The Coeur d’Alene girls basketball team looked like a chip off the old block Friday. And that could be bad news for the rest of the state. Three days after falling to Lewiston in the 5A Region I championship game, the Vikings rebounded in spirited…
A 72YO Athol man was killed this morning when his 2003 Dodge Ram pickup left Highway 41 on Seasons Hill (M/P 15), crashed down an embankment, hitting several small trees, before coming to a rest well off the highway. Young was pronounced dead at the…
We're back in downtown Seattle, again wondering how it's turned into a playground for roving bands of marauders. The videotape of the beating of a 15-year-old girl in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel released this week has set heads shaking throughout the city, and made…
Genevieve Chenel places a floral tribute for Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili are placed under the Olympic rings in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, earlier today. Kumaritashvili died at a hospital Friday after crashing during a luge high-speed training run. Seattle Times story here. (AP Photo/Gero…
Next week, we'll start talking about Blogfest VI -- or should we call it Blogfest '10? The annual event is scheduled for Steve Widmyer's Fort Ground Grill by North Idaho College in the historic Fortground area. The event is scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m.…
5:53 p.m. Vehicle hit a deer or some other animal on e/b I-90 @ M/P 27 (Fourth of July Pass). There are 2 semis and 2 vehicles broken down in the area.5:31 p.m. An unoccupied vehicle is on fire @ 1834 E. Thomas Lane/CdA.5:09 p.m.…
Tyler Long of Hickey Brothers Fishery, center and Dan Daubner of Hickey Brothers Fishery share a laugh while working on their boat on Lake Pend Oreille on Tuesday. Captain Paul Saunders is on the far left. The men are working to cull invasive mackinaw from…
This spray-painted illustration is the only visible indicator that a car sits beneath the snow mound on First Avenue in Red Lion, Pa., on Thursday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/The York Daily Record , Kate Penn)Top Cutlines:1. Jake French decided in hindsight that his…
An Otis Orchards, Wash., man was stabbed in the leg by a hitchhiker with a screw driver shortly after noon today at State Line on Seltice Way. The 49-year-old man said he was hit in the face and stabbed after he picked up the hitchhiker…
The decision has been made in DC to "cook and eat" Raul Labrador, a sitting Idaho House Legislator and a legitimate candidate for US Congress in the GOP Primary this Spring. They wink their eye and nod their head and pretend that Labrador's opponent, Vaughn…
"One of the Waste Management’s customer’s daughters (the city’s contracted garbage disposal service) created this piece of art for one of the company’s drivers. Apparently she waits each week to watch him dump the trash," Victoria Bruno, Coeur d'Alene Today. These little stints of mine/Community…
The House Transportation Committee has approved the proposed new mountain biking special license plate, which will help raise funds to maintain and expand public trails open to mountain biking around the state, according to Betsy Russell/Eye On Boise. More here.House passes Boise State, Idaho football…
Notice the new cyber ad at the top of Huckleberries Online today? Now, you have to click on the banner ad to get it to drop down. That should clear up the problem with the slow downloads some of you were experiencing on the site.…
Candace Godwin, Century 21 marketing director re: "Shoes for Haiti" drive: "We were contacted by Beth Leonardo, a real estate agent in the Seattle area and friend of Chad Oakland, an agent in our CdA office, asking if we would be a drop off point…
In this three image combination frame grab taken from video provided by the IOC Media Broadcast, Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili loses control of sled and crashes during a high-speed training run at the Olympic Sliding Center in Whistler, British Columbia, earlier today. Kumaritashvili later…
I realize that “Breakfast of Champions” and “Ghost Dad” provide formidable competition, but the stupidest movie ever made in our state has to be the “Duchess of Idaho.” Filmed in Sun Valley in January 1950, it was an MGM musical about ... well, pay attention…
At a Christian conference I attended this weekend, a fellow attendee suggested conservative Christians don't want to be identified with the environmentalist movement because it is identified with liberalism and that we have missed our great commission to be green. The idea is that only…
Joker's fictional account of politics in Coeur d'Alene: The judge nodded and Rufus rose from his chair. “Mr. Cougar. Do you think men who kidnap a child should be free in 10 years? Do you think men who rape a child should be free in…
Northerner: My wife won't let me watch it. I already have massive food issues and I won't eat or drink out of plastic. I also don't eat much out of a grocery store. But I live in a rural area where food is relatively easy…
Father Joe Weitensteiner wait in the 4th floor hallway of the Spokane County Courthouse, February 3, 2010 to testify in the Morning Star Boys Ranch. (Dan Pelle/SR)Jury finds in favor of Morning Star/Spokesman-ReviewIdaho poised for another $69M in budget cuts/Betsy Russell, SRWasden shuts down telemarketing…
"You may recall that when PapaJD and I went to San Francisco, we encountered heavy security due to Pres. Obama at our hotel for a fundraiser," e-mails MamaJD. "The JD family is spending the weekend in Seattle. We have encountered a heavy security presence again.…
Thursday Poll: 26 of 57 (46%) said the state Land Board should have given Tom Luna more than $22 million to help offset cuts in public education. Luna had asked for $52.8M. 18 of 57 (32%) said the Land Board contribution was adequate. 9 of…
The clock struck 10:50 a.m. and there was no sign of Robert Sacre. Our hopes of Rob attending his first class started to dwindle like a game clock in the fourth quarter. Then, spotted across the dimly lit hallway of College Hall, a head stood…
Quick fact for you: in California you can go to Costco and buy a half-gallon of Crown Royal for around $26 (give or take a few bucks, it’s been a while), here in Idaho, it’ll run you $57 and you have to buy it at…
Lest anyone think Idaho editorial pages are dens of partisan liberals who give Democrats a pass on everything, I offer this. On Wednesday, former state schools superintendent Marilyn Howard came out of retirement to speak to the Idaho Land Board — and make a weak…
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.
