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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19, 2005

Top Cutlines/Wednesday 10/19/05

Andria Sannutti reacts to her boyfriend, Eric Large, proposing marriage from inside the Ocean Realm exhibit at Adventure Aquarium in Camden, N.J., Sunday. Andria, who was quite surprised, said "YES." You write the cutline.Top Cutlines:1. Andria reacts with surprise after catching sight of the rare…

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A Good Time Was Had By All?

This swell photograph today by Liz Kashimoto/SR brings back memories of following my son up and down the Panhandle while he played baseball and football for Coeur d'Alene High. My wife used to cuddle up in a sleeping bag with an umbrella on days like…

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I'm Back

I had a great time taping an interview about the 25 years of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations with Tony Stewart, Bill Morlin and Erna Rinehart. Sorta weird to be on the receiving end of the questions. Usually, I don't like to…

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UI to Reopen College of Arts, Architecture

In a dramatic decision that brought down the house, the Idaho State Board of Education Monday resurrected the University of Idaho College of Art and Architecture. Hundreds of UI students stood and cheered as the board voted 5-2 to reverse a 2002 decision that dissolved…

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Huckleberries Best of the INorthwest -- 10/19/05

Breaking: Suspected serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan III (shown above with Shasta Groene shortly before a few hours before his capture) used his young captives to produce graphic child porn videos, authorities acknowledged for the first time today/Taryn Brodwater, Spokesman-Review, here.2. Supreme Court nominee Hariet…

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Meet The Press

I'll be MIA for about 90 minutes this afternoon (1:30 to 3 p.m.) because I'll be involved in taping an on-air interview with Tony Stewart at North Idaho College. Tony will be interviewing Bill Morlin and me about our 25 years of covering the Aryans…

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Local Question of the Day -- 10/19/05

Issue: What Would Ron Rankin Do?DFO: Today is the 29th anniversary of my father's death in a vehicle accident in central California. As I was thinking about that, my mind jumped to Kerri Thoreson and her family, which recently observed the first anniversary of The…

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SR Endorses Half-Cent Sales Tax

Apparently, Kootenai County property owners have embraced the local-option tax, which shifts the cost of jail expansion off the unpopular property tax and onto the sales tax, paid to some extent by out-of-county visitors and tourists. The cost of the expansion causes sticker shock —…

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Quick Fix 6 -- 10/19/05

1. APhoto Fix: Saddam Hussein, right, and Awad Hamad al-Bandar, former chief of the Revolutionary Court, listen to the Presiding Judge as their trial begins in a heavily fortified courthouse in Baghdad's Green Zone, Iraq, earlier today. Hussein pleaded innocent to charges of murder and…

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Huckleberries Online

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.