A Moscow man whose lawyer blamed caffeine-induced psychosis for alleged hit-and-run crashes at Washington State University in December has been acquitted by reason of insanity. Whitman County Superior Court Judge David Frazier ruled today that Daniel Noble, 31, (pictured) was temporarily insane during the Dec.…
Last week, the Virginia attorney general created a controversy by stating that it's time that the female featured on his commonwealth's state seal cover up. According to National Public Radio, he gave "his staff a version in which she donned a more modest armored breastplate,…
A mallard ends up with a beak full of snow as he grazed at Spring Creek Park in Billings, Mont. as a snowstorm passed through the area this morning. (AP Photo/Billings Gazette, Casey Riffe)This snow-billed mallard has nothing to do with politics. But I thought…
... at Boo Radley's in downtown Spokane Wednesday: "Diarrhea also happens."
Item: McEuen Field bids sought: Coeur d'Alene expects to spend up to $125,000 for design of waterfront play field/Coeur d'Alene PressMore Info: The new company will be comprised of landscape architects and engineers to design a plan using information on the park from previous meetings…
I had to run Junior to the airport by 5:15 this morning. So we hit the road construction that started on the Spokane Street bridge @ Post Falls. More specifically, we hit the 45 mph speed limit about a mile east of Spokane Street. It…
Pecky Cox/As The Lake Churns points out in an e-mail and with this photograph that spring has returned to Priest Lake.Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SRSnow falling in Post Falls, milder weather coming/Mike Prager, SRWarm winter weather stifles Avista's earnings/Spokesman-ReviewAs racism still an issue in North Idaho?/NadinetseComprehensive…
I've consumed a lot of coffee the last couple of days, hanging out with my kids in Cour d'Alene and Spokane. I always order coffee, never the mochas or sundry other drinks offered at the various coffee shops, in sizes from 8 ounces to 20…
Who knew there were degrees of gayness? But, given the news out of Seattle, we now know there are. For those who missed it, a lawsuit was filed last week by three Bay Area men against the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance. Yeah, that…
The Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry, a lobbying group that represents Idaho’s biggest businesses, has developed a special website attacking Democratic candidate for governor Keith Allred with criticisms that Allred contends are false, the Associated Press reports. The site, www.allredink.com, says that if the…
Dogwalk Musing's green house.The minute I saw her I knew I had to have her. She was standing away from the crowd, close to a grouping of plants. Tall, stately. I moved through people busy visiting or nibbling goodies until I stood in front of…
Idaho Dad/A Family Runs Through It says he's going to wait until later in the week, after the local Mexican food and drink places are less jammed, to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Judging from yesterday's poll, I'd say a third of HBO Nation will be…
Tuesday Poll: 39 of 95 respondents (41%) voted that their local governments are doing "very well" in providing bike paths for bicyclists. 20 of 95 (21%) said their local government is doing "so-so" on bike paths, while 19 of 95 (20%) said the local governments…
Raul Labrador, candidate for the Republican nomination for Idaho's 1st Congressional District, talks with his press secretary Dennis Mansfield before holding a news conference at the Idaho Statehouse on Tuesday in Boise. Labrador says the federal government should send the military to the Mexican border…
Jerry Gleesing, photographed with his wife, Nancy, in February 2010, died Sunday, April 25, 2010, at age 85. Gleesing was commander of the Spokane Inland Empire Chapter of the American Ex-Prisoners of War.I really do have a good excuse for not subbing for DFO as…
I wouldn’t necessarily label myself as a slob. It’s more accurate to say I’m fashion-challenged. There was a time when I cared about the clothes I wore. But then children came along, and then homeschooling, and suddenly there was not even a minute of the…
MelissaLuckKXLY posts on her blog: To work in TV news, you have to have pretty thick skin. People take a lot of shots at you, about everything from the way you tell stories to how you do your hair. It’s part of the job, though…
I'm still not sure why, but my board flipped out from under me. When I hit the transition, I felt something slide in my knee. As I lay there assessing the situation, Brent asked what I thought was wrong. At that point, all I knew…
Stoneworker James Lee of Colorado-based Engrave Write, prepares a space on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, Tuesday, to add the name of Lt. Col. William L. Taylor. Taylor, of Tampa, Fla., was wounded in Vietnam Sept. 21, 1970, and died Jan. 23, 2009. (AP…
On Facebook, CindyH started quite a conversation with a simple statement that she's "not a fan of exclamation marks. Especially, first thing in the morning!!" That prompted a colleague who shares our mutual Facebook space to say that she received an e-mail Tuesday morning containing…
At one point, Burdick disputed Bradbury’s statement that the state’s school facilities lawsuit ended when lawyers were called to a meeting in the Supreme Court’s basement and told “it’s over,” without any written order or decision - and despite an earlier ruling that the state’s…
Item: Senator sues Kootenai County: Jorgenson alleges clerk acted improperly on opponent's vote status/Tom HasslingerMore Info: Jorgenson, R-Hayden Lake, filed suit against county clerk Dan English last week, alleging that English acted improperly by not declaring Steven Vick - a candidate for Jorgenson's District 3…
Item: Members of congressional delegation oppose repeal of 17th Amendment/Dustin Hurst, Idaho Reporter.More Info: Boise Tea Party Inc.’s spokesman Russ Smerz asked if candidates would be in favor of repealing the result of Borah’s efforts. Many of the candidates – there were 10 of them…
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