East Providence, R.I., animal control officers remove a female poodle mix from under a car's front grill. The dog survived an 11-mile ride from Taunton, Mass., to East Providence after darting into the street. The driver slammed on the brakes, but didn't see the dog…
Joker: I think people need to think about what Mary Souza would do if something didn’t go her way? I wish I could recall what that is? Question: Is this 5-0 vote against the PYProgramme recall worthy, with the School Board elections only months away?
A breezy new book explores how individuals made the Gem State what it is. But for the intervention of an elderly Nez Perce woman on behalf of Lewis and Clark in 1805, what later became Idaho might have wound up in British hands. So argue…
A judge today blocked Pennsylvania’s divisive voter identification requirement from going into effect on Election Day, delivering a hard-fought victory to Democrats who said it was a ploy to defeat President Barack Obama and other opponents who said it would prevent the elderly and minorities…
Item: A hot, dry fall: Temperatures still in the 70s after no rain fell in September/Alecia Warren, Press More Info: I know what you're thinking: 'If this is fall in Idaho, why didn't I just stay in California?' It's hardly trick-or-treating weather yet in Kootenai…
A popular teaching framework at a Coeur d’Alene elementary school is getting the boot, even after hundreds of parents and residents rallied to save it. The Coeur d’Alene School Board voted unanimously Monday night to end the Primary Years Programme at Hayden Meadows Elementary School…
The Coeur d'Alene School Board hearing on the controversial Primary Years Programme at Hayden Meadows attracted a standing-room-only crowd that remained for four hours Monday night. As expected, the School Board voted unanimously to eliminate the program at the end of the 2012-13 school year.…
President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney will face off on Wednesday for the first of three debates in the run-up to the November election. Millions of Americans are expected to tune in for the debate, which will take place at the University…
The image is of a smaller kid getting shoved into a locker. Not anymore. While bullying has been around since school itself, today's kids face a whole new cyber world of how students can pick on other students. Thanks to social media, like Facebook and…
On a motion by appointed Trustee James Purtee and seconded by appointed Trustee Jim Hightower, the Coeur d'Alene School Board voted unanimously to end the Primary Years Programme from Hayden Meadows Elementary at the end of the 2012-13 school year. The 5-0 vote was taken…
Christa Hazel emails this message to Hucks HQ to launch the week: "My son wanted to know what I was reading on my phone. I handed it to him and told him to read it. He picked it up and said, 'Huckleberries Online. Blah, Blah,…
Marco Alvarado, right, of Denver, shakes the paw of Lakota, a service dog for Karolee McLaughlin of Allenspark Colo., as they arrive for a campaign event for Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space…
They daily stand in danger’s way protecting others from the fray; embrace them with a love divine, and please protect their thin blue line. The Bard of Sherman Avenue
Shasta Groene is no longer the little girl that captured the hearts of the Inland Northwest by surviving a terrifying ordeal in which her mother, her mother's boyfriend and two brothers were murdered by Joseph Duncan. She's now a 16-year-old high schooler. KREM2 provides a…
5:34 p.m. 2 black Labrador pups are running into traffic on e/b I-90/Seltice Way overpass. 5:31 p.m. Panel blew off furniture on truck w/b on I-90/Pleasantview, hitting car behind it. 5:25 p.m. Caller reports wanted women named Chelsea @ 23rd & Mullan/CdA. 4:55 p.m. Unconscious…
Darlyne Markus loads papers at the Idaho Press-Tribune for her 1 a.m. route Sunday, her last day after 54 years of delivering papers. She broke the world record for longest serving paper girl four years ago. (Idaho Press-Tribune photo: Aaric Bryan) 17th Mayor's Arts Award…
Christa is covering meeting in comments section It appears as thought the Coeur d'Alene School Board will attract an overflow crowd for its 5 o'clock meeting this afternoon at the Midtown Center. Huckleberries has learned 50 people already are in attendance, 40 minutes before the…
Boiseans know very little about Hammerfest 2012 — just enough to be outraged. Fronted by the white supremacist group Hammerskin Nation, the music “festival” is supposed to take place somewhere in or around Boise on Saturday. The group bills this concert as a 25th anniversary…
At Stebbijo's Place, Stebbijo posts: "This is Paula Deen's volcano cake - the only thing I changed was the icing." You can find the how-to's here. Show & Tell Friday/A Butterfly Moment Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?/Arch Druid One more…
A 22-year-old Washington State University student was hospitalized after falling three stories off a balcony at the Boulder Creek Apartments in Pullman on Friday night. Pullman Police Sgt. Dan Dorness said the man was drinking alcohol at the complex on Northeast Terre View Drive with…
Update: More background, photo of shooting victim/KREM The Kootenai County Sheriff's Department confirmed today that a 19-year-old Hayden man shot to death by Coeur d'Alene police and a man he'd shot earlier knew one another. A news release circulated moments ago by sheriff's Mayor Ben…
A 34-year-old woman from Post Falls reported to Coeur d'Alene Press that three males in black hoodies, including one on a skateboard, stole her purse as they passed by at 11:14 p.m. Sunday in downtown Coeur d'Alene. The woman, who was walking with two female…
It appears that Coeur d'Alene School Board Chairman Tom Hamilton and Trustee Terri Seymour signed an online petition against the International Baccalaureate program on Aug. 8 of this year, only days before voting to phase the program out of Coeur d'Alene schools. The anti-IB petition…
At a Spokane Pride beep baseball scrimmage, team captain and coach Troy Leeberg, takes a swing at a softball that makes noise Thrusday at Franklin Park. Beep baseball is an adaptive version of baseball for the blind and visualy impaired. (SR photo: Colin Mulvany) Question:…
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.
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