We've been talking a lot about Homecoming Dances the last week or so, as a result of the flap over spaghetti-string dresses at Coeur d'Alene High and now the Lake City High no-tolerance policy that turned away home-schoolers. So do you remember a Homecoming Dance that you attended? Finish the sentence below ...
Bonner General Health officials are pursuing charges against the hospital’s former chief financial officer, Norilina Harvel, who is accused of embezzling more than $200,000 from the nonprofit.
In her Front Porch column today, Cindy spotlights Jeunette Nelson, who was born the same year the Titanic sank -- 1912. She's approaching her 103rd birthday on Nov. 16 and jokes that she needs to start counting backward. (Question: How old is the oldest person in your family? Moi? My mother, who is now 90.
AM Headlines for Thursday includes story of government agents gunning down double-breasted cormorants in an effort to save salmon populations + Few: Big 3 to play together/KREM, No field burning on prairie this year/Press, Rubio campaign taps controller Woolf/EOBoise, Suspects caught in Spokane bank robbery/KHQ + more ...
Overwhelmingly, Hucks Nation says the state should require that service dogs be certified to prevent clueless owners from masquerading their pets at service dogs to enter stores with them. Today's Poll: Should prosecutors seek the death penalty against Jonathan Renfro in the shooting death of CPD Sgt. Greg Moore?
The Forest Service is investigating a report by a firefighter that he and others fighting the Tepee Springs Fire near Riggins were harassed and threatened with guns by landowners, reports Rocky Barker of the Idaho Statesman. The unidentified firefighter said the landowners were unhappy with the strategies firefighters were using.
Scanner Traffic for Thursday AM (7 items & counting) ...
In today's Lewiston Tribune editorial, Marty Trillhaase comments: "To become House Speaker John Boehner's successor, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy will make the kind of deal with Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador and the House Freedom Caucus no speaker should." Trillhaase then goes on to wonder re: possible speakership for Mike Simpson ...
Now that Congressman Raul Labrador and his Tea Party playmates have run House Speaker John Boehner to ground, columnist William L. Spence of the Lewiston Tribune wonders if they can govern. Methinks Raul & Co. are better at rabble rousing than they are re: accomplishing something. What do you think?
More than 20 home-school students were turned away from the Homecoming Dance at Lake City High, including Kira Birdsall, who spent most of Saturday preparing for the big event. LCHS policy forbids anyone who is not attending a school within the district from attending. (Question: Is this good policy or bad policy?)
Coeur d’Alene police are investigating a dead body found in a brush fire early Thursday that started in a wooded area off of Interstate 90. The fire started around 3 a.m. in the hills above exit 14 in eastern Coeur d’Alene near Potlatch Hill Road.
In a visit to SF, SR columnist Doug Clark ponied up $4 to see what the rage about toast at the Mill bakery was all about. Now, he wonders if we've reached barrel's bottom on crazy fads: " It’s like America has burned through every dumb idea from disco to fanny packs to plastic mounted wall fish that sing until the only thing left is, um, toast."
Kootenai County prosecutors have 60 days to decide whether they will seek the death penalty against Jonathan Daniel Renfro, who is accused of first-degree murder in the slaying of Coeur d'Alene police Sgt. Greg Moore this spring. Should they?
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.
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