The free ride may be over for online news customers of the New York Times and newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch (pictured). Breitbart reported today that media heavyweights debated Thursday whether readers will pay for news on the Internet. Quote: "The Times plans to require…
Colin Shober of Schuylkill Valley High School gets a leg in the face as he takes down Alex Stanton of Blue Ridge High School during their AA 140 Pound Class semi-final match today in Hershey, Pa., at the PIAA High School Wrestling Championships. Shober advanced.…
I'll be turning the controls of HBO Central over to Cindy next week, while I enjoy 5 days of unpaid furlough, chauffeuring in-laws and gardening. Mebbe I'll even repaint the chimney, if the sun shines enough. I don't like taking off a week when the…
Florida Highway Patrol officers say Megan Barnes crashed into the back of a pickup truck because she was distracted while driving, but not because of talking or texting or changing the radio channel. She was distracted, according to officers, because she was driving while shaving…
CindyH: Attention Hucksters: Inspired by a love of Guinness, Bent and Me (not me, me but Huckster Me, if you know what I mean, oh dear…) have instigated a pre-St. Patrick's day gathering tonight at 5:30, in Spokane, at O'Doherty's, 525 West Spokane Falls Boulevard.…
Darcy Pederson, left, takes a photograph of her husband, Ray, center, with Joe Vandal, the mascot of the Idaho Vandals during the first half of an NCAA women's basketball game against Fresno State at the Western Athletic Conference tournament in Reno, Nev., Friday. (AP Photo/Rich…
US boxer Adam Richards, left, and Marco Huck from Germany, right, pose during the official weighing in Berlin, Germany earlier today, a day prior to their cruiserweight World Championship boxing fight. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)Top Cutlines:1. Tony Berns and Dan Gookin engage…
4:51 p.m. A security guard has a skateboarder penned against a vehicle near Penney's at the Silver Lake Mall. Other skateboarders have left the area.4:39 p.m. An extremely drunken male is threatening to kill himself in a Spirit Lake bar because the bar tender wants…
The Idaho State Patrol discovered a hostage situation inside a vehicle that had been involved in a crash at about 7:15 a.m. today on U.S. 95 at mile post 444 (Corbin Hill Road). Allegedly, Damien Bunch, 27, of Spokane (pictured) was holding a knife to…
Post Falls Mayor Clay Larkin celebrated his 74th birthday with Councilwoman KerriT on KVNI this week. Kerri was pinchhitting during the morning show while Rick and Teresa Lukens were on vacation. Alison McArthur, Clay's daughter, is fond of saying that her father is still glad…
He’s still made no official announcement, but Gov. Butch Otter today put the speculation to rest over whether he’ll seek a second term: He will. Otter filed his candidacy papers with the Secretary of State’s office today. Also filing today were Republican Vaughn Ward, who’s…
Fresno State's LaShay Fears, right, fights off Idaho's Rachele Kloke as they go for the ball during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game at the Western Athletic Conference tournament in Reno, Nev., Friday. Fresno State eliminated Idaho from the tournament by beating…
At Idaho Politics, Dan Popkey has posted a Politico article by Ben Smith re: Evangelicals and the Tea Party movement that quotes Bryan Fisher, former executive of the Idaho Values Alliance: "There’s a libertarian streak in the tea party movement that concerns me as a…
Nadine Woodward, who was a fixture on KREM's nightly newscast for 19 years before being let go by station management last fall, will begin co-hosting the KXLY 920 AM morning news program on Monday. She will join Bud Nameck from 7 to 9 on weekday…
In a quote pulled from Muskrat/43rd State Blues, Councilman Mike Kennedy explains the hubbub at the Idaho Education Network: "Here's an analogy a legislator gave me: when they passed this legislation for IEN (which everyone thinks is a good idea) the legislators thought Qwest would…
At the least, the curious case of Laura Silsby raises questions about cultural imperialism: what makes a scofflaw from nearly all-white Idaho with no experience in adoption or rescue services think she has a right to bring religion and relief to a country with its…
Zelda Krup: I was leafing through the ad inserts in today's S-R and came across a shiny, coupon-laden ad for a place called Elmer's. But no where in the ad did it say where Elmer's is located. I found it online and there's one in…
In this 2009 photo provided by the Lake and Peninsula Borough School District, Candice Berner, an Alaska special education teacher, holds up crab caught on a school district outing. Autopsy results announced Thursday indicate Berner, 32, died Monday in an animal attack outside the village…
11:55 a.m. Hayden City Hall reports a disorderly male on the premises.11:50 a.m. Canfield Middle School student is suffering an asthma attack on soccer field.11:48 a.m. Super 1/Post Falls manager reports that a male in a purple ballcap and jacket is tweaking at a checkout…
It's still illegal to buy into a college basketball bracket contest, even though the governor signed off on changing the state’s gambling law last week. Betting with money on the upcoming NCAA Basketball Tournament — even just an office pool — technically amounts to a…
A cat named "Tigger" gasps for air while getting oxygen provided by firefighters on the scene of a fire on Cannon Street in Syracuse, N.Y., earlier today. (AP Photo/The Post-Standard, Mike Greenlar)
Huckleberries hears that Judge Benjamin Simpson delayed action on the motion by attorney Starr Kelso on behalf of plaintiff Jim Brannon to disqualify Simpson from hearing the case. In action this morning, Simpson said he would rule on the disqualification motion in the next day…
The Senate State Affairs Committee has voted 6-1 to send SB 1271, the last remaining immigration bill this session, to the Senate’s 14th Order for amendment, after a two-hour hearing that drew extensive testimony overwhelmingly opposed to the bill. Among its provisions: Anyone falsifying documents…
Rep. Walt Minnick, D-Idaho, has already said it's unlikely he'll support the health care bill about to come before the House, but he reiterated his stance Thursday. "I would vote for responsible legislation," Minnick said. "But the bill I think we’re going to be voting…
Thursday Poll: 72 of 119 respondents (61%) said that a military tribunal should try the suspected mastermind and his helpers in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. 44 of 119 (37%) said the group should be tried in a civilian court.Today's Poll (in lefthand rail): Who will…
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.
