A 21-year-old University of Idaho senior was found shot to death early today in his Moscow apartment.David Robert Boss, a history major and Boise native, was found dead by a roommate about 2 a.m., Moscow police officials said. Boss’ roommate apparently arrived at the apartment…
AP Photo/The Sun, Larry SteagallSavannah Ladd, 12, of Bremerton, Wash., looks up for help as she does push-ups in front of a U.S. Marine Corps recruiter Saturday, March 31, 2007, at the Kitsap Mall in Silverdale, Wash. The mall sponsored the annual Military Appreciation Day…
Hey y'all - For various reasons, including a possible column, I am trying to compile a list of all the public art in the Cd'A-PF-Hayden-Sandpoint-Etc area. Doesn't necessarily have to be officially sanctioned to qualify for the list (folky and iconic - ie Paul Bunyan…
Issue: Lawmakers adjourn for the year after reaching a deal on highway money/Idaho StatesmanMore Info: The Idaho Legislature put an end to two things Friday: The 82-day legislative session and the intrusion of Statehouse politics into highway priorities. The Idaho Legislature put an end to…
The UofI was an awesome experience for me and my wife. The campus/Moscow is wonderful environment for student to learn, make friends, and learn about themselves. Your able to dedicate yourself to college, it's a lot like other college towns like Ithaca, etc. An interesting…
I serve as one of the Councilmen on the LCDC board. I can tell you that the volunteers on that board are community supporters, who not only serve on LCDC, but also serve the community in other ways. Jobs Plus, KMC Hospital Board, Casa to…
Chris Peterson/Glacier Geographic, Muse You Can Use"The annual rite of spring in Glacier National Park is when the mountain goats drop down from their lofty perches to the goat lick on the Middle Fork of the Flathead River. They come down to the river not…
Boise attorneys Roy Eiguren and L. Edward Miller will keep their licenses to practice law and no longer face charges stemming from their involvement in the University Place saga, the Idaho Business Review reports. The agreement between the attorneys and the Idaho State Bar was…
Family Phil/A Family Runs Through It explains why this image was a horrible sight, indeed, here.*Betsy Russell/Eye On Boise reports that the Idaho House has passed the GARVEE bonding bill 48-17 and adjourned for the session; the bill now goes to the Senate here.*Marianne Love/Slight…
*A sign on the wall of the Torch Lounge bikini bar today announced that it'll be celebrated its fourth anniversary at its downtown location Saturday. My, how time flies when you're not paying attention....*For those keeping score at home, HBO posted a first this morning…
Out on the Moyle highwayYou’ll need no social engineerIt’s a slippery slope where they tax your food And the end of the session is near.There will be no smoking while bowlingBut they’ll try to keep mom at homeHere at the Idaho StatehouseMini-wings will sprout from...
... first Cougar basketball coach to win the award ever/Associated PressDFO: And the first Cougar coach to return the season after taking his team to the NCAA tournament. Class act all the way around. Hat Tip to Dick Bennett for bringing his family west. Hat…
Captain Steve Childers announced that starting next week the Coeur d’Alene Police Department will be responsible for animal control within the City of Coeur d’Alene. The Police Department has taken measures to streamline and organize animal control services. The Department has purchased a vehicle to…
It seems HBO and the SR internal blog clock has been hit by that daylight-saving time bug. Posts that are made now are registering an hour earlier. That's my personal analysis. Our techs took care of the problem when daylight-saving time was moved back a…
I will stand on the side of a healthy economy, of which, growth is a component. Having lived through the 1980's in Coeur d'Alene when the logging and mining economies died and it was very nearly " the last person out of town, please turn…
For the rest of the column by Marty Fortier/Coeur d'Alene Press, click here.There are certain things that just go together. Beer and pretzels, hotdogs and baseball, apple pie and vanilla ice cream, T-shirts and jeans, peanut butter and jelly, laptops and Starbucks. You know what…
Friday is the big day on GARVEE. What will the Legislature do? Clearly, there is a LOT of buyer's remorse on this thing, as I have long predicted. At best, the Legislature was given negligently rosy figures and projections when Dirk Kempthorne and the GARVEE…
DanG: Just because I question something doesn't imply that I don't like it. We have a right in this country to question things, to ask whether government is providing us with all the services we pay for. While on one hand you encourage me to…
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, FileContestants are silhouetted as they rehearse for the Miss America Pageant at the Aladdin hotel-casino in Las Vegas in this Jan. 27, 2007, file photo. The Miss America Pageant has been dropped by Country Music Television, leaving the 86-year-old pageant without…
Don't look now, but Marmitetoasty/Twaddle and her Fred are raising chameleons here.*Put your hands together for Idawa/Word Forge, who celebrated his first blog-o-versary Wednesday here.*Chris Peterson/Muse You Can Use begins a post about his son, Boy Wonder: "When they tell you your son is autistic,…
Illustration: Thom GeorgeHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to President Bush at the Radio and Television Correspondents Association annual dinner, Wednesday in Washington. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines1. Pelosi: See, you push on this shoulder and he says "stay the course" and push on the…
This image provided by the Albuquerque Police Department shows the department's ad that will appear on several digital billboards across Albuquerque, N.M. next week. "Running away from your current job? Call APD recruiting," the ad reads, above a photo of Officer Trish Hoffman grabbing the…
For the complete Congressional Quarterly story, click here.You know that the fast-starting 2008 congressional election cycle has begun in earnest when challenger candidates start publicizing their bids for next year’s elections in places not known for hot competition — such as Idaho’s strongly conservative 1st…
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.