Now, they're predicting a brown Christmas, which means my decision not to put my snow tires on my 4Runner is looking better. I didn't put the tires on last winter. Which was hardly a winter. I might see how far I can push things again…
Student Melissa Cossack works on a client's hair while wearing a lighted and decorated Christmas tree hairdo at the Cheeks International Academy of Beauty Culture on Wednesday in Cheyenne, Wyo. (AP Photo/The Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Michael Smith)
Her stepdaughter’s children were her top priority, and Tina Crone devoted herself to their care. She took them in, eventually won custody and sought counseling to help the two accept the traumatic loss of their mother, Becky Brosnan, who was beaten to death by her…
I take note of falls on snow and ice this time of the year. It has been a long, long time since I've had a decent fall on an icy surface -- mebbe 33 years ago when I first arrived in Kalispell, Mont. I was…
5:57 p.m. Super 1 employees are physically detaining a shoplifter outside Hayden store.5:34 p.m. 2 juveniles believe they've seen someone wanted in news @ CdA library.5:15 p.m. Woman in 1600 block of Quail Run/PF reports her new neighbor has locked her baby & keys in…
The Chef in the Forest restaurant is set to open in a few weeks after rebuilding from a fire last December. Tom Sowa/SR Office Hours reports on the scheduled reopening here.Community pours out support for 2YO Crossley twins/Tania Dall, KXLY2-fer: Snow could return Saturday night…
Santa Claus is screened by TSA agents before entering a secure area of the Akron Canton Airport Wednesday in Green, Ohio. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/The Repository, Scott Heckel)Top Cutlines:1. Things got ugly when an overly-agressive TSA agent jingled Santa's bells -- Cindy.2. Concerned…
A divided State Board of Education narrowly approved the delegation of collegiate athletic scheduling to each school's chief executive this morning, helping support Boise State University's desire to discontinue is decades-long football rivalry with the University of Idaho. Over the protest of UI President Duane…
ConocoPhillips painted a picture of years of quiet, painstaking work to plan for the safe transport of four giant mega-loads of oil equipment across a winding, scenic north-central Idaho highway, while highway residents said they never knew what was coming and accused Idaho’s Transportation Department…
Re: Item from latest Downtown Coeur d'Alene Bar Report (Dec. 3-7):Battery -- 0150 hours, Saturday, Dec. 4 (Icon, 317 E. Sherman Ave.): "Officers responded to a physical fight call at the Icon involving a male hitting a female in the bar.According to the female, she…
"The one I can’t get off the phone is this damn AD from Florida. He keeps calling me; I don’t know what the hell he wants to talk about” -- Idaho Vandals football coach Robb Akey, tongue firmly cheeked, alluding to the recent resignation by…
A streaker wears a scarf as a concession to the winter weather, as he runs across the pitch past Oxford and Cambridge players, at Twickenham, England, Thursday Dec. 9, 2010, during the 129th annual Varsity rugby union match. The streaker was protesting against an increase…
Senate Republicans have blocked legislation that would have repealed the military’s policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and allowed gay troops to serve openly. Democrats failed today to cinch a procedural deal with Republicans in the waning days of the lame-duck session. The 57-40 test…
Joker explains why no one in D.C. accomplishes anything: Here's the formula as to why people loathe Congress and national politics. They get elected by promising to do something about the do nothing fat cats in Washington DC. They go to Washington DC and they…
I wanted to let you know that I have been offered, and accepted, the position of Ferndale city clerk, and my last day at The Bellingham Herald will be January 7. The job is contingent on the Ferndale City Council approving my contract during a…
(Megaload opponent) Linwood Laughy said based on his calculations, he doesn’t believe the megaloads can meet ITD’s standard of not delaying traffic more than 15 minutes. “I’ve calculated it out,” he said. “One stretch they’d have to go 49 mph.” Attorneys for ConocoPhillips are now…
In a quiet corner of the library, Rachel Richardson stretches before a performance of "The Nutcracker Short & Suite" by the Eugene Youth Ballet on Wednesday at the Eugene Public Library in Eugene, Ore. An abbreviated version of the timeless holiday classic played to a…
Being savvy in the ways of the new media, I announced my candidacy (for Idaho governor) on Facebook and on The Spokesman-Review blog Huckleberries Online. I listed a few of my qualifications: I’ve ridden a horse. I’ve moved irrigation pipes. I can play “Heart and…
Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church will be dispatching members of its congregation to protest the funeral of Elizabeth Edwards this Saturday, CNN reports. ... In a promotional flier for the upcoming protest, the church references John and Elizabeth Edwards's son Wade, who died in a car…
Noonish: A vehicle is going wrong way in eastbound lanes of I-90 @ NW Blvd.11:59 a.m. Someone is suffering an alcohol overdose in 4000 block of Neufeld/Hayden.11:53 a.m. Jerry, @ H97 & Skyline/Harris reports a stolen bank card from November.11:39 a.m. Female NIC student reports…
On the mound: Ferris High School baseball player Gabe Jensen, 16, cleared a spot on the pitchers mound, hung up a tarp with a target and brought a bucket of balls to a slushy Thornton Murphy Park on Wednesday in south Spokane. Jensen said it…
Wednesday Poll: Paul McCartney is the favorite Beatle in Hucks Nation. In a poll that was posted on the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's death, Paul pulled 53 of 115 votes (46.09%) for favorite Beatle. Lennon was a distant second with 27 of 115 votes…
Yesterday, Mary Souza of OpenCDA ap-hollow-gized for calling respected Councilman Ron Edinger "dumb." Now, she's hedging on that ap-hollow-gy by saying that someone of Edinger's tenure should be more informed re: the issues surrounding failed challenger Jim Brannon's lawsuit. Spouts Mary of Edinger: "Come on,…
In his quixotic battle to not pay state and federal income taxes, a North Idaho state legislator was clobbered by a windmill Wednesday. Rep. Phil Hart (R-Athol) lost his bid to forestall the Idaho Tax Commission from coming after $53,523 in state income tax he…
In this March 4, 2009 photo, Chris Korbulic, Pedro Oliva, and Ben Stookesberry gather for a photo in front of Salto Belo falls on Rio Sacre, in Campos Novos, in central Brazil. Rescuers say that a South African man leading Americans, Ben Stookesberry and Chris…
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.
