The Cutline Contest today features players from the Cleveland Indians reacting to the Game 6 drubbing they received by the Chicago Cubs to force a seventh and deciding game for the 2016 World Series. Tuesday Winner: gitrdun.
CdA native Justin Doering has traveled the U.S. for 3 months, listening to what the homeless has to say. His goal with the project, Fifty Sandwiches, is to humanize the homeless. He approaches people living on the street or in homeless shelters and offers to buy them a sandwich if they’ll share their story with him. Bethany Blitz/Press reports.
She's a mother of six, a farmer, the guest relations manager at Silverwood. She's a 4-H leader, a daughter, a sister and a wife. And now, Mrs. Kootenai County Michele Sheets is Mrs. Idaho 2017. Devin Heilman/Press reports.
The financial disclosure statement for incumbent NIC Trustee Todd Banducci is now posted on the Kootenai County Elections Department site. Banducci failed to meet the 5 p.m. Tuesday deadline for filing the 7-day pre-election finance statement. You can find links to their campaign finance statements below.
The daily roundup of links from the HucksOnline blogosphere begins with a Jesse Tinsley photo of the famous SR Tower at Riverside & Monroe in downtown Spokane. Also: No pun intended/Fort Boise, One & only talking point/Slight Detour, Deplorables, and: The bell/Bay Views, For this I know to be true/Simple Mind ...
Every years, entertainers and others promise to leave the country if the wrong candidate wins the presidency. I don't think anyone has ever followed through on that promise or threat. Is there any Hillary Clinton that would truly consider leaving the country if Donald Trump wins? Or vice versa?
In a Moscow-Pullman Daily News editorial today, Devin Rokyta laments that John Lee, who killed three Moscow residents and wounded another, is a murderer who won't go away. Last week, Lee filed documents to withdraw his guilty pleas and argued in a two-page handwritten motion that he was "not in the right state of mind" when he entered his pleas.
In his Lewiston Tribune editorial this AM, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase spotlights "innocuous" HJR 5: "Whatever else it is, House Joint Resolution 5 is not some obscure, innocuous, good-government housekeeping measure offered up by a benevolent Legislature looking out for the good of us all."
Two of the teens arrested in Sunday’s “purge” prank at McEuen Park are speaking out. Jordan Evans and Corey Scott said they did not go to the park to scare people and had nothing to do with the prank. Taylor Viydo/KREM 2 reports.
Four-year-old Natalie Roeder runs ahead of her dad Jacob during a visit to Falls Park in Post Falls on Tuesday.
Scanner Traffic for Wednesday AM (13 items & counting) includes report of unruly man throwing rocks at vehicles passing on Ramsey Road/CdA ...
"There's some fine government property that I'd be willing to take over and occupy. Liquor Stores come to mind" -- ScooterMom, in wake of the innocent verdicts handed down by a Portland, Ore., jury to Ammon & Ryan Bundy & other occupiers of the Malheur…
In wake of the senseless murder of William "Bo" Kirk, 41, of Coeur d'Alene, allegedly by a road rager, do you feel less safe today? KXLY reporter Jeff Humphrey explores that question in a sidebar story re: the murder of Kirk. Question: Have you re-considered your habits, especially at night, since the Kirk murder?
AM Headlines: Idaho Records (Nov 2)/Press, Otter to preview 2017 session Nov 9/Press, City of Hayden seeks public feedback/Press, Kirk's family wants book thrown at Hutto/KHQ, Brody, McKenzie offer differing perspectives/EOB, Silverwood exec wins Mrs. Idaho 2017 crown/Press + more ...
In his editorial for the SR today, Opinion Editor Gary Crooks comments that the surprise acquittals of defendants arrested in the Malheur Wildlife Refuge standoff early this year don't justify the actions of the armed protestors.
In the poll Tuesday, a whopping 89% of Hucks Nation supports incumbent Republican Sheriff Ben Wolfinger for re-election over constitutional sheriff candidate Tina Kunishige, who is running as a Democrat. Today's Poll: Who do you want to win the World Series?
On his Facebook page, Democrat Tom Hearn comments about financial contributions to the campaigns of his opponent, Republican Paul Amador and other Republicans: "The Republicans including Paul Amador received the vast majority of their money--- Political Action Committees nearly all of the money from outside of Coeur d'Alene!"
In a letter to the Coeur d'Alene Press this AM, Ed Balnis of Blanchard lists some unsavory characteristics for both major presidential candidates and concludes: "I'll cast my vote for the buffoon!" Only Balnis doesn't say which one he considers to be the bigger buffoon.
A portion of East Poplar Avenue near the Kootenai County Elections Office has been turned into temporary “Election Only” parking as many community members participate in early voting. Kootenai County’s Election Office has limited parking, and many people are choosing to cast their ballots in this year’s election earlier than Nov. 8.
Kootenai County District 3 commissioner candidate Russ McLain received a message over the weekend, one he felt threatened by. He discovered a playing card — the ace of clubs — left on his truck with the words “Get your thyroid checked” penned across it. “I asked a friend what it meant, and she said ‘cut your throat." Ryan Collingwood/Press reports.
Five baseball seasons ago, Kyle Hendricks was playing his first professional season with the Spokane Indians, appearing in 20 games, all in relief. Wednesday night he starts on the mound for the Chicago Cubs in the deciding game of the World Series, hoping to give that first championship since 1908. Q: Does anyone want Cleveland to win?
A Hayden man in federal custody on a weapons violation lives at the home searched by police Friday in connection with the killing of a North Idaho X-ray technician, records show. Justin Roy Booth, 36, was arrested Friday and is being held on a charge...
That there are a half dozen people, including one youth, with political signs at the Kootenai County Courthouse protesting the retention of Magistrate Clark "Dark Lord" Peterson. "Dark Lord" is the protestors' tag for Peterson, who has used the pseudonym "Orcus: Lord of the Underworld" for his fantasy gaming hobby.
The candidates for the District 4B House seat in Tuesday's election are among those in local races who lead the way with campaign contributions. Paul Amador, who defeated fellow Coeur d'Alene Republican and current seat holder Kathleen Sims in the May primary, reported $52,172 in contributions. His opponent, Democrat Tom Hearn, reported $28,736.
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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