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TUESDAY, NOV. 29, 2011

AM Scanner Traffic -- 11.29.11

11:59 a.m. Caller reports males in red Subaru e/b on Appleway from I-90 may be smoking pot. 11:53 a.m. Baby hurt, mother hysterical, after rear-ending logging truck @ H95 & Honeysuckle/Hayden. Truck keeps going. Trucker may be unaware that he was hit. 11:50 a.m. A…

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Paul Wulff Out As WSU Football Coach 12 

WSU Head Coach Paul Wulff turns away from the Cougar huddle late in the Apple Cup game against Washington at CenturyLink Field in Seattle. WSu wound up on the losing end of the Apple Cup 38-21 Saturday. Wulff was meeting with WSU AD Bill Moos…

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Hucks Poll: Keep Teaching Cursive

Monday Poll: Overwhelmingly, Hucks Nation says public schools in Idaho should continue to teach cursive writing. 128 of 165 respondents (77.58%) took that position. 32 of 165 (19.39%) disagreed. 5 respondents (3.03%) were neutral. Paul Wulff: A plurality of Hucks Nation wants to see Paul…

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Michael Jackson Doctor Gets 4 Years 

Dr. Conrad Murray is remanded into custody after the jury returns with a guilty verdict in his involuntary manslaughter trial earlier this month. Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter after a trial that painted him as a reckless caregiver who administered a lethal dose of…

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Newt: More Conservative Than Mitt 35 

With his poll numbers rising and riding the buzz from his recent Manchester, N.H., Union Leader endorsement, Newt Gingrich set his sights on GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney on Monday, attacking him as a flip-flopper and pitching himself as the “conservative alternative.” “I don’t claim…

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Media Eye Idaho's Educational Role 

National publications are spotlighting Idaho's roll in the shift to online learning, according to Dan Popkey/Idaho Statesman. In a blog post today, Popkey quotes Lee Fang of The Nation: "From Idaho to Indiana to Florida, recently passed laws will radically reshape the face of education…

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Edit: Libraries Face Filter Mandate 

Idaho legislators believe in local control — except when they don’t. Don’t take it from us. Ask your local librarian. Under a new state law, libraries have to install filtering on their computers, so children will not be exposed to indecent or obscene material over…

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AM Headlines -- 11.29.11 

OR-11, a male pup from the Walla Walla pack, awakens from anesthesia after being fitted with a radio tracking collar in northeastern Oregon. Another wolf, OR-7, from the Imnaha pack, has become a celebrity by trekking 730 miles on a zigzag course from near the…

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Open Records/Meeting Event Coming 

Everyone in Idaho should know what is covered -- and what's not -- by the state's public records and open meetings laws. That's the premise behind a series of educational seminars that Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden and Idahoans for Openness in Government, or IDOG,…

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World AIDS Day Coming Thursday 

Romanian youths hold hands during a flash mob held to raise awareness of the risk of being infected with the HIV virus, ahead of World AIDS Day on Thursday, Bucharest, Romania, earlier today. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) Question: Do you know someone infected with full-blown AIDS…

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Louisa May Alcott Anniversary Today 

HucksOnline has learned that today is Louisa May Alcott's birthday (born in 1832), thanks to a tweet by Cindy. Wikipedia describes Alcott this way: "She is best known for the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys. Little Women was set…

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Post Falls Theater Goes Discount 

Item: PF Theater goes discount: Starting Friday, ticket prices drop to $2 for second-run movies/Brian Walker, Coeur d'Alene Press\ More Info: Post Falls Theater hopes cheap admission prices will bring families back to the movies and boost business. Starting Friday, the 17-year-old, locally-owned theater will…

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MONDAY, NOV. 28, 2011

Wild Card/Monday -- 11.28.11 10 

Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and the downtown Coeur d'Alene welcome to the holidays are behind us. Now, it's time for Christmas trees, shopping, and possibly winter. Any complaints out there for the relatively mild, late-fall weather we've been experiencing? I didn't think so. I'll post the…

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P.S. Governor Apologizes To Tweeter 

High school senior Emma Sullivan displays the text of a tweet she sent after listening to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback speak to a group of students last week in Fairway, Kan. Since posting the tweet, Sullivan was called into the principal's office and ordered to…

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Bonner Co Keeps Marching Rightward 25 

Holidays are not slowing the rightward march of the Bonner County Property Rights Council. Monday night, the controversial Property Rights Council is sponsoring a “public seminar” on “The Theoretical Basis for a Property Rights Council.” The featured speaker is Sandpoint-based James L. Payne. Mr. Payne…

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PM Headlines -- 11.28.11

Nine-year-old Kali Andrews of Blanchard adjusts her hat before modeling in the annual Kootenai Medical Center Foundation's Festival of Trees fashion show/fund raiser at the Coeur d'Alene Resort earliler today. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Goodwill employee attacked at knifepoint/Alison Boggs, SR Alleged White House shooter…

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PM Scanner Traffic -- 11.21.11

5:15 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for Nov. 27-28 here. 5:07 p.m. 2 vehicles have hit a deer on H95 @ M/P 425 (Presley Road, south of CdA). 4:56 p.m. Wheatfield/CdA resident reports female in red Honda shot BBs at her house. 4:49…

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Woman's Body Found Near Dam 

The body of a woman who has been missing since Nov. 10 was found this morning in the Spokane River below the debris gate of the Avista Dam in Post Falls. The body of Cheryl A. Corbett, 61, of Post Falls, was recovered by the…

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NIdaho Blogs: Handling A Moose 

Don Gunter of Post Falls had all the tools for going out to fill the coveted Idaho moose tag he drew this year: Rifle, pickup, knives and saws, strong hunting partner … But he also was prepared for the bigger job of handling a moose.…

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Robber Tries To Take Woman's Purse

Coeur d'Alene police are looking for a man in a black hoodie who tried unsuccessfully to steal a purse belonging to a female employee of Goodwill Industries after holding a knife to her throat. The incident occurred at 2 p.m. today at the store at…

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BP: Tina Jacobson Has A Conflict 

A Berry Picker (re: Huckleberries Hears ... that United Conservatives of North Idaho are organizing): "If Tina Jacobson, chairman of the Kootenai County GOP Central Committee, is involved, it's a serious conflict. She's helping to organize a new group because of flaws in the local…

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Eman: Why Are Mug Shots So Bad? 

Eman: Which brings me to the photo’s used for cats like wayne and honestly almost all the political mug shots. If that’s the best one of wayne then OK so be it but wow. Look at the one for Adams, scarry. Goodlander? yikes. The mayor’s…

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UCLA Wants Boise State's Petersen 

Boise State's Chris Petersen will be the first coach UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero will approach about the Bruins' football job, according to influential people with knowledge of the situation who are not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. Guerrero, who on Monday announced…

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