Nick Ut/APLos Angeles County firefighters look at a mural on the wall of the Body Shop, a landmark West Hollywood strip club mentioned in the Motley Crue hit "Girls, Girls, Girls," after battling a blaze at the club Thursday, in West Hollywood, Calif. You write…
My brother-in-law, Darrol Hval, was the emergency room physician on duty the night Summer Phelps was brought into Deaconess Medical Center. He led the medical team's efforts to revive the badly beaten child. Though she came in with no pulse and no breath sounds, the…
Nick Groff/ArgonautSports writer Scott Stone of the UI Argonaut presents a second in a series about Coach Robb Akey's attempt to rebuild the Vandal football team here.*Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR*Charges pending in Shoshone County hunter death/Ty Hampton, Shoshone County News-Press*Pend Oreille boat tragedy touches Bayview/Herb…
Item: Otter plans to raise taxes for Idaho roads, bridges/Idaho StatesmanQuestion: Which tax or fee would you be most willing to increase to pay for road building and maintenance? *Gas tax*Registration fee*Trucker fees*Retail car tax*Auto parts sales tax
Raymond Pert (to TT): I find that Christianity has several glaring deficiencies as a world view and that other ways of seeing the world have helped me live a fuller spiritual life. Maybe we aren't alike in this, but when Sam said that your devoutness…
There's a reason you heard muted Christmas music coming from Coeur d'Alene City Park during the annual Christmas kickoff Friday. Coeur d'Alene Police Department Blue was test-driving its new public safety building for the parade, tree-lighting ceremony, Hagadone Corp. fireworks display and Festival of Trees.…
Dead: Kimberlee R Dingman, 44, SandpointCritical: Crystal L Bertolucci, 31, Sandpoint & William D Deardorff, 53, SpokaneSlightly Hurt: Skylar Bertolucci, 1, Sandpoint(ISP news report in drop-down box)A woman is dead and two other people critically injured after a head on crash on Highway 95 near…
Ralph Bartholdt/Special to HBORalph Bartholdt/St. Maries Gazette-Record e-mailed this shot with the comment: "a boat waits for next season on a dock at Chatcolet Lake."SR World Snapshots
5:43 p.m. Multiple, rear-end collision @ Ironwood & Northwest Boulevard.5:30 p.m. High-speed, head-on collision on Highway 95 near Careywood Road. Officer uses the term "fully engulfed" to describe scene. Also, an air ambulance is on the way.5:20 p.m. 3-vehicle, head-on injury accident is blocking the…
The couple was headed south to Coeur d’Alene to shop for a refrigerator just after dark – that’s about 4:15 p.m. up north – on Dufort Road, traveling about 45 mph, when the moose appeared from an unexpected location – Mark Fuhrman’s driveway. The giant…
MamaJD: Does anyone know what happened to the Resort Ice Rink? I am assuming that they won't be re-installing it this year since it isn't up yet. It seemed busy enough whenever we went. Was it just for the Good Morning America cameras?Question: Anyone?
Courtesy: Slight Detour"Appaloosa homes around the world turned over their calendars to see that lovely face of Lily aka Miss December sniffing at some plastic poinsettias in the antique manure spreader," writes owner Marianne Love/Slight Detour. "Annie snapped the photo two years ago, shortly after…
Deborah Lawrence (who provided this photo for the AP) holds in Seattle the Christmas ornament she designed after being selected to decorate ornaments for the White House tree. The nine-inch ball Lawrence created is covered with swirly red and white stripes and features a picture…
Kurt Wilson/Missoulian, APUniversity of Montana football fans Mark Hettick, Brian Horner,front row right, Rob Reimann, left, Lance Hughes, wearing cowboy hat, and Patrick Mourar, right, pose in Missoula, Mont., with boxes of Twinkies that they will toss out to the crowd every time the Grizzlies…
I think at the end of the day that if Sarah Palin doesn’t show up in Georgia, Saxby Chambliss still wins. But by nearly 15 points? No way. Palin’s appearances galvanized the base of the party in a way that I don’t think anyone else’s…
Noah Berger/APNevaeh Enoch, 6, peers out from a shopping cart while waiting for a Wa-Mart to open around 5 a.m. on Black Friday in Oakland, Calif. Hoping for deals on clothes and toys, Enoch and her mom joined the line of several hundred people at…
Misty was my first, and most difficult child to raise. I had not yet learned that trying to control a teenager was an exercise in futility, and we butted heads on a regular basis. I swear, for about three or four years straight, every single…
Courtesy: OnLocation North Idaho"Bald eagles enjoy Lake Coeur d'Alene as much as we do, arriving in late November in their annual migration to feed on the dead and dying salmon which have spawned in recent weeks," posts Kerri Thoreson/OnLocation North Idaho. More here.*Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins,…
Kenneth Koch cut himself with a knife because he was depressed about the upcoming holidays, but when a friend asked about his injuries he claimed he’d been beat up and robbed for his groceries. Koch, who is in his 60s – not 87, continued to…
Idaho Republican Chairman and Eagle City Councilman Norm Semanko says he has made arrangements to pay off a delinquent mortgage. A legal notice announcing a March 13 trustee's sale of Semanko's home appeared in the Statesman last week and is being republished Wednesday. Semanko failed…
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Les Sterling via Deborah Lawrence/APThis image provided by Deborah Lawrence shows the Christmas ornament she designed after being selected to decorate ornaments for the White House tree. The nine-inch ball Lawrence created is covered with swirly red and white stripes and features a picture of…
The people drive me insane. The shoppers, the employees, everyone. They're slow moving like bovine and seem unaware of the world around them. On my first visit ever to the PF WalMart, I was minding my business in the office supply aisle and my ankles…
5:17 p.m. R/P @ 7th & Lunceford complains that someone has left a bike on her lawn.5:08 p.m. A teen boy is driving a motorcycle without a headlight in the Grouse Meadows subdivision.4:50 p.m. Two males seen in a newer-model red Chevy pickup w/extended cab…
Item: Couple pulls kids from school after official contacted CPS/KREM2More Info: On Nov. 17 the children missed the bus and were forced to walk the 1.4 miles to school. The children walked along a dirt path off Highway 291 to get there. Maree Koolstra said…
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.
