Don't forget to tune in at 9 tonight to "Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives" on the Food Network where host Guy Fieri will feature Capone's & two other restaurants in a "Wings & Things" episode. In a store last week, Lori Hutson/SR wrote that Guy Fieri,…
On Marianne Love's Facebook page, Carrie Kedish (on horse) and Laura Lizann Gillet are enjoying an equine rope tow -- or ski-joring -- off Selle Road/Bonner County.
Raymond Pert: Bret Farve's streak of consecutive starts ends today at 297. I must find something else to live for. Repost if you agree that Bret Favre is the toughest, ornriest, gun-slingingest, smartest, humblest, most righteousest quarterback ever to play in the National Football League.…
5:57 p.m. A rear-end crash b/n a semi & passenger car is blocking H95 & Garwood.5:46 p.m. Apartment resident @ 3745 2nd Ave/PF reports gunfire nearby.5:29 p.m. A drunk man has fallen in a puddle @ CityLink bus stop @ Riverstone.5:15 p.m. Taryn reports that…
Norman and Allison Spacek are shown with their Dogue de Bordeaux Mastiff Chia. Allison Spacek, a North Idaho College advising senior administrative assistant, has started an online store selling goat's milk soap from the goats on her Harrison ranch. More here. (North Idaho College photo)Former…
Participants of the annual "Santa Claus Charity Run" jog in downtown Budapest, Hungary, Sunday. The run is a charity event to raise money for a children's hospital. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)Top Cutlines:1. With CindyH, Sisyphus, and Phaedrus leading the way, the attendees…
JeanneS: This year I did NOT send a form letter. I started to write about the thing that absorbs my whole life -- dialysis -- and then I suddenly remembered all the medical detail of my grandparents' letters and then my parents' letters and I…
Rep. Phil Hart, R-Athol, says his conversation with Rep. Eric Anderson, R-Priest Lake, at the Legislature’s organizational session wasn’t confrontational. “I did approach him and I did say, ‘Eric, if you need to get together or if you see a need for us to get…
President Barack Obama speaks on the tax cut bill at the White House on Monday in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)With decisive votes in Congress pending, Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll broadly support the tax-and-benefits deal forged by President Obama and Republican…
House Speaker Lawerence Denney said today that Rep. Eric Anderson’s removal as vice-chairman of the House State Affairs Committee - shortly after Anderson had filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Phil Hart - was merely an oversight, but also said he’d warned Anderson of “fallout”…
This is to prove that I was awake and coherent at 7:40 this morning for Kerri Thoreson's Monday morning Main Street show on KVNI (AM-1080). Also you can click on the KVNI Facebook link to see the other two guests on Kerri's show today --…
Mebbe it's not surprising that House Ethics Committee chairman Tom Loertscher, R-Ione, was doing everything possible to give Rep. Phil Hart, R-Athol, a pass during the panel hearing today. Loertscher was the lone dissenter in the 6-1 vote by the committee to look more deeply…
An expulsion hearing for a Columbia Falls High School junior who inadvertently brought a gun to school has been moved. Originally slated for 6 p.m. tonight at the district’s board meeting room, the hearing for Demari DeReu has been moved to Glacier Gateway Elementary’s multipurpose…
Philanthropist Hansjorg Wyss (pictured) grew up in Switzerland and now spends the bulk of his time outside Philadelphia, but it is the wild landscapes of the Rocky Mountains where he could leave his most lasting mark. In recent years, the publicity-shy billionaire has quietly donated…
Item: Virginia health-care ruling strikes down key provision of Obama's plan/Rosalind S. Helderman, Washington PostMore Info: A federal judge in Virginia ruled Monday that a key provision of the nation's sweeping health-care overhaul is unconstitutional, the most significant legal setback so far for President Obama's…
Fans hold up signs during a "Celebration of Life" program for Dave Niehaus at Safeco Field Saturday in Seattle. A few thousand fans turned out at Safeco Field on a chilly afternoon to pay tribute to Niehaus, the Hall of Fame Seattle Mariners broadcaster who…
Weekend Poll: A plurality of Hucks Nation believe the Idaho Board of Education goofed by not requiring Boise State and Idaho to play football against each other annually. 98 of 207 (47.34%) said the Bored of Education made a mistake by not requiring the annual…
First, I should note that I never send Christmas cards. Mrs. O dutifully takes care of that holiday exchange of good will -- and the cards that go with birthdays and other meaningful occasions throughout the year. However, I do read cards received -- and…
"With the freeway at my back," posted Linda Lantzy/Idaho Scenic Images Facebook page, "... a pretty little spot along the Clark Fork River, Montana."
Noonish: Doctor's office on Government Way/Hayden reports suicidal woman called to say that she "can't do this any more."11:58 a.m. A possible wanted person may be located on Blueberry Circle/Hayden.11:51 a.m. A driver left station w/o paying for gas @ 1720 NW Blvd/CdA.11:37 a.m. Possible…
From Idaho Reporter via Twitter: "I think Rep. Rich Wills, R-Glenn Ferry, just fell asleep at Hart ethics hearing. Pretty sure that just happened."
Update: Ethics committee backs full inquiry on Hart/Betsy Russell, SRChairman Tom Loertscher, R-Iona, said there are three points in the ethics complaint: Theft of logs from state endowment lands, claiming that state and federal income taxes are unconstitutional, and personally benefiting from silver legislation. “We…
Here's proof positive that I not only lived in the Flathead Valley of northwest Montana from 1977-82, but I learned to ice skate somewhat during the time. Mrs. O & I hammed it up for an unknown photographer on Foy's Lake (outside of Kalispell) on…
Idaho Reporter is providing live coverage via Twitter of the House Ethics Committee hearing on Rep. Eric Anderson's at 10 o"clock today:11:44 a.m. Ethics committee votes 6-1 to continue investigation into Hart issues.11:40 a.m. Loertscher says Hart's consituents had opportunity to act on issue and…
Shortly after the issue of Swing hit the news stands, a friend clued me in to the fact that my hometown was featured within, so I rushed out to buy a copy, the very copy which I rediscovered recently at the bottom of a box…
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.
