Photos: CDA Stops Highland 31-28 2
S-R photojournalist Jesse Tinsley covered CDA's 5A state football championship win over Highland at the Kibbie Dome in Moscow. Check out this big picture gallery of his photos.
FRIDAY, NOV. 22, 2013
Coeur d'Alene 31, Highland 28 3
The Coeur d'Alene Vikings overcame the last hurdle of adversity. Coeur d'Alene sophomore quarterback Austin Lee scored from 15 yards out with 47 seconds remaining to lift the Vikings past the No. 1-ranked Highland Rams 31-28 in the State 5A championship football game Friday at…
TGIF Wild Card -- 11.22.13 3
I guess today will be the last big-time observance of JFK assassination in my lifetime. Mebbe they'll do something on the 100th year anniversary. But none of us who were so affected by the event will be around to put the meaning in context. Those…
Parting Shot -- 11.23.13
A woman leaps her way over the flooded gutters of a street near the University of Arizona in Tucson, Ariz., while coping with the after effects of heavy rains today. (AP Photo/Arizona Daily Star, Kelly Presnell)
Spokane Finds Whirled Peas 9
I would have been back in the office an hour sooner, but there were peas on the freeway. I can't believe is just typed that -- SReporter Lisa Leinberger tweet. Story: Semi loses load of legumes, covers Spokane's I-90 in peas/SR Question: Do you eat…
Viks Fight For State 5A Title Tonight 1
It was the last of three straight losses and part of a 1-3 start for the Coeur d’Alene football team. Vikings coach Shawn Amos knew that scenario could take place. That’s why he packed the front end of his team’s schedule like he did –…
Cutline Contest -- 10.22.13 11
Time 2 Vote ... A dog floats through the air while competing in the recent qualifying matches of the 2013 DockDogs World Championship at the Five Flags Center in Dubuque, Iowa. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/The Telegraph Herald, Jeremy Portje) Thursday Winner (tie, with…
PM Scanner Traffic -- 11.22.13
4:13 p.m. Rural resident named Josh reports door of business next door has been kicked in. 3:52 p.m. CPD officer reports finding a little girl who had been with a friend without permission. 3:39 p.m. Someone has fallen & can't get up @ 9th/Harrison, CdA.…
HBO Blog Roundup -- 11.13.13 1
Gonzaga University's Drew Barham (43) hangs on seven-foot Jordan Railey, left, of Washington State and Kevin Pangos takes up position behind them during a rebound Thursday at McCarthey Athletic Center. Gonzaga won 90-74. In SportsLink, SR sports scribe Jim Meehan gives us the day-after game…
Food Porn: Capone's Salad 1
On her Facebook wall, Kerri Thoreson posts: "Capone's Pub & Grill (PF) has great pizza and sandwiches but here's a shout out for their salad selection. Chicken Pesto salad served by Bree was fabulous this afternoon! — with Tom Capone." Question: Anyone out there who…
Welcome To The Family, Grace 1
Adam Guymon, left, and father Gregory Guymon, right, look on as and Alison Guymon, second from left, plays with a balloon with newly adopted nine-month-old Grace, as brother Grant Guymon holds her. The Guymon family, of Eagle, adopted Graces in Ada County Court today. The…
For Those Keeping Score At Home ... 12
Factoid: JFK's assassination wasn't the only significant death on this date 50 years ago: Novelist and poet Clive Staples Lewis ("C.S. Lewis") died today at age 64 on Nov. 22, 1963. Lewis is known for his books, The Chronicles of Narnia." Question: Which C.S. Lewis…
Nilson: Private $$$ Good, But ... 9
In October, Ron Nilson of Ground Force Manufacturing wrote the following in his My Turn column: "Remember: Private investment in economy has a greater multiplier effect than public investment. See the graph from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, above. Government investment has only a negligible…
School Board May Cut Taxes $450K 6
In a news release from the Coeur d'Alene School District, spokeswoman explains why the trustees will seek to reduce taxes by $450,000 when it meets in December: The school board directed the district to make certain that this agreement (with the Coeur d'Alene Education Association)…
National Adoption Day
Five year-old Charlotte Gjurasic adds a figure to the wall board outside of Superior Court Judge Anne Hirsch's office Thursday as the Thurston County Family and Juvenile Court and DSHS Division of Child & Family Services hosted the Thurston County National Adoption Day Celebration in…
Uber-Cons Link Simpson To Actor 27
Actor Alec Baldwin, facing backlash over anti-gay remarks recently directed at a photographer, is now an attack line in Idaho politics. Earlier this morning, the conservative group Club for Growth sent out a press release slamming GOP Congressman Mike Simpson as an “Alec Baldwin Republican”…
Hagadone Offers Front Ave. Donation 7
From City Clerk Renata McLeod's draft minutes of the Tuesday meeting of the Coeur d'Alene City Council: City Engineer Gordon Dobler stated that the Front Avenue design from 2nd to 3rd has been discussed several times. New information is being brought forward to include a…
IFF: Of Black Friday & Law Breaking 16
My teenage son really wants a Playstation 4. Nothing will make Julian happier than a next generation video game console under our Christmas tree. But I told him my willingness to buy something so pricy may depend entirely on the availability of steep discounts for…
Zags Dump WSU
Kevin Pangos has made a habit of big scoring nights or timely buckets against Washington State. Gonzaga’s junior guard was at it again Thursday, and he had a lot of company. Pangos poured in 27 points, Drew Barham had a career-high 17 and David Stockton…
Why Ask Why? 4
Why does the Idaho Legislature lose a good, hard-working senator like Brandon Durst but can't seem to get state Rep. Mark Patterson and his past run-ins with the criminal/judicial system to leave?
CdA Rolls Out Red Carpet 2
Coeur d’Alene got a little taste of Hollywood on Nov. 13 during the red carpet world premiere of “Without a Ladder.” Tuxedo-clad gentlemen and ladies in their finest evening wear milled around the red carpet at Regal Cinemas Riverstone until the sound of drums alerted…
Flocking Together 1
On her Facebook wall, Councilwoman Kerri Thoreson posts: "I love to see the huge flocks of starlings swoop and soar over the fields but it's been so cold they spent more time huddled together atop a power pole than doing aerial acrobatics." Kerri snapped this…
Huckleberries Hears ... 19
... That some at City Hall aren't happy with Councilman Dan Gookin, who made a post on his YouTube account of a recent interaction with a female speaker during the public comment period who claimed that former Vice President Dick Cheney was a Darth Vader.…
AM Scanner Traffic -- 11.22.13
11:02 a.m. Possible structure fire reported in 800 block of West Woodlawn Drive/Hayden. 10:42 a.m. Caller reports smoke near BNSF tracks @ Greensferry/Burlington, Post Falls. 10:41 a.m. 16YO son took black 1999 Subaru w/o permission from Shadow Lane/Athol. 10:04 a.m. Sorensen School is about to…
Poll: Yes, To Filibuster Ban
Thursday Poll: By a slender majority, Hucks Nation agreed to the move by U.S. Senate Democrats that eliminated the use of filibusters to try to block most presidential nominations. 82 of 156 respondents (52.56%) supported the action by Senate Democrats Thursday. 69 of 156 (44.23%)…
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