Item: Simpson refuses to disqualify himself from the Brannon case/Tom Hasslinger, Coeur d'Alene PressMore Info: First District Judge Benjamin Simpson isn't going anywhere. Simpson ruled Friday evening that he would remain as the judge presiding over the election challenge lawsuit, saying that an unfavorable ruling…
A Transportation Security Administration (TXA) agent, right, scans airline passenger Kelsi Dunbar, using X-ray technology that can see through people's clothes and show the body's contours with blush-inducing clarity at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix. (AP File Photo/The Arizona Republic, Jack Kurtz)The House Transportation and…
he Washington Democrats' scheme to seduce the electorate into granting Olympia the power to afflict the state with an income tax is a stark reminder of why we should never trust them. While thrashing about for ideas on how best to close the state's budget…
Why is Gov. C. L. (Butch) Otter taking ownership for one of his predecessor's worst foul-ups? Responding to a series of editorials, Otter - joined by House Speaker Lawerence Denney, R-Midvale and Senate President Robert Geddes, R-Soda Springs -- recently rejected out of hand any…
Cindy and about a dozen other Merry Hucksters staged a HBO After Hours event at O'Doherty's on Spokane Falls Boulevard Friday night to welcome in the St. Paddy's Day weekend. Here's what she learned:1. Guinness is a beer that lingers on the tongue until a…
Tania Dall/KXLY made the following report from tapes released by the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department in the Hayden shooting earlier this week. You can hear the 911 tape by clicking here.Dispatcher: "Who is the shooter? That's what I'm asking."Starnes: “His name is Chad Moore, M-o-o-r-e."Starnes:…
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.