Park-Klinik Weissensee/AP PhotoA computer tomography scan provided by the Park-Klinik Weissensee in Berlin on Tuesday shows a pencil inside a woman's head. After being plagued for 55 years with the torment of a pencil lodged in her head, a German woman has finally had it…
The following letter appeared in today's Roundtable:Safety not drug import issueWhy is it there was so much to-do about buying pharmaceuticals from Canada? We had government agencies up in arms about the "safety" of drugs from Canada. What happened to that concern regarding food safety,…
Item: Coeur d'Alene Airport gets new name: Field to honor World War II hero Pappy Boyington/Erica Curless, Spokesman-ReviewJesse Tinsley/Spokesman-ReviewNah, Alice Rankin isn't seeing a younger man. That's Spencer (with the superhero hair). Here, she's thanking Commissioners Todd Tondee and Rich Piazza for voting to rename…
Councilman Mike Kennedy tells Huckleberries that he's going to propose a smoking ban for Tubbs Hill when the City Council meets tonight. He cited ongoing fire danger at the urban park as reason for the proposed ordinance. Fire Chief Ken Gabriel and Glen Lauper will…
Item: 'Deadliest Catch' captains to visit CdA: Former CHS grad part of Discovery Channel show/Melissa Pamer, Spokesman-ReviewThree fishing captains who battle the frigid waters of the Bering Sea and the sharp claws of Alaskan crabs on the Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch” will make appearances in…
When people think of Idaho, they often think of our Famous Potatoes. Others might think of all the famous actors who live in Sun Valley. I found a web site that combines both -- Idaho's most famous food with our most famous celebrity -- Dawn…
Can someone explain to me why I have to drive to Hayden Meadows School to vote in the Lakes Highway District election? After all, I live in the Borah Triangle (no, I'm not the "Borah Triangle" who posts here. Last time I looked, Coeur d'Alene…
Shawn Raecke/Idaho StatesmanJohn Wyman, 79, of Boise walks around the back of his car that he drove into Rockies Carhop Dinner off Fairview Avenue on Monday in Boise. "It sounded like a bomb going off, it was really scary," said Cassidy Wardle, 18, a waitress…
Former Idaho teacher Barbara Morgan is scheduled to take off late Wednesday afternoon on the shuttle Endeavour, for a mission to the International Space Station. Will you watch the launch? -- Idaho Statesman. *Absolutely*Maybe*Probably notDFO: Probably not
Seven years after one of the closest presidential elections in American history, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that it was OK for swing-state voters who wanted to vote for Ralph Nader or Pat Buchanan to agree to "swap"…
To grow a successful backyard vegetable garden, not unlike a journalist, you need knowledge of what, where, when and how to plant a crop. You also need hope that the late frosts, cool nights, early heat waves, drought, insects and critters don't destroy all your…
Alice Rankin: Just a reminder to everyone that feels strongly about whether the Kootenai County Commissioners will finally do the correct thing and name the airfield at the Coeur d'Alene Airport in honor of our own Pappy Boyington. The Commissioners have it on their agenda…
Huckleberries hears … that Vanna White, longtime letter turner for "Wheel of Fortune," was a guest at a Gozzer Ranch shindig at Eddie's Bar and Grille/Arrow Point Thursday evening. Seems she was spotted by Coeur d'Alene Chamber of Commerce Commodores who'd piloted the chamber's pirate-boat…
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.