Parting Shot -- 7/17/06
Kyla Foster of Bell City, La, wraps up her goat during the girl's goat tying event durimg the recent 2006 Wrangler Junior High Finals at Red Rock Park in Gallup, N.M. (AP Photo/ Gallup Independent, John A. Bowersmith)
Kyla Foster of Bell City, La, wraps up her goat during the girl's goat tying event durimg the recent 2006 Wrangler Junior High Finals at Red Rock Park in Gallup, N.M. (AP Photo/ Gallup Independent, John A. Bowersmith)
Issue: Soldier's widow fights to place symbol on husband's grave/Philadelphia InquirerMore Info: "There are 38 religious symbols approved for placement on government-issued grave markers and memorials for military veterans, but the pentacle isn't one of them. The five-pointed star within a circle that represents the…
Members of C Company, 116th Engineer Battalion of the Idaho Army National Guard are reflected in the Killed in Action monument at the Ronald D. Rankin Veterans Memorial Plaza on Saturday. (Kerri Thoreson photo)*Somer Breeze -- I swear that's her name -- talks about life…
US President George W.Bush, right, drives an electric cart through pouring ran, as he arrives for the final working session at the G8 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, earlier today. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Jan Bauer) Top CutlinesIn A League of His Own: John…
Mickey Spillane, author of mystery novel "The Big Kill," is shown in his studio at Orange Lake, N.Y., Feb. 23, 1952. Spillane, the macho mystery writer who wowed millions of readers with the shoot-'em-up sex and violence of gumshoe Mike Hammer, died today. He was…
Spokane Mayor Dennis Hession is expected to call this afternoon for an outside, independent investigation of the Spokane Police Department’s handling of events surrounding the homicide death of Otto Zehm. Hession has scheduled a press conference for 3 p.m. at City Hall where sources say…
Diana Halvorsen hugs her daughter, Kristine, after a plane leaving the Hillsboro Air Show crashed into a neighbor's house, destroying it and damaging their house in Hillsboro, Ore., Sunday. The plane crashed in a residential area, damaging four houses and killing the pilot. No one…
US President George W.Bush, right, drives an electric cart through pouring ran, as he arrives for the final working session at the G8 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, earlier today. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Jan Bauer)
Jane Q. Citizen: So did the Mini-Sturgis already take place at Stateline or do I still have time to get in shape for the paper plate and duct tape bikini contest?DFO: Mini-Sturgis at Cruisers Biker Bar is scheduled for June 29-30; so, you still have…
... Touching Down @ Cape CanaveralGround crew and others watch as the Space Shuttle Discovery approaches the runway at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., to complete mission STS-121 earlier today. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)... Turning 88 in South AfricaFormer South African President Nelson…
Here's a great idea for saving some big money for the state of Idaho. We would automatically install Butch Otter as the next governor and Jim Risch as lieutenant governor. Those two races are going to be the most lopsided in the history of the…
Rupert Murdoch in Sun Valley last week/AP PhotoDon't count me among the locals who fear that Kootenai County and North Idaho are in danger of becoming another Sun Valley. Case in point – Cruisers Biker Bar's 2nd Annual Mini-Sturgis Event July 29-30. While Sun Valley…
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.