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Wild Card/Monday -- 8.3.15 

We've reached the "warning track" of summer -- August. In this week's edition of Sports Illustrated, a commenter likened August to a baseball warning track. When an outfielder is racing for a long fly ball, he knows that the fence is near when his feet...

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Parting Shot -- 8.3.15

NFL football camps have opened which means ... the Fantasy Football draft is just around the corner. I finished first in one league last year, 2nd in the other. Overall, a good year. Tomorrow, I'll be walking with my Fantasy Football mentor to begin my preseason training for the Fantasy Football draft. Do you participate in Fantasy Football?

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Reggie Nault, the 16YO Coeur d'Alene High baseball player who drowned in Lake Coeur d'Alene in July during an outing with friends, is shown on his motorcycle. (Reggie Nault/Facebook)

KCSO Release: Divers Recover Body 

Lt. Stu Miller of the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office has issued the official news release telling of the discovery and recovery of 16YO Reggie Nault's body today. Nault's body was found in 125 feet of water, off Arrow Point, by a private company from Kuna. The sheriff's department is now waiting for autopsy and toxicology results.

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Forced To Eat Liver 25 

Commenter Cis picks up a theme started by the poem by The Bard of Sherman Avenue, titled "Liver." Not only was Cis forced to eat liver as a kid, but she found out 35 years later that her mother hated liver, too. Cis, to her credit, didn't force her kids to eat liver. (Q: Was there a food that you hated as a kid and was forced to eat?)

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Here's the hot spots from the latest downtown Coeur d'Alene Bar report (July 22-28) ... (CDAPD Crime Analysis / Coeur d'Alene Police Department)

Downtown Bar Report -- 7.22-28.15 

Judging from the latest Coeur d'Alene PD Downtown Bar Report, the drunks and transients along Sherman Avenue and side streets kept Lake City's finest hopping again last week. I've highlighted 5 entries from the 5-page report & posted a link to the rest below. (H/T to JoJo's Tattoos for refusing to draw a swastika on a hot head.)

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Idaho's 'Ag-Gag' Law Struck Down 15 

US District Judge B. Lynn Winmill has ruled Idaho’s so-called ag-gag rule unconstitutional. The Animal Legal Defense Fund challenged the law, which criminalized surreptitious recordings in agricultural facilities, alleging it stifled public debate about modern agriculture and criminalized investigative journalism. Todd Dvorak, press secretary for...

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Cutline Contest -- 8.3.15 

The Cutline Contest today features a robot that was hitchhiking across the United States until it ran into foul play in Philadelphia, the so-called City of Brotherly Love. Weekend Winner: SLFisher.

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Bert Marley, then Democratic challenger for lieutenant governor, is shown during a Idaho Public Television debate with Republican Lt. Gov. Brad Little. (Idaho Public Television/file photo)

Democrats Pick Marley As State Chairman

A former state senator who ran for lieutenant governor in 2014 is the new chairman of the Idaho Democratic Party. Bert Marley, 67, a farmer from McCammon in Bannock County who taught in Marsh Valley schools for 23 years, replaces Larry Kenck, who resigned due...

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Racists Phone Bomb Idahoans 

Opposition to overseas refugees, immigration and one Idaho mayor’s recent remarks in praise of diversity prompted a white supremacist group to blanket the Idaho with a recorded phone message Saturday espousing their defiantly racist, whites-only agenda. The American Freedom Party’s 48-second call ends with an invitation to support the part

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HucksOnline Blogos -- 8.3.15 

Today's roundup of the HucksOnline Blogosphere includes Herb Huseland/Bay Views visiting the remains of the houses destroyed by the Cape Horn fire. Writes Herb: "I have seen burned homes before. Never have I seen such total destruction. No charred wood or plumbing, chimneys ... Nothing." Plus, July & year-to-date numbers for HucksOnline ...

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Searchers Find 16YO Nault's Body 

Update: Lt. Stu Miller of the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office has confirmed for KHQ's Victor Correa that the body of 16YO Coeur d'Alene High athlete Reggie Nault has been found in 124 feet of water, off Arrow Point. A private search team located the body about 9 AM today. The body is en route to Spokane County for an autopsy.

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Idaho Moms Stage 'Nurse-In' 

About a dozen Idaho mothers and their families staged a fourth “nurse-in” on the Capitol steps Sunday morning. Timed at the start of World Breastfeeding Week, the event was meant to draw attention to Idaho’s status as the last state without some legal protection for…

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Ben Ysursa is shown at the state Capitol in mid-December, in the closing day of a distinguished career in the Secretary of State's office. (Betsy Russell / Eye on Boise)

Malloy: This Nice Guy Deserves To Finish 1st 

Ben Ysursa, the long-time, respected Idaho secretary of state, was planning to travel and spend time with his wife, Penny, and his grandchildren, as well as golf. But heart problems began to surface in his last months in office. Now, Chuck Malloy of Idaho Politics Weekly tells us that Ben's top concern is his physical health ...

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A plate of cooked duck liver, also known to the French as Foie Gras, is displayed by French chef Wilfried Boutillier at Maximilien French Cafe in Seattle, Wash. (AP file photo)

Liver 21 

The Bard of Sherman Avenue offers a rhyme for that love-it-or-hate-it meat platter, liver. Moi? I hate it. Ate liver once as a child and didn't eat another bite. Tried it again, and still couldn't stand it. And it's hard to get the taste out of your mouth afterward.

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Jindal Cuts Off PParenthood $$$ 68 

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) has canceled a contract that provides Planned Parenthood with state Medicaid funds. Medicaid, the joint federal and state health insurance program for the poor, represents a major source of the group’s government funding, at about 75 percent nationwide. In a...

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Water-And-Run Vandal(s) Sought

In Post Falls, someone(s) thinks it's funny to turn residential hoses on full blast, to damage a freshly seeded lawn or flood a house -- and then run off. Post Falls PD reported two such incidents Sunday. Also, you can find the report of all Day Shift activity from Sunday below, including a man who roamed around Walmart saying he was wanted. He was

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Obamacare Enrollees Not Satisfied 

ObamaCare enrollees are less satisfied with their plans than people with other types of health insurance, according to a new poll. The poll from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, the research arm of the consulting firm, finds that 30 percent of people with insurance through ObamaCare’s marketplaces are satisfied with their plans.

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Idaho Huntress Defends 'Kill' Photos 45 

An Idaho huntress Sabrina Corgatelli is defending "kill" photos she posted on Facebook during a legal hunt in South Africa, according to KTVB. Corgatelli has received a firestorm of negative attention on her social media page in the wake of the illegal killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe. (Q: Do you support legal big-game hunting in Africa?)

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Crowds file past folk art at Coeur d’Alene’s City Park in Coeur d’Alene on Friday. (Kathy Plonka)

AM Headlines -- 8.3.15

AM Headlines for Monday morning includes: Motorcyclist hurt near Sagle/Press, Woman wins $1.3M at CdA casino/KREM, Post Falls plans streets, trail projects/Press, Highway projects under way across region/SR, Accident seriously injures Post Falls man/Press, Bid for new Post Falls Elementary awarded/Press Construction + more ...

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