Sometimes, I'm observant. Sometimes not. In a Sunday morning walk with Huckleberry, Mrs. O asked me to name the court near our house that we were passing. I had no idea what the court's name was -- Rueben -- although I had passed it hundreds...
Residents of W. Leicester St. in Winchester, Va. join forces to shovel out on Sunday, after an historic snowstorm dumped more than 30 inches of snow on the city Friday night and Saturday.
A Texas grand jury investigating video-recorded allegations that Planned Parenthood was illegally selling fetal tissue instead indicted two of the people who made the controversial undercover videos. The grand jury in Harris County indicted David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt on a felony charge of tampering with a governmental record.
Even Santa Claus can have bad luck while unwinding from the busy holiday season. Santa Claus — yes that's the name on his Washington driver's license and he even has the white beard and a tattoo of Rudolph — was arrested for DUI in Post Falls on Thursday night.
Scanner Traffic for Monday PM (14 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 16 more items) ...
The Cutline Contest today features preserved tadpoles of a new genus of frogs at the Univeristy of Delhi in Ne Delhi, India. Weekend Winner (tie) -- Uncle Bob and gitrdun.
Despite allowing hunting and trapping for wolves, Idaho has far exceed federal gray wolf recovery levels of 100 wolves and 10 breeding pairs for 16 consecutive years. The bottom line? Idaho has a "healthy, sustainable wolf population that is over seven times higher than the federal recovery goal."
The Idaho Education Network, the erstwhile statewide broadband system, is dead as the proverbial door nail. But the lawsuit spawned by this goofy experiment from Tom Luna's reign as state Superintendent of Schools lives on. And the state of Idaho has millions of dollars riding on the outcome.
The daily roundup of blog posts from Huckleberries Online blog roll includes Michael Ferguson, the center of a Cheney High yearbook controversy, rocking pink sunglasses with his new BFF Harper Brodwater. Also: Who is still cookin out?/The Slice, Avalanches killl 10 in 10 days/Outdoors, Openings: Pandas & satire & shorts/7 Blog ...
Eden Irgens has eliminated alcohol from her diet and lifestyle. However, she explains in her first post on her new blog, Best Non-Alcohol Drink Places, it isn't easy to find restaurants and bars who serve good, non-alcoholic drinks. One of the best places she's found so far is Fedora.
The House Revenue & Taxation Committee has voted 13-3 to approve the annual IRS tax conformity bill, but only after an unsuccessful move to kill the bill was launched by Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, who objected to including a change regarding same-sex married couples.
Unless you spent the weekend under a rock, you know that Peyton Manning's Denver Broncos will play Cam Newton's Carolina Panthers in the Super Bowl. (Question: How many of you saw this one coming last August? Who did you think would play for the Super Bowl last fall?)
An Idaho man who has joined the armed occupation of a federal nature preserve challenged New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to a sumo wrestling match after the Republican presidential candidate criticized the militants. Kelly Gneitling wore a sumo loincloth, or mawashi, and stood before a…
The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it would not hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty. The appeal was filed on behalf of Shonda Walters, who was sentenced to death in May 2006 for murdering her next door neighbor with a hatchet and stealing his car.
New York officials are considering temporarily turning Niagara Falls into a trickle. State officials are holding a public hearing this week to discuss plans for replacing 115-year-old bridges linking the mainland to islands near the brink of Niagara Falls. (Question: Have you been to Niagara Falls? When? Why?)
According to a study released today from the Washington, D.C.-based Corporation for Enterprise Development, Idaho is locked in a "new normal" of low-wage jobs and financial insecurity.
Scanner Traffic for Monday AM (16 items & counting) includes man with anti-government sign who was talking to a puppet ...
Angel Albertico Morales-Larranaga, 26, a Mexican man who admitted killing his wife and stepdaughter a year and a half ago, will serve two consecutive life sentences with no chance of parole. He strangled to death Facunda Velenzuelaleon, 24, and Dyanna M. Valencia, 6, inside a Post Falls apartment on July 8, 2014.
There's good news and bad news re: alternative education in Idaho. The bad news is that alternative schools and virtual schools have very low graduation rates, which drag down the overall state average. The good news is that for students attending regular and charter schools, actually 88 percent and 91 percent” graduate.
The daily roundup of AM Headlines making the news includes: Body found near Cataldo/PressRV catches fire at gas station/Press,Holster manufacturer buying outlet mall/SR,Coeur d'Alene 2nd in nation for job growth/Press, Kootenai Health Foundation donates $2.5M/Press, Expanded Medicaid promoted in physician's bills/SR ...
The weekend poll offered an anomaly. Through the first 196 votes, 152 respondents (77.55%) had voted against the concept of permitless carry. From that point, there was either an organized effort or someone rigging the outcome to change the final outcome dramatically. Or possibly a mix of both. The final vote had permitless carry winning with 68+%.
Jurors in teenager Eldon Samuel III's double-murder trial learned just a little more Friday about Jonathan Samuel, the brother who was 11 months younger, had autism and was brutally shot and chopped with a machete on March 24, 2014. Testimony by teachers and others painted the younger brother as an "aggressive" student who targeted staff members.
In the New Yorker, writer Richard Brody discusses the controversy swirling around the Academy Awards re: lack of black nominees for Oscars this year: "Yet the blinding whiteness of the Oscars this year meshes with another infuriating long-term pattern: the whiting-out of movies about black experience."
In his Saturday column for the Lewiston Tribune, conservative columnist Michael Costello comments that the serial "bimbo eruptions" of Bill Clinton's presidency is haunting Hillary Clinton's efforts to become president today.
More than 100 people participated in the annual parade in Coeur d'Alene, marking the 43rd anniversary of Roe v Wade, which legalized abortion in the United States. The parade traveled along US 95 near Dalton Avenue Saturday morning.
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.
