A seven-year-old Coeur d'Alene girl is being commended for saving her five-year-old brother during a recent sledding expedition on their grandparents' property. Maya and her little brother Mason were sledding near Canfield Mountain nearly two weeks ago when they fell into a cistern filled with…
This banner was hanging in the gym at Coeur d'Alene High School on Tuesday. Jerry Carlson, a prominent Coeur d'Alene insurance agent and school booster has been charged with possessing five grams of cocaine last week is part of a larger criminal conspiracy investigation involving…
A reveler covers himself with mud during the annual 'Bloco de Lama' carnival celebrations in Parati, Brazil, Saturday. You write the cutline.(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)Top Cutline:1. Slumdog Millionaire - Outhouse scene, take two: Danny Boyle - “OK - this time let’s try it feet first” --…
3:56 p.m. Woman complains re: being harassed by someone she's met on the Internet.1:59 p.m. R/P wants to check on a salesman who is selling meat door to door on Buffalo Grass Lane/Rathdrum.1:57 p.m. R/P reports that a motorist removed a for-sale sign from a…
A rider looks to throw his beads during the Krewe of Bacchus parade in New Orleans. Today, of course, New Orleans celebrates Fat Tuesday, the last day before the Catholic Lenten season begins with Ash Wednesday, by indulging in its annual Mardi Gras festivities. (AP…
I'm easily talked into things. Some of my buddies at work had something special planned for an upcoming Mardi Gras fundraiser. Someone had bailed out on the deal, so I was asked if I was interested in helping out. As always, I threw myself onto…
Anton Sheperd, 4, attempts a quick escape recently, while his mother Tiffany Adkins holds him and nursing student Tiffany Stacy administers a shot during the annual Shots for Tots immunization clinic at Roseburg High School in Roseburg, Ore. The free clinic offered by the Douglas…
Item: North Idaho baby born after wild ride on I-90/KXLYMore Info: By the time they reached the top of Fourth of July Pass, Jo Ann's contractions were two minutes apart. Adren tried to call 911, but he could not get a signal until he reached…
Item: Moscow to consider added protections for transgendered people: Human rights commission member asks city to change its employment nondescrimination policy/Mark Williams, Moscow-Pullman Daily News/Mark Williams, Moscow-Pullman Daily NewsMore Info: Tim Gresback wants the city to provide more legal protection for transgendered people. The lawyer…
A nutria shares the links with golfers at the Stewart Park Golf Course in Roseburg, Ore., on Thursday. (AP Photo/The News-Review, Robin Loznak)Cartoon: Scumdog Billionaire/Seattle PIFather revives son on basketball court/MissoulianIdaho bill would stop unused prescription drugs from being flushed/KTVBCrump: The Idaho transexual who saved…
I appreciate this photo b/c it shows a lighter side to Coeur d'Alene Press columnist Mary Souza. Here, I believe, she's at a Margaritaville section of Las Vegas in December. That's a parrot on Mary's head. I'm told that Mary's costume was one of the…
What has Butch Otter been up to in the nation's capital? Within days of appointing a bipartisan panel to review plans for spending money from federal stimulus legislation, Idaho's chief executive is listed among those Republican governors now in Washington, D.C., telling Uncle Sam to…
Well, Eli Tickner, age 15, you got your wish. The huckleberry pancake will not rise to the esteemed, golden brown level of the Official Pancake of the state of Montana. The Senate Agricultural Committee recently voted 6-3 to table House Bill 232, effectively flattening the…
The NAACP claimed the chimpanzee was President Barack Obama, and the cartoon referred to the history of black people being compared to primates. Not only that, but the paper apparently called for the assassination of the president. Let’s think about this for a second. Obama…
Item: Lawmaker seeks studded-tire ban/Richard Roesler, SR Peter Geissinger, a mechanic with Perfection Tire and Auto Repair at 604 E 2nd Ave., prepares to bag up a customer’s snow tires.(Full-size photo)To state Sen. Chris Marr, it’s a simple cost-benefit analysis. The cost: an estimated $18.2…
Leaves create an impression of their outline while sinking in the softening snow Monday, near Tubbs Hill in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. (AP Photo/Coeur d'Alene Press, Jerome A. Pollos)Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SRStimulus money for Idaho education not enough/Betsy Russell, Eye On BoiseEx-Notre Dame coordinator to coach…
Don Sausser had his camera out at the first of the week to capture this reflective shot of Tubbs Hill on a Monday morning.
What are you cutting back on most these days?/Lewiston Tribune.Eating outGroceriesTravelEntertainmentClothingFancy coffeeNot a thing
Item: Cd'A levy could be $1M less: Superintendent asks trustees for lower amount at Monday meeting/Maureen Dolan, CDA PressMore Info: Superintendent Hazel Bauman recommended to trustees at a special board meeting Monday that the district set the levy amount at $7.8 million. Before making her…
A prominent Coeur d’Alene insurance agent and school booster charged with possessing cocaine this month is part of a larger criminal conspiracy investigation involving at least a half a kilogram of the drug and dating back more than a year. In addition to a state…
Don't look now, but Joe Butler & the SR marketing department are tossing in some prizes to go with the Blogfest '09 awards being planned by JeanieSpokane, CindyH & Co. Saturday, from noon to 3 p.m. at MoonDollars/Post Falls. Writes Joe: "Our marketing department can…
Revelers cover themselves with mud during the annual 'Bloco de Lama' carnival celebrations in Parati, Brazil, Saturday.(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)SR Today In Pictures here
Beginning March 15, the Prairie Voice will merge with the Handle Extra. The Prairie voice, seen the last two years as a handout as well as part of the paper on Thursdays, and the Handle Extra, covering both Kootenai and Bonnner County, formerly seen Saturdays,…
Former mine worker Mike Crill protests outside the Russell Smith Federal District Courthouse during opening arguments in the W.R. Grace environmental trial at in Missoula, Mont., on Monday. A federal prosecutor told jurors Monday that W.R. Grace & Co. knew for years that its products…
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.
