The Zags have fallen (after a run of 10 consecutive West Coast Conference titles). Long live the Gaels. I'd encourage Zag fans in Hucks Online cyberspace not to jump off any cliffs just yet. Gonzaga is capable of winning the WCC tournament to win an…
Guest speakers find the seats onstage at the start of a special event held in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger’s launch and celebration of Christa’s life and legacy at the McAulife-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord, N.H., today. Christa McAuliffe story…
JeanieS: I just noticed the ad celebrating 75 years (I think, now it's gone - kind of like my mind) of Dorothy Dean recipes. I have been collecting the leaflets from the 30s and 40s. I went to an estate sale early last spring at…
5:29 p.m. Someone is having difficulty breathing after being unconscious at Fred's Appliance in 500 block of Appleway. 4:29 p.m. Coeur d'Alene Police Department activity report for Jan. 27-28 here 3:54 p.m. Someone is unconscious & not breathing in 24000 block of Bluebird Lane/Bayview. 3:49…
Did you know that Nikki Sixx is an Idaho native? Not only does columnis Steve Crump of the Twin Falls Times-News report that Motley Crew rocker grew up as Frank Ferrana in the Magic Valley, but he also has a new line of high-end men's…
Stebbijo @ Stebbijo's Place offers another photo of the neo-Nazi picketers at Chiludo's Mexican Food (about 3000 block of Government Way, north of Les Schwab's Tires). You can also find a photo of a decent line of customers frequenting the Mexican stand on Stebbijo's site…
Dustin Hurst: I was talking with a Democratic operative today in the Capitol and he told me that my commentary on issues is really hurting IR's image and credibility around the state. I guess that it should have been been obvious to me that might…
Gimlet-eyed OrangeTV spotted this advertisement in the Nickel's Worth and posted it on his Get Out! North Idaho Facebook wall. I immediately thought of the Sun Meadow nudist resort near Worley. Bingo. I hope they have heated polls because there might be some, ahem, significant…
Don't look now, but the neo-Nazis are picketing Chiludo's again. That's the Mexican food stand north of Les Schwab Tires on Government Way (the strip mall behind the tire place that used to house the Long Ear). A Berry Picker saw a handful of pickets…
Close to a thousand people flocked to Idaho’s state Capitol on Friday to plead with lawmakers not to cut services to disabled Idahoans, from their children to their clients to themselves. “I’ve been in two group homes and I know for a fact that it’s…
Idawa: I went back to school because I was bored with what I was doing, and thanks to bad timing managed to graduate into the worst labor market for lawyers in history. However, I was lucky, I had manged to graduate very high in my…
I've been at the North Idaho Museum parking lot for the last hour, trying to jump-start my wife's dead Honda Accord. No luck. What looked like an easy fix has become something that needs a tow. The battery didn't turn over. Instead, there was a…
Newborn infants are lined up in the ward for newborns at Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC in Pittsburgh, Friday. Seven babies, all one or two-days old, are wrapped in the Pittsburgh Steelers fan favorite "Terrible Towel" in the ward. The Steelers will be facing the Green…
11:55 a.m. Caller reports that a baby has been left unattended in a white Hyundai in parking lot of Hayden Library. 11:08 a.m. Patrol officer wants to know process DMV goes through to prepare a driver's license, because he has a license that appears to…
Even as dozens of Idahoans are testifying to JFAC that Idaho should look to more revenue - including, many have suggested, possibly taxing Internet sales - rather than cutting services to the disabled, House Speaker Lawerence Denney has single-handedly sidelined a bill that was moving…
Thursday Poll: 89 of 149 respondents (59.7 percent) oppose the attempt by state Rep. Vito Barbieri, R-Dalton Gardens, to nullify federal health care reforms by passing state legislation. They deem his co-sponsored legislation as unconstitutional. 55 of 149 respondents (36.9%) support the legislation. 5 respondents…
Update: Councilman Edinger verified most of the OpenCDA.com post. See my comment below. OpenCDA.com has posted an item in which the author (Dan Gookin?) reports on a speech by Mary Souza at the Reagan Republicans Thursday afternoon. Souza maintained that the public should have a…
a Taco Bell restaurant opens with a person in a taco sauce outfit outside in Mountain View, Calif. Taco Bell is launching an advertising campaign today to fight back against a lawsuit charging its taco filling isn't beef. A class-action lawsuit was filed late last…
Cam Newton has the mobility. Ryan Mallett has the arm. Blaine Gabbert has the size. Jake Locker has the grit. Jerrod Johnson makes a Pop Warner quarterback think he could succeed as a college quarterback. What if I told you there's a quarterback who could…
A popular North Idaho restaurant has reopened after the owners spent the past year rebuilding from a devastating fire."It was so exciting," said Debbie Mustered, owner of Chef in the Forest as she talked about the grand reopening.In December of 2009, an electrical short caused…
Jeers ... to the 15 Republican members of the Idaho House State Affairs Committee who trashed their oath of office Wednesday. Led by freshman state Rep. Vito Barbieri, R-Coeur d'Alene, they voted to introduce a bill that would have Idaho refuse to obey the national…
Joe Butler (re: "Masses overrate Gonzaga Law School"): Several years ago I attended a friend's graduation from GU's law school. The speaker essentially told the grads that they were better than everyone else in the room at that moment because they struggled so hard for…
Sabestian Carter, 3, listens as his mother, Andrea Carter, talks with a volunteer from North Idaho Project Homeless Connect at the Idaho National Guard Armory in Post Falls on Thursday. "We're living with friends right now," she said. Homeless Connect brings a wide range of…
Katherine Hansen of Boise presented lawmakers with 13,740 petitions signed by Idahoans calling for lawmakers to consider a tax increase rather than cut home and community-based services for people with disabilities. The signers, she said, are “13,740 Idahoans from every county and every city in…
In this Jan. 28, 1986, file photo, the space shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after lifting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Seven astronauts died when Challenger was destroyed just after liftoff. It was NASA's first in-flight calamity, and it dealt an…
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.
