CBS has rejected a gay dating site's Super Bowl ad and now Mancrunch.com wants a bite out of the network. CNBC.com reporter Darren Rovell tweeted earlier Friday that CBS would not be airing ManCrunch.com's 'Playing for the Same Team' ad during the NFL game next…
The ice may be slushy on the chain lakes, but it's still top notch. Ralph Bartholdt/Skookum Photography took his camera and pen out to investigate the ice fishing that has the locals excited this year. More here.
How are you guys doing re: checking out The Porch of Miles Avenue/Hayden, as part of the first HBO Grub Club selection for a restaurant review en masse? I know several of you checked out the restaurant earlier in the week. Are others doing so?…
Sixth-grader Emily Cahill of Holy Family Catholic School in Coeur d'Alene dressed in her best Hawaiian clothing for the last day of Catholic Schools Week today. (Kathy Plonka/SR)Spokane Valley man cited for double exposure/Mike Prager, SR'Pharmacist conscience' bill back before Legislature/Sharon Fisher, New WestFormer senator…
In this photo taken with a cell phone and provided by Kylie Kaiser and PzNaPpod.blogspot.com, a man plays with a live chicken on an uptown No. 6 subway train in New York Tuesday evening. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/2PzNaPpod.blogspot.com, Kylie Kaiser) Top Cutlines:1. Jim…
5:55 p.m. Male juveniles were seen stuffing 2 girls into trunk of silver vehicle @ Taco Bell on Hanley.5:35 p.m. Male w/brown goatee, about 5-foot-8, stole several items of clothing from Kohl's and left on foot toward Life Care.4:30 p.m. A large chunk of concrete,…
Joan Lang is a 78-year-old Idaho native who says she has "never voted for a Republican in my life." Nevertheless, Lang received a fund-raising letter from the Republican National Committee that's being criticized for confusing citizens as the decennial census is conducted this year. The…
Ever since he was a toddler and we took him to see the Berenstain Bears "LIVE AND IN PERSON!" at Barnes and Noble, my son has held any and all costumed characters in great disdain. He doesn't hate them. He's just disgusted by them. Maybe…
A black hen is shown Friday at Glendale Community College in Glendale, Calif., that has been dodging cars, captors and coyotes for two months. Officials say the bird has been darting into traffic outside Glendale Community College since it was first reported Nov. 20. The…
After three and a half years on the arts and culture beat, I am leaving the paper for another job opportunity. I will continue writing movie reviews for the Ticket Stubs space as well as occasional pop culture commentaries for inside this section. Our copy…
Christopher E. Williams, 32, of Post Falls, was sentenced Thursday to serve seven years in state prison, the Kootenai County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office announced today. District Judge John Luster sentenced Williams to serve seven years, including the first two years of fixed time. Williams, who…
Maxwell Munson, Post Falls, thought about throwing away his second-chance entry scratch ticket into the Idaho Lottery’s 20th Anniversary Scratch Game drawing every time he cleaned his room over the past six months. But he never did. He held on to it. On Monday, January…
Several vehicles are piled up in the southbound lane of Highway 65, one mile south of Mason City, Iowa, on Monday. The National Weather Service said snowfall ranged from 1 to 4 inches, but winds were blowing up to 35 mph, with gusts near 45…
My favorite kind of day is “Wear My Husband’s Clothes” day. It occurs whenever I’m too busy to see him, and it works out great because we wear the same size in everything. Sometimes I wear a T-shirt of his, other times a pair of…
What’s the most famous sculpture in America? Mount Rushmore, of course, created by an Idahoan who once served on the national board of directors of the Ku Klux Klan. Gutzon Borglum was born in the southeastern Idaho hamlet of St. Charles in 1867, the son…
While on a play date with a friend, Erika Frahm, age 5, says hello to a Canada goose in Riverfront Park Thursday. (Colin Mulvany/SR)Commissioner: Idaho image in jeopardy if human rights agency lost/Eye On BoiseIdaho wolf advocate posts hunters' names online/Associated PressDUI suspected after 3YO…
JazzyVandal: Speaking of Super Bowl ads, it looks like there will be a gay dating site ad during the game. I was doing some googling and CBS has turned down ads before from PETA and United Church of Christ (about inclusiveness) in the past. It…
Scott Roeder jokes with his attorney after he finished testifying in his murder trial on Thursday in Wichita, Kan. Roeder, the man accused of murdering prominent Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, took the stand in his own defense Thursday and promptly admitted that he…
11:26 a.m. A 15YO male is lightheaded and lying on the floor after his vehicle slipped its break and pinned him against a garage wall in 2600 block of E. Thomas Hill/CdA.11:07 a.m. Spirit Lake father reports his daughter is receiving harassing phone calls and…
President Barack Obama holds up a document of Republican solutions given to him by House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, before he spoke to Republican lawmakers at the GOP House Issues Conference in Baltimore today. Wall Street Journal story here. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Question: On…
Ben Bernanke was confirmed today to remain as chair of the Federal Reserve. the Senate vote was 70-30, a clear win margin. But two-thirds of the Northwest delegation was against him. Both of Idaho’s Republicans, Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, voted against; most of the…
Thursday Poll: 82 of 143 (57%) respondents opposed President Obama's proposal to repeal the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy in the military. 54 of 143 (30%) want the policy repealed. 7 were undecided.Obama Speech: You Berry Pickers again showed how evenly divided you are politically…
He fished upon the frozen lake;he knew the ice was strong;they pulled him out on June the eighth-- it turned out he was wrong.The Bard of Sherman Avenue
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, foreground, loses her shoe as she is greeted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy on the steps of the Elysee palace upon her arrival Friday in Paris. Clinton flew to Paris on Friday for talks with French officials and…
JEERS ... to Idaho State Board of Education President Paul Agidius of Moscow (pictured at UI President Duane Nellis' inaugaration). If there's one person in this state who should be speaking truth to power, it is the president of the board of education. He should…
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.
