S. It set a new record for opening…
Caitlin Sybouts, age 18 of Spokane, Wash., takes a break from her music classes and her boyfriend Miles Van Zee, age 19 of Federal Way, Wash., from his social studies courses, find some afternoon hang-time on Van Zee's hammock, outside Dressler Hall on the Eastern…
On my way home, I stopped at my neighborhood convenience store to get gas. I stuck the nozzle into the gas tank and pushed the trigger. I don't know if it was the force from the flowing gas or what, but the entire hose POPPED…
Item: Nampa firm lets moms bring their kids to work/Maggie O'Mara, KTVBMore Info: At an accounting office in Nampa - babies are just a part of doing business. "We had several women who had babies at the same time so we got them together to…
A sure sign of the tourist season start is the planting of the geraniums at the Coeur d'Alene Resort, which began today. The Resort plants over 10,000 red geraniums each year, as a symbolic welcome mat to visitors/Councilwoman KerriT, OnLocation North Idaho.Witness describes cop shooting…
A mockingbird grazes University of Florida biology major Devon Duffy, in Gainesville, Fla., in an attempt to drive her away from its nest on the university campus. Mockingbirds may look pretty much alike to people, but they can tell us apart and are quick to…
4:56 p.m. Woman wants a welfare check on horses along Davenport/Dalton Gardens.4:33 p.m. An unconscious man is slumped over the wheel in a white van in the median on Highway 95 b/n Kathleen & Dalton.4:24 p.m. Wife @ Kidd Island Bay reports that her husband…
Thanks to a wonderful Hospice administrator, he pulled some strings and in one whirlwind of an afternoon, got her de-IV'ed, signed out of what she considered a neverending nightmare (no offense, KMC- of the many hours I spent there by her side, I considered everyone…
My Husband, Son, Sister and I took off for the Oregon Coast on Thursday. When we read my Mom's will after she passed on in October, she said "I'd like to be cremated and my ashes put in the Ocean if possible". We were determined…
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