This really is a lousy time of the year to have a birthday. The weather generally is lousy. And everyone is looking past birthdays to Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping. Several years back, ice storm hit on the eve of my birthday. Now, it appears…
Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors Trevor Wiseman, centre, tries to get past Gonzaga Bulldogs, Sam Dower, left, and Robert Sacre during second half of the 2011 BC Basketball Classic NCAA basketball action at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Saturday. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward) Robert…
Idaho's Kama Bailey (8) jumps and misses the end zone in the second half of an NCAA college football game against Utah State on Saturday in Moscow. Utah State won 49-42 in double overtime. ESPN boxscore here. (AP Photo/Alicia Carlson) Utah 30, Washington State 27…
For the second time this year, a miner has died after sustaining injuries while working at Hecla’s Lucky Friday mine. Brandon Lloyd Gray, 26, was critically injured Thursday while working at the Mullan, Idaho mine. He died early this morning. A second miner injured in…
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain joins host David Letterman on the set of the “Late Show with David Letterman” Thursday in New York. The show aired Friday. Cain told Letterman that all the women who accuse him or sexual impropriety are lying. Story here. (AP…
Chad Chalich will get his right foot fitted for a cast today and miss the first month of the basketball season. This after playing one final football game Friday when the Coeur d’Alene senior quarterback led the Vikings, top-ranked all season, to a repeat 5A…
SR colleague Paul Turner asks his Slice print readers to identify their approach to the looming shopping frenzy: A) “I believe it is my task to personally revive our sluggish economy.” B) “I intend to look for bargains on all sorts of utterly unnecessary imported…
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.
