For 20 years, federal agents allege, a Coeur d’Alene cocaine dealer went undetected by law enforcement, thanks in part to a tight-knit group of traffickers that included his friends and family. But James Roy “Slim” O’Neill’s alleged criminal enterprise imploded Tuesday when he and six…
Christina Hu, 11 months, from Scottsdale, Ariz. wears hearing protection during the second half of Game 4 of the NBA basketball Western Conference finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Phoenix Suns Tuesday in Phoenix. The Suns won 115-106 to even the series. You…
Ann Curry and Matt Lauern her role as the co-host of "The Today Show" on NBC, Ann Curry is renowned for her grace and gravitas, reporting stoically on all sorts of calamities from far-flung places like the Congo, Iraq, and Darfur — in between the…
I'm pre-posting this Wild Card after a long, eventful day tracking voter turnout out and posting election totals for the HucksOnline crowd. I'm bushed and looking forward to time off this week, to see Junior graduate from UColorado Denver medical school before he heads to…
Lucas Baumbach, the Boise Republican legislative candidate who created the widely circulated video mash-up juxtaposing phrases from speeches by Vaughn Ward and Barack Obama, calls himself a "RINO hunter" and a "Tea Party activist" and is blunt about why he created the mash-up: Because he…
President Barack Obama leaves Capitol Hill on Tuesday after a meeting with Senate Republicans.WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama paid a rare visit to Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill Tuesday, seeking their support on energy, immigration and other top priority measures. But he hit a buzz…
1st District GOP congressional nominee Raul Labrador, asked by Eye on Boise about the impact of the video mash-up of speeches by opponent Vaughn Ward and Barack Obama that circulated widely online for the last few days before the election and was featured on the…
Art LinkletterMay 26 (Bloomberg) -- Art Linkletter, the genial radio and television host who spent more than two decades interviewing children and getting them to say "the darndest things," has died. He was 97. More here.
"Larry Spencer helped Jai Nelson knock off Rick Currie — making it the first time in my memory that he's actually been directly linked to a candidate (Larry was Jai's campaign manager) and getting a win. This is huge and nobody is giving the guy…
From left, Fred Marker and his wife Caryl, sit with hospice volunteers Cathey and Pat Priddy, who also have started a local ALS service organization and visit the Markers weekly....McDougall said what makes the Priddys so special is that “they understand the disease on an…
Closing arguments are happening right now in the trial of a former Spokane man accused of murdering a young woman in Reno, Nevada.One piece of evidence in the case is a Toyota truck seized from a Coeur d'Alene resident shortly after James Biela's arrest. Police…
Sarah Palin greets people at the Qwest Arena in Boise on Friday after giving a speech for congressional candidate Vaughn Ward. ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Sarah Palin has taken to her Facebook page to complain about her new neighbor – a writer penning a book about…
Steven Benson shows off two of more than 2,200 lake trout he, Mike, left, and Jerry (not pictured) have caught during Spring Mack Days. Their father started the three boys fishing on Flathead in the 1960s. MissoulianThese guys may be in for a surprise. According…
The National Debt Clock rolled over to 13 trillion and it's still going. If you enjoy feeling overwhelmed just click here and watch that baby go. According to this site my taxpayer portion is $117,983. Ouch.
Several beers await microbrew aficionados at Palouse Falls Brewing Co.More than half a million people are hungover at work on any given day and the figures is set to soar during the World Cup, experts say.Nearly one in 10 Britons head to the office suffering…
Here's a link to the final, unofficial statewide results from the Secretary of State. Of interest: Six legislative incumbents lost to their challengers in the GOP primary: Sen. Mike Jorgenson, R-Hayden Lake; Sen. Lee Heinrich, R-Cascade; Rep. Steve Kren, R-Nampa; Rep. Rich Jarvis, R-Meridian, who…
State Rep. Raul Labrador issued this statement this morning after his upset victory late last night in the GOP primary for the 1st CD. Unofficial final results show Labrador winning with 47.6 percent of the vote to 38.9 percent for Vaughn Ward. “I’ve received a…
Tuesday Poll: 60 of 92 respondents (65%) said they planned to vote at the polls rather than absentee in the spring primaries. 32 of 92 (35%) said they'd voted absentee already.Cross-over Voting: 36 of 74 respondents (49%) said they planned to cross-over to vote in…
In an article aptly headlined "The Rage Machine," (5-24-10) right-wing Internet entrepreneur and Fox News darling Andrew Breitbart confides to New Yorker magazine staff writer Rebecca Mead, "I just feel like one of these Idaho guys saying, 'You're not taking my land,' -- with a…
One challenger in a Kootenai County commission race was holding a solid lead Tuesday over a first-term incumbent, but the other contested Republican primary was too close to call. The races are winner-take-all because no Democrats entered the races. Dan Green, chairman of the county’s…
Steve Vick had little trouble dumping multi-term state Sen. Mike Jorgenson in the District 3 race, after Jorgenson fought to keep him off the ballot over a procedural matter. In the other contested Republican primary in District 3, Vito Barbieri bested a four-person field, defeating…
On the Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight, Leno played the entire video mashup that juxtaposes clips of Barack Obama’s 2004 Democratic national convention speech with similar turns of phrase in a speech by Idaho GOP congressional candidate Vaughn Ward at the Idaho state capitol…
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.
