Mrs. O & I enjoyed a nice evening with superb service from the hired hands at the Grille from Ipanema steakhouse in the Parkside Building on Front Ave Monday. We were celebrating Mrs. O's birthday. I'm not going to say how old she is. But...
Heather Wireman laces up an official game ball for NFL football's Super Bowl XLIX at the Wilson Sporting Goods Co. in Ada, Ohio, Tuesday. The New England Patriots face the Seattle Seahawks for the NFL championship on Sunday in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo: Rick Osentoski)
Actor Seth Rogen and director Michael Moore set off firestorm of social media debate by criticizing movie "American Sniper" as pro-war & pro-killing. Sarah Palin and Whoppee Goldberg found themselves on same side defending the movie. Have you see it? Thoughts?
PM Scanner Traffic: If you've wondered why traffic lights at Canfield Ave/Govt Way have been flashing in all directions since Saturday, so is a patrol officer (33 total items today) ...
Children from the Milton Hershey School try on cowboy hates prior to the exceptional rodeo during the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/PennLive.com, Sean Simmers) Weekend Winner -- Psalm37, with 8 likes: "What do you mean you're picking...
Newby legislator Sage Dixon of Ponderay introduced a bill that's likely to have fellow solons falling all over themselves to support -- one that would create a specialty license plate to benefit Friends of the NRA.
Avian flu discovered in southern Idaho flocks/SR Hearing held for boy accused of double murder/SR Dense fog in effect in Spokane, Coeur d'Alene/SR
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter was supposed to have a surgical procedure called hip resurfacing today, but his office reports that his surgeon determined that a total hip replacement was necessary instead, to repair deterioration discovered in the governor’s left hip. The hip replacement surgery was…
Owner Darrell Dlouhy and brewers Jake Capaul and Keith Bertram opened Daft Badger this morning in midtown Coeur d'Alene. Rick Bonino of the SR On Tap blog tells you about the new brew pub that has a name inspired by the Internet sensation honey badger video ...
Eldon Samuel III, the Coeur d’Alene teenager accused of killing his father and brother last year, has been writing in code while at the Kootenai County Juvenile Justice Center and said he’s interested in writing a book, according to court testimony this morning. “We stumbled…
In the Idaho Statesman today, former governor Cecil Andrus sounds the alarm re: Gov. Butch Otter's thick-headed decision to grant an exemption to accept more N-waste from the federal government.
President Obama is expected to tell millions of Americans tonight in his State of the Union how much better the economy is today than when he took office six years ago. Are you better off financially today than you were six years ago?
You can win a $50 gift certificate to the Davenport Hotel in downtown Spokane -- or two movie tickets -- by entering the weekly SR News Quiz. Find link below.
On its Facebook wall, the Post Falls Police Department posts a comment by a man who was scare straight after his arrest by Officer Harrison: "I was arrested on Dec 3 for possession of a controlled substance It really made me think of where I…
Taryn Thompson has declared the hobo spider as the official arachnid of her household, but (tongue firmly cheeked, she fears, like paranoid Rep. Kathy Sims, R-CdA, that such a move might lead to an over-reach of the federal government.
A construction project near the entrance to Mill River subdivision along Seltice Way may have gotten a little too ambitious, as street signs got walled in. Kerri Thoreson provides too Facebook photos of the blocked off signs.
Tuesday morning's Scanner Traffic from the Kootenai County area (15 items so far) ...
From Post Falls Police Department Facebook: "Officers have received several reports of an unwanted publication. Several citizens have found a flyer advertising for the 'Ku Klux Klan Neighborhood watch.' A flyer was taken for evidence and a report was completed." DFO: Here we go again.
The Bard of Sherman Avenue told me that he was impressed by your attempts at poetry after learning of his current bout with cancer. You inspired him to pen the short rhyme above in the link below ...
President Barack Obama will visit Boise State University Wednesday as part of a national tour discussing themes from his State of the State address Tuesday. Why he picked Republican Idaho for a visit is anyone's guess. Do you have a theory?
A Kootenai County magistrate judge released the transcript of the preliminary hearing for a 15-year-old boy charged with two counts of murder after Spokane television station KHQ challenged the judge’s decision to bar the public and media from the hearing and withhold the written account...
Ybarra hires paper editor as spokesman/Betsy Russell, Eye on Boise Post Falls police look into legality of 'instant racing'/ Eye on Boise Food stamps, indigent care show Idaho still under stress/Eye on Boise
Weekend Poll: Supermajority of Hucks Nation sez Kootenai County Prosecutor Barry McHugh learned his lesson better than the 9YO boy jailed for 22 hours for stealing a pack of chewing gum. McHugh has since apologized for issuing an arrest warrant for the Post Falls boy.…
In his Smart Bombs column, editorialist Gary Crooks challenges those who feel the American news media should have published controversial political cartoons of Muhammad in a show of solidarity after the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
In its Sunday editorial, the Coeur d'Alene Press argues that the annual observance of Martin Luther King Jr's birthday is a good time for the Idaho Legislature to get serious about adding human rights protections based on "sexual orientation" and "gender equity."
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.
