I'm off to listen to the Gonzaga Bulldogs dismantle UIdaho at the McCarthey Center, beginning at 6 p.m. The Vandals seem somewhat better this year than in their miserable recent past in men's basketball. So I don't think the Zags are going to drop 100…
The longest-serving Republican in the history of the U.S. Senate trailed his Democratic challenger Marc Begich by 3,742 votes after today's vote count. The Associated Press has declared Begich's lead insurmountable for the 85-year-old GOP senator/Seattle Times.
That is a thing I use to tell my kids. don't borrow trouble. When ever. they were worried about something, that had not happen yet. Meaning don't worry about something that hasn't happened. It is a waste of time, also it may not even happen.…
5:49 p.m. City vehicle has been involved in a minor damage crash @ 4th & Neider.4:49 p.m. R/P on Avondale Loop reports that two juveniles who are cutting across Hayden Lake County Club set the mail inside his mailbox on fire.4:41 p.m. R/P reports that…
The mayor of an eastern Idaho town where second- and third-grade students chanted "Assassinate Obama" after Barack Obama's Nov. 4 election victory has publicly apologized, saying there's no excuse for such comments/AP. More here.
Thirty years ago Tuesday the world was beginning to hear about what is still the largest mass suicide in history. Among the dead in a remote Guyana jungle encampment called Jonestown was NBC correspondent Don Harris, whose son later joined the family business to honor…
JimmyMAC: Just got relieved of my jury duties. Big case going down, sad for all of the families.Question: Do you resent jury duty? Or do you see it as a civic duty, like voting, and are glad to take part in the process?
A friend and college roommate, Jeff, called the other day to report he was closing his medical practice in Southern California and retiring to Idaho Springs, Colo., an old mining town near Pike's Peak ... He wanted to know what the heck "Idaho" means ...…
I would like to express how I feel about the semester so far and the upcoming break in two contrasting rants: football sucks, school is hard, papers are long and summer is short. Breaks are nice, turkey is delicious, snowboarding is fun and Christmas is…
According to the Government Accountability Office report, the Bureau of Land Management is struggling to finance the care of all the horses it has corralled across the American West, and has yet to devise a coherent plan for managing them. What might be the most…
Gay people in this state live in fear every day. They fear the loss of their employment. They fear losing their insurance (if they're lucky enough to have it). They fear getting kicked out of their housing. They fear not being able to visit their…
There are two kinds of people in the Spokane area. There are those who call the driveway-clearing machines "snow blowers." And there are those who say "snow throwers." But a shovel is a shovel. Unless it's a scoop/Paul Turner, SR.Question: How do you get rid…
Two women suspected in the 10-year-old killing of a Post Falls woman were found dead less than three hours after a national television show spotlighted their case. The bodies of Tina R. Loesch, 37, (left) and Skye M. Hanson, 41, were found in Arizona late…
Jerome A. Pollos/CDA PressPost Falls High School students Adam Dituri, left, Casey Osborne and Chris Hotine turn their attention to machinery moving across a construction site for a Habitat for Humanity home Monday. They will take part in building for the next 16 weeks in…
Study: Unhappy people watch more TV: those consider themselves happy spend more time reading and socializing/The Live Feed.More Info: The University of Maryland analyzed 34 years of data collected from more than 45,000 participants and found that watching TV might make you feel good in…
Item: Boisean who survived Jonestown recalls the massacre: Clifford Gieg, who lost his brother at the cult's Guyana compound, talks about it publicly for the first time/Idaho StatesmanMore Info: Clifford Gieg last saw his brother alive just hours before the shootings. Clifford would live through…
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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.
