On Facebook Nic reports: "I've been walking around with my fly unzipped all morning and no one told me. Either my coworkers are horribly insensitive or incredibly unobservant."Or maybe just timid. What's the best way to tell a fella his fly is unzipped?
An SUV that lost a front wheel sits atop a snow berm on South Regal Street last week. Snowy, slippery conditions call for increased caution.More snow in the forecast. Be careful out there!Now that the weather has our attention, it’s probably a good time to…
Apparently, the Blogfather is still in the grips of a tryptophan coma and is taking today off to recover. After preparing 17 pounds of turkey, 5 pounds of mashed potatoes (with gravy), 2 dozen rolls, 2 pans of stuffing, 2 cans of olives, 1 green…
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a two-year freeze of the salaries of some 2 million federal workers, trying to seize the deficit-cutting initiative from Republicans with a sudden, dramatic stroke. Though signaling White House concern over record deficits, the freeze would make…
Idaho is the only state without a suicide crisis hotline and has no clear private or government funding source to restart the program.Kathy Garrett, a former Republican state lawmaker and member of the Idaho Council on Suicide Prevention, is looking for a shared public-private partnership…
AMHERST, Mass., Nov. 25 (UPI) -- The manager of a Massachusetts pizzeria said the business is out $3,900 after a man who claimed to be from Bob Dylan's stage crew ordered 178 pizzas.Sean McElligott, manager of Antonio's in Amherst, said the store was "too trusting"…
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and the governors of the three Rocky Mountain states met Monday in Denver to try to figure out how to turn management of wolves over to the states — including the possibility that Congress could specify that the wolf population is…
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He’s the leader of the free world, and he’s won a Nobel Peace Prize.But only now, by one measure, is Barack Obama finally truly famous: He’s written a children’s book.With “Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters,” a new picture book for readers…
Cincinnati wide receiver Chris Henry had apparently turned his life around when tragedy struck.A berry picker sent me a link to this video that aired on Thanksgiving. A moving tribute to the choice Chris Henry's mother made that forever changed the lives of many people.…
Buffalo Bills wide receiver Steve Johnson dropped an easy, game-winning touchdown pass against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. After the game, Johnson placed the blame for the flub not on himself nor the pass nor the lights nor the defender nor the pressure of the…
Police officers kneel at the caskets of four slain Lakewood officers during a memorial service Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009, at the Tacoma Dome.PARKLAND, Wash. – The first of two memorials honoring four Lakewood police officers who were killed by a gunman last year has been…
Roger Federer celebrates his ATP World Tour Finals title.LONDON – Roger Federer turned his high-profile, season-ending match against Rafael Nadal into little more than an exhbition.Federer gave his rival little chance to mount a challenge in the 22nd meeting between two of the greatest players…
WASHINGTON — The release of more than 250,000 classified State Department documents forced the Obama administration into damage control, trying to contain fallout from unflattering assessments of world leaders and revelations about backstage U.S. diplomacy.The publication of the secret cables on Sunday amplified widespread global…
President Barack Obama watches a basketball game in Washington on SaturdayWASHINGTON – A day after it took 12 stitches to patch a busted lip President Barack Obama suffered during a game of pickup basketball, he was back on the hard court Saturday – as a…
In the tiny town of Thompson Falls, Mont., in the 1950s, there was a single paperboy who delivered the Missoulian to nearly 100 subscribers.He was 11, maybe 12 years old. The paper cost a nickel, no more than a dime. It was the only source…
General Manager Brad McQuarrie looks around the slopes at Mt. Spokane Ski and Snowboard Park Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010.So far, it looks like La Niña is delivering as promised. Ski resort operators across the Inland Northwest started cheering as early as last spring when forecasters…
It is hard to imagine that 1,300 children are in Idaho’s foster care system. Laura Umthun, Handle ExtraAir Force ring comes full circle, DFO, Handle ExtraWe’ve gotten some clues for interesting big business news for the near future, but they aren’t absolutely confirmed – so…
A North Idaho woman said she was confronted by at least four wolves between Tensed and Plummer as she walked alone up her rural driveway at dusk on Saturday. The timing of Karen Calisterio’s phone calls documents her 20 minutes of terror. More here. Rich…
LOS ANGELES – Leslie Nielsen, who traded in his dramatic persona for inspired bumbling as a hapless doctor in “Airplane!” and the accident-prone detective Frank Drebin in “The Naked Gun” comedies, died on Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 84.Favorite Nieslen roles/movies/quotes?
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.
