On the Randy Travis thread LoveIdaho writes: "Randy Travis is one of the top country performers/songwriters of all time. Praying he makes a full recovery. ("Forever and Ever Amen" has been our song since it first came out. Yeah, we're that corny!)" Do you and…
Jimi Hendrix, John Mayall and Albert King played a series of concerts at San Francisco’s storied Fillmore and Winterland music venues in February 1968; the poster advertising the shows featured a bloodshot eyeball flying through a ring of fire. “It was totally cool and badass…
Point to Bay riders Jordan Achilli, Gabe Dawson and Mac Hollan are bicycling from Sandpoint, Idaho, to Prudhoe Bay in the summer of 2013 to raise money for a Sandpoint schools charity. A Sandpoint man riding a bicycle on a 2,750-mile tour to Prudhoe Bay…
Tina loves the restaurant business. A fanatic about food, she aspires to one day compete on a TV cooking show. For now, this 20-something chef at a restaurant in Pocatello has a dream to open her own eatery offering a menu of family recipes that…
In this Feb. 2, 2012 photo, a man passes a gas pump showing the price of regular gasoline at a gas station, in San Diego. Idahoans are now paying the seventh-highest gas prices in the country, AAA reports today, at an average $3.75 a gallon,…
Over at The Slice, Paul Turner ponders: Would it be better to have been a minor rock star or to have had a modest career as a pro athlete? Let's consider it. In the case of the former scenario, you could imagine old girlfriends hearing…
WASHINGTON – A federal judge voiced sympathy Monday for Guantanamo Bay detainees but said she was powerless to stop force-feeding by U.S. authorities. Ruling just before Ramadan, the monthlong holiday when pious Muslims fast during the day, Senior U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler said she…
COEUR d'ALENE - The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office is recommending prosecutors charge the driver of a boat that struck a teenager, cutting her with the propeller. The driver, Pamela Tempe, 34, of Spokane,is facing possible charges of gross negligent operation of a vessel and failure…
Country music star Randy Travis was in critical condition Monday in a Texas hospital, a day after he was hospitalized with viral cardiomyopathy. A news release from the singer’s publicist said Travis was admitted to the hospital Sunday in Dallas and is in critical condition.…
Idaho will recover nearly $420,000 from an Indian generic drug manufacturer who admitted selling drugs of inferior strength, purity or quality in the United States, including through Idaho's Medicaid program. It's part of a $350 million national settlement between the federal government, the states and…
Bayview Daze Parade Announcer and judges, L-R. Ralph Jones, Sheryl Puckett, Margaret Nelson and Sally Newcombe. (picture by Mike Lee) As I sit here facing my computer this hour after midnight, it has become totally quiet. The hoards of guests that pack Bayview, left immediately…
An Alcurrucen's ranch fighting bull looks at a pink capote during a bullfight of the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, Spain, Sunday, July 7, 2013. Revelers from around the world arrive to Pamplona every year to take part on some of the eight days of…
What a glorious weekend! Fireworks, lake time, sunshine, barbecuing.... Kind of makes Monday seem even harsher. Where I really want to be right now is sipping coffee in the gorgeous gazebo in my backyard. Where I am is at my desk with deadlines breathing down…
When Eliza Webb found a stranger’s cellphone inside her ransacked car last month, it didn’t take a lot of sleuthing to determine two things: one, the cellphone probably belonged to the person who’d prowled her car; and two, the culprit was likely a teen. Webb,…
No need to be alarmed. Thor isn't really dead, he's just reenacing his near death experience. You see, this afternoon I accidentally shut him in the linen closet. I kept hearing this scratching sound while I was eating lunch. He was only in there about…
BOISE – Tax-protesting former Idaho state Rep. Phil Hart denies that he hid any assets or income, and charges that the U.S. Justice Department attorney in his case is the one who’s made false statements, according to newly filed documents. “None of his allegations are…
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A Department of Ecology employee gave 85 hours of free massages at work last year as she practiced to become a massage therapist, according to an audit report released Monday. The State Auditor’s Office said in its findings that the unnamed…
SAN ANTONIO — Rick Perry, the longest-serving governor in Texas history who famously muttered “oops” after forgetting during a 2011 presidential debate the third of three federal departments he’d pledged to close, announced Monday he won’t seek re-election next year to a fourth full term.…
(PHOTO: The crowd enjoys Single Wide during the Arbor Crest Sunday Concert Series in July 2011. Sunday concerts cost $5.) Free movies, concerts and festivals abound from downtown Spokane to Liberty Lake to Coeur d'Alene. What's your favorite family-friendly summer activity in the Inland Northwest…
Large Idaho employers would face millions in costs if the state declines to expand its Medicaid program, according to a new report from the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry. “For us, it's a business-numbers issue,” IACI President Alex LaBeau told Idaho Statesman reporter Audrey…
This architect's rendering of the proposed University District bridge for bikes and pedestrians shows the view looking toward downtown. Perhaps lost in the recent debate about a proposed pedestrian bridge in Spokane’s University District is its massiveness. It wouldn’t be an inconspicuous walkway like the…
SR file photo According to my son, today is Video Game Day. So, I asked him, "How is this different from any other day for you?" Silence. That's what I thought. Back in the day when I had free time, I was a whiz at…
In this file photo a girl feasts on huckleberries during the Schweitzer Huckleberry Festival. In the latest edition of Sandpoint Magazine and on her blog Slight Detour, Marianne Love writes of Joe Nieman, the Huckleberry King. "This Porthill native and Co-Op front-counter clerk owns a…
BOISE – Idaho’s crime rate dropped 1.5 percent in 2012, according to the new Crime in Idaho report, continuing a five-year decline, but the number of violent crimes – murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault – increased 5.2 percent. That was partly due to…
Spokane teenager Mitchell Raymond drowned Saturday in a swimming accident at Blue Lake south of Coeur d’Alene. Divers removed his body today. Raymond, 14, was a student at All Saints Catholic School in Spokane. “May God give His comfort to Mitchell’s family and our community,”…
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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