We should be entering the dog days of summer on Wednesday. But most of you realize that summer is only about a month old in reality. It rained through June and into mid-July with a break to celebrate the 4th of July. Still, we've had…
United States' Matthew Grevers, right, and France's Camille Lacourt start in the men's 100-meter backstroke swimming final at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London today. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan) Question: I accidentally saw who won this race, as…
Warner Bros. and New Line have cleared all hurdles to creating a third installment of "The Hobbit" and are moving forward with the project, director Peter Jackson announced Monday. Unlike the first two films, which unspool over consecutive Christmas frames, the final "Hobbit" installment was…
5:54 p.m. Dog being kept in hot vehicle w/windows rolled up @ Triple Play, 175 E. Orchard/Hayden. 5:46 p.m. Undisclosed theft reported in 8500 block of Cloverleaf Drive/Hayden. 5:37 p.m. Possible protective order violation reported at KMC. 5:31 p.m. Hayden WalMart reports apprehending a shoplifter.…
Bill Love and his wife, Slight Detour blogger Marianne, loaded up their bikes Sunday evening and took their maiden voyage over the new bike path along Sand Creek. "Again," posts Marianne, superlatives are all I can think of as descriptive words for this wonderful gift…
A $5,000 reward is offered for information leading to an arrest of the person or persons responsible for the Arson fire that occurred last evening at 1609 E. Nettleton Gulch, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The fire loss and damage to all four structures is estimated…
Robert Pattinson has reportedly asked Kristen Stewart to break dawn somewhere else. The Hollywood heartthrob requested his girlfriend of three years move out of their $6 million Los Angeles mansion after she admitted to a marathon makeout session with a married director, People.com reported Monday.…
The Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington/North Idaho march proudly along the parade route w/flags flying during the annual Hayden Days event that took place Friday and Saturday. (Carolyn Lamberson, special to Huckleberries Online) 10 things about Thursday/A Butterfly Moment Can't buy me love -- or…
Babies don't have to go to the movies. But sometimes they need to fly. When babies fly and cry, some grumpy adult passengers forget where they themselves came from and get all riled and huffy about having to endure a little shrieker on board. Mind…
The Democratic Party is moving to include support for gay marriage in the official party platform for the first time, a Democratic official said Monday, marking a key milestone for advocates of same-sex unions. The party's platform drafting committee voted to include language backing gay…
Even Maurice Clements says the message he posted on a Caldwell electronic billboard might have been “poorly done." That’s an understatement, albeit after the fact. But the billboard remained up Monday, showing President Barack Obama alongside Colorado movie theater mass murder suspect James Holmes —…
Annika Dries, left, of the United States pushes the ball away from Dora Czigany of Hungary during their women's water polo preliminary round match at the 2012 Summer Olympics Monday in London. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) Question: Have you ever played Marco Polo in the pool?
As Seth Collins finished his penne pasta at a Lexington restaurant, he called over the waitress to fulfill his brother's dying wish. He explained to her that his 30-year-old brother Aaron recently passed away, but that he'd left instructions in his will to leave a…
On his Facebook wall, Digger complains: "So Cindy Hval gets front paged for witty observations about her cats -- and I complete a rather massive patio project involving the building of a retaining wall, moving and leveling 5.5 cubic yards of gravel and hand mixing/pouring…
Joker: How was your Sunday service? Did anybody confront you? DFO: Sunday AM services were good. Per usual. Pastor Steve Massey delivered another strong sermon on the Lord Jesus: The Bread of Life. Sweet fellowship at Hayden Bible Church. Per usual. No problems of any…
On his Facebook wall, MikeK writes: "The woman behind me has a baby on her lap. Baby drops bottle in our row, I pick it up. She thanks me, then says to her baby 'nice grandpa got the bottle for you.' While it's possible that…
Aliaksandr Faminou, of Belarus, rides his horse Coolroy Piter as he competes in the equestrian eventing cross-country stage at the 2012 Summer Olympics today in London. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) Question: Have you ever owned a horse?
12:19 a.m. A German shepherd is running back & forth across freeway @ Huetter rest stop. 12:02 p.m. Officers catch male (11:49 item) by oil tanks & railroad tracks/Hauser. 11:52 a.m. CPD officers are looking for run vehicle in hit-and-run @ Ramsey & Kathleen/CdA. 11:49…
David Barton’s book “The Jefferson Lies” is a New York Times bestseller. It was also recently voted “the least credible history book in print.” The book has been widely panned by real historians, but still it sells and sells. David Maraniss, an Associate Editor of…
High school sports from the Friday night football game to basketball, volleyball, baseball, softball track and field, tennis, golf … you name it, it has a constituency who live and die with the outcome of the events. High school sports rank right up there with…
Volunteers begin refurbishing a national forest fire lookout on Spyglass Peak in the upper reaches of the North Fork Coeur d'Alene River in July 2012. The Idaho Panhandle National Forests partnered with Lutherhaven Ministries and the Forest Fire Lookout Association to renovate three historic structures,…
Members of the Bram Brata steel drum band from the Tri-Cities liven things up even further by limboing to the lively music at the City Park bandshell Sunday afternoon. Duane Rasmussen was on hand to catch this photo of a teen limboing to the music.…
Scientists have figured out how to engineer mosquitoes into little suicide bombers who end up annihilating themselves after mating. Getting the tiny bomb jackets on these Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes is difficult. But what happens is the genetic structure of the male mosquito is modified into…
A new interchange scheduled to open this year on Interstate 90 near the Idaho-Washington border could revive commercial development around Cabela’s starting next year. The outdoor recreation megastore has been something of a lone wolf since it opened in 2007, with only Wal-Mart moving into…
Some Kootenai County gun retailers and law enforcement are reporting a rise in gun ownership, though they say the trend started months before last week's shooting in Colorado. "It's an election year," explained Eric Johnson, trainer with Downtown Guns and Ammo. As rumors of policy…
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.
