Colin Mulvany/SRIn Spokane, Chase Middle School 7th graders, Chris Nelson, Hannah Johnson and Tori Domini listen intently as Pearl Harbor survivor Sid Kennedy tells students about his experience the day the Japanese military attacked the Hawaiian Islands naval base on Dec 7th, 1941. Jim Camden's…
Gary C. Klein/AP Photo Jiffy, a border collie mix dog rests in the office of the Sheboygan County Humane Society on Friday. The elderly border collie mix froze to the sidewalk when it was left outside overnight in single-digit temperatures, but the "morbidly obese" dog…
Our family opted to have one of us there every evening and sporadically throughout the day. We observed that residents who had family members present were better treated than residents who did not. Grandmom could express herself by shaking her head, nodding, or, as we…
SReporter Alison Boggs just learned that 7YO Rathdrum burger wunderkind Charlie Beckett has been contacted by Jay Leno. The Red Robin contest winner may appear on Leno's show next Friday, Nov. 12. Alison hears that Leno's handlers love Charlie's looks and personality. But they need…
5:09 p.m. R/P wants to speak to someone about a possible human foot he spotted along USFS Road 499.4:10 p.m. R/P reports that a man at the Costco pumps is filling up a 500-gallon tank in a trailer that's loaded with fertilizer. He wants a…
APwinter sky turns vitreousstumbles starkly nearlosing its limpid lookit gears up once moreinundates the northwith a foot of white debris Sue Turner/Tumblewords
Jose Luis Magana/APAbove, Theresa Cao speaks about President-elect Barack Obama's proof of U.S. citizenship outside the Supreme Court in Washington Friday.DFO: Conspiracy theorists on the right contend that Barack Obama isn't eligible to be president b/c he wasn't born in the U.S. And are demanding…
Life was roaring in the twenties. The thirties were consumed by the Great Depression. The forties hosted World War II. In the fifties, people started rockin'. The sixties were a blur, from what I've heard. The seventies (when I was born), also birthed the computer.…
A broken O.J. Simpson was sentenced today to as much as 33 years in prison for a hotel armed robbery after a judge rejected his apology and said, “It was much more than stupidity.” The 61-year-old football Hall of Famer stood shackled and stone-faced when…
The Associated Press is reporting that a man dropped the atheist sign off at Seattle radio station KMPS's front desk around 10 a.m. The state police -- who've made it very clear that this is theft -- are apparently trying to recover the sign. Meanwhile,…
Rich Roesler/SR Eye On OlympiaIn the Washington Capitol rotunda, Jeff Schumacher of Redmond, Wash., brought his own personal display to counter the atheists' display that counters the Nativity scene display.Five days after a Wisconsin atheist group erected a small sign in Washington's state capitol declaring…
Item: Decision keeps 'don't ask, don't tell' challenge alive/Karen Dorn Steele, SRMore Info: A federal appeals court has denied a request to reconsider a decision that keeps alive a challenge to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for gay soldiers brought by a former…
I remember the first time opportunities surpassed me and went to “Ms. I Wear 3-inch Heels and a Little-Shorter-Than-Appropriate Skirt to the Office Every Day.” How aggravated it made me feel someone with half the experience got the opportunities I was working my butt off…
Rainier Ehrhardt/August Chronicle, APHarrison Baggs, 2, left, cries as he and his brother, Hunter Baggs, 5, pose for photos with Santa Claus in Augusta, Ga. You write the cutline. Top Cutlines1. Harrison bawls when Santa whispers in his ear that he had been a bad…
Item: Urine found in ice at senior-living center: Owner suspects disgruntled workers/Meghann M. Cuniff, SRMore Info: The soda tasted like urine, so she poured a new can into a different ice-filled glass. After another sip, Kathleen Chmura realized it wasn't the soda that was tainted…
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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.
