In today's HucksOnline Blogos roundup, Dogwalk Musings wonders if America has ever looked worse than now, when President Barack Obama failed to join other world leaders to protest the Charlie Hebdo slaughter in France ...
Today's Poll: Did the University of Idaho err in not warning the campus about the Moscow shootings Saturday? (You can find poll halfway down left rail)
At Moscow-Pullman Daily News, staff writer Terri Harber tells of living two doors down from triple-murder suspect John Lee in a Moscow apartment building + stories of 3 people who died and 1 injured in Moscow shootings Saturday ...
Democratic legislators from both houses offered an unusually positive response today to GOP Gov. Butch Otter’s State of the State message to lawmakers yesterday. “Clearly we need a better way forward, and the governor and our GOP leaders are beginning to understand that,” said House…
The Idaho lawmaker who has the power to kill tax bills says there will be no new tax breaks unless beginning teacher salaries boost to $40,000 a year. Republican Sen. Jeff Siddoway threatened to hold proposed tax cuts hostage in order to get more funding…
On his Facebook page, SR photog pal Jesse Tinsley posts: "I was working on a newspaper story about kids making healthy choices in the school lunch line. The plan was for servers to first suggest the healthy option, a piece of skinless roasted chicken. And…
... That new Commissioner David Stewart has been elected chairman of the Kootenai County Board of Commissioners -- and former chairman Dan Green is now the vice chairman. Stewart and Commissioner Marc Eberlein ran in tandem and were elected in tandem in 2014.
Gov. Butch Otter is asking Idahoans to take a few minutes Wednesday to remember the victims, their families and friends, and the community of Moscow after a series of shootings last Saturday by a lone gunman. “It is important that everyone in Idaho take time…
Today, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children announced a partnership with Facebook to send AMBER Alerts to the social network's community to help find missing children. The new initiative will deliver AMBER Alerts to people's News Feeds in targeted search areas after a...
AM Headlines for Tuesday: The marquee at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre reads "Love to Moscow, our hearts are with you" in Moscow Monday. The message is in response to the shooting deaths of three Moscow residents on Saturday, Jan. 10. (AP Photo/Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Geoff Crimmins)
Charlie Hebdo editorialist Patrick Pelloux (right) and cartoonist Renald Luzier, known as Luz (left), join a march in Paris on Sunday. (AP photo) The staff of Charlie Hebdo said the past few days have been hard, but they are "happy" to have put out a…
A series of fatal shootings Saturday in Moscow provoked different responses from universities on the Palouse, with one sending out alerts immediately. Washington State University Assistant Police Chief Steve Hansen said he made a call to send out a message to students, faculty and staff...
A Texas congressman drew criticism Tuesday for a tweet that used the world's response to terrorist attacks in Paris as an opportunity to compare President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler. Rep. Randy Weber's official account, (at)TXRandy14, tweeted on Tuesday night: "Even Adolph Hitler thought it...
At the Lewiston Tribune, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase struggles to make sense of the triple murder in Moscow Saturday: "Is this a byproduct of our media fascination with violence? Was there a history of mental illness? Are there just too many guns in too many…
The Kootenai County prosecutor on Monday issued an apology for last week's arrest of a 9-year-old Post Falls boy. The warrant stemmed from the child allegedly stealing a pack of gum at a local grocery store. The warrant was issued after the child missed two…
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter called for boosts to school funding and tax cuts for businesses and top earners in his State of the State message to a joint session of the Legislature on Monday, drawing enthusiastic applause from lawmakers. But the chairman of the Senate...
A man suspected in the shooting deaths of his adoptive mother and two others in Idaho made an initial court appearance Monday in Washington, where he was ordered held on $500,000 bail. John Lee, 29, appeared in Whitman County Superior Court in Colfax and was…
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