What an incredible night last night. Odom arrest. Zags keep their NCAA Tournament streak alive. And, oh yes, there was some sort of primary in Idaho. I can't remember a news cycle quite like the hours from 6 to 11 o'clock last night.
Former Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina joins Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, during a campaign rally in Miami, Fla., Wednesday.
Kyle Odom, suspected of shooting a Coeur d’Alene pastor Sunday afternoon, drove through Spokane and then south to Boise where he boarded a commercial flight bound for Washington D.C. on Monday morning -- walking right through airport security hours before police bulletins reached federal agents.
Scanner Traffic for Wednesday PM (20 items & counting + link to AM Scanner Traffic with 14 more items) includes Spirit Lake bicyclist who may have broken ankle in crash in apartment parking lot ...
The Cutline Contest today features Gonzaga Bulldog Eric McClellan celebrating after a dunk late in the Zags' WCC tournament title game victory over St Mary's in Las Vegas last night. Tuesday's Winner: Powderfarmer.
I have looked both above and below the fold of the front pages of today's Wall Street Journal and the New York Times...Not one story about Gonzaga's winning their 18th ticket to the NCAA tournament. Yellow journalism at its best -- Darrell Kerby, Bonners Ferry.
Michael E. Miller/Washington Post provides this in-depth report re: the unraveling mind of shooting suspect Kyle Andrew Odom, 30, of Coeur d'Alene. Odom, who is accused of shooting Coeur d'Alene Pastor Tim Remington, released a bizarre, rambling manifesto before being caught in front of the White House. Reporter Miller examines that manifesto.
Searcher was one of the Democrats or unaffiliateds who crossed over to vote in the Idaho GOP prez primary: "If you don't register Republican for primary elections," she sez. "You have no voice at all since many elected offices have no non-Republican options." How many of you crossed over or affiliated to vote in the GOPrimary Tuesday?
Idaho Supreme Court Chief Justice Jim Jones announced today that he won’t run for re-election to a third six-year term on the Idaho Supreme Court, and Clive Strong, longtime chief of the Natural Resources Division for the Idaho Attorney General’s office, announced that he’ll run for the court seat.
The daily roundup of the Huckleberries Online blogosphere includes a viewtiful photograph of a sunset from Tubbs Hill by Linda Lantzy. Also: Books: Buy local!/Cindy's All Write, Again, Idaho in the headlines/Simple Mind, City has Arts Commission vacancy/CdA Today, Sorry, kids, Idaho has other priorities/Better Idaho ...
Kyle Andrew Odom, 30, of Coeur d'Alene, has refused to waive his right to have an extradition hearing in Washington, D.C., April 6.
Sen. Shawn Keough, R-Sandpoint, got a surprise last month when former state Rep. Max Black, a gifted woodworker, and an array of others, including Senate President Pro-Tem Brent Hill, presented her with a custom-made gavel carved in the shape of a woman’s shoe. It was a reminder of when Keough was co-chairing an interim tax committee in 2005.
Republicans continued to post stunning voter-turnout numbers Tuesday night. In the four states that voted on the GOP side, turnout far exceeded what the party saw in 2012. In Hawaii's, Michigan's and Mississippi's Republican races, turnout this year was 30 to 40 percent higher than…
In the Bloglander blog of the Inlander, photographers have produced a series of photos of bumpersnickers spotted on vehicles at the recent Coeur d'Alene rally for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, including this Prius, which includes the sticker statement: "How 'bout I put my CARBON FOOTPRINT up your liberal ass."
I suspect that Superintendent Matt Handelman of the Coeur d'Alene School District is doing a good job. But I've long wondered about the district's policy of extending a superintendent's contract and giving him/her a raise when there are years left on it. Only Chairwoman Christa Hazel opposed a vote to extend Handelman's contract & give him a raise.
Idaho’s long-prized homeowner’s exemption from property tax would lose its inflation index, under legislation that won final passage in the state Senate late Tuesday and now heads to the governor’s desk. To their credit, North Idaho Republicans Bob Nonini and Mary Souza voted against this property tax shift that will hit homeowners.
Donald Trump dressed down a journalist at a press conference on Tuesday who reportedly asked about the Republican presidential frontrunner's public use of explicit language. According to Time magazine's Zeke Miller, NBC News reporter Peter Alexander asked Trump to elaborate on how parents should explain to their children the expletives he uses.
Columnist Shawn Vestal/SR brings us up to date on Flossie Dickey, the 110YO Cheney, Wash., resident who has become an Internet sensation after she told a KHQ reporter in February that she wasn't a bit excited about turning 110. Since then, Flossie has been the subject of an SNL skit that has turned her into internet gold.
In his editorial this morning, Marty Trillhaase of the Lewiston Tribune warns Idaho college students to look out: "Here comes another round of tuition increases," he comments. "For that, you can thank the Legislature's budget-writing committee."
Scanner Traffic for Wednesday AM (13 items & counting) ...
SR columnist John Blanchette puts the latest magical Gonzaga Bulldogs finish in perspective: "In dispatching the Saint Mary’s Gaels 85-75 in the championship game, the Zags not only assured themselves of an 18th consecutive trip to the NCAAs, but their own special place in that ridiculous legacy."
Religious, community and government leaders forging a pact in Spokane County to combat hate crimes have the benefit of a blueprint just across the state line. “This is a historical moment in Spokane,” Tony Stewart, one of the founding members of the 35-year old Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, said Tuesday.
In Tuesday's poll, a plurality of Hucks Nation said they either had already voted in the GOPrez primary (76 of 239, 31.8%) or were planning to vote in it (33 of 239, 13.81%). Today's Poll: Should Marco Rubio drop out of the GOPresidential race?
In a letter to the Coeur d'Alene Press, Trustee Carol Goodman of the Post Falls School Board responds to editorial criticism of her recent testimony in Boise in favor of public funding for private schools.
The daily roundup of AM Headlines includes: Blanchette: Zag Nation exhales/SR, More Idaho prisoners paroled/EOBoise, CdA super gets contract extension/Press, Weatherman predicts heavy rain this week/Press, Bonner County sex crime fugitive found in Hawaii/SR, House panel kills public records exemption/EOBoise ...
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.
