Gonzaga Bulldog fans stood in line for hours for a chance to be part of Gonzaga University's Kraziness in the Kennel, the annual introduction of men's basketball and new players. John Blanchette/SR columnizes that we're about to see a heavy infusion of new Gonzaga Bulldog players.
Scanner Traffic for Monday AM (13 items & counting) includes possible discovery of a body in Falls Park near Post Falls Dam. PFPD officers are checking out report ...
The Kootenai County Reagan Republicans aren't joining other Republicans in abandoning GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. In their list of endorsements, the RR's back Trump. Surprisingly, the RR's also backed centrist Republicans Luke Malek and Paul Amador in Coeur d'Alene House races.
Huckleberries Online will be without its regular daily poll until SR techs have time to fix the problem that affects readers who follow this blog via mobile devices. The fix likely won't be done today.
AM Headlines includes reports of black bears on Spokane's popular South Hill bluff trails. Also: Public Records (Oct 8)/Press, RV stolen from Blue Dog RV/Press, New cardinal was Spokane bishop/KXLY, Humane Society hosts blessing of animals/Press, Spokane observes Indigenous Peoples Day/KREM + more ...
On her Twitter account. Melissa Davlin of Idaho Public Television has posted a screen shot of a quote by state Rep. Luke Malek has joined the growing chorus of Republican office holders denouncing GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump: "Trump's latest embarrassment does not surprise me, which is why I have never supported him, and never will."
Deborah Rose, director of a candidates' forum at Athol, has tried repeatedly to contact Republican commissioner candidate Bob Bingham for a Wednesday debate. All contested candidates but Bingham have agreed to participate. Below, you'll find a final call from Rose to the Republican frontrunner. (Q to Bingham: Why won't you debate?)
North Idaho College and the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations are sponsoring a one-day conference on civility at the college Thursday. "Returning Civility to America's Democracy: The Promotion of Civil Dialogue" is the conference theme. Cornell W. Clayton, of Washington State, is the keynote speaker.
Idaho state leaders remain dubious of switching to a vote-by-mail system for elections, as Washington and Oregon have done. But voters in Idaho are growing more comfortable with the concept of voting at their own pace, away from the polls, as a steadily increasing share of them embrace absentee voting, writes S-R reporter Scott Maben.
Betsy Russell/Eye on Boise reports: "The Idaho Democratic Party has pulled a party field organizer out of Bonner and Boundary counties after the young man reported he was repeatedly stalked and harassed by supporters of GOP state Rep. Heather Scott." A Scott supporter also allegedly confronted the 90YO mother of Scott's Democratic opponent.
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump battled bitterly in St. Louis, during the second presidential debate of 2016. The debate kicked off with the discussion of a 2005 tape in which Trump discusses women in vulgar terms and seemed to indicate that he groped them. (Q: Your thoughts on the second debate?)
In her Eye on Boise Sunday column, Betsy Russell writes: "Idaho Supreme Court candidate Curt McKenzie is trying to distance himself from the Idaho Trial Lawyers Association, of which he was a dues-paying member for four years and which donated thousands to his Senate campaigns from 2002 to 2014." (Q: Brody or McKenzie?)
In my Sunday Huckleberries column, you'll meet a bride who was beaming broadly as she exchanged vows with her true love. You'd never know that the bouquet she held in her hand were all that remained of the flowers, decorations and hors d'oeuvres she'd planned for her wedding only 24 hours before.
I was planning to watch the presidential debate Sunday, even before the latest controversy in the seemingly non-stop series involving Republican Donald Trump. I can't wait to hear how he tries to spin his way out of the latest revelation caught on tape re: his vulgar attitude and actions toward women.
A Kootenai County Sheriff’s deputy hit and killed a pedestrian on Highway 95 in Hayden early Saturday morning. The deputy was driving a 2008 Ford Crown Victoria patrol car south on Highway 95 in the right lane as he approached Miles Avenue just after 1:30 a.m. Saturday, according to the Idaho State Police. The car hit a woman on the highway.
Republican Mike Crapo of Idaho is the latest senator to call for Donald Trump to step aside. Crapo released a statement Saturday morning that says “this is not a decision that I have reached lightly, but his pattern of behavior left me no choice.”
Walkabout spotted this fellow this afternoon along the Centennial Trail a short distance north of the Chief Morris Antelope statue. She writes: "I was walking towards the college when I heard a movement in the bushes. He was very close, probably less than a foot from my leg. I got out of there quickly."
I swapped texts with Junior in north-central Florida this morning. He said he and Miss Stephanie are OK. The hotels in the area are packed with coastal evacuees, escaping from the fury of Hurricane Matthew. He was expecting to leave work early and return home to hunker down.
Scanner Traffic for Friday AM (18 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic w/23 more items) includes vehicle crashing into bike shop @ 4th St/Locust Ave, Midtown CdA ...
The Cutline Contest today features members of the Castellers forming a human tower during the Saint Merce celebrations in Barcelona, Spain. Thursday Winner: HFHayden.
Donald Trump bragged in vulgar terms about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women during a 2005 conversation caught on a hot microphone – saying that “when you’re a star, they let you do it” – according to a video obtained by the Washington Post.
I plan to watch the 2nd presidential debate Sunday because ...
When Megan Stokke considered possible wedding gifts for her fiance, Kalen Abbott, there was only one possible choice, even though that gift may prove impossible to find. She wanted to give him his grandfather’s rifle – the rifle his grandfather used during the Korean War while serving in the Marine Corps in a Force Recon company.
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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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