The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office is requesting assistance from the public in its current investigation of the hit and run accident that occurred on August 16 about 8:45 p.m. on Garwood Road, north of the city of Hayden, Idaho. The 20-year-old female victim was riding…
On her Facebook wall, SR colleague Meghann Cuniff writes that she's going to the North Idaho Fair with a friend today -- to count mullets. And she invited her Facebook Friends to join her mullet-count party. Quoth Meghann: "This fair is the best." How about…
A psychology professor who shot and killed a graduate student at the University of Idaho had threatened the young woman in the past, according to court documents filed in the case.Police say Ernesto Bustamante shot and killed Katherine Benoit Monday night on the front porch…
In a second e-mail to Pat Raffee at the office of County Clerk Cliff Hayes (right), Coeur d'Alene Councilman Mike Kennedy (left) writes: "In a press release that you sent out in June, you indicated that the Clerk’s office was using “volunteers” to review voters…
Idaho's citizens' redistricting commission is on hiatus this week — but in politics, there are no vacations. Today, it was the Republicans' turn to lobby charges at their three Democratic counterparts, accusing them of derailing the remapping by injecting "raw partisanship" into the process. The…
Huckleberries wonders if the officers who cited three females for open container and/or a minor in possession of alcohol had ever heard the excuse they used to explain why they were drinking in their vehicle. Seems the officers spotted them drinking in the vehicle at…
After retrieving a high pick off throw from Cleveland Indians catcher Carlos Santana, Indians third baseman Jack Hannahan flips over Seattle Mariners baserunner Brendan Ryan as he steals third in the fifth inning of a baseball game in Cleveland today. The Mariners are leading Cleveland…
11:59 a.m. Possible structure fire 202 N17th/CdA. 11:44 a.m. A man in orange tank top left a brief case in bushes near Social Security office and is now w/b on Wallace/CdA. He's now visiting w/female on bike @ 6th & Wallace. (Update: Owner tells officer…
Vacation Poll: 182 of 381 respondents to the vacation poll -- 47.77 percent -- believe that the Tea Party in North Idaho is losing steam. 154 of 381 (40.42%) said it isn't. 45 of 381 (11.81%) were undecided. Today's Poll: Did Jeremy M. Hill act…
Seems County Clerk Cliff Hayes (pictured) has been a busy elected official while I was on vacation, withdrawing extension offices at local City Halls that made it easier for his constituents to vote absentee during election years. Hayes claims that he made the move because,…
Dustin Hurst tweets: "I lost my wallet in another state recently. Someone from the town in which I lost it just mailed it to me. Wow. Amazed at the generosity." The Twitter message reminded me of the time decades ago when my wife left her…
On her Blush Response blog, Nicole Hensley offers the final installment of creative workplace spaces, including the one above which spotlighted my corner on Northwest Boulevard. Writes Nicole: "These are a selection of a few Twitter users that graciously agreed to let me in their…
Rep. Marv Hagedorn, R-Meridian, (pictured) who co-sponsored a 2011 bill that would have allowed concealed weapons holders to take guns on campus, wrote University of Idaho President Duane Nellis late Tuesday. Teaching gun safety "could have possibly served as a deterrent to the shooter had…
The Republican establishment inside the Washington Beltway may be pining for new candidates to enter the race for president, but two-thirds of influential local Republicans surveyed by The Huffington Post and Patch in the early primary and caucus states are satisfied with their choices. And…
More than a third of Idaho women over 40 did not receive important breast cancer screening in the last two years, reports the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. That places Idaho last out of 50 states and the District of Columbia in cancer screening…
Item: Smokey's story Coming soon to a TV near you: Horse, Post Falls owner to appear on national reality TV series/Brian Walker, Coeur d'Alene Press More Info: After BB's Smokey Dun collided head on with another horse last year, owner Diane Robson said her decision…
A Moscow police officer uses a video camera in a room rented by Ernesto Bustamante at the University Inn-Best Western in Moscow on Tuesday. Bustamante is suspected of shooting and killing a 22-year-old woman in Moscow on Monday. Story here and here. AP Photo/Moscow-Pullman Daily…
Item: Coroner busts budget: Wilkey: High number of autopsies is to blame/Alecia Warren, CdA Press More Info: Due to a high number of autopsies, the Kootenai County commissioners have injected an extra $50,000 into the coroner's budget to make it to the end of the…
Item: Not guilty plea entered in federal case of shot grizzly: Officials, many in community question prosecution of father/Becky Kramer, SR Yesterday: Duane R: No interest in the fate of Jeremy Hill? More Info: “It seems unjust to me that someone would be charged when…
Facebook said Tuesday it would roll out new controls for sharing personal information on the social network later this week, giving its more than 750 million users new tools to manage who can see information about them. On Thursday, the company plans to move a…
After taking a closer look at the Washington monument Tuesday, National Park Service officials found some cracks at the very top of the world's tallest obelisk. Structural engineers plan to continue examining the monument Wednesday to decide how to best fix the 127-year old structure,…
It's Tuesday! Oh, happy day, DFO will be back tomorrow. Unless he didn't get enough of a blog break-- you never know. He sure does earn his vacation days. Riding herd on a blog like Huck's online can be exhausting. In fact, I won't be…
Indian youth make a human pyramid to reach and break the Dahi Handi, an earthen pot filled with yoghurt, as they celebrate Janamashtami, the birth anniversary of Hindu God Krishna in Mumbai, India, Monday, Aug. 22, 2011.
A new non-partisan fiscal policy center is being launched in Idaho, with Mike Ferguson, former longtime state chief economist, chosen to head it. The Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy will be housed at the Mountain States Group, and is funded by a grant from the…
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.
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