Jason Guilford, left, and Carson Mesna, both 12, dissect a cow eyeball during class at Lafayette Elementary school in Albany, Ore. (AP Photo/Albany Democrat-Herald, Mark Ylen) Man shot by North Idaho ISPer returns to Montana prison/John Grant Emeigh, Standard Senate Dems: 2011 Idaho Legislature 'worst…
11:48 a.m. A woman who told friends she doesn't want to live any more left a home in 2400 block of Sheffield Trail/Hayden at high rate of speed in 2006 Pontiac w/Arizona plates. 11:21 a.m. Post Falls woman wants animal control to "back her up"…
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., speaks at an Americans for Prosperity "Cut Spending Now," rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, earlier today. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Question: Who will be blamed/credited if the federal government shuts down Friday -- Democrats or Republicans?
Legislators have made more than their share of bad policy this year. Now they're just making stuff up. Consider this little joke that appeared recently on Rep. Marv Hagedorn's Facebook page. "The Islamic coalition supporting the UN efforts in Libya is having a tough time…
Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna couldn't get lawmakers to agree to require online courses in high school, but he told the New York Times the State Board of Education will back a mandate. In January, Luna proposed mandating that eight of 46 required…
The Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department is investigating an armed robbery that occurred at the Alpine Country Store, north of Hayden, late last night. Initial investigation indicates that a lone masked gunman entered the store at about 11 PM, held the clerk at gunpoint and had…
A Coeur d'Alene woman apparently subsists on Mulligan's stew from the Coeur d'Alene Best Western Inn restaurant, according to Nick Rotunno/Press. In an article that's unfortunately buried on page C-12, Rotunno tells how Yvonne Mac Donald, 81, eats only Mulligan's stew from the Coeur d'Alene…
Tuesday Poll: Overwhelmingly, Hucks Nation is more concerned about the damage caused by Idaho legislators than that wrought by wolves. 151 of 204 respondents (74.02%) say a legislative emergency should be declared as a result of the poor work done by the 2011 Legislature. 21…
Erik Kemp stands in front of a slide from his science project at Riverside High School Tuesday. The senior at Riverside will present his school project, a survey of deer feeding habits, to a group of state biologists next week. He used a wildlife camera…
I still keep tabs on Kendramama via Facebook. On her wall Tuesday, she tells an amazing story of being blessed by generous customers on her newspaper route. With her permission, I reprint that tale here: "I am still bawling like a baby after being given…
For Jim Elder, it was time to pass the torch. The Fernan Lake Village mayor, volunteer, land donor, business owner, and board member finalized a deal to sell Cricket’s Downtown Bar and Grill on Friday, passing the Sherman Avenue fixture he has owned since 1985…
Idaho Republicans should take editorial criticism from conservative Publisher Dan Hammes of the St. Maries Gazette-Record seriously. Hammes predicts that voters are going to be miffed when they figure out what the GOP did by pushing to close primaries and then asking the Legislature to…
By holding the legislature hostage to a time-consuming procedure, Democrats hoped to convince lawmakers it was for the greater good and a matter of expedience to just go ahead and introduce legislation to raise the cigarette tax. I don’t know the political science behind the…
Chatterbox: Has anyone read anything by Stanley Gordon West? I just finished Blind Your Ponies, which is about a small town in Montana that rallies around the local high school’s basketball team. Great story telling. I just want to know if his other works are…
“Is not the child of that rape or incest also a victim? It didn’t ask to be here. It was here under violent circumstances perhaps, but that was through no fault of its own” -- Rep. Shannon McMillan, R-Silverton, during debate that led to the…
Item: Schumer cites 'glimmer of hope' that shutdown can be averted/Erik Wasson, The Hill More Info: Key figures in Congress expressed optimism Wednesday that a government shutdown will be avoided. House and Senate appropriators worked late into the night following a Tuesday afternoon meeting between…
Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis said this morning that there's a possibility that the 2011 Legislature can adjourn Thursday. Let's keep our fingers crossed that he's right. Idaho needs to send home the clowns. Then fumigate the Statehouse. Now for your Wild Card ...
Kayak instructor Vaughn Corum bobs along with some of the 17,000 plastic ducks that were released during the seventh annual KinderMourn Hope Floats Duck Race at the U.S. National Whitewater Center, on Sunday, April 3, 2011, in Charlotte, N.C. The event is an annual fundraiser…
Most unwed teen mothers who become pregnant their senior year of high school can expect years of financial hardship as they find their way in the world while raising a kid. Not Bristol Palin. The now 20-year-old daughter of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah…
5:49 p.m. Budget Saver in 1500 block of Sherman/CdA has kicked man out of room. 5:42 p.m. Someone is bleeding from the head after a fall in 2800 block of Wickiup/Post Falls. 5:07 p.m. Caller from 14000 block of Harmon/Post Falls (b/n Howell & McGuire)…
"I'm just ready to be in the dirt," said Karen Roetter, left of Hayden as she talked with Georgiann Davis of Vanhoff's Garden Center in Coeur d'Alene today. Spring fever is starting to spread through the Inland Northwest. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Olympia to pay…
Aaron Rider, 4, of Ossian, Ind., takes a break from touring his personal John Deere around the Winter Tractor and Engine Show at the Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Ind., Saturday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/The Journal Gazette, Samuel Hoffman) Top Cutlines: 1. Aaron,…
On his Twitter page, Tim Lewis of KREM states: "Dave Sims and Rick Rizzs don't do it for me." He then provides a YouTube video of a rapper singing the praises of the late Dave Niehaus (pictured). I haven't listened to too many Mariners broadcasts…
The bill makes no exceptions for rape, incest, severe fetal abnormality or the mental or psychological health of the mother; only when the pregnancy threatens the mother's life or physical health could a post-20-week abortion be performed. An Idaho Attorney General's opinion said the bill…
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.
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