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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

TUESDAY, AUG. 7, 2007

Parting Shot -- 8/7/07

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…

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Extra! 2 Commissioners OK Boyington Name Change ...

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…

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Extra! "Deadliest Catch" Captains to Visit CdA

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…

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Huckleberries Best of Idaho -- 8/7/07

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…

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AM Hucks: Vanna White Also Turns Heads

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…

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Huckleberries Online

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.