My Fantasy Football team is a game above .500. The pup hasn't had an accident in the house in 2 days. The campaigns for city offices are entering the far turn (with campaign finance reports due again next Tuesday). The page-view turnstiles are clicking above…
An ambivalent seven-month-old Jude Whittington gnaws away at his pumpkin pants while his parents, Colin and Katie Whittington, try to coax a smile for a festive fall photo in Memphis, Tenn., Wednesday. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Jim Weber)
Aledo (Texas) football coach Tim Buchanan said the district has completed its investigation and found "no grounds" for bullying after a parent from the losing team filed a complaint following Aledo's 91-0 win over Fort Worth Western Hills on Friday. Aledo, The Associated Press' No.…
In his blog, The Slice, SR colleague Paul Turner asks readers if they still use paper maps when traveling. Here's a sampling of responses to the question about how many people still use paper highway maps. “We just returned from a 4,100 mile trip to…
The Post Falls Police Department Facebook wall provides this post, under the heading, "Have you seen this bike?" -- "It is a Silver and Blue NEXT All Terrain Pro Bicycle. It is an 18 speed also shows aluminum series on front part of frame and…
Time 2 Vote ... Nurse Dee Reynolds cares for a little Colombian tarantula, one of her 50 tarantulas at her home in Los Angeles. Tarantulas are the heaviest, hairiest, scariest spiders on the planet. They have fangs, claws and barbs. They can be as big…
A recently circulated brochure critical of the Lake City Development Corporation (LCDC), and urban renewal agencies in general, produced under the signature of State Representative Kathleen Sims, Sharon Culbreth and Frank Orzell, made assertions regarding the City of Post Falls that Post Falls officials say…
The North Idaho College Theatre Department is presenting The Diary of Anne Frank, directed NIC alum Tracey Vaughan at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24, 25, 31; and Nov. 1 and 2. There will also be two special speaking events on Oct. 25 and Oct. 31. More…
"Just days, maybe even hours remain of the height of our fall splendor." posts Marianne Love/Slight Detour. "If the wind blows like it did yesterday morning, we may lose a good portion of the brilliance sooner rather than later." More here. All over the map/The…
State Sen. Russell Fulcher is positioning for a run for governor, and he has been outspoken about the state’s controversial health insurance exchange. He calls it Gov. Butch Otter’s “regrettable decision to voluntarily thrust Idaho into Obamacare.” When it comes to public education — which…
About 25 backers, including a half-dozen GOP state lawmakers, joined former House Speaker Lawerence Denney in the Statehouse http://media.spokesman.com/photos/2013/10/24/denney.JPGrotunda today to launch his campaign for Idaho Secretary of State. Flanked by family members including wife Donna, Denney said, “Donna and I have been prayerfully considering…
The above flyer began from the Souza for Mayor campaign began arriving in Coeur d'Alene mailboxes this week. On her "Truth Page," mayoral candidate Mary Souza examines "Issue No. 8," which she titles, "The city if investigating one of our campaign donations." In the post,…
Baby elephant Bowie checks out a frozen Halloween candy corn treat at the Fort Worth Zoo Thursday in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero) Question: The only time I eat candy corn is at Halloween. And I don't think I like it. How about you?
If you've been tracking current events -- or even if you haven't -- you have a shot at winning this week's news quiz. All entrants are eligible to win two movie tickets, and our overall champ will take home a $50 gift card to the…
When it comes to test scores in math, Idaho lands on the map smack dab between Finland and Ontario. (Canada, that is, not Oregon.) In science, Idaho is a little north of Hong Kong, and a little south of the Russian Federation. Those are the…
Puppies flew through the air at Westview Elementary earlier this month. The plush yellow and black Labs landed in the outstretched arms of dozens of excited first-graders. These puppies have an important job: For the rest of the year they will serve as reading buddies…
As his wife’s 40th birthday approached, Rob Brewer knew he wanted to do something memorable for Lorna. He planned a surprise party complete with purple streamers and paper plates. He ordered a cake and swore their friends to secrecy. But the biggest surprise was the…
Cake artist Sarah King displays her eyeball cakes at the 'Feed the Beast extreme cake shop' in London on Thursday. The Halloween themed cake shop will have a 6ft long devil horse cake dripping blood, and the giant rotting maggot riddled section of a Kraken…
12:38 p.m. Disorderly male is bothering motorists @ H95/I-90, CdA. 12:16 p.m. CPD Blues seeking male in hoodie & baggy pants on bike @ w/b Appleway, unknown reason. 12:13 p.m. Neighbor reports 3 males in rental truck stopped @ vacation home on Granite Loop, Bonner…
Looks like Bill McCrory of OpenCDA.com is attacking the messenger today, as a result of recent reporting by Jeff Selle of the Coeur d'Alene Press on the Coeur d'Alene city elections. McCrory, who founded OpenCDA.com with Mary Souza and Dan Gookin and who recently dubbed…
A pile of rubble is all that remains of the front of Wink Salon on Hess Street in Hayden after a driver lost control of their vehicle and ran into the front of the building Wednesday afternoon while pulling in to a parking space for…
Update: Site pulled. See comments A Web site dubbed "Unfit for Mayor" (playing off the words that OpenCDA.com leveled at Steve Widmyer) just went live. The Web site, launched by Jennifer Drake & Sara Meyer of the Decline to Sign organization that successfully fought RecallCDA…
A Facebook Friend posts: "Stopped at the Cataldo Mission today. Have driven by it a hundred times but never have stopped. Love to spend more time there. Beautiful site if you haven't been there. Even more so with the changing colors of the trees. Purchased…
Idaho GOP Congressman Raul Labrador is using “immigrant families as pawns in his political games,” say the Idaho Community Action Network and Coalition for Immigration Rights of Idaho. Reform advocates say they will deliver the last of 2,500 petitions to Labrador’s Meridian office at 1…
Item: Campaign contribution is subject of city probe: Ocean of Life contributor identified/Jeff Selle, Coeur d'Alene Press More Info: After The Press informed Souza that it was going to publish a story on the matter, Souza returned the Ocean of Life Foundation's $1,000 contribution the…
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.
