A dog-eared copy of "The Street Agent" lies on the podium of the Panhandle Pachyderm Club in Post Falls this afternoon as author Wayne Manis, a former FBI agent, discussed his long career in dealing with criminal organizations including the Aryan Nations of North Idaho....
Please note the post below re: a contest in rhyme to honor our ailing Bard of Sherman Avenue. As I mentioned Thursday afternoon, The Bard is fighting cancer -- and seems to be on top of things at the moment. He may not be able...
The new group in charge of the hydroplane races in Coeur d'Alene this summer have picked July 17-19 to stage the event, instead of mid-August, as previously announced. Will the new dates be a problem for you?
PM Scanner Traffic report (29 items) a lot of police dealings with psychologically unstable individuals including a huge, disorderly male on Appleway who required intervention by 3 officers.
Mason Ordner, left, tries to get the attention of his rabbits as his sister, Aubrey, watches during the Nueces County Junior Livestock Show Thursday in Robstown, Texas. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Andrew Mitchell) Thursday winner -- EagleKeeper44: "A picture of contrast;...
Huckleberries has learned ... that angry callers and emailers from around the nation have targeted the city of Post Falls, PFPD and Post Falls city prosecutor's office, as a result of the arrest of the 9-year-old boy for stealing chewing gum. This, despite the fact that the county...
AM Headlines: John Lee, the suspect in three murders in Moscow last Saturday, entered a not guilty plea to trying to elude police in Whitman County, Wash., this afternoon. Also, he plans to fight extradition to Idaho.
Up to 24 wolves in British Columbia just north of Idaho will be shot by helicopter gunners this winter in an effort to save the 18 remaining southern Selkirk Mountains woodland caribou from extinction. The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources formally announced the...
The Humane Society of the United States has ranked Idaho 49th out of the 52 (the 50 states plus D.C. and Puerto Rico) for its animal cruelty and animal welfare laws, ahead of only Mississippi and Puerto Rico. The advocacy group noted that Idaho was...
A day after No. 3-ranked Gonzaga barely survived a West Coast Conference game with Pepperdine, two SR bloggers weigh in. Jim Meehan provides his usual "day after" story and Vince Grippi/A Grip on Sports says college basketball is hard to beat.
The North Idaho Violent Task Force is looking for Levi Wesley Cole, 22, of Coeur d'Alene, who's wanted for felony domestic battery, with $30,000 bail bond set on him. Anyone seen this bad boy?
How familiar are you with the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s & 1960s? Fifth-graders across Kootenai County might be more familiar with the black civil rights leader as a result of Human Rights Day Thursday. If you get Monday off, as part of a national holiday, will you take time to reflect on King's legacy?
Do you remember the lack of support from Kootenai County legislators for a Coeur d'Alene mental health center? Well, a study has found that the top public health concerns in North Idaho are obesity and mental illness. Earth -- to Rep. Kathy Sims ...
For those wondering when the U.S. Supreme Court would decide the gay marriage issue, we now have an answer. The case will be argued in April and decided by late June.
As you have heard by now, The Bard of Sherman Avenue is battling cancer -- and may not be able to attend Blogfest 2015. To cheer him up, we're holding a rhyme/limerick contest in his honor. Winner will be acknowledged at Blogfest '15 on Saturday, Feb. 21.
Question: Is talented Seattle Seahawks running Back within his right not to talk to the media? Or is he simply being a jerk?
It is that time of year again, tax season. The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office warns the citizens of Kootenai County about several IRS scams. First and foremost, the IRS will not initially call you. If there is an issue with your taxes, they will send…
AM Scanner Traffic: Employee's firing at Papa Murphy's in Prairie Shopping Center causes dust-up when employee's family shows up to complain.
Rich Loudenback, secretary of the local John Birch Society (yes, Virginia, there is one) addressed the North Idaho Pachyderm Club today, warning Republicans of NAFTA, Agenda 21, Luke Malek and Shawn Keough.
Voter-approved background checks on private gun purchases are unconstitutional and therefore not law, Rep. Matt Shea told gun-rights activists Thursday on the steps of the Capitol. “An unconstitutional law is no law at all,” said the Spokane Valley Republican, who is also a private attorney.
Commenter PatrickH argues that there should be a minimum cut-off price in prosecuting shoplifting in wake of a local case involving an arrest made of a 9YO boy for stealing gum. What do you think? Should stores and other businesses take a hardline approach of shoplifting?
Veronica Rutledge, the 29-year-old Blackfoot, Idaho, mother and former Kootenai High valedictorian killed accidentally by her 2-year-old son in Hayden Walmart, is shown at work in this Idaho National Laboratory photo. A college fund has been established for her son by North Idaho College staff…
Thursday Poll: The Movoto poll had it right, according to Hucks Nation: Post Falls is boring. 123 of 167 respondents (73.65%) agreed with the blog (which rated Post Falls as 2nd most boring town in Idaho, behind Ammon) that Post Falls is a boring place.…
AM Headlines: Idahoan Kaitlyn Farrington, the American snowboarder who pulled off one of the biggest surprises at the Sochi Olympics in Russia by winning the wwomen's snowboard halfpipe, is retiring from competition due to a spinal problem.
Kerri (RE: Is 'Sorry for your loss' too trite?'): My dad has been gone for a decade and I still have people who knew him, especially people who work at the courthouse, say to me how much he's missed. It means a lot even after…
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.
