Delaware running back Andrew Pierce (30) jumps over Eastern Washington cornerback Jesse Hoffman (21) during the first half of the FCS Championship football game tonight in Frisco, Texas. After trailing 19-0 in the third quarter, EWU scored 20 straight points to win 20-19. ESPN game…
For those keeping score at home, Kerri Thoreson asked me a few weeks ago to be a speaker at Leadership Post Falls next Wednesday. She wanted me to discuss the social media in North Idaho. Which means I'll be talking about you guys. And how…
Michael Bernstein shows a sticker he's selling at his vendors booth at the Linguistic Society of America convention in Pittsburgh today. The group nominates and elects their "word of the year" at the convention and is scheduled to announce it tonight. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Question:…
... from a courthouse Berry Picker that "Yesterday was the farewell party for Dan English. The room was PACKED with county employees, members of the public, other elected officials. Today was the farewell for Rick Currie & Rich Piazza. Could have fired off a canon…
6 p.m. Budget Saver, 1519 Sherman/CdA reports a wanted person on grounds. 5:43 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activity report for Jan. 6-7 here. 5:32 p.m. Caller reports that a blond woman in a gray vehicle ran red light @ Government & Aqua. 5:03 p.m.…
Governor C. L. "Butch" Otter is sworn in for his second term by Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court Daniel T. Eismann on the Statehouse steps today in Boise. (AP Photo/Statesman: Joe Jaszewski) Healthy Gonzaga heads into WCC play/Jim Meehan, SR Boise State coordinator…
A member of the Spanish Royal Guard, second right, snoozes as he waits for the start of the Pascua Militar annual Christmas military parade at the Royal Palace in Madrid on Thursday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano) Top Cutlines: 1. 3 chins…
New Year's Eve wasn't kind for a 23YO man who was charged with battery and spitting on a sidewalk after he'd been kicked out of the Beacon, 4th & Sherman. Seems he sucker punched a bouncer while he was being kicked out of the bar…
"We ended our Christmas break with an afternoon of sledding on a cold, but gloriously sunny, Sunday," writes Idaho Dad/A Family Runs Through It. "She was okay. She was just pretending. Today we returned to our homeschool schedule. Now I’m the one feeling wiped out."…
EWU fans cheer the arrival of the team at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco Texas for the National Championship game against Delaware in Frisco Texas this afternoon. Eastern Washington and Delaware will kick off at 4 o'clock today. (SR photo: Christopher Anderson) Question: Who wins?
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, American civil rights activist and dynamic orator, will visit the University of Idaho on Monday, Feb. 7, as part of the university's Black History Month celebration. Over the past 40 years, Jackson has played a pivotal role in virtually every movement…
All day long, the anticipation weighed on us. Would we be ready? Were we up to the challenge? Not the big game. That's tomorrow, when our beloved alma mater, Eastern Washington University plays the University of Delaware in the Football Championship Subdivision title game. No,…
Idaho State Tax Commission Chairman Royce Chigbrow has resigned. In a hand-delivered resignation letter sent to Gov. Butch Otter, Chigbrow wrote, “Our system of taxation is not perfect, but I tried to do my best on behalf of every Idahoan during my tenure, while treating…
"Blitz," the Seattle Seahawks mascot, tosses a football, Friday, during a rally for the Seahawks NFL football team in Renton, Wash. The Seahawks will host the Saints Saturday in Seattle for the first round of the NFC Playoffs. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) Seattle P-I columnist…
... that Marvin Erickson's house on Canfield Mountain at 4095 E. Erickson Drive/Dalton Gardens (follow ugly Z on hillside) is available for a cool $575,000. Marvin gained local infamy by carving that huge Z in the side of Canfield for an access road to get…
In his second inaugaral address, Gov. Butch Otter said today: “Over the next four years you can expect my administration to keep building partnerships for addressing some of our most pressing challenges, to keep clearing the way for entrepreneurs to create more career opportunities and…
Speaking of the EPA, Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson, newly named chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior and the Environment, which oversees funding for the EPA, said of the agency: “The EPA is the scariest agency in the federal government, an agency run amok. Its…
Twitter friend CdANightOut just tweeted that Kerri Thoreson, long-time Hucks Online regular & local columnist & KVNI personality, now has a sandwich named after her. Rosa's Italian Market & Deli, 120 E. 4th, now offers "Kerri Thoreson's Main Street Mojo Sandwich." It consists of "Albacore…
Noonish: Mother reports that daughter's ex-boyfriend took a 42-inch TV that didn't belong to him a few minutes ago, after being kicked out of the house on Stach/CdA 3 days ago. Noonish: Teens pulling into Burger King parking lot are throwing firecrackers at other vehicles.…
"I caught the limit," said Tom Colnaric of Hayden about ice fishing at Fernan Lake in Coeur d'Alene recently. At the time, Tom said that the ice was about 4 inches near the docks. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka) Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR Wet weather to…
Thursday Poll: 110 of 200 respondents (55%) don't want to see the 3rd Street boat launch closed, as proposed by Team McEuen for an upgrade to McEuen Field. 79 of 200 (39.5%) said they would want the public boat launch closed. 11 were undecided. Today's…
Griffiths' complaint focuses on Hart's participation in a meeting between local judges and North Idaho lawmakers, at a time when he had his own tax appeal pending before one of the judges making the presentations. Hart's appeal of an order to pay more than $53,000…
Key lawmakers are splashing cold water on a tea party-backed proposal to extend Idaho's sales tax to cover most services, while also lowering the rate from 6 percent to 4 percent. “I don't know whether that particular piece of legislation will ever materialize,” House Tax…
As I was walking out of the Team McEuen presentation last night, I joked with a member of the Lake City Development Corp. that I wondered what part Mary Souza or Bill McCrory were going to attack at OpenCDA.com today. It didn't take me long…
After Cabbage Boy chided me for something I'd written this AM before the first cup of coffee kicked in, Cindy sent a Facebook message suggesting that I embrace the message on this sign that she bought in Leavenworth, Wash., during her junket for a free-lance…
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.
