Now: Lake City is playing Timberline in a semi-final game, and Coeur d'Alene is playing either Twin Falls or Borah in a lower out game.Loser-out Game @ 3: Coeur d'Alene defeats Eagle 7-0.Noon: Lake City defeated Eagle 5-0 to advance to a semi-final game against…
Don Sausser captures another sign that the seasons are changing in Coeur d'Alene -- the annual appearance of the trademark red geraniums at the Coeur d'Alene Resort.Idaho launches seatbelt enforcement push/Eye On BoiseHigh court: Anonymous tip not enough/Eye On BoiseVideo reveals Palouse Falls plunge/SRSandpoint dealer…
An elaborate floral headdress is modeled during the 8th annual Tulips and Pansies fashion show benefiting Village Care New York Thursday in New York. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)Top Cutlines:1. Just cos I have Two lips (Tulips) and Im a bit of a…
6:12 p.m. Someone suffering a possible broken hand has walked into the Spirit Lake Fire Station.5:31 p.m. Victory Auto Parts of Athol reports that someone who just drove from the business may be "tweaking." Update (@ 5:58 p.m.): Man has returned to the business.5:30 p.m.…
Plummer School District millions of dollars if voters approve an $11 million school bond to replace Lakeside Elementary next Tuesday. If the bond passes, nearly half of the $11 million bond will be interest free. “This is very exciting news,” said Judi Sharrett, the district’s…
Beach volleyball at North Idaho College is in full swing, and this weekend's summer-like weather in our corner of the world sure to bring out the crowds/OnLocation North Idaho.
I recall Monte Cristos being everywhere when I was young in the '70's and early 80's. In fact, I remember specifically my grandparents frequently taking me to eat at TJ's Pantry, located in the North Shore Hotel, now the Coeur d'Alene Resort. That place was…
Killian, a competitive border collie, flies through the air while chasing a flying disc thrown by owner Sharon Marconi while warming up for the taping of a television show for the Animal Planet channel in Acton, Mass., Wednesday. The show is aimed at teaching old…
About 1,301 students will graduate from the University of Idaho Saturday. You can read the Moscow-Pullman Daily News story here. And check your answer on the newspaper's online poll above.
While you're waiting for me to finish HBO's Inland Northwest roundup, you can take this Billings Gazette quiz re: Iraq and Afghanistan that was put together by Billings seventh-graders here. I answered 7 of the 10 questions correctly.
It may not seem like it now, but newly passed legislation to consolidate Idaho elections is a good thing. When the law takes effect in 2011, myriad taxing entities will only have four dates on which to have an election. In the past, elections, especially…
A new Gallup poll about abortion found that 51 percent of Americans identified themselves as "pro-life," compared with 42 percent who say they are "pro-choice." Gallup says this is the first time that a majority of U.S. adults have identified themselves as "pro-life" since the…
This triptych, made Wednesday from the Post Street Bridge, shows the Spokane River and falls. Their shape and flow have morphed according to human commerce and catastrophe, including the Great Fire of 1889. (Christopher Anderson/Spokesman-Review)Kyra Wine's mother pleads guilty to abuse/KREM2UI to cut 62 positions,…
If I may be immodest for a second, in the past 3 years I have taken 24 exams, written 2 papers, 6 memos, 3 briefs, 8 bench memos (for a judicial externship), and given 3 oral arguments, 4 presentations, and spent countless hours sitting in…
John Dahlen, back, Tim Slade, left, Jonathan Galin and Neal Haglund, who will compete in the upcoming 2009 World Beard and Moustache Championships coming to Anchorage, display their beards and moustaches in Anchorage, Alaska, Thursday. More than 200 competitors from 12 countries, including Germany and…
11:15 p.m. There's an illegal "pit" at Black Bay Park/Post Falls -- a fire pit, I suppose, rather than a pitbull (which probably should be designated illegal).10:56 a.m. A 21YO female @ the county jail is reacting to an overdose of amphetamine.10:22 a.m. A vehicle…
The Washington Redskins won another legal victory this morning in a 17-year fight with a group of American Indians who argue the football team's trademark is racially offensive. The decision issued Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington doesn't address the main question…
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Item: Notre Dame president catches heat for Obama invite/APMore Info: The Rev. John Jenkins ... is getting plenty of criticism from Catholic leaders, students and alumni because of the university's decision to invite President Barack Obama to deliver its commencement address and receive an honorary…
There might be a question of the propriety of applying a law aimed at protecting private property to buildings owned by the public, but there is apparently little question Pentico, 42, has been a nuisance, and not just in Otter's office. Still smoldering over a…
I saw a story from The Associated Press, "Tween-teen parents work to ward off summer boredom" (posted below). The story described the dilemma of how to keep young teens with working parents active and entertained during their summer vacations, particularly those kids too young to…
Shirley and Chuck Young are not your ordinary great-grandparents. The North Idaho couple are raising their four great-grandchildren, ages 5 to 9. They’re praying to live long enough to see the children, who spent two years in foster care, through to graduation. Sunday, in the…
In the HBO Poll Thursday, 20 of 39 (51%) Merry Hucksters said that Kootenai Medical Center had the best hospital food in the Inland Northwest. While 10 of 39 (26%) said Northwest Specialty/Post Falls was best. I hope the low vote means that few of…
Brent Andrews: I told her most of the people who ever (strip-searched) me never seemed to relish that part of the job. They seemed to like everything else better, in a way. It was just something they had to do because people are crazy, they'll…
JBelle: back in the day when the SR with rife with columnists and professional staff, a couple of the women in Spokane came over here and got pretty irate with our boy Oliveria over some chaunvinist thing or another he supposedly said. Lord what a…
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.