There's an outbreak of jury duty in the Coeur d'Alene office of The Spokesman-Review. I and two guys in the circulation department got summoned in recent days. I'll be at the mercy of the court from April 19-30. In days gone by, you were dismissed…
Gonzaga's Vivian Frieson, center, is double teamed by Xavier's Amber Harris, background and Ta'Shia Phillips right, during the first half of an NCAA Sacramento Regional semifinal college basketball game in Sacramento, Calif., Saturday. Gonzaga, which trailed by only 1 at halftime, couldn't handle Phillips in…
Kootenai County Sheriff’s deputies have pulled a man’s body from the Spokane River near the state line. The body was reported about 7:30 this morning, near Richards Road, Lt. Stu Miller wrote in a press report. That road is below the Post Falls Dam on…
A crash involving Australia's Belinda Goss, foreground right , Russia's Evgeniya Romanyuta, at left, Italy's Giorgia Bronzini partially seen, and Shelly Evans of the US, during the Women's Scratch Race at the World Track Cycling Championship, in the Ballerup Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark, Friday. The race…
I took a trip in late July and early August of 1992. I was on my way home for my 20th high school reunion. I decided I'd take a really long route from Eugene to Kellogg and go out to Burns, on to Boise, on…
I tend to be a stickler for keeping "short accounts" on thorny issues...or at least I hope I am. It's not always possible. Sometimes distance does not allow it, or time, or eternity. But most of the time I CAN revisit an issue, if I…
When two universities on the Idaho-Washington border needed a deterrent for tree thieves at the holidays, they knew whom to call: Idaho Republican Sen. Gary Schroeder, chairman of the Resources and Environment Committee, owner of Moscow Hide and Fur and legislative skunk-essence expert. Schroeder hasn't…
Tony Humphreys of Lewiston figures he can put camo on just about anything. That includes gun stocks, motorcycles, computers, bows, animal skulls and toilet seats. At least those are some of the things he's decorated with a variety of camouflage patterns. Humphreys and his wife,…
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.
