Drake forward Jonathon Cox (31) grabs a rebound in front of Idaho center Marvin Jefferson (53) and guard Kashif Watson, right, during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the first round of the College Insider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) tonight at Memorial…
In the news this evening: Actress Natasha Richardson dies here. US mortgage rates slide toward 30-year lows here. Obama picks McCain's team to lose in the first round here. 'American Idol' crushes "Dancing With The Stars' in a reality TV matchup here. Fed launches $1.2…
A worker carries a water bottle in the underground deep drainage tunnel system in Mexico City, Wednesday. Mexico City's government announced it plans to complete an upgrade and repairs to the deep drainage tunnel system by April 15th in time for this year's rainy season,…
OrangeTV: The racist links are still up over there. I'm about to compose an email to the editor letting him know this is unacceptable how embarrassing those comment sections are for our town and requesting that something is done immediately to make the racist/homophobic posts…
5:56 p.m. A drunken male is involved in a heated argument with others after he pointed a shotgun at a female in Harrison.5:11 p.m. 3 men are close to a fight with 5 other men @ Tamarack RV Park on Government Way.4:40 p.m. Juveniles are…
A honey bee searches for nectar on the flowers of a tree in the parking lot of a church along Garden Valley Boulevard in Roseburg, Ore., on Tuesday. (AP Photo/The News-Review)CPD Blue police blotter/SRBonner County police blotter/SRLast edition of Seattle P-I sells out/Seattle P-IMariners unveil…
A couple, Kaveh from Iran and Madina from Uzbekistan, jump over a fire as Emarati men look on during the Chaharshanbeh Soori festival in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday. Thousands of Iranians living in UAE jump over fires during the festival to burn away the…
The upstart Vandals (16-15) will open the first CollegeInsider.com tournament by playing Drake (17-15). Tipoff is slated for 7:05 at Memorial Gym. A delighted Verlin and his staff notified each of the players by Sunday evening that the program had received a CIT bid, and…
In her Slight Detour post this morning, Marianne Love focuses on prospect of life after newspapers. Quoth: "One of the guiding principles I learned while working as a professional journalist was that communities rely on the newspaper to sort out truth from fiction/gossip/hearsay/inuendo and downright…
"The generations-old tree roots and white caps give the appearance of an ocean beach on Lake Coeur d'Alene's West Lakeshore Drive" posts Councilwoman KerriT/OnLocation North Idaho. "In a few short months the tree will be providing shade for summer beach goers." I'm in a minority,…
This undated photo released by Kelley Davis via the News & Observer shows Augie, a 2-year-old greater Swiss mountain dog in Apex, N.C., that ate $400 cash that Davis made working extra hours. The 42-year-old Davis says when she took Augie for a walk Saturday,…
Shellye Stark was convicted this afternoon of first-degree murder in the shooting death of her estranged husband, whose bullet-riddled body was found slumped in the kitchen of their South Hill home in 2007. Jurors also convicted Stark of conspiring to murder Dale Stark, whom she…
As of Wednesday, student groups are now able to buy alcohol for public or private events on campus. Though this may seem opportunistic for groups looking to host a kegger on the mall, there are policy stipulations to prevent such gatherings. Well thought out safeguards…
Charlie Smith and Christina Haynes subjected Kyra Wine n who was 3 years old at the time n to unspeakable torture over a two-week period. Torture, not abuse. At least that’s what the evidence suggests since even a team of doctors cannot determine what exactly…
Sara Cahoon reads a book while using a nebulizer Friday morning at her Meridian home. Cahoo, 28, has had cystic fibrosis and uses the treatment up to three times a day. Lawmakers are deciding whether to keep a very small program that pays medical bills…
The soft peanut brittle from Bruttles Candy Shoppe is heading to the Lake City. The makers of the signature turn-down treats at Spokane’s Davenport Hotel will open the new Bruttles by the Lake on Friday, at 115 Sherman Ave., in Coeur d’Alene. It’s Bruttles’ second…
At Remember The Roxy, OrangeTV headlines this 1936 postcard image as "Lovely Lumber Mill, Lake Cd'A, 1936. It appears to me that this mill once stood at the current site of the Coeur d'Alene Resort golf course. Dunno if it was called the Rutledge Mill…
There was lots of testimony this morning on the big election consolidation bill, HB 201, but the Senate State Affairs Committee ran out of time and had to continue the hearing to tomorrow, so there was no vote today. The measure earlier passed the House;…
Citizen Lori Shoemaker told the committee, “Centralized government is dangerous - that’s against the American way.” Rep. Mary Lou Shepherd, D-Prichard, said, “I have never in my life received so many emails as I have on this one. … Not a single one was anti.…
"Hey, wait," said Caden Brown,7, right before playing pool with Dylan Sande,7, far left and James Star,6, front at the Boys and Girls Club at their temporary headquarters at the Post Falls Church of the Nazarene on Tuesday. You'll find this photo and columns by…
<a href ="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1466275/" >Which Coeur d'Alene incumbent is most vulnerable to re-election defeat?</a> <br/> <span style="font-size:9px;" mce_style="font-size:9px;" mce_style="font-size:9px;"> (<a href ="http://www.polldaddy.com"> polls</a>)</span>
A bill which would grant mothers the opportunity to request a “certificate of early fetal death” if she loses a child to a miscarriage barely passed out of the House State Affairs Committee this morning on a 9-8 vote. Current Idaho law allows for the…
"I opposed the TARP bill and I opposed the bailout for AIG. I'm a businessman, and when I bought businesses I took due diligence seriously. We taxpayers shouldn't buy companies or socialize businesses. Having made the mistake with AIG we should not now throw good…
I'm re-running this late-afternoon Tuesday post to make sure most of you see it: At Priest Lake, Pecky Cox/As The Lake Churns has created a Google map that contains pretty much everything you need to know about her neck of the woods, from resorts to…
In the HBO Poll Tuesday, 55% of the 55 respondents said you wore green on St. Patrick's Day because you were either full-blooded Irish or partially Irish. Of the five choices, the one that received the second most votes (17 or 31%) was "I'm not…
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.
