For years, North Side residents languished in a gastronomical vacuum. With few exceptions, our dining out options revolved around the array of fast-food joints and Chinese eateries that dot Division Street. But things are looking up. The arrival of Wasabi, O’Doherty’s and McClain’s Pizzeria have…
A security guard chases a fan during the second half of an NFL football game between the Buffalo Bills and Seattle Seahawks on Sunday in Toronto. The Seahawks won 50-17. You write the cutline. AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette)
11:47 a.m. Female choking on food and coughing up blood on Rude Street/Hayden. 11:43 a.m. Employee @ Goodwill/4th & Harrison/CdA reports disorderly male in store. 11:39 a.m. Caller reports another driver yelling, cussing & kicking his vehicle door during road rage altercation at undisclosed Post…
In spring 2011, there was a minor flap re: the post office box number for the campaign supporting Tom Hamilton and Terri Seymour for the Coeur d'Alene School Board. Inadvertently, the campaign had been given the same number as an old one that had been…
Gary Marbut, president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association, has attracted much attention by recommending that the country allow willing teachers to bare arms in school. Here's a part of his inteview with the Missoulian of Missoula, Mont.: As for arming teachers – and Marbut…
After eating a free dinner at the Central United Methodist Church in downtown Spokane, a group of homeless men and women gather behind the church Monday evening. They all said they support the proposed homeless tent city. As of now, they said, they spend their…
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill. Robert Bork, whose failed Supreme Court nomination made history, has died. More here. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi) Question: How might things have been different in this…
This time it's different. This time, the massacre of 20 first-graders, six of their teachers and the shooter's mother at Newtown, Conn., will break the national impasse on guns. Perhaps. But not here. Not in Idaho. What was the Gem State's reaction to the 2007…
What is to blame for the Connecticut school attack? In the wake of catastrophe, people want explanations, and as news spread of the mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, some religious conservatives were ready with an answer: the exclusion of God from…
The tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School is sparking some debate nationwide about how to explain the situation to children. School administrators in Coeur d’Alene are choosing not to talk about the shooting in classrooms there. With winter break around the corner, administrators said the…
If you have to be hauled before a judge for sentencing, try to schedule it after an election. New research shows that Washington judges are more likely to throw the book at criminals in the weeks before they’re in an election, suggesting that they respond,…
Sam Bishop stood Tuesday at the counter of Sharp Shooting Indoor Range and Gun Shop. He was looking at a gun for home security while he felt he still could, he said. “I want to be just one step ahead of everybody else,” said Bishop,…
Don McLachlan shovels out from a winter snow storm at Shelter Cover Resort and Marina on Willamette Pass after a snow storm descended on the area Monday. (AP Photo/The Register-Guard, Chris Pietsch) Question: Do you use a shovel/blower/other to remove snow from your sidewalks, driveway?
The mother who allegedly abandoned two children in the dark and rain near Interstate 90 and the Idaho-Washington state line is scheduled to plead guilty to a felony charge, her defense attorney said Tuesday. Shannon M. Duval, 28, of Spokane, was charged in Kootenai County…
Spokesman Review columnist Doug Clark made no bones about it. If his recap about Coeur d'Alene's last minute victory Saturday in the Mayor vs. Mayor Ring Off wasn't a verbal lashing, it was at least a highly raised eyebrow questioning Lake City ethics. Shoddy math…
The city of Coeur d'Alene agreed Tuesday to contract the same accounting firm, Magnuson, McHugh and Company, to perform its annual financial statement audit as it has done for the city since 1999. Whether the city takes a deeper look inside its finance department in…
The Spokesman-Review parking lot was iced over this morning when I arrived for work, probably as dangerous as I've seen it in years. I edged across after watching a women in high heels carefully walk from the courthouse parking lot to the courthouse moments before.…
Like most of us, Pecky Cox, As the Lake Churns blog, was feeling blue -- even had tears in her eyes today and had decided not to put up ornaments today -- when she spotted this Christmas card perfect scene along Highway 57 as she…
Most of my friends growing up had guns. I lived in North Idaho, after all. I remember going to see buddies at Post Falls High School, and several of the trucks in the parking lot had hunting rifles in the back window. I even remember…
4:42 p.m. Runaway reported in 2000 block of Neider Avenue/CdA. 4:28 p.m. Patrol officer reports someone has rolled Dumpster into undisclosed Post Falls road. 4:16 p.m. Driver has hood up on disabled pickup at top of e/b I-90 ramp/NW Blvd, CdA. Blocking. 4:09 p.m. Woolsey…
"It's her fault, she bought it for me," said Wayne Parsons, right, as he joked with his daughter Angela Parsons about his car port that blew down at his home in Coeur d'Alene on Monday. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Washington recycling rate his nearly 51%/KXLY…
An anonymous donor contributed $35,000 of $67,000 raise for a half-acre dog park at the base of Tubbs Hill, as part of the new McEuen Field makeover. See sketch above. Coeur d'Alene Today tells you all about it here. Remedial ethics/Fort Boise Horror in Connecticut/Bay…
Say what you will about us Idahoans, we're also generous and ready to volunteer to help. From MSN.com Causes comes news that Idaho is the 7th most generous state in the nation: The Potato State boasted the highest rate of new charities founded between 2000…
A year to the day after Mary Livingston opened her University Bar and Grill in the former Bulldog hangout, the business closed its doors. The business, at 1305 N. Hamilton Street, has a long history going back decades, when it was primarily the Bulldog Tavern…
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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