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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2011

Bill Hall: Phones Smarter Than Us

Today, the waiting room magazines often include readable, non-political, middle-of-the- road publications. Some medical offices even have a few magazines in those lonely little rooms where you take off your clothes and await your turn with your favorite healer. However, there are still examination rooms…

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County To Cut Unmandated Services 

Item: County mulls budget cuts: Non-mandated services could see reductions/Alecia Warren, Coeur d'Alene Press More Info: Parks would still receive 100 percent of funds from boat launch fees, said county Finance Director David McDowell, which varies each year. But that isn't a major source of…

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Marty: Megaloaders Seal Idaho Deal 

Of course, the Western Legacy Alliance thought it perfectly OK to feature the Idaho flag and state seal in its newspaper advertising promoting megaloads. Why wouldn't it? Idaho's officialdom has stood firmly allied with plans to haul operating equipment along U.S. Highway 12 bound for…

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AM Headlines -- 7.5.11

Shirley Rose Panter, 4, of Portland, Ore., holds onto her miniature American flag while riding in passenger trolley during a small parade from the train depot in downtown Nampa to Wissel Farms across town on Saturday as part of the 100th anniversary of the establishment…

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Anthony Deliberations In 2nd Day 

Casey Anthony stands for the arrival of the jury at the start of the second day of jury deliberations in her murder trial at the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando, Fla., this morning. Anthony has plead not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of…

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Hux: Bar Flies, Bull Kept Cops Hopping

Car d’Lane has been tame since the 1999 riot in downtown Coeur d’Alene. But that doesn’t mean it has been without incident. CPD Blues were busy after the cruise this year, according to the Downtown Coeur d’Alene Bar Report (which mysteriously appears at Huckleberries HQ…

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Rep. Roberts' Wife Drowns In Payette

The holiday weekend was marred by sad news for state Rep. Ken Roberts of Donnelly, whose wife, Mary Jo, drowned in the Payette River; her body was recovered Saturday about six miles downstream from McCall. Mrs. Roberts, 49, was the subject of a search along…

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Huckleberries Online

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.