The University of Idaho was forced to change the name of its 2nd annual outdoor track and field competition Friday following a conflict over the naming rights of the event. The university changed the title of the event from the Mike Keller Invitational to the University of Idaho Invitational after the former Vandal track and field coach complained.
The Spokesman-Review photography department has put together a photo set of Patty Duke photos through the years. The one above features Patty Duke (Anna Pearce) discussing a real estate video with Coeur d'Alene businessman Mike Kennedy, her nephew. The video advertised her Hayden Lake home for sale.
Scanner Traffic for Tuesday AM (18 items & counting) includes loose chickens in Spirit Lake and a downed power pole as the result of a single-car crash at Coeur d'Alene Place, near Lake City High ...
The daily roundup of AM Headlines includes: Idaho Records/Press, Buddhist nun to speak at NIC/Press, Museum of North Idaho opens for 2016/Press, Prosecutor: Homeowner justified in killing/KXLY, Bonner County sheriff backs permitless carry/KREM, Family searches for Sandpoint vet's stolen ashes/KREM ...
In 2011, Patty Duke directed the play that made her famous at age 12, "The Miracle Worker." She handled director duties for the Interplayers Professional Theatre in Spokane. On May 1, 2011, The Spokesman-Review published Jim Kershner's report on his interview with Patty (Anna Pearce) about the play. You can read it below.
In the Monday poll, almost 56% of Hucks Nation awarded the 2016 Legislature as an utter failure, awarding a letter grade of F for the recently concluded session. Another 31% gave the Legislature a D grade. Today's Poll: Did any member of your immediate family serve in Vietnam?
Update: Patty Duke, who won an Oscar as a teen for “The Miracle Worker” and maintained a long and successful career throughout her life, has died at the age of 69. Duke’s agent, Mitchell Stubbs, says the actress died early Tuesday morning of sepsis from a ruptured intestine. Developing ...
Police in Coeur d'Alene are investigating a bank robbery at a US Bank on Sherman Avenue downtown. The robbery happened Monday afternoon. Police say a man passed a note to the teller demanding money and made off with an undisclosed amount of cash. He was not armed.
The long-discussed "Four Corners" road alignment began Monday, with work crews downing trees at Northwest Boulevard and Mullan Road. The project encompasses Independence Point, parking adjacent to the Museum of North Idaho, Mullan Road, Memorial Field and the Bureau of Land Management property that extends from River Avenue to Riverstone.
In an op-ed commentary in the Idaho Statesman, True Pearce, a Boise attorney and 2nd Amendment advocate, writes that Idaho's new permitless carry law is setting Idahoans up to break gun laws. You can't, for example, carry a gun without a permit within 1,000 feet of a school under Federal Gun Free School Zone Act. That's everywhere in town.
In his Saturday column for the Lewiston Tribune, Michael Costello comments: "At times, it seems as if the fates themselves want a Donald Trump presidency. As the president of the United States was doing the wave with dictators during a baseball game in Havana, Cuba, authorities in Brussels, Belgium were zipping victims into body bags." More below.
After losing a bet to a colleague in Syracuse, that Gonzaga would beat the Orangemen in the NCAA Tournament, SR columnist Doug Clark paid off his part, by standing in orange face paint in the middle of Gonzaga and yelling, "Syracuse Rules!" (Question: Have you ever made a foolish bet that you regretted?)
The majority of the case brought against the city of Coeur d’Alene by the Hitching Post wedding chapel was dismissed Friday, according to a report in the Coeur d'Alene Press.
"Today," writes Richard Penneger in a comment for the Coeur d'Alene Press, "is National Vietnam Veterans Day, which was established by President Obama on March 29, 2012. The president’s call was to '… reaffirm one of our most fundamental obligations: to show all who have worn the uniform of the United States the respect and dignity they deserve.'"
Mrs. O and I were treated to an uplifting sight as we walked along the waterfront Saturday. On NIC beach, at the mouth of the Spokane River, we watched as a couple exchanged their vows in front of 20 to 25 witnesses. A simple wedding with a view worth millions. I hope they have as many happy and interesting years as Mrs. O and I have had.
Colorado Rockies' DJ LeMahieu, right, takes a baseball to sign before the team's spring training game against the Chicago White Sox Monday in Scottsdale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Lewiston Tribune edit begins: "Look not to Charles Dickens to describe Idaho's just-adjourned legislative session. These were neither the best of times nor the worst. Look instead to Thomas Hobbes. This was 'nasty, brutish and short.'" The session was brutish for the 78,000 working poor Idahoans, sacrificed on the altar of GOP ideology.
Scanner Traffic for Monday PM (15 items & counting) includes robbery of US Bank in downtown Coeur d'Alene. Man in black hat & asked handed teller written note. Police have formed a perimeter and are using a K9 to track robber.
The Cutline Contest tody features Houston Astros outfielder Jon Kemmer making a valiant but unsuccessful attempt to catch a fly ball near the foul line in a spring training game against the Atlanta Braves.
Like the rest of us, The Bard of Sherman Avenue isn't happy when a bird poops on his car wind shield or a big bug splatters against it. But he realizes the problem could have been so much bigger if nature had equipment some animals differently.
Local News 8: Idaho's population is growing, especially in the state's urban areas, as people from the smaller counties are moving to those areas. The state's overall population increased 1.2 percent between July 2014 to July 2015. That increase was concentrated in six urban counties: Ada, Bannock, Bonneville, Canyon, Kootenai & Twin Falls.
In an editorial, the Idaho State Journal slams the Idaho Freedom Foundation for criticizing the 2016 for not improving government transparency and accountability. Truth be told, the Journal comments, Wayne Hoffman's IFF calls for the Legislature to walk lock-step with its Far Right agenda while hiding backers for its "non-profit" activities.
In a YouTube video, Tina Kunishige explains why she's running for Kootenai County sheriff as a Democrat. Basically, she realized that a three-way primary race for sheriff favored the incumbent, esp. since she and challenger John Green sheriff share a constitutionally questionable "constitutional sheriff" approach to law enforcement.
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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