If you're interesting in the Lakeland School District results tonight, you should check back here. Taryn Hecker will be covering the election for The Spokesman-Review. She promises to get me the results as soon as possible. I'll then post them here for discussion. As always,…
Greg Kreller/Idaho Press-Tribune, APBoise State gymnast Lindsay Ward practices her routine on the balance beam earlier today in Boise. Boise State will host the Western Athletic Conference gymnastics championships Saturday.
Silverwood Theme Park received 6,136 entries for its coaster naming contest, but the winning suggestion came from someone residing over 2000 miles away. Richard Palamara, an 18 year old college student and coaster fanatic living in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, was the first person to submit the…
Chris Peterson/Glacier Magazine calls this photo simply: Heave Ho.When I assign my students Japanese and Chinese poetry of the early centuries A.D., I always wonder how it will go. For starters, many students find poetry difficult and I always wonder if this ancient poetry will…
The Spokane Co. bomb squad has been called to Pullman to investigate a suspicious package near the intersection of Stadium & Grand. Police have blocked off a 300 foot radius around the object/KREM2.DFO: Anyone know if Marmitetoasty has sent a package to Pullman? ;-)
"There is no artist as prolific as Mother Nature and surely some of her best work appears in North Idaho," posts Kerri Thoreson/OnLocation North Idaho. "Ice breaking away from the shoreline of Beauty Bay, at the northeast end of Lake Coeur d'Alene, formed a mosaic…
Great. This is how my editorship of the BW will end? With me a victim of Hepatitis A? Dave Fotsch from the Central District Health Department assures me it will not. (Fotsch, a nice guy, is not a doctor.) When we got the news about…
In Don Verlin's salutatory as the newest in what's become an increasingly disposable line of basketball coaches at the University of Idaho, he had one intriguing request directed at people at the periphery of the program – students, donors, even the media. "We need you…
Item: Ron Paul supporters launch bid for local elections/By Nate Poppino, Twin Falls Times-NewsMore Info: (Rick Martin) and other (Ron Paul) volunteers have to create change on the county level. His group, he claimed, has a member in almost every (GOP) precinct election in Twin…
After many delays and much debate, HB 654a has passed the House to create a new crime in Idaho of coercing a woman into having an abortion. Rep. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d’Alene, the bill’s sponsor, said, “Idaho can be the first state in the country…
Item: I-90 pothole wreaks havoc on drivers: ITD assists 14 drivers with paperwork for damage/Brian Walker, Coeur d'Alene PressMore Info: But this wasn't just any pothole. It was roughly 4 feet long, 12 inches wide, and 7 inches deep. With some vehicles it flattened one…
Some days we went on as many as four missions. Sometimes we patrolled, other times we picked up prisoners, often we made runs through town to the police fort. Matt Shipp, one of the twins we've been following, is on the "jump team." He's typically…
The Idaho Statesman will hold its sixth annual Culinary Walk About Contest. This year’s chefs chose pie as the theme. What is your favorite kind of pie?/Idaho Statesman *Apple*Peach*Cherry*Cream*Pumpkin*Other*Don't like pieDFO: Other (strawberry rhubarb)
Item: Teens linked to gruesome slaying: Father allegedly killed by daughter, boyfriend with baseball bat, wrench, sword/Meghann M. Cuniff, Spokesman-ReviewMore Info: Dan Wortham was killed Friday night in what police believe was a premeditated attack by Jackie Wortham (left) and her 18-year-old boyfriend, Edmund D.…
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