As Villanova University's Ronnie Akins (6) closes in, Eastern Washington University wide receiver Tyler Hart (33) tries to break a tackle from Villanova's James Pitts (1) Friday during the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Playoffs on Roos Field at the EWU campus in Cheney, Wash. EWU…
For you fans of regional football, Eastern Washington is leading Villanova 13-7 at the end of the first quarter of the semi-final game of the NCAA Division I-A playoff game at Roos Stadium in Cheney, Wash. You can watch the game on EWU's red turf…
Cody Laur, 22, left, of Metamora, Mich., gets some help from Santa while waiting for the hospital to take a photo of him with his wife Alecia and their twins Wyatt and Westley in Hurley Medical Center's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in Flint for…
On Twitter, SR colleague Meghann Cuniff tweets: "Scary. The convenience store I frequent just got robbed at knifepoint. I was in there about an hour ago." According to a preliminary police report, the robber threatened a clerk at Divine’s Food Mart and gas station at…
5:33 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activity report for Dec. 16-17 here.5:13 p.m. A problem with juveniles is reported on 8th & Locust/CdA.5:08 p.m. Woman on Hudlow wants to take 15YO daughter to KMC b/c she's acting out.4:45 p.m. Motorist w/b on Dalton from 4th/CdA…
Jackson Barth, 12, shares a laugh with his parents, David and Lisa Barth, during a video interview in Sandpoint on Monday. Jackson, who has autism, is the inspiration for a group from Sandpoint that will compete next June in Race Across America, one of the…
A Great Dane stands between his handler, left, and the ring judge during conformation competition at the 2010 Crown Classic Dog Show in Cleveland, on Thursday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)Top Cutlines:1. Questioning both the teacher's royalty and gender, her principal said “Who…
The Associated Press reports today that public records it obtained under the Idaho Public Records Act show Idaho State Tax Commission Chairman Royce Chigbrow intervened on behalf of clients of his son’s accounting firm, over the objections of Tax Commission employees, bringing the clients significant…
Facebook Friend Kelsey Lightning wrote today: "Why must people take photos of the animals they kill? Why? I am not opposed to hunting as long as what's killed gets used. But no one really wants to see a photo of a dead animal on Facebooks.…
President Barack Obama, joined by Republican and Democratic lawmakers, looks up after signing the bipartisan tax package that extends tax cuts for families at all income levels, during a signing ceremony at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex today in Washington.…
Item: A case of spaces: Kroc Center considers parking structure/Tom Hasslinger, PressMore Info: An upper level parking structure that could cost more than $1 million could grace the west side of the Kroc Community Center parking lot by late next summer. Right now, the center…
On her Facebook page, Cindy proclaims: "I am going to Walmart!" Nah, she's not going to shopt there (so you anti-WalMart readers can take your fingers off the keyboard. Rather, Cindy's getting paid to go to WalMart. More Cindy: "Salvation Army Captain Kyle Smith is…
House Speaker Lawerence Denney (pictured) and Rep. Tom Loertscher have pulled off the nearly impossible. They’re making themselves look almost as bad as state Rep. Phil Hart, the Legislature’s resident tax dodger and timber hound. ... By now, the allegations against Hart are well-established: the…
"Because I am working the late shift," posts Colin Mulvany/Snaps & Frames recently, "I’ve been shooting a lot of basketball this week, In my quest to shoot photos I wouldn’t normally bother with, I spotted Sadie Porter, a WSU Crimson Girl’s dance team member as…
I have too much stuff. This is not some blindingly new realization for me; I’ve known I have too much stuff for an awfully long time. But I’ve noticed that my discontent with owning too much stuff has been growing, day by day. This feeling…
11:40 a.m. Some sort of road hazard is reported @ Government Way & Canfield.11:37 a.m. Caller reports smoke coming from garage @ 102 W. Cosmos/PF.11:29 a.m. Green traffic light is burned out @ H41 & Poleline/PF.11:17 a.m. An unknown medical situation is reported @ 16th…
Moscow Minidoka: Does anyone else get annoyed by the way our Inland Northwest “radio personalities” (and I suppose “television personalities” too) act when giving the weather forecast? Just this morning the guy on our local oldies station reported the possibility of snow with the same…
An ABC cameraman tapes as Robin Roberts, far right, rides a snowmobile with Sarah Palin (in orange helmet) and her daughter Piper during an interview with Sarah Palin for ABC's Good Morning America at the Palin home in Wasilla, Alaska. In a Zogby International Poll,…
Thursday Poll: Mac users may be fanatical about their computer, but most in Hucks Nation prefers PCs. 99 of 134 respondents (73.88%) said they prefer PCs to Macs. Only 27 of 134 (20.15%) choose Macs. 5 of 134 (3.73%) said they like both types of…
The Capitol Hill newspaper “Roll Call” reports today that Idaho Congressman Walt Minnick says he’s “gone for good” from elective politics. “I think I’m done with elective politics,” he told the newspaper. “I’m not sure what I’m going to do, but I think it’s time…
It should surprise no one, therefore, that a number of business interests have lent their support to the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality’s appeal for $350,000 to restore a water-quality monitoring program that was largely suspended two years ago. Numerous Idaho cities, including Coeur d’Alene…
Marjorie George poses at her home in Durham, N.C., earlier this week. George wrote an op-ed on the subject of RSVP for her local newspaper some time ago. George wonders whether busy lifestyles have begotten a culture of not committing, even to a few hours…
Item: Bad teachers, fear the iPad: official believes trendy machines could help identify poor performers/Jay Patrick, SRMore Info: Earlier this year, (Scott Woolstenhulme of Bonneville Joint School District in Idaho Falls) spent $30,000 on 34 top-model iPads for principals and other administrators. The idea is…
With little fanfare or complaints, Seattle Atheists have erected a decorated tree and a sign on the Capitol campus in honor of not-Christmas. A tree? As in, a Christmas Tree? Not exactly. The group calls it “A Tree of Knowledge” — although it’s unclear if…
State regulators fined Avista Corp. more than $60,000 for improper handling of customer accounts. Most of the violations were related to errors in how energy-assistance dollars were credited to low-income families. Avista was putting the money toward customers’ old past-due bills, instead of crediting it…
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.
