I mentioned to Mrs. O last night that I hear of wrong-way drivers on Scanner Traffic 2X or 3X per week -- on Highway 95 and Interstate 90. A few minutes ago, a gray sedan was going s/b in the n/b lanes of Highway 95…
Canada Geese goslings swim in a puddle in the reflection of their parents in the parking lot of Cleveland Lakefront State Park in Cleveland, Ohio on Thursday. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
On the Kootenai MPO blog today, Staci Lehman posts that she and office mate, Jenny, were conducting traffic counts this morning "at the crazy intersection" of Highway 41 & Seltice Way. As a result, she saw someone sitting in a car "brushing his teeth! While…
5:17 p.m. Traffic lights are malfunctioning @ H95 & Hanley/CdA. 4:53 p.m. Caller reports a chip truck on H95, n/b from Plummer, is tailgating, forcing cars off road. 4:31 p.m. The traffic lights @ H95 & Canfield are blinking red in all directions. 4:30 p.m.…
Artist Christopher Fennell of Birmingham, Ala., welds on his canoe wave project next to the Snake River levee ponds at Lewiston Monday. Fennell has added more canoes to the top of the 23-foot-tall sculpture and will add around 40 more to the base to create…
Legislative staff member Dana Mitchell, gives her frog, "Tamies Prince" a kiss for good luck before it's jump in the 37th Annual Capitol Frog Jump held at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday. The contest is held to promote the Frog Jumping Contest held at…
Pecky Cox at As the Lake Churns reminds us to mark down the annual Priest Lake Spring Festival on our calendars. For more than 30 years, the festival has been held in the community, beginning on the Saturday before Memorial Day and ending on Sunday…
Heather Daugherty, 28, of Coeur d'Alene participated in the National Day of Prayer at Coeur d'Alene City Hall earlier today. Several area Pastors led the group in prayers and song. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Question: Do you believe in the power of prayer?
The trial and guilty verdicts against former Aryan Nations lawyer Edgar Steele earlier today brought back memories of those times when supremacist Richard Butler was active at his property on the Rimrock. the note above was sent to Councilman Woody McEvers from a racist with…
Some folks hanker for simpler times. They long for the Old West era, when you could spot the bad guys by the color of their hats. Days when skills like good riding and fast shooting garnered praise. One local group does more than pine for…
It all started with a cradle. Pat Murphy, owner of Home Environments in north Spokane, had drawn his niece’s name for Christmas. She was expecting her first baby. As he pondered gift ideas, he spied an old teak hot tub a customer had brought in…
Do you remember the short-lived McDonalds Express restaurant on Sherman Avenue in days gone by. The Eagles building, I believe, separated it from Hudson's hamburgers. Obviously, Hudson's continues to make great hamburgers while McDonalds closed shop fairly quickly. SR photog buddy Jesse Tinsley has posted…
Joker (re: MikeK stunned by caustic remarks): Ok, The verdict is in: Guilty of Rude behavior unbecoming a private citizen. I watched video. Susie’s remarks are brief. She interupts herself while she was making an interesting suggestion with a rude comment. She made a bit…
An open house for the proposed McEuen Park Project will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Coeur d’Alene Public Library. Multiple easels with prints of the proposed park, showing the various associated costs of the amenities/elements, will be set up for…
During my nine years of covering the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, I met more than my share of supremacists. Edgar Steele and former fugitive Vincent Bertollini were among those who occasionally e-mailed. Steele, who, moments ago, was found guilty of a murder-for-hire…
Laura Takisaki and Libby Love, both 20, pop up from behind theblocks sculpture in Riverfront Park on Wednesday as they perform scenes for avideo they are filming. They are Washington State University nursing students producing an original rap song about being free from school. They…
A jury of 11 women and 1 man convicted Edgar Steele of hiring a hitman-turned-FBI-informant to kill his wife and mother in law. Jurors began deliberating Wednesday afternoon to decide if Edgar Steele hired his handyman, Larry Fairfax, to kill his wife with a pipe…
12:03 a.m. A blue van is broken down on e/b I-90 offramp @ Spokane Street/PF. 11:54 a.m. Caller reports an animal bite in 900 block of W. Davidson/CdA. 11:51 a.m. Someone is having a hard time breathing @ 1300 Mullan/CdA.] 11:44 a.m. Possible child abuse…
Half as many Americans believe President Obama was not born in Hawaii than did before he released his long-form birth certificate, a new poll found. According to a Washington Post poll released Thursday, 70 percent of Americans say Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, after…
President Barack Obama, lower center, shakes hands with first responders as he arrives for a wreath laying ceremony at the September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site in New York Thursday. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) Jeff was in the World Trade Center on Sept.…
You can't blame Idaho school Superintendent Tom Luna's anti-teacher "reform" package for driving Lewiston High School's Agatha Trickey out of the classroom. Trickey, who is going to apply her math background toward another degree to become an actuary, is not the first teacher to suffer…
Councilman Mike Kennedy: But Susie Snedaker prompted this commentary by calling the council out publicly from the dias as though we weren’t paying attention because some were taking notes. I was rather stunned at Susie’s caustic approach, even though I’ve come to expect Susie to…
Wednesday Poll: Two-thirds of Hucks Nation don't plan to vote for either Donald Trump or Sarah Palin if they're on the GOPresidential primary ballot in 2012. 155 of 226 respondents (68.58%) said they won't vote for either. 63 of 226 respondents (27.88%) plan to vote…
A Pakistani woman photographs her daughter at a gate of the compound where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan Thursday. The residents of Abbottabad were still confused and suspicious about the killing of bin Laden, which took place in…
I'm not sure what caused Chris Carlson to go after the Idaho Freedom Foundation in his May 4 commentary. And normally I would just ignore his statements, but there are so many errors and inaccuracies on the Idaho Freedom Foundation, I've decided to take a…
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.
