Jazzyvandal appropriately chides: "No wild card yet?" And then goes on to say: "More good news for the Vandals, ESPNU has picked up the Fresno State/UI game Nov 7." Are you beginning to realize that the Idaho Vandals may be becoming the feel-good story of…
This combination photo shows, at left, an undated and digitally altered Ralph Lauren advertisement of model Filippa Hamilton displayed in a Japanese department store and posted on several Web sites, and, at right, a runway photo of Hamilton in New York from Sept. 15, 2006.…
Kellen Moore threw two short touchdown passes to Tommy Gallarda, and No. 5 Boise State survived a late scare from Tulsa to escape with a 28-21 victory Wednesday night in one of the last road tests standing between the undefeated Broncos and the BCS. With…
Depending on who you ask the cold snap that has hit the Inland Northwest has either had great or little impact on the orchards in Greenbluff where the apple festival is in full swing. It comes down to who you talk to. Some farmers say…
5:29 p.m. Grandfather reports that someone phoned to ask for money to help grandson who allegedly has been in an accident in Canada.5:23 p.m. 3-vehicle crash w/injuries is blocking 3rd & Lincoln/Post Falls.5:14 p.m. Grass fire reported @ H95 & Dower/Eagle Ridge, south of Spokane…
Drum major Deborah McKenney stands at attention after she and other members of the American Fork Marching Band perform at the Rocky Mountain Marching Band Tournament at BYU Tuesday, only three days after one of their buses overturned killing one of the directors. Story here.…
A bride smiles during the mass wedding ceremony arranged by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church at Sun Moon University in Asan, south of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday. Brides in white gowns and Japanese kimonos joined grooms in black suits and red ties Wednesday…
Tom Torgerson of the Coeur d'Alene Board of Realtors phoned HBO Central a few minutes ago to say that the Realtors have endorsed the four incumbents in the municipal elections -- Sandi Bloem for mayor, and Mike Kennedy, Woody McEvers, and Deanna Goodlander for City…
As cold rains falland warm days cease,they migrate southjust like the geese.The Bard of Sherman Avenue
Idaho’s state budget news is bleak, lawmakers heard as they gathered today for the interim meeting of the Legislature’s joint budget committee: One in five Idaho school districts has declared a financial emergency. State prisons are managing 500 more offenders than a year ago, with…
French actress Armelle Lesniak poses in a life-size chocolate painting composition based on Edouard Manet's Le dejeuner sur L'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass.) designed by Charles Kaisin and made with the help of French chocolate maker Pierre Marcolini, presented in Paris at the 15th World…
What didn't make the "white paper" that Spencer is circulating are the verbal shots he took at Chief Krill. Anyone that cares to Google Jack Krill can find the details of his termination in an article by the Wassilla newspaper. In it was the headline,…
City Council candidate Dan Gookin sent the following response to Huckleberries Online to this morning's post re: Duane Rasmussen leaving the Reagan Republicans: "It's cross-eyed partisans like Rasmussen who are ruining this country. Putting party over individuals, even over issues, is just wrong. I told…
A pair of traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange near the close of trading Wednesday. The Dow Jones industrial average has reclaimed 10,000 for the first time in a year. CNN Money story here. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Question: Did you panic…
My string of not-doing-something-stupid-with-the-computer ended mid-morning when I accidentally erased all the entries into my office e-mail inbox, as I was clearing out the "sent," "deleted," and "junk mail" entries. I'd deleted some of the files in the inbox Tuesday. So there wasn't too much…
For his new book, Searching for Whitopia, social commentator Rich Benjamin spent a year visiting “whitopias” — quiet, charming, booming towns that are receiving massive inflows of white residents — setting their explosive growth against the projection that whites will no longer be the majority…
When a bulldozer tore through the swastika painted on the roof of the Aryan Nations compound eight years ago, many people thought they had seen the end of the neo-Nazi hate group in this part of the world. They were wrong. A new entity calling…
Members of the West Lake High School color guard hold candles to honor American Fork High School marching band woodwind director Heather Christensen after her memorial service on Sunday in American Fork, Utah. Christensen died on Saturday in a bus accident when the marching band…
John Gardiner, of Hackensack, N.J. plays with his 2-year old Sphynx cat, Scarlet O'Hairless during media preview of "Meet the Breeds" today in New York. The event billed as the world's largest showcase of cats and dogs will take place at the Jacob Javits Center…
Duane Rasmussen told HBO Central moments ago that he's resigned from the Reagan Republicans because they plan to endorse Dan Gookin along with Jim Brannon and Steve Adams in the Coeur d'Alene City Council elections. Rasmussen said he attended a meeting in which Gookin told…
At least two City Council members have gone on the record to say that they want McEuen Field to stay pretty much as it is -- Ron Edinger (in the past) and Mike Kennedy (now). On Tuesday, City Administrator Wendy Gabriel said flatly that plans…
11:58 a.m. Victim in a hit-and-run accident in Coeur d'Alene is following the run vehicle, which has Washington plates, on I-90 toward Spokane.11:48 a.m. 18YO male has blacked out in garage on Arizona/Rathdrum.11:07 a.m. Someone's in he lobby of CPD Blue HQ to turn in…
A bull moose munches on a mountain ash tree in east Anchorage, Alaska, on Tuesday. (Photo/Anchorage Daily News, Bill Roth)Question: Have you gotten up close and personal with a moose in the wild -- or, increasingly, in your North Idaho community
If you're curious re: what tax activist Larry Spencer is doing this election season, you need look no further than a letter he wrote that's making the rounds: "86% Property Tax Increase planned by Timberlake Fire District." A Berry Picker provided HBO Central w/a copy.…
Idaho has a law that prevents the state’s residents from shopping for the lowest possible health insurance premiums. The restriction is simple: No one can sell insurance in Idaho without being authorized by state regulators to do so, even if that insurer is already legally…
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.
