This should be very big news in northern Idaho and even Boise tomorrow morning: One of Joseph Duncan's attorneys was arrested early Sunday morning for DUI and drug possession. Probably translates into delay in the legal proceedings. God, I'm glad I am not involved in…
Ask Father Wasmuth if the Aryan threat was real? They bombed his parish residence. The federal building was bombed and so was a business on NW BLVD. I worked downtown the day that happened and it was real. The Aryans may have been (they were)…
I experienced one of those days in the 'hood that hasn't happened this year -- neighbors pausing from yard work to visit other neighbors. Earl Hunter, the 93-year-old neighbor who has lived across the street for more than 22 years, started the visiting when he…
Shawn Gust/Coeur d'Alene Press, APSpectators look on with Kert Whitaker of Coeur d'Alene, right, as Lake City's Daniel Koontz tries to save the ball from going out of bounds during North Idaho Lacrosse League play Friday in Coeur d'Alene.Question: Have you ever played an unusual…
Can anyone tell me what squash leaves look like? I have been on the internet and I am not seeing what I'm seeing if you know what I mean. I hate to kill these plants ( but I didn't plant them). These folks who lived…
As a true native to North Idaho I get a little stirred up any time I see white supremacists associated with North Idaho. That's because I grew up here - very close to the compound as a matter of fact. As a teenager I drove…
I'll be armed with have-to-do's and honey-do's to get the place fixed up for Amy Dearest and company in the days ahead. Shellacking. Painting. Planting. Repairing. You name it. But I'm looking forward to two weeks off with family. Five of my six siblings and…
Blogging at Chronic Discontent is like running my own newspaper, without deadlines or complaints, and everyone at my newspaper makes the same amount of money - zilch - so you don't have one guy in circulation who has to work two jobs to pay rent…
Yes! I am a member of the Scarlett Snickerdoodles. We have 15 or so members and most are from the Coeur d’Alene area and a handful from Spokane. It is a totally wonderful group of women. The rule is we have no rules! Our Queen…
Put your hands together for Bill and Kathy Booth's wunderkind son, Steve. Who opens on Broadway in the lead role in the rock musical "Glory Days" on May 6. Steve cut his teeth as a thespian on Sandra Seaton's stage at Lake City High and…
Steve Lautenbach/AP PhotoRecently, Pecky Cox/As The Lake Churns asked if bears were still hibernating. This photo provided by caretaker Steve Lautenbach taken on April 13 should answer her question. It shows two bears on the snow covered Many Glacier Hotel in Glacier National Park, near…
Item: Idaho luckier than most other states this flu season/Idaho StatesmanMore Info: Idaho is luckier than much of the rest of the nation this flu season.The state still is recording fewer flu deaths than during an average year, even though federal health experts are calling…
Item: Bush says rebates going out Monday should help economy: Centerpiece of government's $168 billion stimulus package/Associated PressQuestion: President Bush says the economic-stimulus tax rebates will begin going out Monday and will help people cope with lofty energy and food prices, as well as giving…
Andy Tullis/Bend Bulletin, AP PhotoAnniston Ward, a nine-year-old third grader, foreground in the pink jacket, races around a spiral snow track made by her school mates, during play time in the snow before class time started at High Lakes Elementary School in Bend, earlier this…
... A Special ChildAl Grillo/AP PhotoAlaska Governor Sarah Palin, left, and her husband Todd Palin hold their baby boy Trig in Anchorage, Alaska Wednesday. The Palin's fifth child was born with Down syndrome, a genetic abnormality that impedes physical, intellectual and language development.... A Special…
Sandy Huffaker/AP PhotoTwo women console one another after viewing the body of a 66-year old swimmer who was killed by a shark while training with a group of triathletes off the coast in Solana Beach, Calif. on Friday. For Andrew Zahler's SR Today In Pictures,…
Heather Ainsworth/Observer-Dispatch, APMarcia Osvoldik laughs with fellow Red Hat Lady Bugs today at the fifth annual Red Hat Society Day luncheon at Hart's Hill Inn in Whitesboro, N.Y. Poem: Warning/Jenny JosephQuestion: Are you a Red Hat Lady?
On one side were supporters of students inside the school expressing their support of gays and lesbians. On the other side were those protesting the school district for allowing the student-lead observance. Police kept both sides apart and tried to control the crowd with yellow…
Customer service in general here in the CDA area is the worst I have ever seen. From McDonalds to the haughty taughty eateries downtown. Granted there are times it works but for the most part this area is horrible. I travel a lot and have…
The D.C. Republicans are taking care of their own. In a party last night, U.S. Rep. Bill Sali picked up $66,000 worth of campaign cash. The fundraising came courtesy of House Majority Leader John Boehner and the party's Regain Our Majority Program. The ROMP program…
Funny footwork in airport bathrooms doesn't pay. Idaho Sen. Larry Craig has racked up more than $400,000 in legal fees to his lawyer Billy Martin since the June 2007 incident in which Craig was arrested, and pled guilty to, disorderly conduct in a Minneapolis airport…
Shawn Gust/Coeur d'Alene PressBill Greenwood, Coeur d'Alene Parks Department supervisor, steadies a tree as Bill Andrews moves the load to the ground for planting Thursday in Coeur d'Alene. The Idaho Transportation Department approved a grant for the city to place 56 karpick maple trees adorning…
Item: U.S. military deaths below 26-year average: Annual toll in Bush years down despite 4,000 fatalities in Iraq/WorldNetDailyMore Info: Even in 2005, the deadliest year of the Iraq campaign, U.S. troop fatalities around the world, including Afghanistan, were lower than the first nine years of…
Item: NIC needs $10M for mill: Officials could tap into forgone taxes/Marc Stewart, Coeur d'Alene PressMore Info: NIC trustees will discuss purchasing the 17-acre mill site at the next board meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the student union building. The final decision is expected…
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.