I enjoy an evening bicycle ride last evening that led to Stickman's breeze way. Stickman was there after a long day of carving, about to pack it in when i rode up and said, "Hey, Dude." He told me he's passed the 10,000-stick mark: "I've…
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Saturday he won't seek the Republican presidential nomination, choosing to stick with a lucrative career as a television and radio personality over a race that would be both costly and caustic. "All the factors say go, but my heart…
A Post Falls man is dead after a motorcycle crash sent him flying off the elevated portion of Interstate 90 at Wallace today. The Idaho State Police said Francis L. Cox, 67, was riding a 2008 Yamaha motorcycle eastbound on I90 at 11:43 a.m. today…
For white supremacists who have made North Idaho home over the years hoping the region would one day become a white homeland, Tony Stewart (pictured) has this message: Sorry, but just the opposite is happening. When Idaho’s most recent U.S. Census numbers came out, Stewart,…
Jacqueline Gedeik, of Hayden, and Donna J. Williams, of Coeur d'Alene, won first places in fiction and nonfiction, respectively, to win their adult divisions in the 2011 Writers Competition of the Coeur d'Alene Public Library. The competition is in its 23rd year." The winners were…
Thousands of college graduates across the region will walk proudly this weekend and collect their diplomas. Then many of them will pack up their college apartments and move back in with mom and dad.Graduation day: The culmination of much hard work. The beginning of a…
The giant gumball machine in the center of Mrs. Honeypeeps Sweet Shop has 22,000 gumballs. Well, not anymore. "Slightly less. People have been coming in," said Susan Sommer, owner of the store, with husband Brett, that opens today at The Resort Plaza Shops. The Sommers,…
A sizeable stash of pornography was among the items seized when U.S. Navy SEALs raided the Pakistani hideout of Osama bin Laden, almost two weeks ago, U.S. officials say. The officials said it was unclear who the material belonged to, and there was no way…
A 76-year-old Spokane Valley woman died in a head-on crash on Highway 95, a half mile north of Silverwood Theme Park, Friday. Myra Gann suffered fatal injuries at 3:03 p.m. when she attempted to make a U-turn on northbound Highway 95, from the right shoulder…
A 500-pound pig was shot to death by a Washington State Patrol trooper in Spokane Valley this afternoon after escaping a van and absorbing several Taser shocks. Trooper Morgan Mehaffey saw the pig running down the sidewalk near North Pines Road and East Mission Avenue…
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.
