Saint Mary's Mickey McConnell hits the winning shot over Robert Sacre to beat Gonzaga 73-71 in Spokane. Saint Mary's improves to 6-0 in West Coast Conference play, while Gonzaga drops to 3-3. (SR photo: Dan Pelle) Boxscores Saint Mary's 73, Gonzaga 71 Louisiana Tech 71,…
The legislators from House District 3 are taking center stage in this cyber circus today, with plans afoot to raise money for Artful Tax Dodger Phil Hart on Saturday and newby Vito Barbieri leading the charge of the light brigade into the federal government cannons…
Kindergartner Brynn Johnson, 6, right, painted her face blue on Wednesday for the birthday of Mr. Blue, a puppet who lives in a pillowcase at the school in Coeur d'Alene. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka)
Here's a riddle for you: What do you get when you crowdsource law school rankings? A highly suspect list. Now, what do you get when you compare that list against the US News peer poll — wherein schools are rated by professors and law professionals…
5:42 p.m. A Jeep Cherokee is driving down center of two lanes on I-90 @ H41 i/s, after weaving all over the highway, according to caller. 5:19 p.m. Caller reports a batter of some sort @ Government Way & Ironwood/CdA. 5:15 p.m. Woman reports that…
Horses gather around hay dropped from a helicopter hauling hay to horses on the former Leachman Cattle Company ranch east of Billings earlier today. The Billings Gazette reports that the Northern International Livestock Exposition had collected $10,000 in cash donations and about 250 tons of…
The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that Rahm Emanuel, pictured in AP photo, is eligible to run for mayor of Chicago and ordered him to stay on the ballot. Earlier this week, an Illinois appellate court declared that the former White House chief of staff…
Sunny, @ Bent's Beer Garden, announces excitedly that she was offered her dream job: lead farmer at her local Community Supported Agriculture. You can read all about it here. Things I learned today/A Butterfly Moment The Lego habit/A Family Runs Through It Political fiction/Arch Druid…
I read recently that the town of Tijuana is a shell of its’ former self. That most of the buildings are boarded up. The sleezy bars of yesterday and may other types of tourist attractions are gone. All of this because the drug cartels have…
Marshall Mend, of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, holds a picture of the first documented hate crime in Hayden -- the cowardly attack on Sid Rosen's restaurant that stood at the corner of Government Way & Miles. The attack prompted the creation…
On her Facebook page, Cindy posts this photo of her lunch and writes: "How to know you're procrastinating instead of working: You take a picture of your lunch and post it on facebook." I need OrangeTV's help here. Is this Food Porn? Or something less?…
In his recent testimony to JFAC, Health & Welfare director Dick Armstrong said that the disabled will have to turn to their families, friends and churches as state funding for many services declines or outright disappears. Armstrong noted that in the 1950s and 1960s, many…
I have a teenage son who now watches MTV just like I did when I was his age but the content on the channel has taken a huge step down the wrong path. The new program called “Skins” has been in a firestorm of controversy.…
Third time's the charm? Rep. Mike Simpson is pushing a bill that would abolish the Internal Revenue Code and force Congress to come up with a replacement. Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson is an original cosponsor of H.R. 462, the Tax Code Termination Act. This legislation…
Gonzaga University student Madison Wood, 19, of Federal Way, Wash., writes a text message to her mother Wednesday telling her how cold her stay in the tent will be as she waits with other students for tonight's basketball gameagainst Saint Mary's. Students line up early…
On her Facebook wall, Cindy writes that she hit the ground running Wednesday -- and the ground hit back. For example, she said that she spilled an entire cup of coffee all over her new wireless keyboard. Writes Cindy: "Is that spray duster can suppose…
11:34 a.m. A Ford Ranger and a red pickup are driving 10 mph & honking at each other on Government Way, north of Honeysuckle/Hayden, causing a traffic hazard. 11:31 a.m. A sheriff's deputy is dealing with a panhandler at Hayden WalMart on Honeysuckle. 11:30 a.m.…
Dmitri Zaslavsky of Family Pet Memorial Crematory and Cemetery in Colbert takes time to adjust a display of flowers left by a family at their pets' graves Friday. The Zaslavsky family has operated the business since 1967. Pia Hallenberg reports on the pet cemetery in…
Wednesday Poll: A majority of Hucks Nation voted that President Barack Obama scored at least a double, in baseball terms, with his State of the Union speech Tuesday night. 25 of 132 (18.94%) said he hit a home run; 20 (15.15%) gave him a triple;…
Okay, Gil Meche hasn't been great since signing a big contract with the Kansas City Royals. But not many players would feel so badly about their performance that they would walk away from a guaranteed $12 million. Meche announced last week he will retire, giving…
The right to bear arms has become the fodder for a lawsuit on the University of Idaho campus, where a law student is suing the university for the right to store firearms in his on-campus apartment. Right now the university requires students living on campus…
Dirk Kempthorne was among a number of top Bush administration officials who used the ruse of official business to campaign at taxpayer expense for Republican congressional candidates in 2006, according to a report by an independent federal agency. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel says…
President Obama has challenged the nation to prepare 100,000 new teachers in the next decade. Idaho schools superintendent Tom Luna’s education reform plan hinges upon cutting 770 teaching jobs over two years. I was struck by the contrast. And as the Legislature prepares for a…
The U.S. Constitution gives small states - notably Idaho - such an oversized voice about choices they don't like, it's a wonder anything gets done in this country. But when the people of this land overcome obstacles that states such as Idaho, Wyoming, Alaska and…
Matthew Beam, manager of KYRO, talks about the construction of the new ice arena during a tour on Tuesday in Coeur d'Alene. An August opening is planned. Alison Boggs provides the SR story here. Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SR Wednesday's Scanner Traffic/DFO, Huckleberries Online More fog…
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.