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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2014

AM Scanner Traffic -- 3.19.14

11:51 a.m. Probation officer reports clean-cut male is violating probation by being high on drugs @ Silver Lake Mall. 11:48 a.m. Someone is unconscious @ 500 block of W. Agua Avenue/CdA. 11:25 a.m. BOSS hit on possible stolen green Nissan Ultimate, w/Washington plates, @ e/b…

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Retiring Henderson Backs Gfeller 10 

Greg Gfeller (pronounced gee-feller) and state Rep. Frank Henderson, R-Post Falls, are shown at the Statehouse today. (Eye on Boise photo: Betsy Russell) Retiring Rep. Frank Henderson, R-Post Falls, has endorsed Avista Corp. official Greg Gfeller for the seat Henderson will be vacating next year,…

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Poll: Spencer Wants Ballot Presence

Tuesday Poll: Hucks Nation believes that conservative maverick Larry Spencer filed as a Democrat for the office of county assessor to ensure that his name will be on the November ballot. 65 of 198 respondents (32.83%) took that position. 53 of 198 (26.77%) said he…

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Americans Are Headline Skimmers 

We make this point regularly when asked, for example, how the situation in Ukraine will effect the November election. It almost certainly won't. The Russia-Ukraine-Crimea story is a complex one that requires a news consumer to engage deeply in the subject matter. And, to be…

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AM Headlines -- 3.19.14

Former Washington State coach Ken Bone enters the basketball program offices in the Physical Education Building on Tuesday in Pullman. Story here. (Moscow-Pullman Daily News photo: Dean Hare) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR Realtors to fund Person Field playground/Jeff Selle, Press Post Falls trail project clears…

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Trib: It's Voters' Fault, Not Dems' 26 

Opinionator Marty Trillhaase, Lewiston Tribune, blames voters on auto-pilot for radical right Legislature, not Democrats, who can't seem to gain traction on issues like education, even when they try: No, it's not the Democrats' fault. Not in a state where so many of us have…

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Another Dog Caught In Trap 

A day of outdoor dog training took a nasty turn last week for longtime Kootenai County resident Mike Denney. While on state endowment land in the Cougar Gulch area, Denney's 10-month-old chocolate Lab, a male dog named Lousche, caught a scent and ran up a…

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Local Pauler Challenges Labrador 

Republican Sean Blackwell is running for Congress, and his primary issue is hemp. The 25-year-old Lake City High School graduate said Idaho should be producing a lot of hemp and using it in manufacturing of food, medicine and fuels. Many housing materials can be manufactured…

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Spencer Seeks To Overthrow DemCC 89 

He has been talking about it for a couple of years now, but just last week Larry Spencer decided to just do it. Last week after two prominent Democrats decided to publicly announce their plans to cross over and vote in the closed Republican primary,…

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Letter Questions Hearn's Emails 11 

In a Coeur d'Alene Press letter to the editor, Jacqueline Mayo of Coeur d'Alene writes: "Is there a secret strategy being used by certain Trustees of School District 271, the superintendent, and others, to introduce special rights for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBT) into…

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Tat Attracts Gendarmes 

Michael Smith, left, stands beside a Somerset County Sheriff deputy outside his home in Norridgewock, Maine. Officers armed with assault rifles descended on Smith's home after members of a tree removal crew he'd told to clear off his property reported that he had a gun.…

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LeFavour Found Hiding At Statehouse 14 

Shortly before the Idaho Senate adjourned for the evening Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis, R-Idaho Falls, cautioned senators to secure their office areas before leaving, saying an individual was found hiding in a closet in the Senate lounge, directly behind the Senate chamber. It…

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Downtown CdA Is Construction Zone 

Asphalt and concrete are being stripped in several downtown areas as the city finishes up projects they hope to complete this spring. Traffic in downtown Coeur d'Alene is being detoured around Sherman Avenue at Third Street this week while upgrades are made as part of…

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Huckleberries Online

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.