One of the AP's photos of the week will serve for our Parting Shot today. It shows an Alabama State Trooper and a K9 dog checking the Edmund Pettus Bridge for explosives prior to the annual re-enactment of the March 7, 1965, voting rights march across the bridge en route to Montgomery.
It isn't as easy to follow Scanner Traffic as closely as I did before my column-writing responsibilities were expanded. Basically, I'm more distracted than ever looking for fodder to fill the columns -- and then writing the column. I try. But sometimes I'm in the zone doing something else. So I beg your indulgence.
Scanner Traffic for Friday PM (18 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 14 more items) includes disorderly male yelling racial slurs and threatening to blow up East Sherman Avenue gas station ...
The Cutline Contest today features hospitality staff posing for a photo during the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. Thursday Winner: No Comment.
It's tax season. So the IRS scam has resurfaced, warns the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office. It goes like this. A scammer calls to warn of a lawsuit that the IRS is about to file against you -- and possible an arrest warrant. KCSO reminds residents that the IRS never calls first. It sends a letter. Be careful out there.
A federal jury Friday delivered a split verdict in the second Oregon standoff trial, finding two defendants guilty of conspiracy in the takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge but acquitting two others of the same charge. Maxine Bernstein/Oregonian reports ...
The Kootenai County Sheriff's Department provides the details of the encounter between murder suspect Steven Denson and Deputy Larsen on Bruss Road, near Hauser, Thursday afternoon.
Spokane reached 54 by noon, the first time it's been 50 or warmer since Nov 26. Also, NWS reports record precip of 16.28 in. since Oct. 1 -- @SR_weather.
The daily roundup of link from HucksOnline social media includes: My kind of college/Fort Boise, Escape to the desert/Slight Detour, On Tap meets Good Brews/On Tap, Cannabidiol used medically/Bay Views, Sometimes, counsel helps/Randy Stapilus, Connecting to constituents/Dan Schmidt, RP, 'Emily' tells unique spiritual love story/7 Blog ...
Lawmakers on Friday approved advancing a proposed amendment to Idaho's constitution that would give crime victims and their families the same rights as those charged with the crime. The proposal struck an emotional chord among legislative leaders on the Senate State Affairs Committee who sent it to the Senate floor. AP reports ...
St. Paddy’s is upon us, So, give green beer a try. Order some Irish whiskey, And a slice of shepard’s pie. Gather friends together, And the town we’ll paint. To celebrate Patrick, Ireland’s patron saint. Remember The Bard
The Senate Judiciary Committee has just introduced two versions of what could be this year’s “going-home bill” – two transportation funding packages, both calling for hundreds of millions of dollars in new GARVEE bonding to pay for major highway upgrades in Idaho. Betsy Russell/Eye on Boise reports ...
Believe it or not, the House Ways & Means Committee voted unanimously to introduce legislation that actually expands Idaho's Open Meeting Law. This action came while state Rep. Vito Barbieri, R-Dalton Gardens, is working to exempt lawmakers' communications from public disclosure. May the good guys (not Vito) win.
Scanner Traffic for Friday AM (14 items & counting) includes large rock lying on Highway 95, near Ohio Match Road ...
Media friend Brian Walker of Post Falls Facebooks about a scenario that occurred at Carl's Jr. recently. A middle-age man yelled at an older man (80ish) for blowing his nose while dining alone at his table. You can read the scenario below. Brian wonders whether the younger man was justified to reprimand the older one.
One of the five children of murder victim Kelly Pease, 37, of Coeur d'Alene, told KREM 2 that her mother was the "glue for (the) family." Taylor Viydo/KREM 2 reports that a GoFundMe site has been set up to pay for the domestic abuse victim's funeral expenses.
AM Headlines: Public Records (March 10)/Press, Boat inspection funding bill goes to guv/SR, Thieves steal more than U-Haul trailer/Press, Moscow sees worst flooding in 20 years/KHQ, State does help build schools -- a little bit/Press, JFAC OKs $1M for teacher eval template/EOBoise, Clark: St. Patrick's obsession leads manto Seattle/SR ...
In Thursday's Poll, a strong plurality of Hucks Nation would prefer a single payer system for health care over Obamacare or Trumpcare. Today's Poll: Do you know someone who is in an abusive relationship?
Only hours from a staycation, SR colleague Nina Culver lost track of days, thinking yesterday was Friday until someone pointed out her error. Strangely, I also thought yesterday was Friday. Do you ever lose track of days?
Missy and EdeninCDA understand the difficulty that murder victim Kelly Pease had in trying to break off her relationship with her ex-fiancé Steven Denson, who killed her in the Kootenai Health parking lot this week. They each have dealt with abusive males.
Gov. Butch Otter and legislative leaders today announced a $3.4 million settlement with Education Networks of America and CenturyLink over the now-defunct Idaho Education Network, a broadband network that sought to link all the state’s high schools.
Reports of the demise of the newspaper industry are greatly exaggerated. In fact, the big newspapers are experiencing a strong uptick in subscriptions. The New York Times, for example, picked up 130,000 new subscribers in November. The SR is doing OK, too. So what's happening?
In his Friday editorial today, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune comments on the stunt pulled by state Rep. Priscilla Giddings, R-White Bird, to bring the Idaho House to a stop this week. Giddings is to central Idaho what Rep. Heather Scott is to House District 1.
The ex-fiance and lone suspect in the death of a 37-year-old nursing student apparently killed himself Thursday afternoon. Steven T. Denson, 61, Post Falls, was being sought on first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of Kelly A. Pease, of Coeur d’Alene. Ryan Collingwood/Press reports ...
Duane Jacklin's generosity toward community efforts will be felt forever. Jacklin, whose name is synonymous with the region's grass seed roots, economic development and giving in Kootenai County, died Thursday morning at Kootenai Health. He was 72. Brian Walker/Coeur d'Alene Press reports ...
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.
