I'm back & rested from a four-day trip to Portland to see Amy Dearest & soon-to-be-son-in-law Okie Doke. The trip included moving Okie Doke into a new apartment, writing out a bunch of checks for the coming wedding, enjoying Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in…
A Kentucky Fried Chicken employee uses tongs to hold up an sample of the company's trans fat-free Extra Crispy fried chicken in New York. New York City now has hard evidence that its ban on trans fat in restaurant food made a meaningful dent in…
On his Slice blog, Paul Turner/SR lists a number of reasons to avoid seeing a movie in a theater: "A) Price. B) Don't like having commercials blasted in my face while I wait. C) I'll be able to see it at home soon enough. D)…
5:47 p.m. Jetskiers are riding too close to juvenile swimmers off North Idaho College beach. 5:39 p.m. Medicine Man Pharmacy, 8903 Cornerstone/CdA, wants to see officer re: suspicious male that was at pharmacy this morning. 5:29 p.m. Caller reports possible wanted person @ 15th &…
Local residents and members of the media gather around the area where a water main broke earlier today at West Houston Ave in Spokane. Story here. (Tyler Tjomsland SR photo) Big Sky Conference unveils new logo/KXLY Post Falls reaches strategic plan milestone/City of Post Falls…
A former Kootenai County Jail nurse who also worked in elementary schools has been charged with robbing 21 banks in Washington, Oregon, California and Montana. Cynthia Lynn Van Holland, 48, is accused of being the “Bad Hair Bandit,” a serial robber nicknamed by the FBI…
Some rural counties that once thrived off timber sales are hoping Congress will allow them to pay for roads and schools by increasing logging in national forests. Idaho Republican Rep. Raul Labrador introduced a bill last month allowing for the establishment of locally managed reserves…
Since their summer convention in Boise, Idaho Democrats have spread out across the state to start campaigning. Campaigning saying what? What they said at their convention is in part a reflection of Republican electoral success: A good deal of the platform is a refutation of…
I was telling a story the other day to my dog, Christmas Belle, about a couple of dogs I'd heard about that got out of their yard and attacked a mailman. The dogs, apparently, were fed up with junk mail and just making a preventive…
The City of Coeur d'Alene has placed an employee in its Finance Department on administrative leave and asked the Kootenai County Sheriff's Office and Kootenai County Prosecutor to investigate the possibility that funds have been embezzled. The city is not naming the employee now, nor…
Here's the latest utility box public art in downtown Coeur d'Alene, offered by the Coeur d'Alene Arts Commission -- the signal box at 8th & Sherman. Eden Irgens tells HucksOnline that the back panel was removed after a flaw was found in it. The back…
This Aug. 14, 2008, file photo originally released by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum shows music pioneer Kitty Wells at an exhibit honoring her career in Nashville, Tenn. Wells, the first female superstar of country music, has died at the age of…
You don't have to be a know-it-all to win this week's news quiz, but it can't hurt. Our overall champion (drawn from among the top scores) will earn a $50 gift card to the Davenport Hotel, and a random winner will take home two movie…
The Jagermeister no longer flows as freely as it once did. Across Spokane, fewer shot glasses of the stuff are being dropped into glasses of Red Bull and tossed in a single gulp down the gullets of hot-blooded twentysomethings. When the Jagerettes drive over from…
Some of a Republican group's concerns about Kootenai County's land use code are already going to be addressed, and some are off base, according to county officials and the consultant helping write the code. "I'm very cognizant of people's property rights, and we welcome participation,…
One of the newest trustees on the Coeur d’Alene school board would like to see a mandatory student uniform policy instituted at every school in the district. Jim Purtee, who was appointed to serve as a trustee in April, pitched the idea at Monday’s school…
Mike Gregg, right, a biologist with U.S. Fish and Wildlife's Land Management Research Demonstration Program, looks into a nesting chamber on Sunday after finding a juvenile burrowing owl in Umatilla, Ore. USFW is working with the Burrowing Owl Society of British Columbia to send up…
Stephen R. Covey, author of the top-selling motivational book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," died on Monday at an Idaho hospital from injuries he suffered in a bicycle accident in April, family members said in a statement. He was 79. Covey, who would…
12:18 p.m. Undisclosed animal abuse reported @ Government Way & Garden, near courthouse. 11:03 a.m. Undisclosed parking problem reported at Independence Point/downtown CdA. 10:57 a.m. Vandalism reported @ 17th & Best/CdA. 10:49 a.m. Runaway (9:36 a.m. item) has returned home. 10:37 a.m. Officer reports fallen…
90-year-old Lester Slate, right, of Exeter, Maine, sits on the ground after his first skydiving jump made in tandem with instructor Matt Riendeau, left, at Central Maine Skydiving in Pittsfield, Maine. (AP Photo/Bangor Daily News, Kevin Bennett) Question: No one in my family has lived…
Vacation Poll: 101 of 201 respondents (50.25%) said they won't be reluctant to comment online despite a ruling by Judge John Luster that the SR must reveal identity of an anonymous HucksOnline commenter, Almost Innocent Bystander. Meanwhile, 46 of 201 respondents (22.89%) said they would…
In the comment section under the Coeur d'Alene Press Sunday editorial ("Clarify rules for recall"), Councilman Dan Gookin takes issue with a response from anonymous commenter Adamsfly. Gookin had commented that Idaho requires too many signatures to force a recall election. Which prompted Adamsfly to…
Mike Marek talks about his brother, Larry, who was killed in an accident at the Lucky Friday Mine in Mullan in April 2011. (Family Photo courtesy of Jessica Robinson) Mike Marek was rolling up his water hose, about to make the last wrap, when it…
Item: Idaho school spending again ranks 50th in the nation/Betsy Russell, SR Wayne Hoffman: Earlier this month a story, which was transmitted throughout the state, incorrectly characterized the status of school funding in Idaho (see story, A7). The report, originally from Spokesman-Review writer Betsy Russell,…
For one night a year, a neighborhood farm in northwest Boise turns into a respite for singles who are tired of the same old dating scene. A poster board planted at the entrance of Earthly Delights Farm in late June advertised “Weed Dating,” with a…
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.
