Firefighters respond to a blaze at Middleton High School Thursday morning in Middleton, Idaho. Fire swept through this small city's high school Thursday, sending smoke hundreds of feet into the air and closing school for more than a thousand students and teachers. School officials estimated…
Full story hereRick Baughman and Prosecutor Bill Douglas during proceedings for killer Joseph Edward Duncan/Jesse Tinsley, SRMore Info: Rick Baughman, the embattled chief deputy prosecutor for Kootenai County, resigned effective today, Prosecutor Bill Douglas told The Spokesman-Review at 3:45 p.m. The news comes after completion…
Mason Smith, left, and Bailey Smith watch Twiggy, the water-skiing squirrel, during a demonstration at the Tulsa Boat, Sport and Travel Show in Tulsa, Okla., Wednesday. The squirrel is owned and trained by Lou Ann and Chuck Best of Florida. You write the cutline/Stephen Pingrey,…
Wondering: I was rather disappointed that absolutely nothing was printed in the SR today about Kenny Youngs memorial service yesterday. It was amazing. Standing room only in a huge banquet room. It was a wonderful mixture of memories and laughter and an insight into who…
I've heard it from a lot of my lady friends when we're chatting about trying to set up a night out on the town or even a coffee date: "I gotta see if my husband can babysit." I think to myself, do you pay your…
Dog trainer Lisa Lucas demonstrates to a gathering of federal inmates at Geiger Correction Center how to make a black lab mix from SCRAPS sit. Inmates will train dogs passed over for adoption at the animal shelter to make them more appealing to potential owners…
Lastdemoinidaho: Wow, DFO, you really are straight and narrow! After a lengthy post was drafted by me, including one "inappropriate" word (b-ch), used in the sense of complaining, not in reference to anyone, my entire comment was dropped. Ill be d---ed if I will rewrite…
The North Idaho College Board of Trustees announced the 22 members of the committee that will search for someone to replace NIC President Michael Burke, who leaves at the end of the month. Eleven members of the NIC community and eleven others from Kootenai County…
*Man killed by train in Athol: Highway 54 crossing claims second victim in 7 years/Spokesman-Review -- If you play chicken with a thundering locomotive, you can hope for a draw, at best -- a closed casket at worst.*Connie's closes doors as lease expires/Betsy Dalessio, Bonner…
Cameraman: I'm appalled right now at the Sandpoint Brand X. I am reading the story about Connie's closing yesterday and as I am reading the story, I read they will sit you and and bull**** with you. Granted this was a quote they got from…
MamaJD's entire comment hereMamaJD (arguing why women shouldn't take every chance they're given in the work world): I will give an example - Since the Superbowl is coming up, I dislike female sideline reporters. I think that women sideline reporters are hired either for 1)…
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.
