... and Prosecutor Bill Douglas dismisses controversy as "a distraction." (90 minutes?)Update: After reviewing the messages and our options (none good), we've decided not to post the messages. Here's the situation:Of the 50 messages, a few have explicit photos embedded in the message. We can't…
Minnesota basketball coach Dan Monson, right, answers questions, as athletics director Joel Maturi looks on, after announcing his resignation earlier today during a news conference in Minneapolis. Monson resigned Thursday, one day after the Gophers' fifth straight defeat. Monson coached Gonzaga for two years until…
It was a tough night for the Idaho basketball team. After losing at Washington the team's trip home was delayed when its chartered bus broke down at Snoqualmie Pass in freezing rain. A replacement bus didn't show up, so the driver called the Washington State…
Pope Benedict XVI, left, and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I appear at a balcony of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to bless the faithful, respectively in Latin and Greek, after attending together the Divine Liturgy in the nearby Church of St. George in Istanbul, Turkey, today. Benedict XVI…
Full post here“A distraction” is how Kootenai County Prosecutor Bill Douglas describes the public release of several sexually explicit e-mails exchanged between his employees. In an interview Thursday, Douglas said “the climate is fine” in his office, despite recent allegations of sexual harassment against his…
Roy Weaver, center, of Coeur d'Alene, sits between Bob Robinson, left, and Bob Allen, during a Veterans Day celebration Thursday, Nov. 9, at Hayden Meadows Elementary. He tries to attend some of the elementary school Veterans Day programs each year. The local veteran tells of…
Spokane Indians pitcher, Patrick Donovan, models the new Spokane Indians uniform at a press conference at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture on Wednesday in Spokane. The new logo, shown in both English and Salish, was designed with help from Spokane Indian Tribe here/Jed…
Mike: The other thing I am concerned about is the former Chief Deputy Prosecutor Lansing L. Haynes was just appointed to the bench. How much did he know bout the scandels in the prosecutors office and what did he do about it?DFO: I was chatting…
OrangeTV: I noticed today on my way to work, westbound on I90 that the big infamous reader board sign behind the Christian bookstore on Appleway (you know the one: "He died for your sins" or whatever) had been replaced by a standard, modern billboard. That…
Item: WSU isn't going to a bowl game this year/Cody Croghan, WSU Daily EvergreenSix ways to cope:*Cry*Play video games (in particular NCAA Football 2007, featuring the Cougs from 2006)*Create a Facebook group*Root for Pac-10 teams in bowl games*Watch the 7-0 basketball team*Vote for Butch (who's…
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Original thread hereI hate hypocrisy, and what we have here is an entire office filled with hypocrites. One minute they're condemning the kind of child pornography that inspired Joseph Duncan, the next minute they're promoting that very thing by passing around a photo and laughing…
Full post hereAbove: Rick Baughman talks to Prosecutor Bill Douglas during proceedings for Joseph Edward Duncan III, Below: Laura Bonneville/SR PhotosKootenai County’s chief deputy prosecutor sent sexually explicit e-mails and graphic images on his county computer to two former co-workers, who have accused him of…
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.
