Santa Clara forward Nate Kratch (43) battles for a loose ball against Gonzaga forward Sam Dower, left, in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game tonight in Santa Clara, Calif. Sam Dower sank a three-pointer with 1.9 seconds left in the game to…
I was wondering how long it'd take for NIC Trustee Todd Banducci to go into a rant against the "educational liberal mind" and "elite educated" on college campuses. He's hidden his political ideology fairly well during his first year of playing second fiddle for the…
This undated frame grab provided by Anheuser-Busch shows the company's 2014 Super Bowl commercial entitled “Puppy Love”. The ad will run in the fourth quarter of the game. (AP Photo/Anheuser-Busch) Question: Are you ready for some ... Super Bowl ads?
As jam rockers Moon Taxi continue to rip through their set, the onstage lights grow more intense. Green lasers fly around and a strobe effect goes off; the band appears to stutter and stop. The fog machine fires up, obscuring the stage. The $50,000 light…
5:14 p.m. Driver of swerving, small silver Chevy possibly DUI @ w/b I-90/MP 6 (Seltice Way/Post Falls). 5:05 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activities report for Jan. 28-29 here. 4:59 p.m. Shoplifter w/orange bleached hair has left Hayden Walmart/Honeysuckle Avenue. 4:56 p.m. Caller reports shed…
Time 2 Vote ... Miley Cyrus performs with Madonna for MTV Tuesday. The 21-year-old pop star and the 55-year-old Queen of Pop grinded and grabbed each other as they performed Cyrus' hit "We Can't Stop" and Madonna's 2000 track "Don't Tell Me" Tuesday during a…
Idaho Fish and Game Commissioner Brad Corkill thinks the department is doing the right thing in reducing the number of wolves in Idaho. The department recently hired a professional trapper to reduce the wolf population in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. Mr.…
Majestic Tschabold, from Medical Lake High School, waves excitedly to someone in the crowd after she was selected to be a princess on the 2014 Lilac Court earlier this week at the Bing Crosby Theater. (SR photo: Jesse Tinsley) Woman steals 24-pack of beer/Press Fugitive…
In this Nov. 22, 2013, SR file photo, Coeur d'Alene's Chase Blakley gets rare sack on Highland quarterback Tommy Jewell (1) in the state 5A title game. Coeur d'Alene beat Highland for its 3rd 5A football title in 4 years. Blakley has spurned University of…
Richard Nixon would have been proud of the 2014 SOTU speech. Accused during his administration of it being an Imperial Presidency, America responded. And it was not good for either the man, Richard Nixon OR the President, Richard Nixon. His lies prior to the 1974…
From Jennifer Locke of the North West Property Owners Alliance: "North West Property Alliance is holding our first Cyber-Privacy and Security Awareness Town Hall meeting. It is going to be very informative. It will be at the Coeur d'Alene library, in the Community room, on…
Coeur d’Alene city street crews were out in full force starting early this morning, clearing roads as the area’s first major snowstorm blanketed the region under several inches of snow. Street superintendent Tim Martin said 19 operators maneuvering 5 plows, 4 graders, and 4 loaders…
An overview of the McEuen Field reconstruction site is provided by this aerial overview. (If the FAA is checking in, this photo -- repeat, this photo -- was not provided by SR photog Jesse Tinsley & his helicopter-cam. It's a Coeur d'Alene Today photo) The…
You don't have to be an expert in current events to win our weekly quiz, but it can't hurt. All entrants this week are eligible to win movie tickets in a random drawing, and our overall champ will take home a $50 gift card to…
Here's another example of NIC Trustee Todd Banducci in action as interrupts a presentation by Michelle Lippert of the Faculty Assembly at the Jan. 22 meeting to cross examine her about discussion by some instructors last fall re: the 2014 NIC trustee elections. The Faculty…
A Coeur d'Alene Facebook Friend posts: "I know the KCSO inmates probably aren't too pleased to be doing this type of service, but for the last few years, the "paddy wagon" has shown up at my elderly widow neighbor's driveway after each snow storm and…
Gay-rights activists were stymied again this year in winning a hearing to add discrimination protections to the Idaho Human Rights Act. Now, however, they say a separate bill seeking to do what they call the opposite — to bolster religious professionals' rights to deny service…
From Facebook, Post Falls Councilman Joe Malloy reports: "I have been invited (and I accepted) to speak at the next Rally Right meeting, which is next Monday, Feb 3, 6 p.m., at Nate's New York Pizza on Highway 41 (just north of Mullan) in Post…
This picture – former Vice President Henry Wallace with folk singer Pete Seeger in 1948 – likely didn’t do Pete much good when he was summoned in 1952 to name names before the communist hunting House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). To Seeger’s eternal credit he…
Kevin Moore hands out water to a stranded motorist on Interstate 285 Wednesday in Dunwoody, Ga. Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said early today that the National Guard was sending military Humvees onto Atlanta's snarled freeway system in an attempt to move stranded school buses and…
11:59 a.m. Female driver in red mini-van slid off H41 into fence, near Prairie Avenue/Rathdrum Prairie. 11:30 a.m. Caller reports possibly drunken couple trying to stop motorists to get ride on Sunnyside/CdA. 11:25 a.m. Non-injury, 2-vehicle crash reported 15th Street/Lunceford Avenue, CdA. 11:17 a.m. 2-vehicle…
Careful out there: slick, you know. Had this last year: it’s called snow. The Bard of Sherman Avenue
A reporter for a New York City cable news station said Wednesday that U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, pictured, called him to apologize for physically threatening him at the end of an interview about President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. "I accepted his apology…
State Sen. Steven Thayn has had a change of heart — partially, at least — on a run for state superintendent of public instruction. For months, Thayn had ruled out a run. But that has changed with incumbent Tom Luna’s announcement that he will not…
Last night, the North Idaho College Board of Trustees voted 4-1 to oppose a legislative proposal to allow guns on campus under certain circumstances. Trustee Todd Banducci was the only one to dissent from the majority vote. Here's the video to that meeting. (Banducci speaks…
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.
