Warming Up For Feast 2
Question: What do you eat for breakfast or lunch when you know you're going to be having a HUGE dinner? -- Cindy tweet. Anyone?
TUESDAY, DEC. 24, 2013
3-Cent Stamp Takes Effect Jan. 26 3
Regulators authorize 3-cent increase in first-class stamps to 49 cents effective Jan. 26/Associated Press. Question: How much do you rely on the U.S. Postal Service to deliver your mail and packets?
A Close Encounter With Hand Lotion 1
Another way I almost died: I was shopping for hand lotion for grandma, and while smelling samples, I accidentally squirted some up my nose -- Melissa Davlin. Question: Have you incurred any Christmas shopping injuries this year?
Santa Event Attracts 2075lbs Of Food 1
It will be a merrier Christmas for many local families, thanks in part to Coeur d’Alene firefighters who donated their time over the past several evenings to spread cheer and collect donations during the Coeur d’Alene Fire Department’s annual “Santa in a Big Red Fire…
How The Bannons Found Lake City 3
Ellen Travolta Bannon and Jack Bannon explain how they came to Coeur d'Alene and joined Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre. Did you know that Jack Bannon once played a character of the "Beverly Hillbillies," named Bolt Upright? This bit of trivia comes from Paul Turner's blog,…
Write 5000X: 'Boys Do Not Hit Girls' 5
A 27-year-old felon who has been in and out of state custody since age 14 is now facing eight years in Montana State Prison for violating terms of his release and six months in the county jail for fracturing his girlfriend’s face in three places.…
AM Scanner Traffic -- 12.24.13
11:59 a.m. CPD officer cites female for littering on Neider/CdA. 11:40 a.m. Male (in 11:16 item) taken into protective custody. 11:38 a.m. 9YO reports grandma has cut her arm badly on broken glass in sink on 9th Street/CdA. 11:24 a.m. Someone is sick & having…
Blogger: Tiptoeing On Eggshells 6
At Right Argument, blogger Michael Haugen focuses on the recent hubbubs involving Phil Robertson of "Duck Dynasty" and PR executive Justin Sacco: It might well be me (I am younger so forgive any youthful ignorance–and correct if necessary), but does it seem that the stakes…
HBO Blog Rdp -- 12.24.13 2
On The Slice blog, Paul Turner posts this comic front page of Batman looking at a yearbook mention of his alter ego, Bruce Wayne, who is designated as "most likely to succeed as a detective." (illustration: comicsalliance.com) Winter's nap/End Notes Cherished gifts/Slight Detour Christmas is…
Christmas Eve Or Christmas Morn? 2
I asked the holiday poll question based on my own experience. I grew up in a Catholic home that opened its gifts on Christmas Eve. First, my parents would pack all six of us kids up in whatever car they were driving at the time…
Poll: Little Support For Brannon
Monday Poll: It's a good thing that new County Clerk Jim Brannon has support among the dominant UCNI/Pauler wing of the local Central Committee because he has little backing in Hucks Nation. 141 of 168 respondents (83.93%) say they don't plan to vote for recently…
Cute Baby Photo
Newborn baby Dallas Soffel is shown in her Christmas stocking at Redlands Community Hospital in Redlands, Calif. Thursday. Redlands Community Hospital has had a program for many years in which babies born in December are sent home in a Christmas stocking. The stockings are made…
Risch Delivers Holiday Address 3
Idaho Sen. Jim Risch called today on Americans to count their blessing over the holidays and remember the brave and dedicated men and women in the military who keep our nation free. Risch's remarks were made in the weekly, national Republican address. “As we reach…
Sickness Cancels Alaska Flights 1
Fifteen Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air flights were canceled Sunday and at least nine were canceled Monday due to crews that were too sick to fly, an airline official told KGW. “Cold and flu season has hit a lot of [crews] in the last day…
It Was Best & Worst Christmas Ever 5
In the Coeur d'Alene Press, Rob Stratton tells of Christmas 2005, which became his best and worst Christmas ever: A few years ago I was driving from Seattle to our home in Rathdrum. I was somewhere near Ellensburg listening to a Wenatchee radio station. They…
AM Headlines -- 12.24.13
Miss Idaho Sarah Downs, Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter and Idaho Potato mascot Spuddy Buddy pose for a photograph before the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl NCAA college football game between Buffalo and San Diego State in Boise on Saturday. San Diego State won 49-24. (AP…
Powerful Voice Serves Drinks, Too
J.J. White belts out a karaoke tune at Studio K. (Inlander photo: Steven Schlange) It's a Friday night, and people are getting drunk. The bar is producing rounds of shots in the dozens. Every table is packed. It's the kind of night when big groups…
Cutline Contest -- 12.24.13 1
President Barack Obama, looks to a yawning first lady Michelle Obama as Sasha Obama puts her head down during the final minutes of the Oregon State University versus University of Akron college basketball game at the Diamond Head Classic at the Stan Sheriff Center in…
Bugs In The Air 4
A Facebook Friend posts: Christmas Eve! After 4 days in bed, I think I'm recovering. Another time I want to kick myself for not wearing a mask while flying. A friend said she puts vaseline in her nose when she flies and that avoids germs.…
Frazzled
Looking at all I have to between now and Christmas dinner tomorrow, I realize what I really want for Christmas is maid service. Is it too late or do you think Santa knows? -- Cindy. Question: Are you frazzled as Christmas approaches?
Hobbit II: 4 Of 5 Stars, Mebbe 1 Of 5
A Facebook Friend provides his "in depth" review of "Hobbit II): My "in depth" Hobbit II review: As a movie about some dwarves and a hobbit and some elves, it was pretty darn good 4/5 stars. As "The Hobbit", it was pretty worthless except for…
Hall: We're Teased By Misty Souls
The grieving woman on the radio said the ghosts are everywhere in her small town of Newtown, Conn. The town has 26,000 people. That means almost everyone in Newtown knows several of the families who lost someone to an addled gunman a year ago. We…
Trib: Everyone Knew Her As Bethine
Idaho remains a small enough, young enough state that its people remain on a first-name basis with their leaders. It's not Gov. Otter. It's Butch. It's not Sen. Crapo. It's Mike. It's not former Gov. Andrus. It's Cece.So it was with a woman generations of…
Here Comes Santa Claus 2
Santa Claus, riding on a Coeur d'Alene Fire Department truck, makes his way up Sherman Avenue during a pre-Christmas visit Monday evening. (Photo: Don Sausser)
Hobby Creates Trailer Treasures
The bare bones facts are simple and straightforward. Doug Johnson and Teresa, his wife of 35 years, have taken up the ambitious hobby of restoring and modernizing vintage travel trailers. In fact, the Johnsons’ hobby is as much about evoking smiles as anything. I started…
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