Ethan Breithaupt sets flag No. 596 into position at Fairmount Memorial Park on Tuesday in Spokane. Crews are placing nearly 2,300 American flags this week throughout the cemetery as part of their annual observance of Memorial Day. Says Breithaupt of himself and his crew mates:…
I would say that we're half way through DFO's vacation week, but since he's taking Memorial Day off, too-- we're not. Hang in there and be brave. If things get too quiet I can always post another Thong Man photo courtesy of Kerri Thoreson. Or…
Children exposed to their parents' cigarette smoke are at greater risk of suffering serious cardiovascular health problems later in life, a study showed Wednesday. The Menzies Research Institute in Tasmania collected data from a Finnish and Australian study following children first examined 20 years ago…
While I blog Milo keeps watch and Thor does what Thor's best at. (Admit it. You were worried that I forgot to post a cat picture, weren't you?) Do you take naps?
Those crazy kids at OpenCda are at it again. Click here to see the caricature of Mayor Sandi wearing her crown. Personally, I like it! And I don't see ANYTHING wrong with wearing a crown. Ya'll realize I wear my tiara when I'm blog duty,…
From left, Mark Moeller, Mark Irvin, John Bryant and Sean McGuffin bottle Silent Treatment Pale Ale at No-Li Brewhouse, located at Trent and Hamilton. Spokane’s newest brewery is also its oldest. Those bottles of No-Li Brewhouse beers that are starting to show up in stores…
PawnGo.com CEO Todd Hills displays his Louis Vuitton traveling bag of pawned jewelry. Hills says the poor economy pushed more upper-income individuals and small-business owners into getting short-term loans by putting up their valuables. More Americans are turning to pawn shops to get by, hawking…
The Coalition of African American Pastors announced Tuesday that it does not agree with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s decision to endorse the legalization of same-sex marriage. CAAP launched a petition last week to oppose broadening the legal definition of marriage.…
This undated photo provided by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office shows Dan Nichols, one of the infamous Mountain Men who gained notoriety in the early 1980s for kidnapping an Olympic athlete and holding her hostage. HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Police arrested notorious "mountain man" Dan…
Sweet Frostings Blissful Bakeshop in downtown Spokane offers 12 to 15 different flavors of cupcakes each day. These are chocolate peanut butter cupcakes.\ Cupcake lovers who want to learn how to make those delectable, frosting-stacked treats for themselves are in luck. North Idaho College has…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco supervisor says he consulted a Ouija board before city leaders voted on whether to recommend naming a Navy ship after slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk. Supervisor John Avalos tells the San Francisco Chronicle (http://bit.ly/KnVnbu ) that he…
SEATTLE – A Washington state man fed up with a group of noisy moviegoers behind him stepped over the seat and punched a 10-year-old boy in the face. The man, who told police he thought the person he hit was a grown man, was watching…
One man is dead and another was injured following a shooting in a vehicle in Kellogg early this morning. Shoshone County sheriff’s deputies and Kellogg police officers responded to the Bunker overpass off Interstate 90 in Kellogg around 3:30 a.m. The passenger in a vehicle…
Some polling station errors were discovered during Kootenai County's primary election canvassing, including one case that resulted in apparent voter fraud. But most poll workers performed professionally on election day, said Clerk Cliff Hayes, with no mistakes egregious enough to affect the winners of each…
Chef Adam Hegsted of the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort picks leaves off of stinging nettle plants along the trestle that carries golf carts around Circling Raven golf course. Adam Hegsted, executive chef at the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort in Worley, is not in the kitchen.…
It seems Mary Souza isn't the only one "hearing things" about proposed changes to the Lake City. Commenter Mention reports what he's "heard" below. Insert winky face here. Mention on Mary sees DANGER ahead on May 23 at 1:02 a.m. I hear that the LCDC,…
A $10,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the person who shot a grizzly bear and her nursing cub in North Idaho. The dead adult grizzly was discovered last Friday morning by a hiker on Hall Mountain in Boundary County, northwest of U.S.…
WASHINGTON – A new government study released Tuesday says that allowing Bush-era tax cuts to expire and a scheduled round of automatic spending cuts to take effect would probably throw the economy into a recession. The Congressional Budget Office report says that the economy would…
The Associated Press and 16 other organizations sued the state of Idaho today, challenging its execution protocols that bar media witnesses from viewing the entire process of execution, allowing them to see only the final portion. A 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision from…
If you don't read anything else today, read this story by former SR staffer Bill Morlin. It’s probably the biggest sports-legend mystery ever to come out of Washington State University. Whatever happened to Dale “The Whale” Ford? Almost 50 years ago, Ford was a standout…
WASHINGTON – James Doohan, Scotty from “Star Trek,” spent his acting career whizzing through the cosmos. Gordon Cooper was one of America’s famous Mercury seven astronauts. And Bob Shrake spent his work life anonymously helping send NASA’s high-tech spacecraft to other planets. Now the three…
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.
