Sacajawea Elementary School 6th-grader Justin Dean, 12, smashes a whipped cream pie into his math teacher Tara Rosipal's face during "Pi Day" celebration earlier today in Great Falls, Mont. Dean won the chance to "Pi" his teacher after he memorized the value of Pi to…
Full Story: Kilkenny surprises Pit Crew with tickets: Oregon's new athletic director informed die-hard fans that he is footing the bill for their trip up north/Dan Jones, Oregon Daily EmeraldSophomore Michael Konowitz said he showed up at the Autzen Stadium South Ticket Building on Monday…
Katrina/Notes on a Napkin has returned home from a wedding anniversary trip to Seattle -- and has props for the hands-on Pacific Science Center here.*Put your hands together for another HBO commenter who has taken the plunge into the North Idaho blogosphere, as Keith introduces…
A beagle drinks water after it was rescued by members of the Blount County Fire Department who rappelled about 30 feet down the side of a ridge Tuesday in Walland, Tenn. The dog spent four days on a foot-wide ledge 125 feet above U.S. Highway…
Victor LeonThe Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office reports that deputies responded to a call of a violent domestic disturbance at 11877 Kelly Rae Drive, north of the City of Hayden shortly after 9:30 this morning. When the first deputy and Idaho State Police officers arrived at…
Sen. Jeff Siddoway, R-Terreton, just rose on the floor of the Senate to announce that he has a list of senators who haven’t paid their Senate lunchroom fees, and as of tomorrow, their names will be posted in the lunchroom and they’ll “no longer be…
Item: Bayview homeowner shoots rampaging truck/Spokesman-ReviewA Bayview homeowner shot the tire and radiator of a truck Tuesday evening as the driver repeatedly drove over and damaged the man's yard, fence and other property. Kootenai County Sheriff's deputies responded to a 8:30 p.m. call from residents…
Lance Mackey, of Fairbanks, Alaska, runs his dog team up the finish chute of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome, Alaska Tuesday to become the first musher to win both the Iditarod and the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race in the same…
The Idaho Senate endorsed a bill to ban smoking in bowling alleys. Do you think smoking should be banned in bowling alleys? -- Idaho Statesman *Yes*No*No opinion
Full Column: Main Street: Apples don't fall far from family treeTomorrow Michael and Anna Pearce will celebrate their 21st wedding anniversary. It's not hard to remember their anniversary since Bert and I were married the same date, same year. Looking back at us in 1986,…
Arpie: John Blanchette is a hell of a writer and deserves all the awards he gets. Even when he's writing about a sport I don't follow he's worth reading just for the joy of it. Today's column is agreat example.DFO: Blanchette is one of the…
You might want to read the following if you're tempted to tell someone to stick an object where the sun doesn't shine. In an ear, of course. Family Phil, a stay-at-home Coeur d'Alene father, was planning dinner one evening when his daughter said she had…
I installed my wi-fi router at home, but for some reason haven't been able to contact to it via my Mac Book. My lack of technical expertise picks the strangest times to bite me in the tail. Obviously, I'm not doing something correctly, and I'll…
Another tale from my sordid past: I lived in Spokane in the later '70s, and I washed dishes for the Sukiyaki Inn on Bernard St. One of my duties as a dish-pig was...well, every order went out with a little monkey dish full of fruit…
Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry. Ah, what is that smell? It truly does run the state. And guess what? No matter what political party you belong to, you don't get to vote for who is on the executive committee of IACI. Oh, and those…
Nebraska-Kearney coach Carol Russell, who gave birth to a baby boy hours before game time, talks to Liz Fischer (22) during a timeout in a basketball game against North Dakota in the finals of the NCAA Division II North Central Regional Tournament Monday at the…
Jim Carrey, who previously inhabited the world of Dr. Seuss as the title character in the smash hit "The Grinch," will voice the role of the immortal Horton, the elephant who knows that a persons a person, no matter how small. (Photo: Business Wire) DFO:…
1. Work2. Blog3. Take long walks along the lake w/Sweetheart4. Walk the dog5. Sit inside and watch March Madness6. Fret about New Year's resolutions that now appear at a distance in rear-view mirror7. Fret about winter fat now that you realize summer, indeed, will be…
Mic Armon: I can relate to the bad service experience at Bonsai Bistro. One Sunday afternoon my wife & I also had a desire for Asian food & stopped in to BB. We ordered an appetizer of edamome(Soy bean pods), if you have ever eaten…
Question: Do you wear green on St. Patrick's Day? -- Lewiston Tribune*Yes, I'm proud to be Irish.*Yes, even though I'm not Irish.*No, I don't want anybody to think I'm Irish.*No, but I do drink green beer.
Full Column: Get free gas for beating his ghastly guzzler Gasoline prices are again soaring higher than a Gonzaga University rebounder on magic mushrooms. Analysts say we may soon be looking at $3-a-gallon gas, which could provoke more panic at the pump. That could really…
Issue: Big highway plans falling short: Too little money is available for even scaled-back Connecting Idaho projects, raising specter of more cutbacks or even tax increases/Shawna Gamache, Idaho StatesmanJames Bond: Tuesday morning, the Idaho Statesman has a front page, above the fold story about the…
At Huckleberries Online, the writer of the Making Flippy Floppy blog is known as "OrangeTV." You know him as Patrick Jacobs, the new local restaurant/nightlife reviewer for our Handle Extra. Over the weekend, OTV accepted a challenge to list reasons to visit downtown Coeur d'Alene,…
UOregon alum Meghann Cuniff was desperate enough to land tickets to the Ducks NCAA March Madness game at the Spokane Arena that she was willing to pay $150 a pop for two of them. Some tickets to the game on eBay were going for $1000…
For the rest of the story, click here.Suspended Gonzaga basketball star Josh Heytvelt struck a deal with prosecutors today that could leave him with a clean criminal record. Heytvelt, 20, agreed to a diversion program in which the drug possession charge against him will be…
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.